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Hacker wants promise he'll be returned to UK

British hacker Gary McKinnon is almost out of options to avoid extradition to the US, but not quite. The BBC reports that McKinnon is asking the British Home Office to ensure he won't be jailed in the US once he's convicted. His lawyer wants him returned to the UK after...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Government, Hacker, Hacking, Home Secretary, Richard Koman, Security, Software, U.K., U.S., Vertical Industries

Blog posts 2008-09-02

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Dell Latitude Z 16" thin-and-light revealed; Lamborghini angles hide boardroom muscle

So Sweet.Thats all I got, that thing is frigg'in cool!I just can't see paying that much...For so little. I would honestly rather buy a mac, and that's saying a lot, as they're horribly overpriced.I travel 75% of the year, and everything that implies: planes, rental cars, subways, metro bus/rail, the...

Tags: Notebooks, Dell Latitude Z 16, Dell Latitude Z, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Latitude

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

What century is this?

The chess clubMy vote would be, to strongly encourage them to go digital. And on line.I'm secretary of my chess club, and it's very annoying that some elderly members don't even have a computer let alone internet access. This makes communication a lot more difficult and slow.I even offered them...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, E-mail, chess club, computer

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Crime In Focus : A paper examining pitfalls in public crime mapping

In July 2008, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith pledged that interactive maps, which allow every neighbourhood in England and Wales to access local crime information, were to be put in place by every police force in the land by the end of the year. This was...

Tags: Crime, Pitney Bowes Inc., Leadership, Management

White papers 2009-08-18

£10bn national ID card scheme vs. £65m cuts in higher education

Two very controversial topics met in the middle today, when one potentially pointless national identity card scheme which would cost the UK taxpayer between £10-20bn according to the London School of Economics, and a cut of £65m in higher education at university level would cut a further 1,500 full time...

Tags: Education, Card, National ID Card, U.K., Identity Card, Government, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Good enough to pay for, part 2: Microsoft Office

Good enough to pay for, part 2: Microsoft OfficeBecause it was the right tool for the job?Why, because you wrote seven paragraphs of unformatted text and then copy/pasted it to your content manager?Well, then by all means MS Office it is.That was convincing. notWishes versus needsOn the whole, Microsoft Office...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Will Ubuntu remain a minor player

Will Ubuntu remain a minor playerWhat's novel here?Not the fact that you can try Ubuntu.It's the fact that you try any operating system.How is that happening? Most likely Click2Try is another open source hoster running Xen, much as Amazon Web Services, only they are moving ahead with easy 'on...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Only Problem, Ubuntu, minor player

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Can a startup challenge Google on the re-invention of e-mail?

The two co-founders of a small Silicon Valley startup had a "Holy Crap!" moment last week when Google unveiled Wave, a online tool that's looking to reinvent e-mail, IM and other forms of online communications. For the past several months, Michael Cerda and Ben Dean, co-founders of...

Tags: Google Inc., E-mail, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Home Bookkeeping 4.5 (Windows)

You say you don't have the discipline to control your budgeting? With Home Bookkeeping, it's a snap! It's your chance to finally become a savvy spender and protect yourself from the danger of debt. Unlike the usual paper and electronic spreadsheets, Home Bookkeeping is your personal financial secretary and advisor....

Tags: Keepsoft, Productivity, Personal Finance, Microsoft Windows, Financial Services, Investment, Operational Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Finance

Software downloads 2009-05-13

Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 beta

Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 betaFirefox Beta 3.5It sounds great and I will eventually use it. Normally I am not too concerned about downloading RCs but when the RC comes out I will decline.I only ever replace my Firefox when the authors of all the more seriously useful add-ons I use...

Tags: Web browsers, Say-It, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, isolation, Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.5 beta, beta, Tab Isolation

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Handy Assistant for Windows Mobile (Mobile)

Handy Assistant is your personal mobile secretary that manages your incoming calls and profiles. All calls are managed according to the phone's current profile, which can be defined by custom rules. Handy Assistant helps to improve your incoming call handling productivity and effectiveness thanks to great number of phone features....

Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Call, Microsoft Windows, Paragon Technologie GmbH, Handy Assistant, Telecom & Utilities, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-04-09

UK government to collect Facebook data?

The UK government is currently proposing new measures to keep details on communications between British users on Facebook. Updated: see below. Facebook on the other hand have criticised the intelligence services, saying they were "excessive" and "overkill", according to sister-site ZDNet UK. It's not...

Tags: Facebook, U.K., Social Networking, Government, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-03-25

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11: Lots of Tech but Short on Polish

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11: Lots of Tech but Short on PolishNot often I agree with Flude, but he is right on the money with this postJason,This is a whine. Why do you complain about services that should be off by default?As for your comment about "but your typical end-user...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, .NET, Development tools, Desktops, Servers, Perlow, Novell Inc., Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, SuSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, Mono, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, distro

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Day in the life of... a laid off tech support

Editor's note: In these troubled times, we struggle to find work if we're left without any. The current economic climate dictates many challenges to face, such as being laid off if we are left out of work. This is the case of JD Clyde (who has written over on sister...

Tags: Job, Job Search, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-03-19

XCLOCK S60 3rd (Mobile)

Xclock is one alarm software applicable to intelligent cellphone or PDA. The software can allow you to set many remindful events handily at different time in daily life and work and set plentiful timing reminding music. You can select a music pre-stored on your cellphone, a music made by yourself...

Tags: Event, Mobile, Voice, Cell Phone, Music, Shaanxi HAOCHENG Co.Ltd CHINA, Xclock, B.It

Software downloads 2009-03-11

Hey, guess what? We're understaffed!

Hey, guess what? We're understaffed!And yet, you still seem to have plenty of ....... time to moonlight on this blog. So cry me a river! Try naming a single company in the U.S. that isn't trying to do more with less people. RE: Hey, guess what? We're...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Media Center PCs, Strategy, job

Discussion threads 2009-03-04

Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman

Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in GoldmanPat Leach wrote this story in 2006In "Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?" (p. 55) by Patrick Leach, the Goldman approach to risk was highlighted as a best practice. To be fair, Pat couldn't have written this exact story in 06, but...

Tags: Asset management, GoldMan, Calculating Risk, gold, marin

Discussion threads 2009-02-10

A day in the life of my Classmate

I call it "my Classmate" since I get to hang onto it for a while and let kids really get a feel for using it, both in and out of class. When I don't have kids abusing it, though, I'm trying to make it my primary computer, continuing my...

Tags: Software, Network, Netbook, Computer, Kid, Classmate, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Productivity, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-29

British police can now hack citizens' PCs

Seems like Britain's Home Office is channeling Dick Cheney. Last week I wrote that the U.K. is going forward with a plan to build a massive database of every phone call, email and chat conversation in the country. Supposedly they're going to datamine this stuff to find terrorists. ...

Tags: PC, Britain, Biometric Identification, Computer, E-mail, Productivity, Biometrics, Online Communications, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-04

Antair Call Screener 2.0.3 (Mobile)

The best call screener for your BlackBerry.The last thing you need during an important meeting, or during your well-deserved day off, is the obnoxious ringing of your BlackBerry announcing an unwelcomed phone call.At home, your answering machine can handle those annoying unwanted calls. At the office, you may have your...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Telephone Call, RIM BlackBerry, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-12-04