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F-Secure answers .bank criticisms
News Security company F-Secure has answered criticisms of its suggestion that a .bank top-level domain (TLD) be created to improve the protection of online financial services. Criticisms included that the domain would do nothing against DNS cache...
[May 21, 2007, 12:41]
NHS IT report was watered down
News This version contained several criticisms of the project. But in the final version, some criticisms had been removed and replaced with less controversial statements. A key report into the NHS's massive IT upgrade programme was watered down by the...
[August 21, 2006, 12:55]
Sun exec rallies behind GPLv3
News Using his company's blog, Simon Phipps said that existing work towards GPLv3 had been "extraordinary and effective" and he said he is "frankly amazed by the criticisms". He added, "I am frankly amazed by the criticisms that have [been] levelled at...
[December 5, 2006, 16:46]
Tablet PCs to catch on slowly, says Gartner
News But any hopes Curtois might have had of banging the drum for tablet PCs were halted by Gartner's Peter Sondergaard, who was resolute in reminding the audience of Gartner's criticisms of the tablet form factor -- eventually forcing Curtois to...
[November 6, 2002, 9:03]
Learn from young guns' mistakes - and successes
News Getting defensive about your own accomplishments, goals, and motives is a natural human instinct that you've got to contain as you initially respond to such criticisms. Don't be mean, but don't be overly gentle in your criticisms of mistakes, either.
[June 13, 2002, 16:28]
IBM warns standards bodies to shape up
News IBM does not even have plans to leave ECMA, despite criticisms by IBM's vice president for standards, Bob Sutor, that ECMA had perpetrated "an utter and predictable embarrassment" over its OOXML activity.
[September 23, 2008, 16:03]
Firefox? Bah Humbug, I say
Talkback I know very little about web-development, so the technical aspects of this article and its criticisms elude me. It's about time! That being said, I downloaded FireFox because I thought it showed progress.
[November 21, 2004, 18:48]
HP drives compatibility with DVD+RW
News Hewlett-Packard announced on Monday two new DVD+RW drives that aim to address one of the major criticisms of the DVD rewritable and recordable formats: compatibility. DVD+RW is one of several formats competing to be the standard for rewritable and...
[March 12, 2002, 9:08]
A few niggles, but fundamenatally fantastic
Member Review Others criticisms re camera are fair, however I'd suggest that if taking quality photos is a serious requirement, then you really need a separate dedicated device. No one really pays £400 for a smartphone to take piccies.
[April 6, 2005, 10:14]
The Myths (and Truths) of Java Games Programming
White Papers This paper examines the commonly-expressed criticisms of Java as a games programming language: that's it's too slow, too high-level, prone to memory problems, too hard to install, not available on games consoles, not used in 'Real' games, and not...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
Trading Places: If Microsoft ran Ikea...
Talkback If you mean it is correct in its criticisms of Microsoft, then fair enough. "For the most part is right on. About what exactly? But what has Ikea got to do with anything? Does the writer of this article honeslty think that the software business and...
[May 3, 2004, 17:06]
How significant are ShoreTel’s claims about the ‘hard’ benefits of its UC s
Blog One of the biggest criticisms leveled at UC provider sales pitches is their focus on ‘soft’ benefits, such as time saved for the average office worker and increased productivity. Of course, what most organisations need in order justify a UC...
[November 3, 2008, 9:03]
NHS stalls electronic record system rollout
News The NHS has pledged to halt the further rollout of its electronic patient record system while it takes stock of criticisms in a report. A report evaluating the trial rollout of the Summary Care Record (SCR) system highlighted concerns that the...
[May 15, 2008, 10:00]
Remarkable product but insecure in default configuration
Member Review I have two criticisms: I am composing this review using the product, which does everything claimed in the documentation. User interface and documentation are very well designed. WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) is disabled by default;
the default...
[May 25, 2004, 14:24]
Worth upgrading to 3G iPhone?
Blog The main criticisms were: When the iPhone was launched many people were stunned by the revolutionary interface and slick styling. However, the technical specification was not quite as cutting edge as many had hoped.
[June 9, 2008, 9:19]
Last Minute Changes to Windows Vista
White Papers The big news is that Microsoft is making some pretty serious changes to Windows Vista in a bid to meet its antitrust requirements in the European Union (EU) and South Korea and, to a lesser degree, to answer recent criticisms about Vista security...
[November 22, 2006, 0:00]
Apple shows fear of feedback
Talkback The people making the criticisms often made the comments up, and often had never used a Mac. Fear of legitimate comments has nothing to do with it. Back when Windows first hit the scene there was a converted effort to bad mouth the Mac in any and...
[November 5, 2004, 14:51]
Scandinavian Airlines Uses SAS to Improve Services and Ensure Superior Customer Relations
White Papers Scandinavian Airlines is a customer-focused company, and its management decided that it should make active use of customers' suggestions and criticisms. Competition amongst airlines for customers is very tough.
[November 17, 2006, 0:00]
MemInfo
Downloads Source code is included, and comments/criticisms are welcome. MemInfo is a command line tool to help locate and fix various memory errors in C programs. Includes two main components: gccmeminfo and meminforeport.gccmeminfo acts as a wrapper for gcc...
[December 11, 2006, 7:00]
Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Huge collection. FREE Author's biography and stories in the trial
Downloads Hyde Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Treasure Island Underwoods Vailima Letters Vailima Prayers and Sabbath Morn Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers The Waif Woman Weir of Hermiston The Wrecker The Wrong Box Essays In The Art of Writing...
[September 21, 2007, 7:00]
