Previous DaySome standards are worth keeping
Talkback Great Post! especially about battery life; you'd expect that by now there'd be batteries on the market that could last 24 hours. I do however think that some things are worth keeping at a standard,...
Tube staff get huge discount on Office 2007
News The London Underground maintenance company Tube Lines is familiarising its staff with Office 2007 ahead of a Vista migration by giving them the package for £17
Sun: IT departments must tackle energy ignorance
News IT systems contribute up to 85 percent of the total energy usage of some organisations, the server vendor claims
'Friendly rootkits' proposed for safe e-commerce
News A security researcher believes benevolent rootkits served by retailers might make e-commerce more secure than SSL certificates
'Oyster phone' trial goes live
Photo O2, Visa, Nokia and TfL have launched a six-month trial to find out if mobile phones can be used to replace travel cards and small cash payments
Jobs hailed as most powerful person in business
News Steve Jobs heads Fortune magazine's 2007 list of the most powerful businesspeople, while Bill Gates has dropped to seventh place
What does 'green IT' really mean?
Vendorboard Bathwick Group chief executive Jonathan Steel looks at the drivers behind environmentally friendly approaches to IT deployments
Using virtualisation to improve utilisation
Vendorboard IBM's Rob Stagg discusses how virtualisation technology can help manage wasted resources and reduce complexity
Ten things you can do to help open source
Feature Ask not what open source can do for you and your business, but what you can do for open source
Online library offers 1.5m books for free
News The Universal Digital Library, backed by several major libraries worldwide, is more about preservation and less about getting clicks
Unravelling the top 10 founding myths of IT
Feature There are certain stories that have been floating around the IT industry for years, which few people stop to scrutinise. We attempt to sort fact from fiction
RE:If It Ain't Broke.....
Blog Comment It's funny I only recently asked someone why they are overclocking. I've never been one to overclock. I idea behind is understandable but I fail to see why squeezing a bit more out of a machine...
Timms: Next-gen broadband key to UK economy
News Delaying the rollout of ultra-fast broadband may harm the economy's future growth, says competitiveness minister Stephen Timms
Recruitment gets tougher as techies settle down
News IT workers are increasingly unwilling to change jobs, potentially exacerbating the skills shortage and driving up wages, says recruitment body Atsco
Abu Dhabi deal to boost AMD innovation
News Abu Dhabi's recent investment will give the chipmaker the financial muscle to continue its fight against Intel, according to analyst IDC
Babies, burps and sat-nav software
Blog I took a day out yesterday to visit my newly born niece just 25 hours after she decided it was time to arrive into the world. This meant leaving leafy Surrey for the day and negotiating a few...
ID cards: Data-protection minister calls for review
News Michael Wills has admitted the HMRC data-loss blunder raises questions over the security of the ID cards scheme
Lawyers: Vista branding confused even Microsoft
News Even the company's marketing manager has suffered confusion over what 'Vista capable' means, say lawyers pursuing a class action over the phrase
Google to make clean energy cheaper than coal
News The search giant aims to either sell electricity from renewable sources or license tech on terms that would promote broad adoption
RE:Tech Talk - SightSpeed
Blog Comment Hi, So on a couple of things I can help fill in the blanks on here- there is a minimum CPU requirement for 640x480 mode because encoding that much data in real time at 30 fps is too much for most...
