Soapbox
Microsoft quarantines own video site
News Microsoft is closing its video-sharing site, Soapbox, to new users for up to two months so it can create better safeguards against unauthorised content. The software giant, which agreed earlier on Thursday to distribute... [23 Mar 2007]
Microsoft does video sharing 'me too!'
News Microsoft's new Soapbox on MSN Video site takes on the popular video-sharing site YouTube, which has become an online sensation for viral and homegrown user-generated video. Soapbox on MSN Video,... [19 Sep 2006]
'Open source must co-operate with capitalism'
News For open source to prosper, people need to stop thinking of it as "free" and instead think of it as "connected capitalism", delegates at an open source conference in London were told on Tuesday. Speaking at the Open Source Business... [28 Jun 2006]
Answer the challenge and set up a VPN server in Linux in 10 steps
White Paper Garvin in answer to a TechRepublic IT Soapbox blog challenge for substantive information on the Linux operating system. The challenge continues indefinitely—read the IT Soapbox blog for details. Linux is... [19 May 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.03.06
Round-Up The Round-Up is expecting at least one reader to get on their soapbox and suggest a song from The Cure album Boys Don't Cry - and it's not '10:15 Saturday Night'. Tony Blair this week became the latest politician to go... [10 Mar 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Blogging
Cheat Sheet In a nutshell it's the process of publishing an online journal - a cross between a diary, a message-board and a virtual soapbox. I'm hearing a lot about blogging, why all the fuss? Good question. It may seem like we're... [09 Feb 2005]
Brits are nation of computer buffs - just don't mention the porn…
News Research published by the British Computer Society (BCS) suggests that the UK now boasts a decent level of IT literacy but that a quarter of the population are still trapped on the wrong side of the digital divide. [07 Sep 2004]
What's the fuss about... virtualised IT infrastructure?
Comment Whatever the naysayers might argue (and they do have the soapbox), the results have been big bangs rather than idle whimpers. From applications to storage to that all-encompassing future we know as web services,... [20 Sep 2002]
Motley Fool takes own medicine
News The move comes only days after the online finance site said it has raised $30m to strengthen its UK and US operations and to expand into Japan. Six out of 60 jobs will go in London while 109 of around 300 will go in the US. [08 Feb 2001]