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Foresight Linux

Foresight Linux

Blog I've just made a somewhat brief test of Foresight Linux. I find it to be an interesting...

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[August 29 2008]

by J.A. Watson

Is software development international?

Is software development international?

Blog A quick glance across the developer agenda for the next couple of months sees a number of our...

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[August 29 2008]

by Adrian Bridgwater


Ofcom to consider customer termination charges

Blog Mobile operators already charge each other termination charges -- now Ofcom has called for opinions as to whether end users should be charged. Interesting articles both in the Register and the...

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[August 29, 2008, 17:28 by Tom Espiner]

Come talk to us about datacentre efficiency

Blog I read every post made on ZDNet UK by our members, and every day it's brought home to me what a wealth of expertise there is out there among our users. Of course, it's the cornerstone of the...

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[August 29, 2008, 17:02 by Karen Friar]

Can it render standards compliant code?

Talkback IE's real problem has been its inability to render XHTML and CSS properly. Put simply does IE8 render pages as effectively as FF, Opera or Safari? Or does it introduce yet another different take on...

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[August 29, 2008, 15:00 by dogStar]

The Redfly 'Notbook'

Blog When is a netbook (or mini-notebook) not a netbook? When it's a 'notbook' such as Celio's Redfly Mobile Companion, that's when. You might have thought that the idea of a netbook-format...

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[August 29, 2008, 14:49 by Charles McLellan]

fibre!

Talkback hi, So much is placed on Fibre, I cannot see BT laying miles of the stuff around rural areas or remote/small towns in a hurry.. its ok to say "50mbps from green cabinet" as per the other story but...

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[August 29, 2008, 14:24 by 182706]

RE:Physiotherapy Gets Virtual

Blog Comment Hi Christian! Yes, I guess I am a bit of a cyberpunk at heart. There is some amazing work being done around the world with "CyberTherapy" at the moment, and it's exciting to be part of it. So much...

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[August 29, 2008, 9:54 by WendyP]

RE:IE8 beta 2, feature complete. Launch event, best deleted.

Blog Comment As you'll see elsewhere on the site, we've had a look at IE8B2, we reported on its launch and we've run a photo story. Which is quite reasonable, I feel, for the second beta of the eighth version...

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[August 29, 2008, 6:20 by Rupert Goodwins]

Exciting news for xG fans!

Blog A press release from xG Technology - the first since May - reports on what's been happening in the last four months. "28 August 2008 xG Technology, Inc. FIRST TX60 MOBILE VOIP HANDSET...

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[August 28, 2008, 21:51 by Rupert Goodwins]

must be careful now, I could be infringing a patent

Talkback Do you think they employ people to continually check if a patent exists for some of the most common items in use these days? What possible motivation is there to go seeking patents like this other...

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[August 28, 2008, 20:33 by welshtroll]

Nasa and the virus

Blog Yesterday the BBC ran a story about a computer virus making it into orbit, which I read with incredulity. OK, it's a nice silly season story on the surface, but what really got me was that NASA...

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[August 28, 2008, 17:31 by Tom Espiner]

RE:IE8 beta 2, feature complete. Launch event, best deleted.

Blog Comment As many others, I am stunned to learn that "people used the Web for searching, buying things and talking to each other". Stunning! Thank you so much, Microsoft, for determining that for us!...

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[August 28, 2008, 16:24 by J.A. Watson]

Nathan Barley's magic hotzone

Blog Via an interesting post on Absolute Gadget, I learned of BT and Fon's plan to distribute 1,000 routers in Shoreditch, East London. The idea, it seems, is to create what BT like to call a 'hotzone',...

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[August 28, 2008, 15:04 by David Meyer]

Smile like you mean it: developing for the commercial web 2.0 world

Blog I’m off to Brighton next month to attend a web development symposium with a large software company famous for producing a popular operating system beginning with W. ' This is good news as far...

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[August 28, 2008, 14:46 by Adrian Bridgwater]

RE:Is Virtual Studying Progress?

Blog Comment Absolutely. The planet will be overrun by IT geniuses who can’t hold a job because they have no social interaction skills. Distance learning is fantastic for studying while holding a full-time job...

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[August 28, 2008, 10:31 by Christian Harris]

There is a reason for the digital divide not mentioned here

Talkback BT still has a monopoly in many areas, even in the sourth east. There are no wide spread fibre optics networks available anywhere. Because of BT failing to keep up with current technical standards...

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[August 28, 2008, 9:34 by JNeuhoff]

Technology in E-Assessment: Focused on the Performance of eLearning

Blog From the definition of E-assessment from Wikipedia, we can see the advantages of deploying an e-testing system are obvious: lower long-term cost, instant feedback, great flexibility, improved...

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[August 28, 2008, 8:57 by W.Peterson]

RE:IE8 beta 2, feature complete. Launch event, best deleted.

Blog Comment What a bunch of mean dinasours!! You'd think that with all that coding expierience behind them, they could have laid on some knock your socks off graphical journeys, or synthesised some sound...

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[August 27, 2008, 23:10 by roger andre]

IE8 beta 2, feature complete. Launch event, best deleted.

Blog Just back from Microsoft's London Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 briefing, held in the very nice Soho Hotel in the heart of London's West End. It was a valuable experience, and one that had everyone...

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[August 27, 2008, 22:44 by Rupert Goodwins]

The need for a punitive deterrent

Talkback This loss, like so many of those that have occurred in recent years, appears to be due to negligence, inadequate supervision and lack of positive control by management. I fear that, until police...

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[August 27, 2008, 21:33 by 1000215420]

RE:In-Flight VoIP

Blog Comment Interesting subject....I would love to be able to pop on VR glasses and just be surrounded by sky or even sit on the wing of a plane I was in, Just imagine poping out when there s turbulance, a...

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[August 27, 2008, 18:30 by roger andre]






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Nasa and the virus

Yesterday the BBC ran a story about a computer virus making it into orbit, which I read with incredulity. OK, it's a nice silly season story on the surface, but what really got me was that NASA...

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Customer data found on eBay server highlights people as weak link

The recent news about customer details being retrieved from a server sold on eBay is yet another story about the sorry state of information security in the electronic age (see:...

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Does it matter if you are an aardvark or a zebra?

In spam terms, apparently it does. According to Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton, if your email address is aardvark at animal.net, you are more likely to receive spam than if...

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