Cosmic conundrum for Celtic computing

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:53:51 +0000

The BBC has a nice story for anyone who hopes that IT can bring economic benefits to disparate communities. Which it should, given that you can do anything online from anywhere on the planet - forcing people to huddle together is a relic of the industrial...

Dictatorial, disastrous, dire: Mandelson must not pass

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:09:43 +0000

Without debate, without public consulation, without any form of mandate, Lord Mandelson - an unelected politician - is preparing to place the rights of powerful industrial concerns above those of Parliament and above ours. The powers that he wants to ...

Murdoch versus the Net? Game on.

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:30:37 +0000

Rupert Murdoch has said that he'll probably take his content out of Google, and hinted very strongly he and other newspaper groups

Carry On Crashing: Windows 7 starts messing about

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:20:46 +0000

Last night, just 48 hours after I'd installed it, I had my very first Windows 7 Blue Screen Of Death. It may not have been the complete BSOD package, but the machine was thoroughly dead and the screen was blue: there was what may have been intended to...

VMware to launch own Linux distro?

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:03:22 +0100

This is a pure rumour, sourced from random tweets. But it comes from Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome and Mono, so it has a certain investment of radiance. His first tweet: "VMware is creating a ne...

Nokia vs Apple: no easy answers in GSM wars

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:01:26 +0100

The news that Nokia is suing Apple over ten wireless patents marks the start of what may be a fascinating and prolonged canter through the worlds of mobile phone standards a...

What Microsoft needs to do about the Sidekick fiasco

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:23:10 +0100

It's nearly Wednesday, and the question of what happened to the Sidekick service remains unanswered. At one level, it's obvious. T-Mobile US's Sidekick service, run by Danger and thus Danger's owners Microsoft, went down and stayed down. As the Sidekic...

Steorn renews perpetual promise to show free energy machine

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:31:35 +0100

Welcome back my friends to the magnetic machine story that never ends, courtesy of Dublin-based perpetual motion mongers Steorn. One of my two favourite miraculous organisations ? in the company, however unfairly, of xG and its magic morphing wireless...

Kindle, international ebook of mystery

mailroomuk@zdnet.com (R) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:23:53 +0100

At last, the Amazon Kindle is to launch in the UK - and around a hundred other countries. This ebook reader has attracted a lot of attention in the US, as much for its busin...

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