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Europe pumps money into space
Ambiguous headline I know -- I couldn't resist, sorry. Member states are going to pour ten billion Euro into the European Space Agency (Esa) funding, the BBC reports. The budget... More
Vodafone Foundation gives £100k to Con...
The Vodafone Foundation has committed £100,000 to the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) for relief efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Fighting in the eastern DRC... More
Mobile broadband is 'the only redundan...
This morning I went to a roundtable hosted by Easynet Connect, the SME-oriented ISP that is part of BSkyB. The topic of conversation was "Achieving Quality Internet Today", and the... More
Microsoft Futures Special Report
Ozzie: Success of Azure comes down to trust
News In an interview, Ray Ozzie says businesses will be taking a risk by placing core operations in Microsoft's datacentre, but that the software giant has more to lose if things go bad
News Microsoft PDC: What to expect
News Microsoft unveils 'Azure' cloud OS
Featured Talkback
Why do so many (virtually all) software packages think that they are so important that they have to be started automatically every time the computer boots? What is the largest number of "speed access", "update check", "camera download" and whatever other background programs you have ever seen running? Of those, how many did you really need?
By: J.A. Watson
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Annoying software: a rogues' gallery
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Featured Talkback
Can you imagine what would have happened if the great philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists and writers had patented their ideas so that nobody else could use them without paying. We today wouldn't be able to have a conversation without violating somebodies intellectual property. The arguement of the free software community is that software should be treated in the same manner, copyrightable but not patentable.
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Microsoft exec talks patent politics
OS Scratch Load Times
I reload the operating systems on my laptops quite frequently. On the Linux side, it is because I am trying various distributions, while on the Windows side it is more often because... More
Wireless Networking - Linksys WRT350N...
Ok, this is driving me crazy. Why does this not work? I have a Linksys WRT350N Wireless-N router, and a laptop with an Intel 4965AGN Wireless Network Interface. When I am running... More
Software Jihad part 2
I guess the point of my previous post (read rant if you want) was that Microsoft makes a lot of noise of "protecting" their IP but in reality they are only paying lip-service to it... More
