DNA details of innocent will be kept for six years

Blog The government has announced that it plans to keep innocent people's DNA details for up to six years. In response to a consultation it launched last December, the government said in a statement...

Debugging triage for developer warfare

Blog I’m no military man, but I could only think of battlefield warfare strategy when I read over a couple of testing and debugging stories this week. Approaching bugs and fixes with military precision...

A perspective on business analytics

Blog Am in the middle of some research into storage, and the latest technologies that help to ensure that storage doesn't exist as an island or silo. No, don't switch off! It gets interesting later......

Logitech buys LifeSize for $405m

Blog A few weeks ago I met with Craig Malloy, co-founder and CEO of high-definition videoconferencing specialist LifeSize Communications, as the company was introducing its Skype-compatible Passport...

Did Microsoft violate the GPL?

Blog Over on ZDNet.com, Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft has pulled a Windows migration tool from its site after evidence was found that it used code released under the GNU General Public...

RE:Murdoch versus the Net? Game on.

Blog Comment I think it would have to be all or nothing, I think both the telcos and the media moguls know this, and I think that it's well within their abilities to form a de-facto cartel to facilitate...

Mobile business social network tools coming on BlackBerry

Blog The APIs that RIM is opening up for the BlackBerry platform leapfrog what’s available on other mobile platforms, with free push updates, unified advertising and payment options and not just the...

RE:Moblin 2.1 Final Release

Blog Comment What bothers me the most is the unstability and the number of bugs of the release. As it is promoted as an easy-to-use and a convenient operating system, the least you would expect is a stable...

The Crabble stand for your phone

Blog Sometimes something comes along that is so simple yet so very useful that you can’t believe you didn’t think of it first. The Crabble is one such object. Once upon a time smartphones came with...

Moblin 2.1 Final Release

Blog It's been about a week since the final release of Moblin 2.1 suddenly showed up on their web page. I've been distracted with Ubuntu Karmic and Mandriva 2010, though, and although I loaded it on...

RE:Murdoch versus the Net? Game on.

Blog Comment It could backfire on him by highlighting the media that he doesn't own such as The Independent/Daily Mail/Guardian/Mirror etc. Will his competitors follow suit? Or; will they remain free and step...

Is SCM a prerequisite for follow-the-sun development teams?

Blog I love a good case study don’t you? You don’t? Well, ok, neither do I to tell you the truth. It takes a half decent yarn to capture my attention. So what would I rank as a half decent technology...

Motorola and Aruba agree Wi-Fi patent ceasefire

Blog Aruba Networks and Motorola have settled their long-running patent dispute by signing a cross-licensing agreement, the companies announced on Friday. In August 2007, two Motorola subsidiaries...

Google buys mobile display ad firm AdMob

Blog Google has bought the mobile display advertising firm AdMob, the companies announced on Monday. The acquisition, for $750m (£449m) in stock, will "enhance Google's existing expertise and...

Murdoch versus the Net? Game on.

Blog Rupert Murdoch has said that he'll probably take his content out of Google, and hinted very strongly he and other newspaper groups are in discussion over paywalls. Leaving aside the question of...

A different polish.

Talkback After deciding that Moblin wasn't as good as the press release indicated, I downloaded Mandriva 2010.0 One, and tried it on 3 different desktops. From an older ,2003 Gateway to a new AMD, AM3...

RE:Tweaking my Karmic Koala

Blog Comment Instead of Compiz, have a look-see at xcompmgr, a basic X-windows compositing manager that's designed to be lightweight. It's available from Ubuntu's online software repositories. Also, GNOME's...

HTC HD2

Blog I’ve spent a few hours with HTC’s latest Windows Mobile based smartphone, the HD2. Much anticipated, this device represents the leading edge of Windows Mobile smartphones. It has facilities like...

RE:Using Windows Is Like...

Blog Comment @jamie, luckily I do live very close to the beach, and yes I could do with a walk there. I'm really surprised you haven't commented on my posts regarding the problems regarding delivery of Windows...

Using Windows Is Like...

Blog A long time ago at a Usenix conference (I think it was the one in Salt Lake City), there was a "quiz" passed around. I'm going to update one of the questions I remember from that, because it is...