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Some do's and don'ts for vendor selection
News You just won a hard-fought battle to secure the line item for new systems in your company’s existing network infrastructure. Now you’re about to leap into the fray of competing vendors, all of whom say they are the right one to provide the new...
[September 11, 2003, 17:30]
An Easter Egg selection
News Google Earth flight sim It's less hidden than most Easter Eggs, given that there's full online documentation on how to use it, but casual users would probably miss Google Earth's flight simulator feature.
[April 9, 2009, 18:42]
Personal Server takes your data with you
News Although the Intel Developer Forum opens on Tuesday in San Jose, the company has already presented a selection of highlights at a Monday preview. One solution he suggested was for the Personal Server to display a selection of your pictures...
[September 16, 2003, 10:25]
Crypto experts hail Advanced Encryption Standard
News That seemed to be the common theme at the RSA Data Security Conference on Monday afternoon with encryption experts praising the US government's selection of an Advanced Encryption Standard, or AES. At the top of the list of past successes: the US...
[April 11, 2001, 11:32]
Valentine's Day goo clogs Net
News A variety of sites allow users to choose from a selection of greeting-card-like images and send them-along with a message-to any e-mail address. Most of the cards Greet Street sends out are from its small selection of free cards.
[February 16, 1998, 9:31]
EC hits out at Oftel - again
News This time it could find itself in trouble for "failing to meet its obligations" in the delivery of carrier pre-selection. But we believe the UK is fully compliant with our obligations to enable service providers to offer carrier pre-selection.
[June 15, 2000, 15:11]
Creative Commons comes to Microsoft Office
News But Microsoft is the first vendor to embed a licence-selection option inside its applications, said Lawrence Lessig, the founder of the Creative Commons and a Stanford Law School professor. Once installed, the licence-selection software will appear...
[June 21, 2006, 10:00]
Apple's browser move 'snubs' Mozilla
News One Mozilla staff member called KHTML selection an understandable if not foregone conclusion, given Mozilla's technical problems. In an email congratulating KHTML engineers on their work and its selection by Apple, Safari's engineering manager...
[January 14, 2003, 12:19]
Should IT security be separate from IT?
News The selection and implementation of IT security solutions can be an onerous task, alongside the maintenance of these systems. If an organisation had a separate IT security department, this department would be solely responsible for not only the...
[May 12, 2006, 13:10]
Creative uses for dead PCs
News Send your pictures to us at recycledhardware@zdnet.co.uk and tell us your stories using the talkback facility below and we will run a selection of the best of them in the future. Send your pictures to us at recycledhardware@zdnet.co.uk and tell us...
[September 2, 2005, 14:25]
Peoplesound.com - A music revolution?
News If they pass the Peoplesound A&R selection and gain a contract, Peoplesound will share 50% of the net profit from record sales. We will offer them the chance to explore different areas of music and then have a personalised selection on whatever...
[July 19, 1999, 12:31]
ICANN announces domain name changes
News The creation and implementation of selection criteria for new and existing TLD registries, including public explanation of the process, selection criteria, and the rationale for selection decisions; The body which oversees domain names has listed...
[November 6, 2003, 12:00]
Price war forecast as Tele2 targets UK
News Tele2 is basing its voice products on carrier pre-selection, a process that allows BT customers to make calls using another telecoms operator without having to fit an adaptor to their phone or dial other telephone numbers before making a call.
[October 21, 2003, 14:40]
ICANN confirms date for .name release
News A US Senate investigation was launched into complaints that 200 candidates had been whittled down to just 23 during the ICANN selection process. ICANN has announced that GNR will conduct a randomised selection process among multiple submissions of...
[August 6, 2001, 14:28]
Making the right storage decision
News Recently, we completed the selection and purchase of a new SAN. In my next articles, I'll go over our iSCSI vendor-selection process and detail our initial installation and production-use experience. For the last 10 months, I've worked as the IT...
[March 15, 2005, 11:35]
Intel Developer Forum in pictures
News A selection of concept handtop PCs, which combine full PC functionality with a PDA-like form factor. A selection of Intel Motes, independent sensor-laden wireless computers It's about more than just chip sets — wireless, virtual reality, fuel cells...
[August 26, 2005, 17:35]
Best-ever site for online music?
News Once bands get through the selection procedure they are given a £100 cash advance, another first for digital music sites. They can then post a selection of tracks for free play or download, and offer CDs of their music for online purchase.
[October 19, 1999, 11:38]
Apple retreats on gaming tools at WWDC
News The graphics API DrawSprocket will be included, although it will lose hardware-accelerated "blitting" support and its multimonitor selection user interface -- it will support screen resolution selection only.
[May 18, 2000, 8:38]
Single sign-on -- not a panacea
News For this reason, CIOs need to make sure that they have a well-understood and strictly enforced password policy boasting three essential elements: selection/expiration requirements how external password access impacts the enterprise and the use of...
[September 19, 2002, 13:53]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News After thinking for a bit, I realise why it looks so worrying -- it's very similar to the old Tory party torch) and pulled out a small selection of brightly coloured plastic bits. Flying back overnight from California is rarely a pleasure: not...
[January 30, 1999, 8:39]
