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Talkback Backhaul. Vodafone is putting 16Mbps fibre backhaul behind their 14.4Mbps HSUPA cells. I'm...
Saving the "Best" for Last - Fedora 12 (Constantine)
Blog It's been quite a wave of new Linux distributions over the past month or so, but with the release...
Large Hadron Collider up and running again
Blog The world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is in operation again after more than a year of repairs. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, said in a...
Climate research centre compromised
Blog One of the UK's leading climate change research centres has had a security breach. The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) suffered a compromise of information, a UEA...
RE:Dictatorial, disastrous, dire: Mandelson must not pass
Blog Comment Take a step back though, this extreme is the result of the other extreme, where anybody (and pretty much) everybody downloads music (and to a growing extent films) without considering the need to...
[November 20, 2009, 3:10 by project10]
You can't blame Google for the network
Talkback They are pushing the network, are as Apple. The train operators just see the commuters as a cash cow and internet on the move will require infrastructure by them and a healthy return for the...
[November 19, 2009, 23:53 by 88072]
GPU to the future
Blog It’s time to state the plain truth, something that’s being hidden from us by special effects and shiny chrome: Computing as we know it is dead. We’re working with zombie operating systems that...
Dictatorial, disastrous, dire: Mandelson must not pass
Blog Without debate, without public consulation, without any form of mandate, Lord Mandelson - an unelected politician - is preparing to place the rights of powerful industrial concerns above those of...
Closing comments for this story
Talkback Thanks for your input, everyone, but I think it's probably time to put this one to bed before it gets out of the scope of the site - and given the high emotions involved, I fear it's there already....
Reports: Mandelson to create file-sharing offence
Blog The government intends to create a new offence of downloading copyrighted material without consent, according to reports that refer to a letter sent by business secretary Lord Mandelson to the...
Photoshop Bloater
Blog I tried to edit an Adobe Photoshop file the other day. It had sparkling stars created using Layer Effects, so I couldn't use GIMP. I found out this is what you have to go through to get a trial...
RE:Ion-toting Eee 1201N to hit UK in January
Blog Comment The dual core Atom 330 is designed for nettop boxes, i.e desktops, not netbooks, it has a power consumption of 8W, so its not a mobile dual-core atom chip as such, and has been around a while now....
[November 19, 2009, 14:29 by adamjarvis]
Ion-toting Eee 1201N to hit UK in January
Blog Asus has confirmed its long-rumoured Eee PC 1201N, the first in the company's line of netbooks to use Nvidia's Ion graphics platform. The 1201N will also be one of the first netbooks to include...
YouTube UK launches full-length TV shows
Blog YouTube, Google's main online video repository, has made full-length episodes of shows such as The IT Crowd and Who's Line Is It Anyway? available to UK viewers. YouTube's Shows section was...
Default Boot Specification with GRUB 2 (Ubuntu 9.10)
Blog I got some good news in a comment over on Linux.com a few days ago. The problem I was looking at was setting the default boot selection on Ubuntu 9.10, or more generally with GRUB 2. The...
Microsoft PDC continues web developer momentum
Blog Lamentably, it’s only the once that I’ve been to Microsoft’s PDC developer conference and that was back in 2004. I’ve never seen a keynote like it I promise you, the audience applauded every slide...
WorkSnug for iPhone now available
Blog A little while ago I blogged about an iPhone application called WorkSnug. It is a free tool that finds public Wi-Fi locations in London and uses augmented reality to display them on screen....
RE:Nokia could drop Symbian for Maemo on N-series
Blog Comment I think thats the only way Nokia can win aginst Android, Symbian is non event in USA... Maemo may save Nokia's bacon.
Additional details on data accuracy
Talkback Great question Jonathan, There's lot of good data about the general innacuracy of page-tag based web analytics. A great primer can be found here...
[November 18, 2009, 21:38 by dguarnaccia]
If it means...
Talkback We'll I'm not one for personal data flying all over the place but if this can bring the data back under the control of the end users, so that the 3rd party's haft to ask the users for permissions...
Government web-monitoring plans on hold
Blog Government plans to compel ISPs to process and store details of all web communications have been put on hold until after the next election. The Home Office told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the...
Toshiba TG01 running Windows Mobile 6.5
Blog When we first saw the TG01 from Toshiba we were both delighted and displeased. There was a lot to like, but Toshiba’s cranky front end to its operating system Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional was,...
