PreSales Canabalize Retailers' Opening Day Sales!
Blog (My attempt at writing a tabloid headline.) A Very Interesting Microsoft event just occurred. Microsoft is offering at a deep discount and through direct retail sale their FUTURE mainstay... [03 Jul 2009]
Wind River gives Intel a shot in the software arm
Analysis Adding a serious software portfolio dramatically changes Intel's approach to embedded computing [05 Jun 2009]
Who will pay price for EU data-retention plans?
Analysis EU rules covering ISP transaction records raise privacy, as well as financial, issues, reports Manek Dubash [05 Jun 2009]
Microsoft buys Merck unit in life-sciences push
News The software maker said on Monday it is buying a unit of drug giant Merck to help its Amalga Life Sciences product [02 Jun 2009]
Report: BBC, Google discussing international iPlayer
News The broadcaster is said to be in negotiations with Google about the possibility of hosting long-form BBC content on YouTube, according to media reports [01 Jun 2009]
Yahoo CEO: Microsoft search-deal talks ongoing
News Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz said during a conference that the company continues to discuss a search deal with Microsoft and indicated a willingness to sell [28 May 2009]
FoI to extend to private companies, minister says
Blog Minister of Justice Michael Wills has told ZDNet UK that the UK's Freedom of Information Act is to be extended. Currently requests under the act can only be made to public bodies, but Wills said... [13 May 2009]
Software licence management - your experiences?
Blog For various reasons, some of which may become clear soon, we're looking at the area of software licences. In particular, we're looking at the corporate end of that particular stick, and we're... [08 May 2009]
Investment in tech could help UK reinvent itself
Leader The impact of IT investment goes far beyond the technology itself, as a recent LSE reports highlights [29 Apr 2009]
Where does the Sun-IBM deal failure leave Sun?
Blog So Sun Microsystems turned down IBM’s offer of acquisition - even though Big Blue’s $7 billion buy-out bid was twice the valuation of the troubled Silicon Valley stalwart. We read on Bloomberg... [09 Apr 2009]
Dell boosts its digital-healthcare strengths
News The hardware maker has announced a series of partnerships in a bid to be a bigger player in the digitisation of medical records [07 Apr 2009]
GIMP layer folders
Blog I'm doing a lot of work in the GIMP at the moment, resizing images for my portfolio [shameless plug alert ;]. I don't miss much about Photoshop, but the most missed feature is: Layer folders ... [02 Apr 2009]
Linux automotive alliance squares up to Microsoft
News A new alliance among automakers and technology providers called Genivi aims to build a Linux stack that will provide a common architecture for automotive infotainment systems [04 Mar 2009]
Yahoo reveals Microsoft defence cost
News An SEC filing reveals the extent of Yahoo's spending last year in its efforts to keep Microsoft at bay [02 Mar 2009]
What exactly does Google have to fear from Twitter?
Blog Twitter is the darling of the social media world, with many bloggers saying Google should fear it, if not buy it. But what threat or opportunity does Twitter actually pose? Yes, yes, another... [27 Feb 2009]
Dell plans more cost cuts as Q4 profits tumble
News Following a poor fourth quarter in which profits fell by nearly 50 percent and revenues dropped by 16 percent, Dell looks to cut its operating expenses [27 Feb 2009]
Sony, Philips, Panasonic plan single Blu-ray licence
News The independent agency will open mid-2009 and promises lower-cost licensing for Blu-ray discs and players [26 Feb 2009]
'Fantastic' time to be a tech start-up
Blog This morning I found myself at Intellect's Regent Conference, which is an annual get-together for executives of the UK's tech industry. This year's conference was splendidly mistitled Keeping ahead... [10 Feb 2009]
Is Microsoft going to Violate the Military Secrets Export La...
Blog If Microsoft is going to put the entire image of Win7 on every system, that's begging to be cracked. Crackers the world over are going to rise to the challenge to crack the encryption used on the... [04 Feb 2009]
Google Harm bug - official blog post
Blog Here it is - Google blacklisted the entire Internet by mistake! "If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message "This site may... [31 Jan 2009]
Philips to shed 6,000 jobs
News Philips will cut the jobs over the coming year and halt its €5bn share-buyback programme, in response to the global economic recession [26 Jan 2009]
Google results exceed profit, revenue estimates
News The search and advertising giant fares better than analysts expected, and announces a programme to give employees more valuable stock options [23 Jan 2009]
- Lasting success? - 1000215420
Scottish chips go down badly with Apple
Blog It's a cliche but nonetheless true that many Scotsmen are fonder of chips than apples. Which doesn't explain much about Wolfson Microelectronics plc, which has been caught breaking company... [20 Jan 2009]
Once bittern...
Blog I've been having some success in moving press releases out of my inbox and into that of Karen Friar, our Community and News Editor - although not fast enough to counterbalance the managerial... [19 Jan 2009]
What's a good computer name ?
Blog A friday fancy for you all. Computer have got to the saturation point like cars of Perfumes what do call them these days ? A Vaio P what is the P for godsake all those Dell HP and 70000000000... [09 Jan 2009]
Inside Orange's innovation process
Blog Yves Tyrode, head of Orange's Technocentre projects, talked to ZDNet UK and other journalists at the Orange Partner Camp in Cape Canaveral on Tuesday about how to link innovation and commerce in... [16 Dec 2008]
Can you help? ZDNet UK needs some good people
Blog We're putting together our plans for 2009 and beyond, making sure we've got the right ideas and the right approach for the very best coverage of business IT for people who need to know. That's you.... [16 Dec 2008]
HW Trading case
Blog Microsoft said on Monday that its case against Samir Abdalla of HW Trading was not about “the grey trade” at all, but the “alleged source and sale of illegal, unlicensed Microsoft software”. We... [02 Dec 2008]
GPU vs CPU: wrong battle, wrong war
Blog Intel is out on the road, preaching a new way of looking at processors. Well, it's not so new - it's a repackaging, in shinier polygons, of what has most recently been called the CISC vs RISC... [27 Nov 2008]
Giving us the finger
Blog You see it every day - probably every few minutes - online. Monty Python was fond of it, the Victorians found it invaluable, and its history goes back at least to Elizabethan times, where it... [24 Nov 2008]
