Previous DayA Tremor Can Change Your Whole World
Talkback Microsoft is beginning to remind me of Harry Truman on Mount St. Helens the day before it blew: May 18, 1980. The hermit refused to leave his home on the slopes of his beloved volcano. He was too...
RE:An Impressive Week with Ubuntu
Blog Comment wow, the one problem Windows competitors always had is that you had to search around for device drivers, if Ubutu can solve it this easily, they'll have a lot of success!
Are things that bad?
Talkback “Microsoft absolutely recommends customers deploy Windows Vista today” Ya, you made a whole lot more desirable by announcing that its successor is only a year away! “The goal with Windows 7 is that...
If You Build It, Will They Come?
Blog Putting a forum on your site can be a great way to create a community around your products or services. Heck, you might even learn a thing or two from your customers. But if you’re the only person...
Atom power hits town
Blog We've got our first Atom machine in. Full benchmarks and other details later, but... it's interesting. It's the ecoquiet RM One 50, so called because it uses less than fifty watts. Which it can...
KDE starts testing version 4.1
News The new release's aim is to make KDE 4.1 a full replacement for KDE 3 — something the project admitted is not yet the case with version 4.0
Microsoft has lost its grip on the ecosystem
Comment Microsoft got where it is today through its influence over manufacturers. It no longer has the control it once enjoyed
HP and IBM tussle in servers
Blog On Wednesday, HP launches a system that doubles the number of blades that can be fitted on one unit, less than a month after IBM introduced the iDataPlex range which also doubled the number and...
Living with Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Video Ryan Pothecary, technical architect for hosting company eLinia, discusses his experience as an early adopter of the server OS
Making sense of multicore pricing
Feature Having multiple cores on one processor has its benefits, but simpler software licensing is not one of them
The server OS: Present and future trends
Feature ZDNet.co.uk research has provided some interesting insights about how server operating systems and management are developing
Survival training with the UN's ICT specialists
Photo The United Nations' IT staff are often the first group into a war-zone or natural disaster area, so knowing how to survive in hostile environments is vital
Brazil appeals ISO ratification of OOXML
News The country has joined South Africa in appealing the ISO decision to ratify Office Open XML as ISO/IEC DIS 29500
Why compensate it is common public knowledge before any cont...
Talkback As stated, the Tories have notified the participants that they will cancel the scheme. They have done this up front before any agreements have been entered into. Once elected by the UK population...
An Impressive Week with Ubuntu
Blog I am impressed. Very, very impressed. I mentioned last week that I had loaded Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on my older "test" laptop, a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110. This hardly seemed like a...
Asus embeds lightweight OS in laptops
News Several of the manufacturer's upcoming notebooks will include an embedded, instant-on operating system that uses a Linux stack
Friday down time: my fantasy technology dinner party guests
Blog The weekend will soon be upon us and many of us will be gathering with friends and acquaintances to share a repast in the time honoured tradition of the dinner party. Although I’ll be attending one...
Dell readies ultra-portable?
Blog The Gizmodo site writes that one of their number bumped into Michael Dell who was carrying a brand new ultra-portable. “He was nice enough to show me this laptop that he was carrying that he...
I think Opera is fastest overall
Talkback I've been using mainly Opera 9 for a while now after hating IE7 but disliking Firefox's high RAM usage, Overall I think Opera provides the fastest web browsing experience. My rationale for placing...
Online flood alerts boost UK warning system
News People will be able to sign up for flood alerts online as part of a £4.2m deal to bolster the UK's early warning system
Video blog: UN ICT survival training exercise
Blog Last week I was lucky enough to get invited on a training course run by the UN Foundation and the World Food Programme (WFP) aimed to train UN ICT staff to become field managers in some of the most...
Fujitsu walks away from NHS contract
News Negotiations over how much Fujitsu should be paid failed to result in an agreement between the company and NHS Connecting for Health
Joining Google's journey through search
Analysis Its spartan home page and lists of results may appear simple, but Google has offered some insight into the complex experiments and testing that help them build their product
Revealed: Tech's top risk areas for cost and security
News From inefficient printers to phantom user accounts, software company BDNA has identified the most common tech problems that can cost money or lead to security breaches in organisations
NHS faces challenge to cut carbon emissions
News Greater use of IT could help the health service reduce its environmental impact, according to a draft strategy produced by the new NHS Sustainable Development Unit
More Blundering in the Skype "Community"
Blog Skype has supposedly installed an update to their "Community", the mangled version of their "User Forums". Although there is a long list of supposed "bug fixes" and "imiprovements", I personally...
