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Talkback No list of androids would be complete without Marvin, the Paranoid Android. The maniacally depressed but hyper intelligent creation of the late Douglas Adams, in the ever popular Hitch Hikers Guide...
NXP to open up Mifare APIs for mobile software
News The chip company will offer APIs for mobile software development for its Mifare chipsets in the coming months
£50/day to browse with Vodafone in UK!
Talkback Vodafone is no better - I have a Vodafone "Pay As You Go" data card which I used to browse (not download!) over a couple of days in August, the actual amount of data transferred being around 40Mb....
More Azure details come out, many more questions remain.
Blog Microsoft has revealed more details of its Azure cloud service, including availability and how – although not how much – it will charge. In an FAQ document on its website, the company says that...
BT Global Services loses chief, issues profit warning
News Francois Barrault, CEO of BT Global Services, has resigned ahead of the company's results announcement in November
Free Cisco tool shows companies' carbon footprint
Video At the Green Legal Strategy panel in San Francisco, Cisco shows off its Environmental Data Tool, available for free on the company's website
T-Mobile's G1 brings Android to the UK
Video More than just another mobile operating system, Android is Google's spearhead onto phones. Charles McLellan finds it fast, fun and full of good ideas
Orange will not use Phorm
News The operator says it will not implement Phorm's targeted behavioural advertising tech on the grounds of customer privacy, despite already using similar services from other companies
Motorola's uphill fight for survival
Analysis The company that invented the mobile phone is on the brink of disaster. Can it 'pull an Apple' and make a comeback?
Great Leap to the Past
Talkback Virtualization is a great leap to the past. Virtualization was created for mainframe computers. The virtualization of datacenter servers was/is a creative way to cut power and real-estate and...
RE:Web 2.0 meets CRM: the perfect business application
Blog Comment Hi Ian, I think you're spot on. Keep in mind, SAP is a powerhouse of an organization, and they are already spinning up a SaaS model in SAP ByDesign. Once that solution blossoms and reaches out...
US patent ruling bodes well for tech
Analysis A ruling by the US Court of Appeals should weed out trivial patent lawsuits, but will require companies to be more specific about what process they've invented
Government revamps IT-project delivery
News The Office of Government Commerce is introducing measures that could significantly influence the execution of public-sector tech projects, producing savings of £2.6bn by 2011
Female IT workers face pay gap of one-fifth
News An equal-pay survey has found salary discrepancies are still an issue for female techies, although there are signs the situation may be improving
How hackers were thwarted at the Beijing Olympics
News Atos Origin has explained how risk-management tech helped to prioritise the real risks hidden within 12m daily alerts
Google JotSpot exposes user data, says researcher
News A Harvard University researcher says JotSpot exposes user names and email addresses on the web, calling into question Google's image as a secure hosted-services provider
Google extends reliability promise to all Apps
News The company has guaranteed Premier Edition customers that Google Calendar, Docs, Sites and Talk will, like Gmail, be available 99.9 percent of the time
Ubuntu Linux 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) - Configuration Tips
Blog The following is a list of some of the common setup and configuration changes that I make whenever I install Ubuntu. - Watch for Updates! When updates are available for Ubuntu, you will see an...
RE:Inconsistency in the air over UK software patent examination...
Blog Comment Clarity? Hehe... “ The claim category of a computer-implemented method is distinguished from that of a computer program. Even though a method, in particular a method of operating a computer, may...
Symantec announces layoffs
News The security vendor will lay off an unspecified number of staff by the end of the year as it seeks to cut costs in the downturn
Sun posts a loss on declining revenue
News The hardware maker has missed analysts' forecasts as the economy weighs on high-end customers, but says it will weather the storm
Study shows Google runs 10m websites
News According to new statistics from Netcraft, Google runs more than a tenth of the world's active websites
Sony batteries recalled after laptops overheat
News The company's 2.15Ah lithium-ion batteries are being blamed for more than 40 worldwide incidents of laptops overheating
Apple gives details on recent MobileMe update
News The company has dug a little deeper and provided information about a month-old update to MobileMe
Motorola posts losses, delays mobile spinoff
News The company has announced a third-quarter loss and said it will delay the planned spinoff of its mobile-handset business amid macroeconomic woes
Apple snaps up top IBM chip and blade-server exec
News Mark Papermaster has agreed to join Apple as a high-ranking executive, but former employer IBM is suing to fight the move
Tories plan to jettison joined-up gov't IT systems
News A Conservative peer says separate, disaggregated IT systems and tight controls over the transfer of information could help tackle data losses
