Nominate your IT Community Hero
Blog CNET Networks UK is currently accepting entries for the CNET Networks UK Business Technology...
Gizmo Adds Business Enhancements and More IM Networks
Blog Gizmo5 (formerly The Gizmo Project) has been my preferred program for IM text chat and audio...
Mobile Surfin’ USA
Blog If everybody had a mobile – across the USA… OK, I’ll stop there. Actually, I’m not much of a Beach Boys fan. But betwixt a number of US-based events as I am, I think I’m more acutely aware of the...
The game's up for Vista
Blog I got an interesting invite last night to the media launch of a dedicated gaming centre housed in an HMV store in central London. Resplendent with around 80 Quad core PCs and Dual Core...
Most secure version of Windows
Talkback They have said this about every version since 3.0. ActiveX has been a security hole since it's inception, and the fact that it is used in web sites is NOT the user's fault. Typically Micro$oft's...
Nominate your IT Community Hero
Blog CNET Networks UK is currently accepting entries for the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2008, and for the IT Community Hero award we though we’d put it out there to ask you who you...
Google soft-launches translated search
Blog For all the easy mockery that automatic translation services can inspire, they are nonetheless much better than nothing. However, they are generally a fairly unidirectional affair - you bung in the...
Gizmo Adds Business Enhancements and More IM Networks
Blog Gizmo5 (formerly The Gizmo Project) has been my preferred program for IM text chat and audio calls (including PSTN calls worldwide) for quite some time now. The chat interface is clean and easy to...
RE:Windows Driver Updates
Blog Comment Since installing SP1 I cannot copy large files to the network server - Vista gives up after 5 minutes and pretenteds it cannot read the c drive and then , just for added excitement, if I'm copying...
[May 16, 2008, 3:14 by barrie]
Google Friend Connect already unravelling?
Blog Just 3 days after Google seemed to have Web 2.0 enabled the whole WWW, it seems its plans for data portability have taken a knock-back. Facebook has written a blog post revealing they have banned...
"what more do you need?"
Talkback Decent power + upgradeabilty for a sensible price. The Mini doesn't have decent power; the iMac is not upgradeable. Only the Pro is decently powered and can be upgraded - but the price is sky-high....
[May 15, 2008, 21:19 by jgj]
RE:Red Hat defends UK's open source record
Blog Comment Attitudes towards commodity Open Source infrastructure are significantly different than those of Open Source Applications. Does Red Hat have many UK customers deploying Linux? Undoubtedly but, many...
[May 15, 2008, 20:35 by truth_happens]
RE:New IM Application "Nimbuzz"
Blog Comment Good assessment Jamie. I took a look at it this week too after reading about it. On first appearances it seemed to answer any question on IM, Skype, mobiles and website messaging you could ever...
Mobile Linux Better For Mobile Business Apps?
Blog Mobile Linux Better For Mobile Business Apps? Author: Eric Everson, MyMobiSafe.com As mobile Linux is carving it’s footprint on the future of mobile application development, the implication for...
First sighting of the Atom Eee?
Blog Pictures purporting to be of the Asus Eee 901 are currently doing the rounds on them intarwebs, and the reaction seems to be mixed. Some people are chuffed that it looks a bit curvier than...
More professionals to be allowed .pro domains
Talkback We are allowed to apply for a license plate, which indicates the driver is handicapped, to allow us to park in designated spaces, close to the entrance. Putting .pro on your domain would give you...
Google and the Atomic iPhone
Blog Much speculation coming out of Germany about the new iPhone, specifically over the issues of screen size and processor. First came a quote from Intel bod Hannes Schwaderer that seemed to suggest...
RE:OLPC meltdown - or, the side-effects of working closely with...
Blog Comment I think open source is an excellent fit for education - theoretically. And practically, if there were decent tools to allow teachers and other interested parties to create software without having...
RE:OLPC meltdown - or, the side-effects of working closely with...
Blog Comment Fascinating reading. Excellent information and examples of human ego, hidden agendas, and the lack of clearly stated goals. So much of the argument seems to me to be out of context. If the stated...
RE:New ooVoo Release (1.6)
Blog Comment Update: I've gotten the following answers from ooVoo: - ooVoo does not distinguish between calls to land-line or mobile phones (so much for Skype and their misleading "Unlimited" plans which do...
Interface designed by people who only look through telescope...
Talkback The pictures are beautiful but, like Google Sky, the interface seems to have been designed by someone who has never looked at the sky except through a telescope. Without some idea of simple...
[May 15, 2008, 2:42 by wildcatherder]
.pro has a nice ring to it!
Talkback But sadly thats all there is to it, unless the holder is using it to prove their credentials, i don't see much value in a .pro domain. Infact it might put you at a disadvantage; whenever you give...
