The Myths of Innovation review
Reviews The answers invariably detailed a decade or more of hard work and failed efforts while they gained experience. Even Archimedes thought long and hard for a decade or two before taking that bath. The late American talk show host Johnny Carson used to...
[May 19, 2008, 8:25]
Security and Usability review
Reviews A decade or so ago, computer usability was a relatively new field, with researchers scrambling to try to understand how to make computer systems that worked for people instead of against them. This book, subtitled Designing Secure Systems That...
[December 12, 2005, 8:35]
Products of the 'Noughties': 2000-2004 review
Reviews So, to celebrate the end of the 'Noughties', we present a selection of the decade's most significant tech products, starting with the first five years. With advertising revenue pouring in courtesy of AdWords, and later (in 2003) the content...
[December 23, 2009, 13:18]
Palm Zire 71 review
Reviews We actually thought the original Zire was fairly slick-looking except for the so-last-decade monochrome screen. Design The 71 has that same stylised look, but it's adorned with a blue instead of a white motif, with a touch of Apple influence in the...
[April 24, 2003, 8:46]
Office Web Apps Technical Preview: a First Look review
Reviews We've spent the last decade or more emailing documents to colleagues, wasting time as we wait to receive content and edits. Collaboration has always been a big problem with desktop productivity tools.
[September 24, 2009, 14:56]
Internet Forensics review
Reviews A fair amount of Robert Jones's Internet Forensics: Using Digital Evidence to Solve Computer Crime should be familiar to anyone who has lived through the spam wars of the last decade: how to analyse email headers; how to identify spam and its...
[April 4, 2006, 10:10]
Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine review
Reviews In fact, says Hall, AI started nearly a decade earlier as cybernetics, and built on the ancient idea of feedback mechanisms. This potted history isn't complete, as J. Storrs Hall, a fellow of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing and author of...
[January 11, 2008, 8:26]
Microsoft's unified communications suite review
Reviews A decade on, Microsoft may pull off a similar trick, this time in the 'unified communications' market. Over the years, one of Microsoft's particular talents has been to identify an application, such as word processing, web browsing or email, and...
[October 16, 2007, 10:34]
The Wealth of Networks review
Reviews Even if you've been surveying the same ground for more than a decade, you find unexpected nuggets that change your perspective. Many people assume that all this voluntary cooperation is just a phase we're going through on our way back to capitalist...
[April 24, 2007, 15:10]
Word 2007 RTM review
Reviews For the first time in a decade, Microsoft is foisting by default a new file format upon users; the old Word DOC files will make way for the new DOCX type in Word 2007. Although Microsoft has put the finishing touches to Word 2007, the product won't...
[November 16, 2006, 9:19]
Here Comes Everybody review
Reviews To be sure, part of the reason Linux eventually became successful is that Richard Stallman's group at MIT had spent a decade writing GNU — but it wasn't until the internet became a mass medium that the movement became strong enough to challenge...
[July 28, 2008, 16:22]
Power to the people: ZDNet's guide to notebook batteries review
Reviews All this adds up to big business over the next decade, according to Daniel Benjamin, a marketing analyst at Allied Business Intelligence, based in Oyster Bay, New York. About a decade ago, most notebook makers switched to nickel-metal-hydride...
[April 14, 2004, 10:00]
A guide to server efficiency review
Reviews Indeed, Intel has been getting very bullish over energy efficiency, with Intel CEO Paul Otellini recently predicting a 310 per cent increase in performance per watt by the end of the decade. With prices plummeting, there’s never been a better time...
[June 5, 2007, 7:53]
Word 2007 review
Reviews For the first time in a decade, Microsoft is foisting a new file format upon users, and old Word DOC files make way for the Word 2007's new DOCX format. Our installation of various Office suites on Windows XP computers took between 10 and 20...
[February 7, 2007, 9:19]
Inside Office 2007's files review
Reviews Microsoft has rebuilt its host of Office applications from the ground up. Along with the bold interface changes and new features in Office 2007, revamped file formats will affect how you work in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, regardless of whether you...
[January 30, 2007, 14:07]
Office 2003 Beta 2: an IT perspective review
Reviews The forthcoming suite will also form a major plank in Bill Gates's strategy for Microsoft to 'double productivity within a decade'. The message from Microsoft's Beta 2 preview session held in San Francisco at the end of February is that Office 2003...
[March 10, 2003, 8:21]
WordPerfect Office 11 Standard review
Reviews In Classic Mode, WordPerfect looks and acts like the venerable DOS-based WordPerfect 5.1 program of more than a decade ago. Setup & interface WordPerfect Office 11 comes in two versions: Standard and Professional.
[April 23, 2003, 13:58]
