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The Next Big Thing in SaaS and The Cloud: Costs linked to business outcome?

Should Software-as-a-Service vendors make the switch to charging for their offering based on business outcome? Laurent Lachal of Ovum believes so. I was a delegate at the Cloud...

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Saturday 7 November 2009, 6:34 AM

Using Windows Is Like...

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J.A. Watson 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 absolutely perfect for what I just went through. Fill... more


Friday 6 November 2009, 7:32 PM

Bye bye browser?

From 500 words into the future | 2 comments

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe What’s the future of the web? On one side there’s Flash and Silverlight and the rich internet applications world, which is working on ways of taking the web outside the browser and onto the desktop, where it “lights up” applications and plugs... more


Friday 6 November 2009, 4:14 PM

Motorola Droid Drops Today: Happy Droid Day America!

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MobileTech Motorola Droid Drops Today: Happy Droid Day America! Author: Eric Everson, Mobile Security Expert If you’re wondering what all of the buzz is about with words like Droid and Android 2.0 circling about, you might think for a moment that... more


Friday 6 November 2009, 3:56 PM

Apache Software Foundation takes Subversion in

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Jonathan Bennett Subversion, the open source version control system, is now an Apache Software Foundation incubator project. Subversion was previously sponsored by software lifecycle tools vendor CollabNet, and hosted at tigris.org, CollabNet's own forge site... more


Friday 6 November 2009, 3:19 PM

Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 3 (Kubuntu Netbook)

From Jamie's Random Musings | Reviews Blog | On The Road | Add a comment

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J.A. Watson In Part 1 of this series, I looked at the "standard" Ubuntu distribution, and found that with some adjustments, it could be made into what I considered to be a fairly nicely usable netbook. In Part 2 I looked at the Karmic Netbook Remix release,... more


Friday 6 November 2009, 12:30 PM

V-Blocks - do they mean you're V-Locked in?

From Back office | Uptime | Add a comment

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manek V-Blocks: it's a new form of packaging for servers, switches and storage for your datacentre, and it looks like the future. EMC and Cisco have announced that they'll be selling aggregated systems that simply slot into your datacentre. Or... more



Friday 6 November 2009, 7:28 AM

Moblin v2.1 – new polish or just box ticking the building blocks?

From Software application development | 1 comment

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Adrian Bridgwater Moblin’s strategy for mobile Linux on Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) built around the Intel Atom processor has, according to the project’s steering committee, reached the Moblin v2.1 project release which features so-called “broad” feature additions... more


Friday 6 November 2009, 7:25 AM

Link Building is Cool

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linkbuildingscool Link building is cool. Yes, indeed it is. Developing links to help promote a business online is cool. Though, a lot of people may scoff at this, and look down disdainfully at this service. But that is ok, operational hazards the link builders... more


Thursday 5 November 2009, 5:51 PM

Windows 7 pricing all over the shop..about as stable as Windows 7.

From Apples are not the only Fruit, Windows are for gazing out of, not at. | Vista Upgrade Blog | Small Business Blog | 5 comments

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adamjarvis I really think Microsoft have made a mess of Windows 7 pricing. They got the product right, yet there initial pricing of at around £44.95 for the full version of Windows 7 Home Premium (which I feel is about right) has back fired on them. It... more


Thursday 5 November 2009, 4:35 PM

AOL local news site switches to OpenStreetMap

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Jonathan Bennett Patch, the US local news site bought by AOL earlier this year has switched its maps to ones based on OpenStreetMap. The maps went live today, but there's been no official announcement, quite possibly because Patch's previous mapping supplier,... more


Thursday 5 November 2009, 3:18 PM

The mutation of Europe's 'internet freedom' law

From Communication Breakdown | 2 comments

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David Meyer Agreement has been reached on the now-famous Amendment 138/46, allowing the Telecoms Reform Package to become law next year. Some rights activists are semi-up-in-arms about the final version of the amendment, saying it does not offer as much... more


Thursday 5 November 2009, 2:21 PM

KBOX update simplifies Windows 7 migration

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First Take KACE is updating its K2000 systems management box to include a module that allows you to migrate to Windows 7. Although there are plenty of products that promise similar benefits, KACE seems to be cornering the market for appliance-based products... more


Thursday 5 November 2009, 11:17 AM

Email archiving - who needs it?

From Back office | Small Business Blog | 5 comments

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manek Is email archiving a big problem for SMEs? I spoke recently to Softek, a UK-based disti billing itself as 'highly technical value add distributor of IT security, email archiving and storage solutions'. Naturally enough, it has a view and a product... more


Thursday 5 November 2009, 11:17 AM

Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 2 (Netbook Remix)

From Jamie's Random Musings | On The Road | Reviews Blog | 3 comments

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J.A. Watson In Part 1 I discussed some generalities about the new Ubuntu 9.10 distribution, and some issues related to using it on netbook computers. Now it is time to move on to the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a special version produced by Canonical themselves,... more


Thursday 5 November 2009, 9:27 AM

You mean Ubuntu isn't perfect?!?

From Web design & FOSS | 2 comments

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Jake Rayson I'm afraid to break the news to all the Ubuntu linux fanbois+grrls out there that Ubuntu is not perfect. I've had some display errors with Gnome DO and the notification icon. So sorry to let the side down ;) more


Thursday 5 November 2009, 9:02 AM

Microsoft's Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA)

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Greg Lambert I was working my through some our compatibility checks this morning when I realized that it had been a few months since I last read the Application Compatibility cookbook. This is a rich-text of application compatibility resources and every... more


Wednesday 4 November 2009, 7:20 PM

Intel hit with federal antitrust lawsuit in US

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David Meyer Intel is being sued in the United States for breaking federal and New York state antitrust laws. The New York attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, announced on Wednesday that he had filed the suit, charging that "Intel violated state and federal... more


Wednesday 4 November 2009, 5:23 PM

X-ray named top scientific invention

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Carly Newman The X-ray machine has been voted the most important scientific invention in a poll by the Science Museum. Out of nearly 50,000 votes cast, more than 9,500 chose the X-ray, one of 10 iconic inventions or discoveries in the poll, as having... more


Wednesday 4 November 2009, 2:31 PM

RT @jacobian The power of “no”

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Jake Rayson Can you retweet a blog post emanating from a tweet? On the day that Radio 4 hails the mighty Twitter onto the world political stage, I think anything is admissible ;) Jacob Kaplan-Moss made a very insightful tweet which can be summed up thus: “Closed-source... more


Wednesday 4 November 2009, 2:08 PM

HP Mini 5101

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First Take There are plenty of netbooks around, but those aimed specifically at businesspeople are few and far between. Hewlett Packard’s Mini 5101 is just that, though, and we like it. You have to be prepared to live with Windows XP Home, Windows... more


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Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 3 (Kubuntu Netbook)

In Part 1 of this series, I looked at the "standard" Ubuntu distribution, and found that with some adjustments, it could be made into what I considered to be a fairly nicely usable netbook. In...

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KBOX update simplifies Windows 7 migration

KACE is updating its K2000 systems management box to include a module that allows you to migrate to Windows 7. Although there are plenty of products that promise similar benefits, KACE seems to be...

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Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 2 (Netbook Remix)

In Part 1 I discussed some generalities about the new Ubuntu 9.10 distribution, and some issues related to using it on netbook computers. Now it is time to move on to the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a...

J.A. Watson

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X-ray named top scientific invention

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US jury finds SMIC stole trade secrets

A California jury ruled on Wednesday that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) stole and used trade secrets from rival company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co... More

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Dell finalises offer for takeover of P...

Dell announced on Tuesday that it has completed its $3.9bn (£2.3bn) offer to buy technology and business solutions provider Perot Systems. Dell has accepted Perot's stock at $30 a share,... More

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