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Is this the start-up silly season?
Blog Just like a London bus, you don’t hear too much about start-ups and entrepreneur initiatives for a few months and then three come along at once. From developer competitions, to entrepreneur events, right through to almost ‘eighties-esque’ dotcom...
[July 13, 2009, 8:38]
'Fantastic' time to be a tech start-up
Blog In a way, it's a fantastic time [to be a start-up]. David Keene, vice president of industry and competition at SAP EMEA: Now is a great time for start-ups. Start-ups will fail quickly if it's not a good idea — Darwinian selection has been accelerated.
[February 10, 2009, 16:02]
Securing the perimeter - and the hole in the middle as well
Blog Escaping from launch fever here at ZD Towers, I've spent Tuesday morning with an interesting LAN security start-up called Nevis Networks. When I was first told of the company, the headlines immediately sprang to mind: Security start-up facing...
[October 31, 2006, 16:31]
COOL-ER: a home-grown e-book reader
Blog A week or so ago, Phil Wood, marketing director of UK start-up Interead, handed us a shiny new ('vivid violet' coloured) e-book reader called the COOL-ER. The device looks a bit like an oversized iPod, and works pretty well once you're into reading...
[May 29, 2009, 16:47]
Unconvinced about Vista
Blog Let's start with the look of the thing, which is clearly one of the OS's main drawing points. What I don't like is that it takes longer to start up than XP did, and certainly takes about twice as long as XP to shut down.
[April 24, 2007, 10:00]
Mobile Broadband (3G, HSPA) with Ubuntu
Blog However, in the process of doing this I have refined the wvdial configuration a bit, to make it simpler and get it to start up a bit faster, so after summarizing the current situation, I will include my latest configuration at the end of this post.
[February 13, 2009, 11:03]
Pirates on Board the M.S. MoneyTanker!
Blog Microsoft needs to be regulated, forced, coerced, sued and hammered on until they start up a substantial anti-botnet, anti-piracy effort that goes on the offensive against infected systems running their software.
[May 14, 2009, 3:08]
The ZDNet Community - sign up!
Blog This is just the start for us, after all. The start for you is up there on the top left hand corner of the page, where it says Sign Up Now! We have the technology. We have the stories. We have the expertise.
[October 30, 2006, 15:26]
Fine tuning the virtual engine
Blog You know that thing that happens right after you buy a canary yellow Ford Escort Mark II with the racing trim and go faster seat covers and you start noticing all the Ford Escorts on the road like it’s every third car?
[January 27, 2009, 23:19]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's hard to know where to start here. Yet tell them that nobody's been able to prove that radio waves will never hurt them -- an impossible demand -- and they start ranting on as if aliens had landed and were preparing to suck out Junior's brains...
[March 26, 2002, 10:11]
New Ubuntu 9.04 installed - not many dead
Blog I typed in the single command needed to start the process for the pre-launch release candidate, and went off to make the tea. My XP virtual machine started up, if anything, smoother than before: I'm used to the start-up music stuttering if I...
[April 20, 2009, 11:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When you start the thing up in the morning, it tries to build a directory in RAM of the files in flash, and it won't fit. Now it's a bit awkward… nobody's saying too much, but it sounds like you can't delete files from the flash memory because you...
[January 30, 2004, 15:10]
Ubuntu Live to lose GIMP - Will it matter?
Blog Again it's time to start weighing up facts and not to just believe whatever's in front of me. To start with, Ryan at arstechnica (do you realise just how hard it is to type arstechnica? Even if they start off with something simple and basic, they...
[November 27, 2009, 8:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Likewise, server design has a long way to go before I'll start to believe all these protestations of enhanced efficiency. But until you start to come up with truly innovative ideas like those listed above, I'm not going to believe you.
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
It's a Social 2.0 World...
Blog Now when I post to my blog, bookmark a new site or shorten a URL, everything can start to tweet everything else, and everybody knows what everybody else is up to. And what happens when you start linking them all together?
[September 3, 2009, 15:44]
Applications tone up for Beijing Olympics
Blog Given the impending start of the Beijing Olympics on August the eighth we can no doubt brace ourselves for a flurry of news themed around the fact that XYZ Ltd’s latest application has been refined and toned up to support the technology needs of...
[July 25, 2008, 11:37]
Linux on Netbooks - with PICTURES!
Blog When you start an application, such as Firefox, it is automatically made full-screen, and with the modified UNR task bar, it can be difficult to see how to start and use other applications at the same time.
[December 30, 2009, 9:50]
The Future for Rich Internet Applications
Blog With the fast start up time of a traditional web application, the user does not need to start their browser to navigate the pages of the site and several are already in Beta form such as San Dimas, the codename for EffectiveUI’s RIA version of eBay.
[October 18, 2007, 11:16]
The Technological Singularity
Blog It's possibly only a matter of time until we end up with a situation where machines start trying to give naive post graduates advice on what's best. Of course it would be easy to think that this is just pure science fiction but just consider what...
[November 17, 2008, 23:32]
Good news for British high-tech startups
Blog He reports that amid the doom and gloom in the markets, investment in new British high technology start-ups has been soldiering on pretty much as usual. Up to the end of Q3 they'd put Ł765 million into UK and Irish high-tech start-ups which, if Q4...
[November 21, 2008, 15:32]
