Bluetooth: Set to bite this summer
News IR guru David Suvak pointed to potential security problems and confusion about which device should be talking to which. With industry watchers predicting a raft of companies taking Bluetooth on board this summer, ZDNet News takes a look at the...
[April 15, 1999, 10:19]
Statistician defends his outsourcing figures
News The reports transformed McCarthy into an offshoring guru who was highly sought after by the media. IBM seems to have stopped talking about outsourcing when it describes what is essentially outsourcing work.
[August 10, 2004, 12:15]
Linux touted as the solution to online-banking problems
News Tronson claimed that the main attacks against banks and banking customers were "not necessarily solved by alternative security measures such as tokens and other forms of second factor authentication", feelings which echo recent statements by Net...
[March 24, 2005, 10:45]
Web Middleware - The Next Great Developer Cash Cow?
Blog The company's lead development guru and I got to talking about this level of web service technology and questioned whether “web middleware” will be the next cash cow for Internet revenue streams. I was in a meeting with a web design and development...
[June 24, 2009, 7:48]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog It's their own fault", said the guru. That's what I was talking about, fool. Thursday There are three things that man may never know", said the wise old sage to his wide-eyed disciple. From where the wind cometh, the mind of a woman and the year...
[March 16, 2001, 14:06]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Hundreds of jetlagged geeks, starved of any form of gadgetry by hours of talking heads, grabbed their cameras and formed an ugly scrum around the gobsmacked guru. Monday 6/3/2006 Two things happen on Monday — registration and a journalist briefing.
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
Experts react to 'Chinese Linux virus'
News Most observers however, including programming guru and authority an all matters Linux, Alan Cox, suggest the warning from Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab Anti-Virus was nothing more than a marketing ploy, designed to talk up a new market.
[January 28, 2000, 9:50]
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 now available to MSDN developers
Blog This weekend saw a blog post go up by Microsoft tools guru Jihad Dannawi who detailed the news that Monday May 18th is the launch day for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Professional, Suite and Team Foundation Server editions to MSDN subscribers.
[May 18, 2009, 8:09]
Bluetooth: A view from the top
News Around 80 percent of mobile phones will be Bluetooth-enabled by the end of 2001 according to Nick Hunn, technical manager of TDK and Bluetooth guru. One of the main advantages of Bluetooth, according to Svennarp, is the freedom it gives users to...
[April 15, 1999, 15:42]
Steve Jobs on medical leave until June
News Over the past few months, the company has started familiarising the public with other executives, such as Mac hardware chief Bob Mansfield, design guru Jonny Ive and iPhone software head Scott Forstall.
[January 15, 2009, 7:58]
Eye2Eye: Wireless hero tunes in to the future
News In fact, if the analysts and observers of this industry have any foresight at all, this South African-academic-cum-business guru could put a little bit of his dream in the palms of up to a billion people worldwide.
[February 22, 2000, 13:10]
Business Networking through the Credit Crunch!
Blog I am very happy to publicly endorse Nikki Pilkington, the SEO guru (www.nikkipilkington.com) who has made her latest work '299 Steps to Website Heaven' available to our members a full two weeks before publication!
[September 16, 2008, 10:03]
Why "Real Time" Search misses the point of what makes social media powerful
Blog So what could Google or Bing offer as a more credible alternative to pages or irrelevant twaddle, placed only through the "skill" of a search engine guru? If I asked a friend for some opinion or advice and they reeled off for several hours about a...
[October 19, 2009, 10:44]
MSN searches for leverage
News Talking to Yusuf Mehdi, the Microsoft executive in charge of figuring out the company's portal strategy, you get the feeling that's certainly no stretch. I think that cable companies see that, and they are more interested in talking about doing...
[April 6, 2004, 12:20]
Silicon Valley's green guru
News What drew you to the area, and why are talking now? And there are people who would love to see us doing that, instead of talking about the economy, or the environment, or whatever else we should be talking about.
[October 2, 2006, 12:05]
Stallman: Love is not free
News When Love says 'Linux', he is talking about a version of the GNU operating system, with Linux as the kernel," he said. Linux is moving slowly but surely into the mainstream, taking over significant market share in servers and receiving the backing...
[July 10, 2001, 13:17]
Russia's cybercrime-fighting Bond villain
News Are we talking organised crime here or random individuals? Three large and weathered Russian women fiercely stand guard at the entrance to a former Soviet nuclear missile building. We show them our passports half wondering if they are as amused as...
[January 10, 2005, 16:05]
Motorola working with software guru on mobile phone
News Aside from Motorola, Niger claims LightSurf is talking with "every major phone maker" about embedding the camera. The call instructs a small camera hidden in your front yard to snap a black-and-white image of your porch and zap it back to you.
[February 12, 2001, 9:27]
Stallman: Software patents victimise developers
News It makes the assumption that you should treat what you're talking about as property. It makes an assumption that whatever it is you are talking about, the way to treat it is as a kind of property, which is one among many alternatives.
[March 28, 2002, 10:40]



