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ZDNet Author Biography: Zack Whittaker started playing with computers before he could even tie his shoelaces; although that skill wasn’t discovered until he was 10. Amongst many things, he is a good-for-nothing, pink sock wearing, British student at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK studying computer science. In between studying, drinking, and...; more about Zack Whittaker »

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ZDNet blogger: working from home: More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...; Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-10-06
Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A: There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...; Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-10-06
Student Technology Day: Microsoft CEO's keynote speech: As promised, I've uploaded the keynote speech that Steve Ballmer gave on Wednesday to a bunch of students at the Microsoft Student Technology Day. Although the recording isn't studio quality, it's still audible enough to hear it - even though there was coughing, the occasional sneeze, and some jackass in...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-10-04
Enterprise 2.0 and business collaboration: Update: I hit "publish" before the article was completely finished, so I've added some images and updated some links. I can't pull the post without it leaving a trail behind it, so I may as well just own up now and say, "whoops, sorry". GroupSwim Collaboration, in...; Tags: Security, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Wiki, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-10-03
Student Technology Day: event photo's: I spent most of the day taking snaps; concealed from within my lap a camera without the flash function. I say that, because we weren't technically allowed to take photos and was told off by someone half way through. Nevertheless, there are some interesting photos here; some of which show...; Tags: Photograph, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-10-03

Microsoft Student Technology Day (2 of 2): The first half of the day after lunch, with the Q&A session which followed shortly after, and demos of Microsoft Surface and developing with it and how Windows 7 ties into it. by Zack Whittaker; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker, Photograph, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Startups, Enterprise, London, Surface, Windows 7; Image galleries 2008-10-03
Microsoft Student Technology Day (1 of 2): The first half of the day before lunch with Andy McLoughlin from Huddle.net, some photos of the Live Search product, and Steve Ballmer's keynote. by Zack Whittaker; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Zack Whittaker, Photograph, Microsoft, Windows Live, Huddle, Startups, Enterprise, London, Online, Careers, Steve Ballmer, Surface, Multi-touch, Windows 7; Image galleries 2008-10-03
Student Technology Day: Microsoft Surface demos: I'll write more about Microsoft Surface tomorrow, including a client-side computer/operating system part to the Surface table; where you have an ordinary computer to control and develop on it. Not only that, I'll bring you information on the SDK, the Surface desktop simulator, as well as some pictures of how...; Tags: Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-10-01
Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealed: Steve Ballmer was next door in the Queen Elizabeth Hall talking to the TechNet/TechEd people about Office Live, and mentioning that there would be a major announcement at the PDC on the 27th October. Once he finished there, he popped next door and told us a similar thing. ...; Tags: Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Collaboration, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-10-01
Student Technology Day: how to start a start-up: Andy McLoughlin spoke a little while ago about how he started up his own web start-up, Huddle.net, from a simple idea in a pub to a fully working business and enterprise collaboration suite. It's a large network of hosted workspaces; yet another project management and team collaboration service based on...; Tags: Inspiration, Family, Huddle.net, Collaboration, Groupware, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-10-01
Student Technology Day: what it's all about: It's not often I can say this but already, I'm surrounded inÂ a room of 300 odd fashion unconscious, sweaty, unattractive idiots. Nevertheless, it's quite fun listening to some of the banter going around and about the place; some people work as interns at Microsoft, some at IBM and a...; Tags: Student, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Public Relations, Productivity, Entrepreneurship, Virtualization, Game Players, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-10-01
Student Technology Day: your questions to the presenters: I received an email this morning about the opportunity to participate in sending questions to the speakers at the Microsoft Student Technology Day tomorrow (that's Wednesday, for those who have yet to understand the Gregorian calendar). Whilst I'm not allowed to publish the number to text in your questions for...; Tags: Speaker, Microsoft Corp., Question, Keyboards, Internet, Games, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-30
Pre-university jitters: join a student social network: I remember when I was about to start at university. It was a strange, perplexing time and wasn't sure if I'd make friends, know people, know what to do or where to go. Having said that, it made life that little bit easier having a unique medical condition - Tourette's...; Tags: Network, University, Yougofurther, TheClassConnection, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-30
Global security: is study restricted?: With the current state of terrorism threats and attacks, and cyber-crime on the increase, I seriously wonder if academics and students have full passage to "do as we like" in terms of studying, learning and educating ourselves and others. Earlier on this year, two personnel from the...; Tags: Security, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Government, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-26
KAUST to house fastest supercomputer in Middle East: Thanks to one of my tipsters, I was informed the other day that KAUST, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, have teamed up with IBM to build the fastest and most powerful supercomputer in the Middle East. KAUST is one of the most modern, dedicated...; Tags: Supercomputer, University, Middle East, Supercomputing, KAUST, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-25
Enterprise CRM "as in real life": Last week I was told of the merging of HearMe, a leading desktop video/audio conferencing suite, and SugarCRM, an open-source CRM platform for improving relationships with customers; obviously really, that's what CRM does. Having a platform which allows customers to communicate with the providers of...; Tags: Customer, CRM, HereMe, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-24
Microsoft vs. Apple: the multi-touch war: Because the Evil Queen of Numbers has kept the Windows branch so quiet about Windows 7, we've been relying entirely on speculation, the blogosphere, leaks and occasionally "that dreaded New Yorker" as Sinofsky would probably say. Multi-touch is the latest craze it seems. Once the technology was...; Tags: Multi-touch, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Voice Technology, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-23
Can interactive whiteboards impair learning?: Guest post: Morgan Panting is at her first year in college equivalent junior in high school. Besides being the bane of my life, she's also an opinionated little madam with her own rants and raves on technology and student life. The other day at college (our equivalent...; Tags: Interactive Whiteboard, Whiteboard, Teacher, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-21
Google's insightful looking glass: A few weeks ago I got a heads-up from Google's PR about their new search tool. Dubbed Google Insights for Search, it allows you to apply parameters to search for what other people are searching. Sounds a little strange and it did take a while for my...; Tags: Google Inc., Web Site Development, Public Relations, Productivity, Web Technology, Entrepreneurship, Search, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-19
Mythbusters display colourful insight into CPU and GPU differences: A little off topic today as the world has gone all quiet. You can be an all-knowing computer science boffin and still not grasp the concept of the "GPU" and what it does. Pretty much everyone knows what the CPU is and does, but when it comes to graphics, a...; Tags: CPU, GPU, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-09-18