V-Blocks - do they mean you're V-Locked in?
Blog V-Blocks: it's a new form of packaging for servers, switches and storage for your datacentre, and...
RE:Moblin v2.1 – new polish or just box ticking the building bl...
Blog Comment Adrian - Your timing on this was perfect for me, I just finished installing Moblin 2.1 about 5...
Bye bye browser?
Blog What’s the future of the web? On one side there’s Flash and Silverlight and the rich internet applications world, which is working on ways of taking the web outside the browser and onto the...
The Next Big Thing in SaaS and The Cloud: Costs linked to business outcome?
Blog Should Software-as-a-Service vendors make the switch to charging for their offering based on business outcome? Laurent Lachal of Ovum believes so. I was a delegate at the Cloud Computing World...
RE:Email archiving - who needs it?
Blog Comment That implies intelligent use by users of the tools they already have, such as auto-purge. The problem is that users never want to throw anything away since disk space is, for them, free, so maybe...
Moblin v2.1 – new polish or just box ticking the building blocks?
Blog Moblin’s strategy for mobile Linux on Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) built around the Intel Atom processor has, according to the project’s steering committee, reached the Moblin v2.1 project...
Windows 7 pricing all over the shop..about as stable as Windows 7.
Blog I really think Microsoft have made a mess of Windows 7 pricing. They got the product right, yet there initial pricing of at around £44.95 for the full version of Windows 7 Home Premium (which I...
[November 5, 2009, 17:51 by adamjarvis]
The mutation of Europe's 'internet freedom' law
Blog Agreement has been reached on the now-famous Amendment 138/46, allowing the Telecoms Reform Package to become law next year. Some rights activists are semi-up-in-arms about the final version of...
KBOX update simplifies Windows 7 migration
Blog KACE is updating its K2000 systems management box to include a module that allows you to migrate to Windows 7. Although there are plenty of products that promise similar benefits, KACE seems to be...
Another Quango that continues
Talkback Regardless of the great and good reasons for NOMAD, it certainly cannot be said that it makes any benefit to the life of the people of this country. I always look at the many "bodies" established...
[November 5, 2009, 13:50 by 1000215420]
You mean Ubuntu isn't perfect?!?
Blog I'm afraid to break the news to all the Ubuntu linux fanbois+grrls out there that Ubuntu is not perfect. I've had some display errors with Gnome DO and the notification icon. So sorry to let...
Microsoft's Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA)
Blog I was working my through some our compatibility checks this morning when I realized that it had been a few months since I last read the Application Compatibility cookbook. This is a rich-text of...
Intel hit with federal antitrust lawsuit in US
Blog Intel is being sued in the United States for breaking federal and New York state antitrust laws. The New York attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, announced on Wednesday that he had filed the suit,...
X-ray named top scientific invention
Blog The X-ray machine has been voted the most important scientific invention in a poll by the Science Museum. Out of nearly 50,000 votes cast, more than 9,500 chose the X-ray, one of 10 iconic...
HP Mini 5101
Blog There are plenty of netbooks around, but those aimed specifically at businesspeople are few and far between. Hewlett Packard’s Mini 5101 is just that, though, and we like it. You have to be...
US jury finds SMIC stole trade secrets
Blog A California jury ruled on Wednesday that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) stole and used trade secrets from rival company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC),...
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 1 (Overview)
Blog I have promised several people that I would take a look at Ubuntu 9.10 and several of its derivatives on netbook hardware. My intention is to consider the following: - Ubuntu (plain vanilla,...
We don’t need no IT education. Or maybe we do?
Blog Connecting three ideas together as is often my want, I appear to have stumbled on more IT Education issues than is normal this week. Firstly, I am looking at getting involved with a large OEM to...
RE:Is Windows Easy Transfer in Windows 7 a bit difficult?
Blog Comment Yes the last one Adrian. I instinctively won't touch easy transfer. There is one person I know who has used it with happy results, although he wasn't expecting the 'eight hours later' part of the...
RE:Steorn renews perpetual promise to show free energy machine
Blog Comment "It's this sort of quirky yet impeccably kosher physics that, I think, will probably yield useful results much quicker than wobbling magnets" So true Rupert! I have been following the aneutronic...
[November 3, 2009, 19:52 by enantiomer2000]
Mobile Security Profile: BlackBerry Storm2
Blog Mobile Security Profile: BlackBerry Storm2 Author: Eric Everson BlackBerry handsets are a staple of office culture; from syncing calendars to sharing business-related data, the BlackBerry...
South Korea plans to fingerprint visitors
Blog The South Korean authorities could fingerprint and photograph foreign visitors from 2012, the Korea Times reported on Tuesday. Barring diplomats and government operatives, all visitors over the...
