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Lead on cloud - or the business will work around you

...getting around what they see as obstructive IT departments. "They will literally work around IT. If you don’t make it simple, if you donâ... Read more

29 July, 2011

Tor tool aims to help Iranians work around internet ban

The online anonymity project's 'Obfsproxy' disguises encrypted data as innocuous data such as instant messages, which Tor believes could be used by Iranians to get round government web blocking Read more

13 February, 2012 by Edward Moyer

In Praise of Clonezilla

To really understand this article, you have to understand how things work around our house. It's pretty simple - I am forbidden, under penalty... Read more

22 January, 2011

Apple wins initial patent ruling on HTC's Android phones

...Android handsets infringe on two Apple patents, but HTC says it can work around the patents and will appeal Read more

18 July, 2011 by David Meyer

The Idle Self-employed

...applauded. I cut my working hours to suit and I fit my work around my life. I can heartily recommend it. Sure, there is more... Read more

14 May, 2012

Motorola fails to win Microsoft push email ban

...told ZDNet UK that Microsoft had "a simple technology fix" prepared to work around any patent enforcement. According to patent expert Florian Mueller, who has... Read more

11 May, 2012

Adventures with Outlook 2010 Problems

I've written recently about Exchange problems and how Outlook problems have been overwhelming the Help Desk. Another... Read more

11 November, 2011

Nokia loses mobile patent case in Germany

...said Nokia still wanted to know if its recent products, which apparently work around IPCom's patents, were infringing. Noting that the UK High Court... Read more

20 April, 2012

Living and Loving the Acer Aspire One 522

...last couple of problems I've had with it. After finding a work-around for the "network interfaces cause a freeze on boot" problem (see... Read more

24 February, 2012

More About the Acer Aspire One 522

...wired and wireless network interfaces, and not getting them initialized correctly. The work-around is to simply go into the BIOS setup and in the... Read more

19 February, 2012

Hello, World!

I have been away from my blog for much too long, and if there is anyone to whom this makes a difference I apologize. A... Read more

17 February, 2012

Apple loses round in Motorola patent case

...is the broadest one Apple has and would be very difficult to work around if a judge upheld it Read more

16 January, 2012

Microsoft wins Android patent call against Motorola

...would also have to remove the offending feature, find a way to work around it, license the relevant patent from Microsoft, or stop selling Android... Read more

21 December, 2011 by David Meyer

Apple wins US Android patent ruling against HTC

The US International Trade Commission has ruled in Apple's favour over a patent infringement in HTC's phones, but the victory is narrow and HTC has claimed it as a win Read more

20 December, 2011 by David Meyer

Fedora Wins on Samsung Netbooks

...weeks now, trying to find a solution, or at least a reasonable work-around. Now, thankfully, I have found both. First, the solution - Fedora 16... Read more

15 December, 2011

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

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I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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