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Take two applications and call me in the morning
Blog The problem, whether you’re using code review, runtime testing, or whatever, is finding enough combinations so you can trace through, from source to sink point, exactly what’s going to go on with a pointer, buffer, array, or whatever it happens to...
[February 10, 2009, 21:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog With a large proportion of the UK already enjoying digital entertainment from home servers in the shape of Sky Plus as well as cable and digital terrestrial personal video recorders, why would they want to pay substantially more for PCs that do...
[April 29, 2005, 20:10]
Microsoft set to refund $1bn
News A California judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a landmark settlement under which Microsoft will pay $1.1bn (£690m) to settle a class-action suit that claimed it overcharged consumers for Windows.
[July 21, 2003, 7:47]
BBC squares up to operators over iPlayer
Blog Should you pay the licence fee if you use iPlayer, on the PC or the mobile? Next Wednesday the BBC and Nokia will be launching the iPlayer on the N96, as a kickoff for the media player's eventual availability across a variety of phones.
[September 26, 2008, 17:10]
The Week in Review: Lair of the SQL worm
News Unless you pay attention to software vulnerabilities, that is. In other countries it will be a different matter, although the changes won't go as far as the labels and software companies would like. Let the editors know what you think in the Mailroom.
[February 7, 2003, 15:55]
Google to base ads on surfing behaviour
News The company already offers advertising related to the site being surfed — so long as that site is a Google AdSense partner or YouTube. These ads will associate categories of interest — say sports, gardening, cars, pets — with your browser, based on...
[March 11, 2009, 11:19]
Friaco not to blame for broadband fiasco, says AOL
News BT's defence has been that it has offered broadband but there has been little demand, perhaps because many users find flat-rate access adequate and do not want to pay a premium on top. Far from satisfying their needs, Friaco seemed to intensify...
[December 5, 2001, 9:43]
Consoles aplenty for Xbox launch
News As he walked out of an Electronics Boutique store in San Francisco, computer technician Daniel Yee, 28, said he "hated" having to pay hundreds extra for his Xbox bundle. Consumers crowded into stores as Microsoft's video game console went on sale...
[November 16, 2001, 9:23]
BT, Intel develop 'instant messaging on steroids'
News As a result, they are desperate to find next-generation applications that will appeal to consumers and professionals and begin to pay back those expenses. Intel and BT are to create next-generation collaboration products, dubbed 'instant messaging...
[May 17, 2001, 18:05]
Apples and Oranges (or KDE and Vista)
Talkback Over the longer term, the diversity, flexibility and power are likely to pay off, once you get someone to try Linux and stay with it. I was well aware at the time that it might be due to a shortcoming in myself, rather than KDE, but I just never...
[April 28, 2009, 9:08]
New unmetered price war on the way - analysts
News In the long term, Eibisch expects the unmetered market will become tiered, with some users willing to pay more for a premium service, and others opting for much cheaper options. Users who are drawn to cheaper unmetered offerings might find...
[September 20, 2000, 14:51]
Corel targets Microsoft customers
News The fact the opportunity is there doesn't necessarily mean the business is there," DeGroot added, "but this is as good a time as any for the few remaining contenders for office suites to point out their cost advantage over Microsoft products.
[August 2, 2002, 9:58]
IR35 could rob Britain of the next Microsoft
News As the battle over IR35 entered its second day at the High Court on Wednesday, some of the IT contractors who are affected by the tax claimed it will cause long-term damage to Britain's high-tech sector unless it is overturned.
[March 15, 2001, 6:24]
Screenfridge gets warm reception
News Last year South Korean hardware manufacturer LG was demonstrating a refrigerator that could be used to surf the Net and to make videophone calls as well as to store and cool food. The most frequently used applications were information-based...
[April 26, 2001, 15:28]
Employers: Find out your workers' World Cup rights
News You should also make it clear that any unauthorised absence or inability to work because of excess alcohol will, as usual, not be tolerated and, if appropriate, will be dealt with under the usual disciplinary procedures.
[May 22, 2002, 14:53]
KPNQwest's Ebone operators are ready to go it alone
News However, the networks could be easily separated: "Ebone could be sold as a separate entity, and I would expect that to happen," he said. Today, the dust is settling from a nail-biting week which saw KPNQwest's liquidators threatening to shut down...
[June 17, 2002, 16:34]
Web 2.0, SaaS & Communication
Talkback SaaS opens up a whole new way to pay for software - small companies in particular will have access through "pay-as-you-go" models to the kind of software that would have broken the bank before Web 2.0.
[September 18, 2008, 17:48]
British Museum puts collection online
News Go to the British Museum website and you may notice a small change. As of Wednesday, not only can you now look through the 260,000 exhibits currently on display at the museum but you will also find yourself asked whether you are interested in...
[February 15, 2008, 15:37]
V9 great for developers, but not 2006
Member Review When you re-install in a development situation, XP, W2K etc.are fine with MSDN as every 10 times you get a new key from Microsoft and off you go again, Ipswitch, they allow you to install the program once, and then assume you will never rebuild.
[October 26, 2005, 13:51]
Fast: 'Ban them from any internet use'
News As one of our readers pointed out, copyright infringement is a civil issue rather than criminal — surely you should have to go through the courts? All we'd be doing is providing evidence to the service provider that people are providing illegal...
[October 30, 2007, 12:32]
