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IBM to sit out Office format standards process
News IBM is a big supporter of OpenDocument and intends to have that document format as the default in its forthcoming Workplace products. Sutor said that within the next year or two the committee should consider a "convergence path" between the Office...
[December 21, 2005, 8:15]
O2 sorts out high-speed wireless
News It will start the rollout this year in the UK -- the Isle of Man is the debut site -- and next year across its properties. Another acronym featuring big on the ex-BT property's hit-list is IP. One thing that definitely doesn't work for the company...
[January 28, 2005, 8:20]
Ozzie, Mundie pick up tech mantle at Microsoft
News Bill Gates leaves some pretty big shoes to fill. The only thing I was doing that he's doing - it turns out, the last eight years I've been pretty much Bill's partner in both the engagement with research and in doing a lot of the issues around...
[June 19, 2006, 10:25]
Spammers take aim at HR departments
News One thing we definitely know is the home is fertile ground for malware," said Sunner. Imagine obtaining the next recipe for Viagra - that information would be worth a lot," said Sunner. Any sectors closer to that have a big problem.
[April 4, 2006, 17:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As part of the deal, IBM undertakes to do no design or marketing of PCs for the next five years, by which time we'll probably all be buried under ten feet deep drifts of iPods. As the rumble over IBM's sell-off of its PC division increases, some...
[December 10, 2004, 16:40]
It's running late - but it's Linux
News And it's damn hard to say 'no,' when it's all so obviously a good thing. It's the next version of the Linux kernel, 2.4, which is about a year behind its promised delivery date. Torvalds said a big part of the reason that 2.4 is running behind...
[May 3, 2000, 13:06]
Nuggets: Sagem Pocket PC converges on the ubiquitous
News The front, which is almost totally dedicated to the touch-screen display, is about the same size as an old-style Walkman but the whole thing is only 1cm thick. Unlike those pesky WAP phones, the Sagem's screen is easily big enough to cope with data...
[November 14, 2000, 9:52]
IBM unveils Green Sigma consulting service
News Helping make businesses green is big business to IBM. Many heavy polluters, such as utility firms, anticipate climate regulations being introduced in the next five years. That means that not only is it the right thing to do but it also makes...
[August 19, 2008, 8:32]
Is the Mac mini good value?
Talkback It is absurd to compare this to a pc.the only thing that it shares with a pc is what's inside.the concept behind it is to make a computer that isn't a computer but is a consumer device like the ipod.this is not a computer for a desk.this is a...
[January 13, 2005, 21:30]
Novell, Sun woo ISPs
News Everybody today is trying to build the biggest, baddest private network, with fast quality of service and have their own services hang off this thing. Papadopoulos gave almost no plugs for Sun products, although he did mention he will be driving a...
[October 29, 1999, 16:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's been a bad week in the Big Easy, and the weekend 's not going to get much better. The most incredible thing about New Orleans is that the US did know the risks and ostensibly had plans to cope - but in reality, those in charge had been...
[September 2, 2005, 19:05]
Mesh networking embraces open-source telephony
News I predict that over next three years, VoIP using an open-source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today," Hall told LinuxWorld Expo in London. Lander believes that Asterisk has the potential...
[October 27, 2004, 12:55]
Google share price takes a dive
News I can't point to any one thing, but there are four things that you probably could say contributed to [today's] decline," said Jason Helfstein, a media and Internet analyst with Oppenheimer & Co. Also playing a potential role in pushing Google's...
[September 9, 2008, 9:09]
AMD taps loyal fans to spread the word
News I hear more and more customers asking about AMD in the corporate space," said Achim Kuttler, director of Hewlett-Packard's PC client business, who nonetheless added, "but there is a big difference between asking and buying.
[November 16, 2001, 17:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Fun moments included watching a bonfire as big as a house melt the paintwork in the wee Scottish town of Biggar, watching some William Wallace beardalikes pulling a burning Viking longship through the centre of Edinburgh, and discovering just what...
[January 10, 2003, 16:22]
BT delays ADSL again, Freeserve says it's a 'disgrace'
News Oftel is currently considering whether to grant an extension and will give its answer in the next few weeks. An Oftel spokesman confirmed that BT has delayed ADSL availability, but claimed the most important thing is that the technology is working...
[March 3, 2000, 5:52]
Sun signs up to rivals' security standards
News They're taking WS-Security into a recognized, open industry organisation, and Web infrastructure on a royalty-free basis is an important thing as well," Smith said. Analysts have said lack of security is the biggest obstacle to the adoption of Web...
[June 27, 2002, 15:52]
WiMax and the Spiggot Problem
Blog Even the big success stories for the standard - Sprint in the US is the one most quoted - are looking wobbly: Sprint's CEO just got booted out as part of a shareholder revolt, amid great worries over the $5 billion investment required to get the...
[October 19, 2007, 13:01]
Intel drops plans for Larrabee GPU in 2010
News Intel has scrapped plans to release its Larrabee many-core graphics processor next year. The product that Intel wanted to bring out initially wasn't going to have the kind of performance needed to compete against [currently available] high-end...
[December 7, 2009, 14:04]
Exchanges grow amid fears
News The next thing is the suppliers are going to build a marketplace and tell everybody they have to join. However, although many major industries, such as the aircraft and automobile sectors, have already converted to the cause, online business-to...
[May 22, 2000, 11:40]
