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Size matters - or choose your phone according to your pocket
Blog I’ve just posted a First Take story on the HTC HD2. But at 120.5mm x 67mm x 11mm the HD2 needs larger pockets than I can always offer. That means checking something can be a two-handed operation, not recommended when you are standing on a bus which...
[November 9, 2009, 11:44]
Open source could save NHS
News Much better instead to invest time on a system licensed under the General Public Licence that will always be free," he says. An editorial in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) entitled Medical software's free future, published last week, says that...
[October 30, 2000, 13:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog On the way in, we have to show our mobile phones and prove they can't take pictures. Also, the photograph required is just like a passport photo, but slightly bigger -- you can't use the normal photo booths (and the machine at the embassy is always...
[September 12, 2003, 17:00]
A Year Ago: Sun says it won't buy Netscape
News He said most companies won't take on Microsoft because the software maker can always find other partners. During his speech before the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley Thursday night, McNealy capped on news that a Canadian snowboarder had nearly...
[February 15, 1999, 5:53]
TypeRecorder X
Downloads TypeRecorder X also provides a comprehensive record of computer use, and allows you to always look back and see what you (or somebody else) were doing on a specific date. Even if you forget to save, TypeRecorder will always be recording.
[December 16, 2004, 7:00]
Tech Talk - ooVoo
Blog Unfortunately the contacts are always shown in what looks like "thumbnail" view, even if you have selected a different view in the main window, and the "favorites bar" is always on top of any other windows, which gets irritating very fast, but I...
[November 28, 2007, 13:42]
Microsoft hopes SP1 will drive Vista adoption
News Many analysts have consistently advised companies to hold off on Vista deployments until the first service pack's arrival. There's always a portion of the market that has that MO [modus operandi]," said Shanen Boettcher, a general manager in the...
[August 30, 2007, 14:59]
AI gets down to business
News The definition of "artificial intelligence" depends on whom you ask, but businesses have all sorts of uses for smarter computers. On a more practical level, it isn't clear users would really find agents useful.
[January 23, 2001, 14:20]
Enterprise sets store by consumers
Leader We may never see a server farm as simple to control as an iPod — some elite skills will always remain to set the experts apart — but anything that lets us concentrate on productivity rather than just making things work will be music to our ears.
[January 9, 2007, 13:19]
Wireless to spark handheld boom
News GPRS, for example, will be "always on", eliminating the need to wait while your device dials up a service provider, but it is not expected to be in general use for a year or more. You need that always-on capability to offer seamless services.
[January 19, 2001, 6:18]
Joy hails Web as platform for the future
News Bill Joy is putting his money — or, more accurately, his venture-capital firm's money — on the Web as the platform of the future. He calls that phenomenon the "here" Web, because the Internet is always "here, because you access it through a device...
[September 30, 2005, 14:05]
Microsoft rethinks server software
News Microsoft said the future version of Outlook will automatically run in a "cache mode," meaning a copy of contacts, schedules and emails will always be stored locally on users' computers. The goal is to make sure using the full Outlook can be as...
[October 3, 2002, 13:54]
Ten New Year's resolutions for tech workers
Comment Now we turn to the most important tool on your desk. If you have monthly needs, you can always create a new sub-directory within Documents for each month. I have always treated my desk as an extension of my computer screen.
[January 8, 2010, 13:33]
Develop a security strategy for mobile working
News As the organisation grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep up with who has what on which hard drive and where that data goes. An employee's laptop is lost or stolen and thousands or even hundreds of thousands of the organisation's...
[July 19, 2006, 13:35]
Avoiding 10 common Web-application flaws
News I always look at cookie content to validate that sensitive information is not stored in cookies such as roles -- or worse, user IDs and passwords. I often find fields that do not perform data validation on input.
[February 19, 2004, 10:40]
ToDoMatrix 2008
Downloads By centralizing your to-do management on the BlackBerry, whether you are in the office or not, your projects and priorities are always well organized and with you. Our customers can manage unlimited projects and sub-projects, keep track of who...
[April 1, 2006, 8:00]
Active Mail for Nokia 7610/6600
Downloads Or configure Active Mail to check for new e-mail every 15mins, and always be up-to-date with the latest e-mail.With the scheduler you have the option to define which components of the email will be downloaded (i.e.headers, message body, and...
[January 3, 2004, 7:00]
Firewalls: Your first line of defence
News This means anyone on the Internet can identify your computer—and perhaps scan it to see whether it's running vulnerable software or services. Depending on the customer, this job can include maintaining on-site routing and firewall equipment, which...
[February 21, 2006, 15:00]
Explore all avenues before assuming gender bias
News Clearly, conflicts like the one you described in your letter are driven largely on the basis of perspective, and perspective comes from our collected experiences. If you can't talk to your coworker about the problem, then I would engineer some...
[October 14, 2002, 11:44]
Concern grows about Bulldog's broadband service
Talkback Since being with Bulldog I have had outrageous bills, I have tried to get through to their customer service number but always get cut off, due to the number being unavailable. However if you ring the number to set up an account with Bulldog you get...
[May 22, 2006, 19:35]
