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Fat Pop Do Wop Some of us have to work for a living. And when I say "living" I don't mean some standard of living that would include luxurious excesses. Usually my work puts me in contact with a range of people from various backgrounds and "stations in life"... more

From 500 words into the future | On The Road | Add a comment

Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe Dick Brass says so and he thinks he should know; he was the vice president of emerging technologies and launched the Tablet PC in 2002. What does he think went wrong? He blames infighting, he blames PC manufacturers, he blames other divisions... more

From Communication Breakdown | News Blog | On The Road | 2 comments

David Meyer Automated speech-to-speech language translation should be possible in a few years' time, according to Google translation chief Franz Och. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Och said the company was examining the possible fusion of two... more

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Adrian Bridgwater While I probably should have spent more of this weekend reading the Radio Times, I actually amused myself with an IDC white paper about the use of in-memory database technology. Here’s the reason why. The paper was attached to Sybase’s ASE... more

From Jamie's Random Musings | Reviews Blog | 1 comment

J.A. Watson The final release of Linux Mint 8 (Helena) KDE Community Edition is available for download. I wrote about the Release Candidate of this a couple of weeks ago, so I won't add too much more now. I'm still more of a Gnome desktop user than KDE,... more

From Security Bullet In | News Blog | Sentry Posts | 2 comments

Tom Espiner The home of World War II codebreaking has called for engineers to operate an electro-mechanical machine developed by mathematician Alan Turing. The Turing Bombe was a brute-force code-breaker which built on previous work conducted by Polish... more

From ZDNet UK First Take | Reviews Blog | On The Road | 2 comments

First Take It's hard to tell Toshiba's new Tecra and Satellite Pro models apart; that's actually quite deliberate. This is the Tecra S11... ...can you tell the difference from this Satellite Pro S500? It's not just that Toshiba's proud of the... more

From 500 words into the future | 2 comments

Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe Multi-touch isn’t just for tablets. It’s soon going to be everywhere, as the underlying technologies (whether resistive, capacitive or optical) solve many complex user interface problems. Take the humble keyboard for example. You’d think... more

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First Take Designed for companies with up to 500 users, System Center Essentials (SCE) takes Microsoft’s enterprise management tools and makes them accessible to small to mid-size organisations via a single, easy to use, integrated console. It can be used... more

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David Meyer O2 and the network kit supplier Huawei have uploaded a video to YouTube showing their test 4G network in action. In the video, uploaded on Tuesday, O2 "radio evolution" man Rob Joyce explains the concept of the long-term evolution (LTE) of... more

From Software application development | 1 comment

Adrian Bridgwater Oh god not another developer competition. Well yes, but quite a good one, as there’s 1 million Euros up for grabs in the latest Vodafone programmer challenge - and with Mobile World Congress just around the corner why the hell not right? ' To... more

From Communication Breakdown | News Blog | 3 comments

David Meyer Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer, has posted a blog explaining the decision to excise Google's Android code from the kernel. Kroah-Hartman removed the code in December, noting that Android drivers "are no longer being developed... more

From Official Mobile Security & Innovative Technologies Blog | On The Road | Sentry Posts | 4 comments

MobileTech iPad on Lockdown: Apple Faces a Twist of Intellectual Property Law Author: Eric Everson, MyMobiSafe.com Imagine that you have this great product idea and a catchy brand name for it too. As managers, we have all been there at some point... more

From Web design & FOSS | 7 comments

Jake Rayson In my desire to promote the Good and the Honest cause of Free Software, I have been meaning to set up a "GNU/Linux for beginners" course for a while, putting back into The Community (whatever that is) pro bono what I have learned and prospered... more

From Communication Breakdown | News Blog | On The Road | 3 comments

David Meyer The mobile industry has clearly chosen LTE over WiMax for the next generation of mobile broadband connectivity, a senior Alcatel Lucent executive has said. Patrick Plas, Alcatel Lucent's chief operating officer for wireless, said on Monday... more

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Adrian Bridgwater Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will host the 2010 Oscars in March according to the Independent newspaper. The nominations are in fact due to be released tonight, but will Business Intelligence (BI) spoil the party and beat Steve and Alex at their... more