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Yahoo! with Microsoft: way ahead of Google & Android
By: Stuart Corner
Google hopes its Android cellphone operating system will strengthen its position in the mobile Internet world, but Yahoo! combined with Windows mobile would present a formidable challenge.
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By: Stuart Corner
Google hopes its Android cellphone operating system will strengthen its position in the mobile Internet world, but Yahoo! combined with Windows mobile would present a formidable challenge.
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BT freezes Fusion: next generation replacement rumoured
By: Stuart Corner
BT has stopped marketing its fixed-mobile convergence service, Fusion to the consumer market, and it has hinted at a replacement which sounds remarkably like DataWind's PocketSurfer2 hand-held GPRS connected Internet-browsing and email device. It's a very significant development.
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By: Stuart Corner
BT has stopped marketing its fixed-mobile convergence service, Fusion to the consumer market, and it has hinted at a replacement which sounds remarkably like DataWind's PocketSurfer2 hand-held GPRS connected Internet-browsing and email device. It's a very significant development.
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Open source, the Access slayer
By: David M Williams
Forget vampires, there’s a world of evil in corporations across the globe infesting desktops everywhere. It’s the database product known as Microsoft Access but fear not: there is a chosen one, the [Silicon] Valley open source software revolution born with special strength and a destiny to fight Access.
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By: David M Williams
Forget vampires, there’s a world of evil in corporations across the globe infesting desktops everywhere. It’s the database product known as Microsoft Access but fear not: there is a chosen one, the [Silicon] Valley open source software revolution born with special strength and a destiny to fight Access.
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Conroy seeks input on CDMA closure
By: Stuart Corner
Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has written to a number of industry organisations inviting them to a meeting to discuss the impending closure of Telstra's CDMA network.
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By: Stuart Corner
Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has written to a number of industry organisations inviting them to a meeting to discuss the impending closure of Telstra's CDMA network.
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Replacing styles in Word 2008
By: Stephen Withers
AppleScript can be a very useful tool for automating applications or coupling two or more programs so they work together. But sometimes it is more trouble than is necessary to achieve a particular result.
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By: Stephen Withers
AppleScript can be a very useful tool for automating applications or coupling two or more programs so they work together. But sometimes it is more trouble than is necessary to achieve a particular result.
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Time for a real national broadband policy
By: Stuart Corner
Over in the USA the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a think tank formed in 2006 in recognition of the increasingly central role of technology in ensuring American prosperity, has just released a study: "Framing a National Broadband Policy." The ALP's FTTN plans notwithstanding, Australia should heed its recommendations.
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By: Stuart Corner
Over in the USA the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a think tank formed in 2006 in recognition of the increasingly central role of technology in ensuring American prosperity, has just released a study: "Framing a National Broadband Policy." The ALP's FTTN plans notwithstanding, Australia should heed its recommendations.
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Surprise surprise: cellphone users don't read manuals
By: Stuart Corner
A survey of cellphone users in the UK has come up with some, hardly surprising results: most people just use their phones for voice and text, don't read manuals and use only a fraction of the features and functions available on their handsets. Who did the survey, and why, is much more interesting.
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By: Stuart Corner
A survey of cellphone users in the UK has come up with some, hardly surprising results: most people just use their phones for voice and text, don't read manuals and use only a fraction of the features and functions available on their handsets. Who did the survey, and why, is much more interesting.
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Cisco set to stir up the femtocell market
By: Stuart Corner
Cisco has secured a stake in the nascent market for 3G femtocells, with a strategic investment in UK startup ip.access, which is a market leader in the technology. It could make a big impact down the track.
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By: Stuart Corner
Cisco has secured a stake in the nascent market for 3G femtocells, with a strategic investment in UK startup ip.access, which is a market leader in the technology. It could make a big impact down the track.
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Enterprise-grade Linux: Five network security FOSS apps
By: David M Williams
The old adage, you get what you pay for, doesn’t have to apply. In fact, for a small business the high price tag of “threat management” software can often mean a company will just go without to its detriment. Here’s some high quality free and open source software to help, at a price any CFO will love.
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By: David M Williams
The old adage, you get what you pay for, doesn’t have to apply. In fact, for a small business the high price tag of “threat management” software can often mean a company will just go without to its detriment. Here’s some high quality free and open source software to help, at a price any CFO will love.
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No FOSS please, we’re Microsoft: checking out the .NET source code license
By: David M Williams
Since early this decade, Microsoft has been promoting their software framework, the .NET platform and its associated libraries. Now up to incarnation v3.5, Windows developers worldwide have rejoiced at the framework source code finally being made available. Yet, does this reflect any trend towards open source by the Redmond giant? How generous is the license and what does it mean?
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By: David M Williams
Since early this decade, Microsoft has been promoting their software framework, the .NET platform and its associated libraries. Now up to incarnation v3.5, Windows developers worldwide have rejoiced at the framework source code finally being made available. Yet, does this reflect any trend towards open source by the Redmond giant? How generous is the license and what does it mean?
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MacBook Air a balanced package
By: Stephen Withers
A (non-iTWire) colleague has questioned Apple's wisdom in fitting the MacBook Air with 2G of soldered-in RAM with no upgrade capability.
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By: Stephen Withers
A (non-iTWire) colleague has questioned Apple's wisdom in fitting the MacBook Air with 2G of soldered-in RAM with no upgrade capability.
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A spotter’s guide to open-source Linux package formats
By: David M Williams
Want to find open source tools? Linux distros have long had the tradition that software is bundled into easily-installed packages. Yet, finding packages can be less than intuitively obvious and even then they may not appear to be available for your flavour of choice. Here’s how to get the most out of Linux packages.
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By: David M Williams
Want to find open source tools? Linux distros have long had the tradition that software is bundled into easily-installed packages. Yet, finding packages can be less than intuitively obvious and even then they may not appear to be available for your flavour of choice. Here’s how to get the most out of Linux packages.
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Stem cell research: Where does your U.S. state stand?
By: William Atkins
Do you favor or reject embryonic stem cell research? And, just as important: does your state favor or reject the researching and funding of stem cells in the United States?
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By: William Atkins
Do you favor or reject embryonic stem cell research? And, just as important: does your state favor or reject the researching and funding of stem cells in the United States?
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The Mac: coming to an enterprise near you
By: Stuart Corner
The pundits are falling over themselves trying to upstage Steve Jobs and predict what the big news from Apple will be in his keynote speech, but while its unlikely to be a headline news item at Macworld, the re-entry of the Mac into the mainstream of enterprise IT could be one of the most important Mac developments of 2008.
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By: Stuart Corner
The pundits are falling over themselves trying to upstage Steve Jobs and predict what the big news from Apple will be in his keynote speech, but while its unlikely to be a headline news item at Macworld, the re-entry of the Mac into the mainstream of enterprise IT could be one of the most important Mac developments of 2008.
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Open source brings a spam-free lunch
By: David M Williams
Spam is a plague on the Internet. It’s constant and unending. Some ISPs and free web mail providers offer anti-spam services but if you’re running your own mail server, accepting mail to your own domain, you have to work out your own solution. Can open source compete with the big boys? When it comes to spam, is there a free lunch?
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By: David M Williams
Spam is a plague on the Internet. It’s constant and unending. Some ISPs and free web mail providers offer anti-spam services but if you’re running your own mail server, accepting mail to your own domain, you have to work out your own solution. Can open source compete with the big boys? When it comes to spam, is there a free lunch?
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Lovable LUGgable: support your Linux user group
By: David M Williams
There’s no denying that the widespread growth of Linux was due in part to the raw enthusiasm of advocates meeting together under the broad banner of a “LUG” – a Linux User Group. LUG members were pioneers and cowboys, early adopters and passionate hobbyists. Today, the LUG is different. With the rise of commercial backing, the ease of distro installation, and the omniscience of Google do LUGs still have any role to play in the Linux world?
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By: David M Williams
There’s no denying that the widespread growth of Linux was due in part to the raw enthusiasm of advocates meeting together under the broad banner of a “LUG” – a Linux User Group. LUG members were pioneers and cowboys, early adopters and passionate hobbyists. Today, the LUG is different. With the rise of commercial backing, the ease of distro installation, and the omniscience of Google do LUGs still have any role to play in the Linux world?
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Cisco poised to enter social networking market - UPDATE
By: Stuart Corner
Cisco has for weeks now been letting information trickle out about its Entertainment Operating System (EOS), but it's rather more than an operating system: it's a software-as-a-service platform that enables content owners to easily distribute and monetise their content, and it's prompting leading commentators to ask if Cisco could be the next Facebook. (updated added at the end)
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By: Stuart Corner
Cisco has for weeks now been letting information trickle out about its Entertainment Operating System (EOS), but it's rather more than an operating system: it's a software-as-a-service platform that enables content owners to easily distribute and monetise their content, and it's prompting leading commentators to ask if Cisco could be the next Facebook. (updated added at the end)
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Needed now: a national scheme to recycle old IT gear
By: Stuart Corner
While the lifetime of computer equipment is rapidly getting shorter Australia is moving only slowly towards a national recycling scheme. Meanwhile in the US, private enterprise has come up with a scheme that gives owners of obsolete equipment some incentive to recycle.
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By: Stuart Corner
While the lifetime of computer equipment is rapidly getting shorter Australia is moving only slowly towards a national recycling scheme. Meanwhile in the US, private enterprise has come up with a scheme that gives owners of obsolete equipment some incentive to recycle.
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