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Blog You may remember a story from the 20th August, when a China Airways 737 flight to Japan caught fire after landing and burned to as near a cinder as makes no odds. Everyone got out OK, and at the...
OOXML Approval System has already been seriously abused
Talkback "if it is not, then a chance to make a key part of our IT infrastructure truly open may have been missed." This is what so many cannot believe either on the evidence before us or on the basis of M$...
OOXML approval system open to abuse
Leader The Office Open XML approval process is not up to standard. Pushing ahead will be a mistake
Bill website hacked
Blog Security company Websense is reporting that the official website for ITV police drama The Bill has been compromised by hackers. "Websense Security Lab has discovered that the official Web site...
Has Nokia found an Achilles heel?
Blog The launch of another wave of phones from Nokia yesterday is primarily interesting for what it says about traditional phone manufacturers likely response to the impact of Apple's iPhone. Apple's...
Microsoft vies for BI market success
Analysis The software giant is investing in business intelligence software and aims to reach beyond its customers' IT departments and up to board level
Microsoft accused of rigging OOXML votes
News Microsoft admits encouraging partners to join bodies deciding on ISO recognition of OOXML, but says that a Swedish memo offering rewards for doing so was an error
Facing the past and future at Facebook
Q&A Joe Hewitt started coding at an early age; now, the developer who once worked on Netscape and Firefox is getting down to business at Facebook
Sun CEO: Volume will drive value
News Speaking at Sun's Asia-Pacific Executive Summit, Jonathan Schwartz shone some light on the company's growth strategy
Microsoft hopes SP1 will drive Vista adoption
News Microsoft is polishing Vista with a long-awaited service pack in the hope of spurring greater adoption among businesses
Why you should care about multi-threaded apps
FAQ Getting the most from the latest multicore chips means writing applications in new ways. Welcome to the world of multi-threading
LogicaCMG wins Scottish Parliament IT contract
News The five-year, extendable deal for the support of the Scottish Parliament's ICT infrastructure is potentially worth £17.5m
App compatibility testing for Vista deployment
Tutorial Windows Vista isn't as backward compatible with applications as are older versions of Windows. How can you tell if an application will work in Vista in a corporate setting? That's where the...
Day-to-day IT is biggest gripe of SMEs
News A poll has revealed that smaller companies find everyday tech problems cause more trouble than hot technology such as Web 2.0
IBM server falls off a lorry
Blog In IBM's case, $1.4m-worth of server really did fall off the back of a lorry. And it broke. Or at least it was damaged, damaged enough for the lawyers to be dragged in and the legal action to...
IM added to BT Business Email
News Telco's SME-oriented hosted email service gains instant-messaging capabilities in a step on the road towards unified communications
HP launches Linux desktop in Australia
News The company has collaborated with Red Hat on a Linux-based PC aimed at SMEs
HTC Touch gets 3G, loses Wi-Fi
Blog Not that I'm wanting to harp on about public Wi-Fi's wobbly business case too much, but the latest news from Windows Mobile manufacturer HTC should raise an eyebrow or two. The company's just...
Ubuntu announces Hardy Heron
News Due in April 2008, Hardy Heron will be the first version of Ubuntu since 2006 to enjoy 'long-term' technical support and security updates
Further delays for Windows Server 2008
News Microsoft says the product will not release to manufacturing until next year, as it 'just needs a little more time to bake'
Open-Xchange Express Edition
Review Open-Xchange Express is an excellent substitute for Microsoft Exchange for small or medium-sized businesses that don't need a big-company feature set.
O2 to start charging for 0845 calls
News Company will in a month's time start treating calls to non- geographic numbers as out-of-bundle, the last mobile operator to do so
Nokia vs Orange
Blog A leaked memo has exposed the major rift between the handset manufacturer Nokia and the operators - Orange in particular - that supply most of its customer base. The whole argument surrounds the...
Outsourcing deals to face greater EC scrutiny
News Updated competition guidelines mean more outsourcing deals may have to go to the European Commission for approval
Oracle and SAP spar in courtroom preliminaries
News SAP wants the case narrowed to TomorrowNow's conduct, and asks for a mediator; Oracle says the scope of the case requires full investigation
Patch service shuts after Microsoft request
News AutoPatcher 'probably history', its project manager says, leaving Microsoft to be sole distributor of its software updates
