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Google Android - winning apps are location-based

News According to Google's Android developer blog, the second round will begin after the second half of the year, when the first handsets built on the platform are expected. Expect there to be at least one application incorporating location-based...

Tags: location based services, android, google

[20 May 2008]

10+ common questions about SQL Server data types

whitepaper This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog. SQL Server has a variety of data types, and as with most things, the more options you have, the more confusing a choice can be. Susan Harkins offers answers to the questions she...

Tags: help desk, data types, questions, entry

[19 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom

Comment Written during an intensely boring conference session and dispatched via a free wi-fi node outside Liverpool St Station in London later the same day. Between 10 and 20 years ago designers and architects made assumptions about the use of office...

Tags: data centres, green, energy, power

[16 May 2008]

Microsoft hits back at Vista security critics

News Kleef wrote in a blog post: "The number of virus infections found by a virus vendor does not necessarily equal poor security. Kleef's comments followed on from a blog post by Austin Wilson, the director of Windows Client Security Product Management...

Tags: xp, windows, vista

[16 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs

Comment ¦ The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group ¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die.¦ Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action This week, readers get worked up over rude mobile users - should they be slapped with...

Tags: rim, blackberry, nhs, mobile

[15 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...

Comment Written in a coffee shop in Ipswich UK and dispatched via a company wi-fi service. Today I was in a well-known electronics store buying an audio connector for £1.46 when I was offered a mouse for 23p.

Tags: storage, innovation, technology costs

[14 May 2008]

Skype drops open-source appeal

News Welte said in his blog: "In the end, the court hinted twice that, if it was to judge about the case, Skype would not have very high chances. Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide...

Tags: skype, gpl, open source

[12 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: The race to get the Olympic tech ready

Comment I had a fascinating if rather rushed 46 hours in Beijing recently, getting a sneak preview of the 2008 Olympic venues - and meeting the IT team tasked with getting the technology infrastructure ready for the opening on 8 August.

Tags: infrastructure, server, t5, olympic

[08 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News Symantec vulnerability researcher, Vikram Thakur, said in a blog post: "What's interesting about this is that we have yet to come across any spam that may result in people visiting these domains. A number of nascent Storm hosting domains using fast...

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity ¦ Video Cheat Sheet: Data Breaches ¦ Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain ¦ India's high-tech...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?

Comment It seems that pretty much ever since the invention of the wheel and the abacus, governments have found it hard to get to grips with new technology. As an aside, I'm pretty sure neither the abacus nor the wheel was invented by the government.

Tags: public sector, government

[30 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later. Dispatched via a free wi-fi service. Before 9/11, I regularly travelled the planet with a full toolkit as well as other objects that are now...

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

New president takes the reins at Socitm

News Writing on the Socitm president's blog on Thursday, Steel said: "I also feel honoured to now be president of such a well-respected organisation that has achieved so much in its history, and optimistic about our future.

Tags: cio, newham, local government, richard steel

[29 Apr 2008]

Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'

News The developers in a blog post: "Any program that UAC blocks from starting up 'for good security reasons' can be coded to work around these limitations with (relative) ease. However, some individuals posting comments in reply to the blog post...

Tags: hack, uac, vista

[29 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Athens and roam ¦ Video: CIO Agenda 2008 ¦ ZX...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum

Comment Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly, unleashed a tidal wave of tech nostalgia by asking the deceptively simple question: what was your first home computer? This question formed the basis of our latest reader poll - which saw the ZX...

Tags: sinclair, commodore, spectrum

[22 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Athens and roam

Video In his latest video blog, Peter Cochrane reports from the centre of Athens. Despite the city's standing as the cradle of democracy, he finds little freedom when it comes to public-access wi-fi. Still, at least the children seem to have devised one...

Tags: wi-fi, laptops, mobile, fi

[21 Apr 2008]

Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML

News In a blog posting this week, Alex Brown, leader of the ISO group in charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, revealed Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest specifications of the ISO OOXML draft standard.

Tags: microsoft, office, word, ooxml

[21 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News Red Hat's desktop team said in a blog report: "We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future. Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to...

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'

News Tim Bray, the writer of XML, wrote in his blog last week that Microsoft pushed for its OOXML standard to be accredited by the ISO so the software giant could use the accreditation as a "marketing tool".

Tags: ooxml, iso, microsoft, vista

[21 Apr 2008]

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