Previous DayScratching the Surface
Leader Microsoft's tabletop PC is certainly eye-catching but is it actually useful?
Is it a bird, a plane? No, it's Super CTO
Blog Our analyst friends at Ovum have put out a piece of commentary that points to the rise of a new breed of "Super CTOs". Commenting on SAP's appointment of Vishal Sikka as chief technology officer...
Dell defends draft Wi-Fi standard
News Senior Dell executive says the industry is right to sell products incorporating the 802.11n standard two years before it is finalised
Orange launches new SME tariffs
News Mobile operator has designed a range of price plans aimed at three types of small business
Video: Microsoft unveils touchscreen computing
Video Software giant shows off its Surface Computing technology, which uses a giant table-like display to blend reality with virtual reality
Video: Cisco's push-to-talk VoIP
Video Cisco vice president for mobility solutions, Alan Cohen, discusses the company's latest announcement for the retail VoIP market
OpenStreetMap: Cracking open cartography
News The collaborative web project, started in the UK and gaining momentum abroad, aims to do for maps what Wikipedia has done for encyclopaedias
Big companies eat things
Blog The rate at which the giants of the internet are hoovering up minnows is phenomenal but consistent, which is why it's perhaps not worth writing up each acquisition as a full-blown front page...
Microsoft Expression Web
Review Microsoft Expression Web is a solid web site layout program that replaces FrontPage and offers tools for dynamic designs. However, we'd like more help for newcomers.
Google privacy policy 'is vague'
Blog Speaking to the BBC, Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel, has said that elements of Google's privacy policy are 'vague' and need to be made more precise in response to European Union...
Motorola to slash workforce again
News Plan to cut a further 4,000 jobs in 2008 is revealed just months after the manufacturer decided to lay off 3,500 employees this year
F-Secure warns of flaw in its own software
News Critical vulnerability in the security vendor's antivirus software could allow hackers to launch denial-of-service attacks against users
Would you use free Wi-Fi?
Blog It does seem like a silly question (free anything is good, right?), but take a look at this article about the "disappointing take-up" of the City of London's gratis metro hotzone. The piece claims...
Real threats to virtual technology
Comment A lot has been made of the cost-cutting benefits of virtualisation but what are the security risks?
Yahoo's CTO quits
News Farzad Nazem has resigned, but says he will wait to retire until after the company's critical new advertising platform is operating
Palm's Foleo gets cool reception
News Device touted by the company as 'a new category of mobile device' is in reality a small, under-powered laptop best suited for reading email, analysts say
Gates and Jobs share the stage
News The Microsoft chairman and the Apple chief executive treated the crowd at the D5 conference on Wednesday to a rare joint public appearance
Photos: Palm Foleo
Photo Palm cofounder Jeff Hawkins has unveiled the company's latest project: the Palm Foleo. A companion product for smartphones, the Linux-based Foleo looks like an ultraportable notebook and is...
IBM announces further job cuts
News In second layoff round this month, company is trimming its US services business in response to market shift toward shorter contracts
Google's offline web apps click into gear
News Search giant has launched Google Gears, open-source software that brings offline access and local storage to the web browser
Regulating IT Professionals
Talkback In an industry that has gone unregulated (U.S) since its inception, it is good to know that Microsoft has shown interest in the regulating of IT Professionals. I believe some form of accountability...
