Mobile working is a myth
Blog Comment The vendor-driven research in the Economist is probably indicative of a market reaching maturity, as use of mobile devices passes the early adopter stage tech vendors need to get smarter to adapt device to different user needs.
[June 13, 2007, 8:05]
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
Talkback ZD is a leader in ensuring tech journalism stays in the toilet, as long as they can profit from worthless web advertising next to their sensationalism. Along the way, you offered some ignorant misinformation (clearly you know nothing about Rosetta...
[November 9, 2005, 23:28]
Vendors, not developers, to blame for poor code
News Schmidt's argument outraged large swathes of software developers, including readers of ZDNet UK and tech luminaries such as Bruce In software development, we need to have personal quality assurances from developers that the code they write is...
[October 20, 2005, 17:05]
Woz named to Inventors Hall of Fame
News At the Tech Museum in San Jose, Woz recently celebrated the release of his updated biography written by Martha Kendall, entitled Steve Wozniak, Inventor of the Apple Computer. According to an AP story, the Apple II "brought together all the...
[June 19, 2000, 10:01]
VMWorld Keynote
Blog Dr Steve Herrod - VP Tech Dev - takes the stage. His personal favourite? We are not normal attendees, he says. We like to talk details. And that's the plan this year. Two hundred breakout sessions. A skyrocketing ecosystem - 1400 partners, as many...
[November 7, 2006, 15:45]
Startup aims to inject zing into Net telephony
News BOPS is attempting to break into the $7bn-a-year market for digital signal processors (DSPs), which are used in cell phones and other high-tech equipment. In the future, BOPS' technology will be able to speed the delivery of Web information to...
[January 16, 2001, 8:37]
Online banking: Web services may create vulnerabilities
News That is one reason the high-tech industry is redoubling efforts to create security standards. Financial institutions have long been reluctant to allow technology companies to become the security gateway and repository of their customers' assets and...
[May 6, 2002, 7:32]
Special: HP source of envy in PC Mag service survey
News This year, HP carried off the overall desktop prize for the fourth year in a row, besting Gateway 2000 which put its early tech support blues behind it to finish six places up on last year. In servers, HP beat Compaq and Dell to take the cigar and...
[June 28, 1997, 8:00]
Wireless trends: Looking ahead at 2003
News Sure, the tech market's in the dumps and likely won't recover until the consumer world starts investing again in new products and services. Find out what's where in the new Tech Update with our It's not difficult to see that wireless products...
[January 22, 2003, 14:07]
US Report: Old Cambridge targets high-tech success
News In 1995, there were 400 high-tech companies within 20 miles of Cambridge, employing 16,000 people, 8,000 of whom worked for eight large companies. This has allowed it to become one of the hottest sites in Europe for creating high-tech companies.
[December 1, 1998, 10:18]
Apple increases distribution bandwidth
News When it brought on Tech Data last week as its third US wholesale distributor, Apple Computer expanded its channel sales capabilities for the first time in more than two years. Officials on both sides of the deal cited expanding sales of Apple...
[March 21, 2000, 14:21]
'Overclockers' turn PCs into hot rods
News Life isn't simple for "overclockers," a speed-obsessed breed of computer enthusiasts who are the tech world's equivalent of automotive hot rodders. Both spend their days souping up their machines with elaborate, expensive and often messy...
[April 11, 2000, 9:00]
IDC: Tech to hit bottom in 2002
News The report comes the same day as a Bush aide told Comdex Fall 2002 attendees that the tech sector won't recover as quickly as the overall economy. However, an IDC representative said this year could mark the end of the high-tech hangover.
[November 21, 2002, 8:08]
Skype Roundup
Blog Comment And for all the cool stuff that Skype lets me do - for free no less- let's me forgive and forget any loooong waits in tech support. I'd post this under my real name, but frankly this guy seems pretty obsessive and I don't have the time for a...
[October 1, 2008, 10:01]
HP defends cost-cutting regime
News For a round-up of the latest tech business coverage, see the Business News Section. We are on track to meet our profit targets, both for the company as a whole and for the enterprise systems group and personal systems" group, Fiorina told analysts.
[October 23, 2002, 8:20]
Generation Y keeping companies on their toes
News Golvin said the key distinction between Generation X and Y is that Generation X uses technology when it supports a "lifestyle need" whereas tech is "embedded into everything Gen Yers do" making them the first "native online population".
[July 28, 2008, 8:50]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback DO you able to see your desktop".this was one of the pathatic lines that some shithead indian tech.muttered on the call. There is nothing personal to the indians but either you improve your ENGLISH so that we can talk on the computer problems or...
[February 28, 2006, 5:19]
McAfee: How cybercrooks get under your skin
News Risk-takers might be fooled by the prospect of high gain, while the tech-savvy might be vulnerable due to over-confidence. Given the right conditions in terms of the persuasiveness of the communication and the critical combination of situational...
[June 26, 2007, 13:43]
Great for a small business or home!
Member Review I called tech support, left a message on the voice mail of the rep that handles the CLP-500. His voice mail said he was out of town and would not be back for a couple of weeks, however, he left his personal cell phone number (and that was a...
[August 24, 2004, 14:42]
'Storm Worm' sweeps the globe
News Though Storm Worm is widespread, the damage may ultimately be minimal in the US because most tech security companies will have already added it to their blocking list before people get into work, he added.
[January 22, 2007, 7:32]



