desktop in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up One anonymous reader of the story even offered their sophisticated barter-based price list for IT jobs on the side: a case of beer for a 'simple IT fix' along the lines of slow-running desktop, wireless problems or... [06 Nov 2009]
Going green: A guide for CIOs
Comment They can save money within IT, through energy efficiencies at the datacentre or on the desktop. Stuart Roberts explains how to get it right. Before the downturn, green IT - or environmentally sustainable computing - was... [21 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Though Acorn Computers produced its last desktop machine in 1998, today one of its former subsidiaries, ARM Holdings, designs the chips found in most mobile phones and some netbooks, bringing ARM revenues of £298.9m... [07 Oct 2009]
Jim Whitehurst
AS Profile Following this theme, Red Hat invested in server and desktop virtualisation maker Qumranet to the tune of $107m just over a year ago in order to compete more effectively with Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. [29 Sep 2009]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile Finnish software architect Torvalds initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel which formed the basis of operating systems driving desktop and server technology, as well as being embedded in a significant... [29 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up Later, sales of the Macintosh surged on the back of desktop publishing software from Aldus and others. Every once in a while an application comes along that defines a platform. For the Apple II it was the early... [25 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: The Snow Leopard Appreciation Society
Comment Allowing an application to be shared across multiple desktop Spaces A lot has been written about Snow Leopard since its release two weeks ago: but maybe the best way of describing Apple's latest operating system update... [16 Sep 2009]
Dell's secret to riding out the recession
Comment The company has also invested in other efficient technologies, with thin client devices used by about five per cent of its 10,000 desktop users and virtual desktop software deployed in all of its call... [04 Sep 2009]
Four steps to smarter outsourcing
Comment Whatever IT services you outsource - desktop support, network maintenance infrastructure management or software integration - there are seven critical factors to the success of your outsourced service: security,... [02 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: Mac tablet? I remain unconvinced
Comment It's evident from the core Apple product line-up, which since the early days of the return of Steve Jobs has a simple symmetry: pro desktop, pro notebook, consumer desktop, consumer notebook. Seb Janacek... [18 Aug 2009]
Hands-on with Windows 7: How it worked for me
Comment The pre-retail versions of Windows 7 cannot be easily upgraded to the full version, so I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my main desktop machine first. Despite the hiccups I now have a fully working Windows 7... [13 Aug 2009]
Cloud computing: Is it worth the legal risks?
Comment From their perspective, the applications and data are stored in servers on the internet and then cached on a temporary basis on the user's desktop (or other device) when needed. The cloud throws up a raft of legal and... [22 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.07.09
Round-Up And what gestures would the desktop version be programmed to recognise, you might ask? The idea is by using full body motion capture and facial recognition, Natal means you can control games with your actions rather than... [17 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment I'm starting on the bottom three layers which are the networks, the desktop and the corporate applications. Home Office CIO Annette Vernon is steeling herself for a challenge that will require steady nerves and... [10 Jul 2009]
Chrome OS: What Google can do, Ubuntu does better
Comment Out of the ferocious Linux distribution wars, one contender has emerged with the seeming strength to take on the rest; at least when it comes to the Linux desktop platform: Ubuntu. The growing dominance of Ubuntu (at... [08 Jul 2009]
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