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Forgetting to Sudo

By Andrew Miller, August 19, 2008 at 9:08 pm

I'm not going to start my first blog post with an excessive introduction to who I am and why you should listen to what I have to say - this is the Google generation after..

Monk and his IT junk #42

By Monk and his IT junk , August 18, 2008 at 5:12 pm

IT security...

Olympic flash of gold for Microsoft

By Davey Winder, August 18, 2008 at 3:01 pm

Silverlight has, to be fair, not exactly set the world on fire. Microsoft was obviously hoping it would, and there's nothing majorly wrong with the Silverlight 2 Beta to prevent it. Other than the market..

The Malware Olympics - USA beat China!

By Asavin Wattanajantra, August 18, 2008 at 2:31 pm

As the medals are awarded in Beijing it looks like China are dominating all before them with a massive medal haul beating the USA into first place, with the UK doing astonishingly well this year. However..

More than just another Windows Mobile 6.1 3G GPS phone: MWg Zinc II

By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe , August 15, 2008 at 7:52 pm

Never heard of MWg? You're not alone, but you might want to hunt down the Zinc II. For one thing, it's cheaper than the HTC Touch Pro or TyTN II although it has much the..

The good ship Twitter SMS sails no more

By Maggie Holland, August 14, 2008 at 1:34 pm

So, Twitter has dropped its SMS offering in the UK because it's costing the company too much ( http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/218880/twitter-drops-uk-text-message-support.html). I must admit, I did always wonder how long it would last. It’s a great idea,..

Cern's big day is September 10

By Nicole Kobie, August 13, 2008 at 2:26 pm

I propose a party for September 9th. Blow all your cash on booze and whatever else tickles your fancy, because Cern has announced they'll be flipping the switch on their Large Hadron Collider on

(BlackBerry) Bold me up

By Chris Green, August 13, 2008 at 11:39 am

Hello – My name is Chris Green, and I used to be a BlackBerry addict. Prior to this past weekend, it had been two and a quarter years since I kicked the habit.

Alas,..

Parallel gets a Sun shine

By Martin Banks, July 31, 2008 at 6:03 pm

The race for leadership of parallel processing into the future is now well underway, and there is a chance that Sun Microsystems – not exactly a dark horse but not necessarily the..

Be: think different

By Benny Har-Even, July 31, 2008 at 5:39 pm

Well it’s happened. The courier has come, and my loan 8GB Apple iPhone 3G has sailed off into the sunset – or at least into the grimy streets of Soho on the back of a..

20 things I've learned in two years of IT journalism

By Sarah Dobbs, July 30, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Asavin Wattanajantra recently wrote a list of things he'd learned in his first 7 months as an IT journalist. Which pretty much covers it, but since this week marks my second full year working..

SAP's GRC push but where are they in the Gartner MQ?

By Dennis Howlett, July 23, 2008 at 4:41 am

In recent times, SAP has been woo'ing me down the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) path. To its credit, the company has done..

IT can’t have it both ways

By Miya Knights, March 20, 2008 at 5:02 pm

I must say that the recent prediction that web and collaboration tools will lead to corporate IT departments becoming increasingly marginalised made me smirk. Analyst firm, Gartner published its business intelligence (BI) and performance management research..

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