RE:What's your favourite dead software ?
Blog Comment Clipper. Easy to use and it compiled down to true native code, so it run fast. Can't say that...
Google and Data Portability: a two pronged approach or fork in the road?
Blog Google announces enhancements to Google Friend Connect while also showing another way of remote...
RE:Google and Data Portability: a two pronged approach or fork...
Blog Comment Ironically, ZDNet's convoluted registration system ate my comment, illustrating perfectly why delegated Social infrastructure is so necessary. The misconception in this piece is that Friend Connect...
Seven (more) reasons to love a developer on Valentine’s Day
Blog 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...
RE:Netbook and Broadband Wireless
Blog Comment Hi Adam, thanks for reading and commenting, as always. Yes, I know that I was rather brief in what I said about Mandriva, and all the others for that matter, and my attempts to get the Broadband...
Samsung's Solar Powered mobile phone
Blog Samsung has just announced a solar powered mobile phone. I am picturing the scene. No more charging means no more need to carry cables on my travels. The only time I'll need a cable is for data...
RE:What's your favourite dead software ?
Blog Comment Clipper. Easy to use and it compiled down to true native code, so it run fast. Can't say that about any M$ products though!
[February 13, 2009, 7:38 by DennisK]
RE:Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 3
Blog Comment Just a note: the openchrome driver included with MDV 2009 is in fact perfectly 'stable', it's just that that release of the driver doesn't support the particular (slightly quirky) Chrome...
[February 13, 2009, 1:07 by AdamW]
RE:Deploying education desktops - made easier
Blog Comment Hi azonei. You're quire right in stating "most school admin do not want to learn a new system." What's true is that there are an increasing number of schools which are using Linux, so the solution...
The Third World Jump-Over
Talkback The discussion about getting broadband operation spread throughout the "disenfranchised Third World" overlooks the fact that in those parts of the world without broadband operation, its being...
Bananas, Apples and Oranges
Talkback Considering the fact that objects under discussion are netbooks I think tests related more to actual usage are more appropriate than hyperthread specs, floating point calculations per second etc....
XP Free
Talkback I wouldn't be surprised if they already do get it for free - it is certainly very cheap, perhaps around $20 per machine. The big issue here is the price they must pay if they start selling...
[February 12, 2009, 10:33 by ben2talk]
Midget widgets for mobile digits
Blog 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...
Deploying education desktops - made easier
Blog 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...
DPP McKinnon decision may be delayed
Blog 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...
EC tackles social networking safety
Blog 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...
Logitech Comfort Lapdesk for Notebooks
Blog Where do you use your notebook? Sitting at your desk or a surrogate such as on a train or in a coffee shop? Lounging in an easy chair or even on the floor, notebook propped on your knees? Slouching...
Rural Medicine Getting SmartPhone Overhaul
Blog Rural Medicine Getting SmartPhone Overhaul Author: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com In the medical field of rural medicine, access to technology can provide drastic improvements in patient...
A good week for OpenStreetMap
Blog It's quite an exciting time for the folks involved in OpenStreetMap (which includes me). On 5th Feburary an appeal was launched to raise £10,000 for a new server for the project. Seventy-two hours...
End in sight for spectrum refarming debate
Blog Oh to be a fly on the wall... Lord Carter, of Digital Britain fame, has summoned all the mobile operators to a series of meetings, to be chaired by Broadband Stakeholder Group chief Kip Meek. The...
Multi-tenant is not virtualisation
Talkback I would take issue with the suggestion that multi-tenant applications means "multiple instances of the same package that can be executed on the same machine"; that's virtualisation, and doesn't...
[February 11, 2009, 10:24 by bluebook]
No News is Good News for Microsoft PowerPoint in Office 14
Blog PowerPoint 2007 offers a lot of surprises to us when she made her debut with ribbon coat and SmartArt accessories years ago, however, those tremendous changes lead a lot of problems, such as...
