Sony Ericsson rethinks, remodels
Monday morning in Barcelona. The skies are blue, the mobile industry jargon impenetrable as always. My thoughts turn to last night's Sony Ericsson event, partially for the mild cava...
[16 Feb 2009]
by David Meyer
Monday 16 February 2009, 5:47 PM
Panasonic has 1p integration error
From Barker Bites Back | Add a comment
Colin Barker Oh dear, I have to report a bit of a goof here. Not by me, I hasten to add, but by those awfully nice Panasonic people. The problem for Panasonic was that, according to the ZDNet UK news blog on Thursday, arniesaccnuson of Gloucester had... more
Monday 16 February 2009, 5:14 PM
Is Red Hat threatening to do a Novell with latest virtualisation move?
From Triplesourced | Uptime | Add a comment
Andrew Donoghue Just seen a release come in from Red Hat promising to play nicely with Microsoft over their competing virtualisation approaches. It smacks slightly of the kind of release you'd expect from the Novell/MS tie-up but it's unlikely that Red... more
Monday 16 February 2009, 4:52 PM
Rwandan tech ambitions hit by corruption charges
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Andrew Donoghue A contact who has travels to Rwanda fairly often and has been impressed by the country's investment in IT infrastructure over recent years, just sent me a rather worrying/amusing link. The country has ambitions to become the "Singapore of... more
Monday 16 February 2009, 2:44 PM
Did Chinese install spyware on Indian government computers?
From Graham Cluley's blog | Sentry Posts | Add a comment
Graham Cluley Sources inside India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) have confirmed to the media that "several" of its 600 computers have been infected by spyware. The spyware is said to affect computers inside the section of the Indian ministry which... more
Monday 16 February 2009, 1:46 PM
Nasa hacker to wait longer for prosecution decision
From Security Bullet In | News Blog | Sentry Posts | Add a comment
Tom Espiner The Crown Prosecution Service has said that self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon will have to wait to find out whether he will be prosecuted in the UK. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer is currently considering whether... more
Monday 16 February 2009, 12:16 PM
LogMeIn adds Android remote support
From Communication Breakdown | News Blog | On The Road | Add a comment
David Meyer LogMeIn, a company that specialises in remote support technology, is currently demonstrating its support for the Android platform at Mobile World Congress. Rescue+Mobile for Android allows IT support to remotely access a user's Android-based... more
Monday 16 February 2009, 12:11 PM
Digital asset management - guts versus gloss
From Software application development | Add a comment
Adrian Bridgwater Starting the week off with a whole load of tech news to digest, I was tempted (for no good reason) to let rip on the digital asset management industry this morning and voice my own loudly vented spleen in no uncertain terms. Document management,... more
Monday 16 February 2009, 9:37 AM
Wallace and Gromit say patents are fun kids!
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Andrew Donoghue It seems that Oscar winning animation duo Wallace and Gromit have teamed up against their latest foe. This time its not an evil Were-rabbit or a scheming Penguin but shock! Horror! that terrible scourge of the modern world - innovating without... more
Sunday 15 February 2009, 5:00 PM
Weekend Success - Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note
From Jamie's Random Musings | Reviews Blog | 8 comments
J.A. Watson Well, after considerable struggle, it has been a successful weekend. I've been trying since the first day that I got my HP 2133 Mini-Note to get Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) installed on it, without success. The Ubuntu WIki indicates that you... more
Friday 13 February 2009, 12:35 PM
Cracks in the Foundation
From Home Server Projects | Small Business Blog | Add a comment
Xwindowsjunkie I've been reading all of the reports of job layoffs in practically every industry and location in the world. The one that's got me intrigued though is the 5000 job layoff at Microsoft. I don't really know what that means. If all 5000 of... more
Friday 13 February 2009, 8:54 AM
Seven (more) reasons to love a developer on Valentine’s Day
From Software application development | Add a comment
Adrian Bridgwater A year ago I wrote a blog right here on ZDNet.co.uk entitled Seven Reasons to Love Developers on Valentines Day full of heartfelt love for the IT industry and software application development in particular. One year on, I’m faced with the... more
Friday 13 February 2009, 8:25 AM
Google and Data Portability: a two pronged approach or fork in the road?
From The Business Web 2.0 | 4 comments
wecando.biz Google announces enhancements to Google Friend Connect while also showing another way of remote login and bringing over contacts at an OpenID meeting hosted by Facebook... Confused? Me too. Oh it used to be so simple. Google came out early... more
Thursday 12 February 2009, 7:18 AM
Midget widgets for mobile digits
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Adrian Bridgwater Satiating the seemingly limitless demand for greater handheld device functionality, mobile developers are being given increasingly powerful options for fine-tuning the user experience with mobile widget toolkits. So what you say? Well, I... more
Thursday 12 February 2009, 4:58 AM
Deploying education desktops - made easier
From Khaotic Musings | 2 comments
conz I've been working on a project to outfit schools with 'spray and wipe' versions of live educational USB-key Linux distros for netbooks, for quite a while; I'll write about this work on here sometime. I was therefore interested to hear about... more
Wednesday 11 February 2009, 5:41 PM
DPP McKinnon decision may be delayed
From Security Bullet In | News Blog | Sentry Posts | Add a comment
Tom Espiner The decision as to whether to prosecute Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon in the UK may be pushed back further. On 15 January McKinnon's solicitor, Karen Todner, told me that she had received a fax from the director of public prosecutions (DPP) Keir... more
Wednesday 11 February 2009, 5:28 PM
EC tackles social networking safety
From Communication Breakdown | News Blog | Add a comment
David Meyer The European Commission says it has brokered a deal between various social networks, including Facebook, Bebo, YouTube, MySpace and many others, to keep children safer while surfing. This sort of thing is always terrifically difficult to... more
