Previous DayMicrosoft's OXML policy positions
Talkback Hi - I'm the Microsoft employee quoted in this ZDNet article. If you want to find out more about Microsoft's OXML policy positions please go to http://www.microsoft.com/office/openxmlpolicy or...
IBM is just a smoke screen
Talkback It would be so much easier if those who vote on the OOXML would think it is just a question of choosing between Microsoft and IBM. In this way Microsoft tries to hide the real questions behind the...
RE:Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment At beginning of reading this article, it sounds interesting to me. Having thought it over, I feel it could not be a practical and commericalizable solution. What about safety? what if children...
Gnome Linux desktop updated
News One of the two main desktop environments for Linux has been upgraded to improve its web-browsing system
HMRC site goes down, MPs can't file tax returns
Blog Ah, another great day for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. On the day of the deadline for people to file their self assesment tax returns, the HMRC website experienced severe technical...
Business continuity when the internet fails
Leader A thin client is no good without its fat pipe. What happens to your business when your country drops off the net?
BT: No danger of mass internet outage in UK
News Resilient infrastructure should prevent the UK from experiencing a disruption to internet connectivity similar to the one that hit the Middle East and India
Cheap 3G mobile Linux handset unveiled
News The 'Purple Magic' reference handset from NXP and Purple Labs promises to bring affordable 3G mobile Linux technology to the mass market
More rumours of Gphone (with Dell as partner)
Blog That reknowned commentator on technology (?!) Marketing Week has published the following story on rumours that Google is set to announce at 3GSM a partnership with Dell to launch a Gphone. The...
Explaining the productivity paradox
Comment Smartsheet's Brent Frei and Mark Mader offer their take on why productivity growth has mysteriously slowed since 2004
Speaking of witch hunts...
Talkback >> Thousands of pages beceause it is a better, richer standard >> that enables many features that ODF does not (backward >>compatibility with billions of existing docs, accessibility, >>macros,...
Here is Google's REAL view, straight from the horse's mouth!
Talkback In the words of Jeremy Allison, speaking for his employer: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-3513-0.html? forumID=1&threadID=43687&messageID=809118&start=0 For you to claim that Google's limited...
Carbon nanotube radio hints at future wireless
News A radio that uses carbon nanotubes so tiny it can fit on a grain of sand has shown how the technology could be used to make more efficient electronic devices
Extent of government eavesdropping revealed
News The government's eavesdropping watchdog has defended the interception of individuals' communications in the fight against crime
Apple price cuts
Talkback There is always this big thing about Apple cutting their price shortly after product launches. With the iPhone the media is saying that this is due to poor sales figures, but I seem to remember...
Ning: Finding a niche in DIY social-networks
Video Chief executive of Ning, Gina Bianchini, discusses her company's social-network platform strategy and how it plans to compete in the crowded social-networking space
Cable and wire-less
Blog A conversation from the back of a cab in West London, yesterday evening; "It's not the end of the world", I said "Shame." said the radio news producer. "It's always good when the world ends...
Hit Nail on Head
Talkback I agree with pround. It is completely the Drivers & applications Though Linux has most apps Windows has but in some form or other the one thing its lacking is mainstream PC Games which is due to...
Samba 'pleased' with Microsoft co-operation
News Andrew Tridgell, author of Samba, has said communication with Microsoft engineers is back on track following last year's interoperability deal
Accenture to launch 'Green Data Centre Calculator'
News The company's product is intended to help companies improve the environmental efficiency of their data centres and cut costs
Torvalds: Linux ready to go green
News Linus Torvalds has explained why Linux is ready to become a green OS and why nobody would notice if he retired
Groklaw, refuted Burton....
Talkback And you sound like IBM or FSF :-) I just don't like being told by others what to do or what is good for me.....whether it be my government, my boss, my wife, IBM or MS. I don't like it when...
A standard for every man, woman, and child
Talkback "Paoli said that Microsoft has never been an aggressor in the standards world and did not mobilise against Sun and IBM when they proposed ODF." This attitude is ridiculous. Why would Microsoft...
RE:Patent nonsense revisited
Blog Comment Great post Rupert! IP law fascinates me beyond any other realm of law. To toss a U.S. perspective into the ring, I must contend that any true software innovator will seek any form of protection...
