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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

From 500 words into the future | 2 comments

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

From Official Mobile Security & Innovative Technologies Blog | On The Road | Sentry Posts | Add a comment

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

From Beyond the Code | Add a comment

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

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

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

From Back office | Uptime | Add a comment

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

From Software application development | 1 comment

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

From Link Building Scool | Small Business Blog | Add a comment

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

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

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

From Beyond the Code | Add a comment

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

From Communication Breakdown | 2 comments

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

From ZDNet UK First Take | Reviews Blog | Add a comment

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

From Back office | Small Business Blog | 5 comments

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

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

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

From Web design & FOSS | 2 comments

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

From Application Compatibility | 1 comment

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

From Communication Breakdown | Add a comment

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

From Testing 123 | News Blog | Add a comment

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

From Web design & FOSS | Add a comment

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

From ZDNet UK First Take | Reviews Blog | Add a comment

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