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Talkback Yep, iI am totaly with him, I mean why risk it in a world that is unstable? Imagine a situation where you are held to ransom by hackers, the server holding all your data gets hit by a missile, or...
RE:Old economy woes catch up with Web 2.0 businesses
Blog Comment Many thanks for your post IceSixxx. Your homepage does indeed reflect the lifeline Sharenow.com has offered, but a plea for existing users to post lots in order to instil faith in potential new...
High Tech for Hard Times - Part one
Blog So can your high tech hardware save a small business in these bleak times ? The short answer is always no as only cash flow can do that and I don't see any government bail outs for small businesses...
Nokia renames Trolltech and Qtopia
News The Finnish phone manufacturer has renamed Trolltech after its main product, and folded Trolltech's Qtopia into the main Qt family
How the credit crunch is hitting the IT industry
Roundup The economic crisis is not leaving the tech industry unscathed, with the providers and users of business technology both finding themselves affected
ARM joins IBM mobile-chip alliance
News Processor design company ARM will develop mobile-chip technology with IBM, Samsung and semiconductor firm Chartered
Stallman brands cloud computing as 'stupidity'
News Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman says the industry's latest trend will ultimately result in vendor lock-in and escalating costs for users
'Securipedia' wiki launched
News A wiki has been launched by UK IT industry body Intellect, with the aim of increasing knowledge transfer in the security community
3 opens up paid, international Skype functionality
News Subscribers of 3 with supported handsets will be allowed to use their mobile Skype clients to make cheap calls to landlines and mobiles around the world
Government launches new e-crime unit
Blog Ok, so this is outside of my main area of focus of sustainable and green tech but I do track some security issues too. I was at a meeting last week with Microsoft's security advisor and ex-FBI...
Data Federation vs. Data Integration?
Blog Data federation and data integration. What's the difference between the two? I understand data federation as something that joins data from different sources distributed around the company...
Four top sites vulnerable to attack, warn researchers
News ING Direct, YouTube and Metafilter were all vulnerable to cross-site-request-forgery and The New York Times's site is still affected, according to Princeton University researchers
RE:Is Microsoft’s ‘Democratic’ ALM really a ‘Republican’ Party...
Blog Comment Interesting opinion - thanks for this Kalim, It would be nice to see a ripple effect from vendors better known for ALM for sure. There is that "reliance" factor though - and that's what made me...
RE:Is Microsoft’s ‘Democratic’ ALM really a ‘Republican’ Party...
Blog Comment I think we need to take a pragmatic approach to this. I am all for this product because it does bring everything together. Yes, it does make us rely one company for the long term but if this...
Old economy woes catch up with Web 2.0 businesses
Blog Social networking site Uber.com closed its doors yesterday after investors refused to stump up more cash to support it. A note on the company's website reveals that existing investors are...
OpenOffice 3 reads MS Office 2007 Files
Blog The release of OpenOffice.org 3 must be getting very close now; Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is available for download, and it looks very, very good indeed. The best news about this release, at least...
Ballmer's rivalry with VMware
Video Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer talks about the company's move into virtualisation with its Hyper-V technology and gives his views on VMware
Where is this a valid patent FFS
Talkback My switch allowed several carriers to be programmed and a drop from the cheapest to the next etc. if the call failed to complete. BT flog a phone that links to the land line in the house and...
Orange package to include free business broadband
News The operator will soon introduce free broadband for certain of its mobile business customers, but service-level questions remain unresolved
Conservatives plan to ditch ContactPoint database
News The shadow education secretary has said the Conservatives would replace the directory of all children in England with a small, targeted system, if elected
BT: Businesses still in the dark about SaaS
News The company says software as a service has reached tipping point, despite around 81 percent of customers being unaware of the technology
Tories pledge to decentralise NHS computing
News A Conservative government would decentralise health-service IT and extend competition between suppliers, according to the party's NHS Improvement Plan
Yahoo passwords exposed by Zimbra
News A Canadian coder has warned that passwords used to access Yahoo Mail through the Zimbra client are sent over the web in clear text
IBM introduces 'iNotes' for iPhone
News Lotus Notes users will be able to get corporate email on their iPhones, through IBM's web application that puts Notes mail inside the Safari mobile browser
Nokia selling security-hardware unit
News The company will also stop making software for business customers, enabling Nokia to concentrate on 'the renewal of its business mobility strategy'
Intuit releases QuickBooks 2009
News The company has added global currency support and a free website for a year at an Intuit domain name, expanding the app's scope beyond bookkeeping
Microsoft urges Congress to reconsider bailout
News In a statement, general counsel Brad Smith says the measure is 'vitally important to the health and preservation of jobs in all sectors of the economy'
Is Microsoft’s ‘Democratic’ ALM really a ‘Republican’ Party Reptile?
Blog Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 have already garnered media attention from ZDNet and many other media sources. Codenamed ‘Rosario’, according to...
Tech stocks dive as US bailout fails
News Technology companies saw shares take a beating after the US House of Representatives failed to pass the government bailout of the financial sector
Skype Roundup
Blog It looks like I'm not the only one who is absolutely sick and tired of Skype, and their poorly functioning, broken software that they show no interest in either fixing or supporting, and the Skype...
Forrester predicts IT's credit-crunch survivors
News The analyst house says that, as organisations look at reducing costs through mergers and acquisitions, some IT roles are more at risk than others
Mobile-phone industry to boom, despite downturn
News Portio Research says the mobile industry will grow, despite the global financial crisis, due to increasing uptake of mobile-phones in emerging markets
Seagate FreeAgent Go
Review Seagate's FreeAgent Go is our favourite portable hard drive to date, earning it an Editors' Choice award. The drive is well designed and fast, and you won't find better value for money.
Telecoms giants complete transpacific-cable project
News Some of the world's leading phone companies have completed the construction of an undersea cable to boost web capacity between the US and parts of Asia
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to get 'black box'
News The company's next developer-tool suite will offer a black-box feature for testers, giving programmers video reproductions of software bugs
Apple shares fall 17.5 percent
News The company's shares experienced a sharp fall in early-morning trading on Monday, after Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets downgraded the stock
RE:Nano Tech In The Extreme.
Blog Comment There may be ways in which to drill, tap, stroke energy out of atoms that we haven't conceived of yet but how much time do we have before things go even more pear shaped than they are? More than...
