IBM's growing pains continue
News The traditional body-shop consulting and outsourcing components of Global Services are lagging. As part of its consulting push, IBM is also getting a more substantial foothold in the business process outsourcing field, an expansion beyond IBM...
[May 5, 2005, 14:00]
Picasa 2.0: a first look review
Reviews Picasa combines the deep-level editing tools of Adobe Elements with the ease of Paint Shop Pro and other popular programs, without the expense. The new edition of Picasa also burns albums to your computer's DVD or CD burner -- something missing in...
[January 20, 2005, 8:20]
This is no-ones fault but their own!!
Talkback Boycott Hamleys and shop with other online retailers that can be trusted. If they did not agree with the offers made then they should have refused the offer in the first place rather than allowing their computer system to automatically accept all...
[December 21, 2006, 10:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog These Bostonians have set up shop in Europe, the better to sell us spidering - their verb - services. Have a look at http://computer.org/annals/an1997/a3toc.htm. Fresh from my orgy of nerdiness last week, when I found and downloaded emulators for...
[September 20, 1997, 9:00]
Home Office screens Internet paedophile warning ads
News The portal would be a one-stop-shop for complaints, and would help to clear confusion over where parents and children should go with problems. It made the unnerving discovery that most young people see the Internet as "safe", and think themselves...
[December 19, 2001, 16:50]
Startup Spotlight: QXL.com
News The second section of our business is QXL Shop, which is better known for its business to consumer focus. QXL therefore allows people to experience the process of auctioning through a computer interface, which effectively depersonalises the whole...
[November 17, 1999, 17:36]
Hack attacks wash out confidence in Net
News They continued to shop -- some sites even reported an uptick in sales. The findings were released as President Clinton, meeting with computer executives at the White House, said that the Web-site hack attacks raised the alarm for tighter security...
[February 21, 2000, 9:45]
Europe search partners fight US threat
News Both companies have set up shop in Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Asia. FAST, which regularly indexes more than two billion Web documents, powers search results for AT&T, Dell Computer, Freeserve and Terra Lycos, among others.
[January 16, 2003, 11:16]
Presentation Layer Cake
Blog In search of a third party opinion, I spoke to the nice independent chap called Geoff Hirst who runs a developer shop called 64Bitz Computer Consultancy Limited. Don’t you just love the presentation layer?
[July 1, 2008, 9:09]
Oxford University sets up Internet Institute
News You can already shop, bank, vote debate, argue, consult a doctor and get your degree over the Net -- and do so all around the globe. To understand what is happening and to formulate helpful policies you need people such as political scientists...
[May 4, 2001, 16:59]
First 5 minutes impressions Asus Eee Pc 901 and Ubuntu 9.04 alpha 5
Blog Now, most of you will know how the Asus Eee Pc 901 will look like, but I have to admit that it just looks better when it belongs to you than seeing it in a shop. I cannot remember having seen ANY computer that booted so fast from a USB stick.
[March 2, 2009, 16:49]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Also, they advertisments state that DELL can't be bought in a shop, that is true! The final truth is that no American company is the anywhere near the best in the world, if anything American computer manufacturers are probably the worst.
[September 7, 2006, 17:18]
Super-regulator Ofcom merges tasks
News Walton says that Ofcom will also monitor location-based advertising -- where a shop, for example, can tell a passer-by of a special offer using technology that sends the advert to a phone when it is within range -- which telecommunications...
[December 13, 2000, 15:51]
Valentine's Day goo clogs Net
News American Greetings now operates AOL's e-card shop, and Hallmark launched an online store in November. And he can say 'just a minute,' and go to the computer, and five minutes later, waiting in her e-mail box will be an e-greeting from us.
[February 16, 1998, 9:31]
Annoying software: a rogues' gallery review
Reviews At least Europe's been spared Real's Rhapsody music shop. But Reader's incessant updates (demanding you reset your computer — why? It spends half its time trying to sell us stuff and the other half trying to stop us using it.
[May 20, 2008, 10:29]
Vista versions are so last century
Leader Moreover, this is a version that you cannot buy in any shop: Windows Vista Enterprise, available only to organisations with enterprise-level licensing agreements. The single most important advance in computer technology this decade — ubiquitous...
[February 27, 2006, 12:55]
Old Economy lines up to take over dotcoms
News We know that many of our customers already shop online, and with Buy.com we will be moving quickly to create the UK's best online department store offer," Luke Mayhew, director of trading at John Lewis, said in a statement.
[February 6, 2001, 9:18]
Windows 7 on a Read-only Flash Drive?
Blog Buy the download on Shop Microsoft. Microsoft will think of the USB based install to be a loss-leader, a way to get users hooked on Windows 7 so they'll buy it pre-installed on their next computer or as shrink-wrap for their old desktops or...
[June 30, 2009, 2:13]
Debunking Some Linux Myths
Blog Comment My favorite is ZaReason (http://www.zareason.com/shop/home.php) as I have met the owners and witnessed first hand their concern for their customers. Not that I would, even more important, when the next version of Windows is discontinued and you can...
[October 27, 2009, 9:58]
Debunking Some Linux Myths
Blog Comment My favorite is ZaReason (http://www.zareason.com/shop/home.php) as I have met the owners and witnessed first hand their concern for their customers. Not that I would, even more important, when the next version of Windows is discontinued and you can...
[October 27, 2009, 9:58]



