Previous DayRE:Microsoft: You already have naked PCs!
Blog Comment Apples and Gourds... Apple builds (and has designed all along) BOTH the hardware and the software, so there is no conflict of interest (unlike the case with Microsquash) and no reason to force...
Recycling batteries and phones for free
Video The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation helps organisations recycle rechargeable batteries and old mobile phones free of charge
F-Secure: Inside the cage
Photo At its Helsinki headquarters, Finnish antivirus company F-Secure opened the door to give a glimpse inside its mobile-malware testing cage
Novell expands Linux driver programme
News The open-source company has appointed one of its developers to a full-time position to co-ordinate its Linux driver development programme
Pope on film!
Blog Long-term pal The Codepope writes to let me know he is now available for your viewing pleasure in the Pet Shop Boys video for their new anti ID card song, Integral. Last month, he turned up in...
Novell credits Microsoft for soaring Linux sales
News The company claims its Linux sales have grown by 243 percent, largely due to the partnership with Microsoft
London councils share broadband network
News Councils across the capital can use the secure London Public Services Network to share information and connect to Whitehall and the NHS
Beware the "certain element"
Talkback Kevin Kutz, a director in Microsoft's Windows Client unit. "We would describe this as accommodating a certain element who needs more time. Love that comment - a "certain element" makes it sound...
A black week for Rupert's personal technology
Blog Someone's opened up a hellspawn gateway in Holloway. I don't know how else to explain this week's crop of techno-miseries, which have included * My much-loved Dell X1 developing a severe case of...
The Wow ends now
Blog Yesterday I took delivery of a NAS drive (geeky, yes, but surprisingly useful in the home and, at only 100 squids for half a terabyte, pretty cheap). Since I was busy mucking around with my backed...
RAF comms deal takes off
News The Ministry of Defence has signed a multi-million-pound agreement to give the RAF new communications equipment
My Nokia N76 smartphone is call-ready in 24 secs
Talkback David, I hope you'll look beyond Microsoft's co-opting of the word "smartphone" as a brand and try Nokia S60 smartphones, such as the Nokia N95 or N76 (nseries.com). Nokia actually calls them...
Microsoft withdraws Windows Mobile update
News An update allowing smartphone users to read Office 2007 documents has been pulled from Microsoft's website hours after posting
The light at the end of the fibre
Leader If Ofcom is serious about fibre-optic broadband for all, it must first break the commercial logjam
Businesses back call for naked PCs
News A call from a European thinktank for PCs and laptops to be sold without an OS has been welcomed by CIOs — but not unconditionally
Palm Treo 500v
Review The Treo 500v reworks the Windows Mobile user interface to generally good effect, but the absence of HSDPA, Wi-Fi and a front-facing camera may prove to be serious shortcomings. Overall though,...
IT is creative as much as logical
Talkback This is the old debate about women and men using different parts of the brain, one gender more linear and logical and the other more networked and creative/imaginative. Well I don't know about you...
The best of September's tech photos
Roundup From the latest cutting-edge tech at Intel's annual developer event, to reconditioned laptops given a second life in Africa, September has produced some striking images
BT Openreach unsure of fibre demand
News Openreach's regulation chief wants to see a fibre network remain as open to competitors as current broadband networks, but wants to gauge public demand before investing
Laptop PSUs
Talkback It's good to be able to make a contribution! The laptops we have at the moment are RM Mobile One (popular in schools - I don't know who actually makes them) and Acer Travelmate 2350. Both are 19V...
Euro aid for globalisation victims
Blog Remember those poor souls who lost their jobs after BenQ pulled out of Europe last year? Well, the EU is riding to the rescue with something I'd certainly never heard of before: the European...
Clippy is still loved ...
Talkback ... by my son (10) and daughter (6)! I did think that a "dumbed down" version (if that is possible) could be used to provide interaction for children's software. I think this would work well with...
Google plugs Gmail security hole
News Days after an ethical hacker discovered a flaw that could allow hackers access to users' emails, Google says it has fixed the problem
Pathetic
Talkback Is any one fooled by this so called back down by Microsoft. So XP stays on sale for another few months. This isn't going to fix the problem that Vista is fundamentally not what users want. People...
RE:Microsoft: You already have naked PCs!
Blog Comment If they force the naked PC will they apply the same to Macs? Especially since they can now run windows since they moved over to Intel. Shouldn't you be able to buy a naked mac and choose to install...
Asia urged to strengthen data-breach laws
News CA executive Jerry Cox says the region should follow Japan's example in establishing legislation, to ensure companies take data security more seriously
Green IT strategies stifled by inertia
News Energy efficiency is still low on the agenda for some businesses, with recent IBM research finding that many companies fail to monitor IT-related power consumption
Microsoft allows XP to stay a little longer
News Customers, not quite ready for Vista, persuade the company to allow PC makers to keep selling XP for an additional five months
RE:The lowdown on Asus' Eee PC
Blog Comment My review about ASUS EEE PC: I became one of very few privileged consumers in Canada to own the Asus EEE PC model 701 version with 4 GB drive. This is a *** pre-production *** model and I bought it...
RE:Monolithic OS upgrades are so over
Blog Comment We've upgraded most of our desktop computers at work to Vista with mixed results. Nobody really likes it better than XP but complaints about Vista have been minor. The only people who really feel...
