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What chance the Microsoft-free desktop in the real world?

By Davey Winder, August 6, 2008 at 9:22 pm

The big news from the LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco this week has got to be the IBM partnership deals with Canonical, Red Hat and Novell. IBM has, quite plainly, gone on the offensive and..

Spam Fighting in Exchange

By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe , August 6, 2008 at 9:09 am

How can you fight spam with one of the most common email servers out there? After all, surely that should mean it's an easy play for the spammers, with enough holes to get every V1agr4..

Ikea – from flat pack furniture to mobile phones

By Chris Green, August 4, 2008 at 4:32 pm

There are few things that really amaze me on a Monday, but this piece of news really has.

Ikea, everyone’s favourite low-cost furniture and herring emporium, has decided to branch out into the

Parallel gets a Sun shine

By Martin Banks, July 31, 2008 at 6:03 pm

The race for leadership of parallel processing into the future is now well underway, and there is a chance that Sun Microsystems – not exactly a dark horse but not necessarily the..

Be: think different

By Benny Har-Even, July 31, 2008 at 5:39 pm

Well it’s happened. The courier has come, and my loan 8GB Apple iPhone 3G has sailed off into the sunset – or at least into the grimy streets of Soho on the back of a..

What does the energy racket mean for businesses?

By Maggie Holland, July 31, 2008 at 4:29 pm

I'm in shock. I've just moved house. Both my gas and electric are provided by British Gas. That was until today. I plan to change to another provider as a result of yesterday's price hike..

20 things I've learned in two years of IT journalism

By Sarah Dobbs, July 30, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Asavin Wattanajantra recently wrote a list of things he'd learned in his first 7 months as an IT journalist. Which pretty much covers it, but since this week marks my second full year working..

The internet thinks I'm a man

By Nicole Kobie, July 29, 2008 at 4:57 pm

An analysis of my browser history has shown that I'm a man (an analysis of something else would suggest otherwise, but let's not go there.) I came across an amusing little tool which analyses your..

Monk and his IT junk #39

By Monk and his IT junk , July 28, 2008 at 12:58 pm

We're not penguins!

SAP's GRC push but where are they in the Gartner MQ?

By Dennis Howlett, July 23, 2008 at 4:41 am

In recent times, SAP has been woo'ing me down the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) path. To its credit, the company has done..

Selling my soul for the Google News love

By Asavin Wattanajantra, July 22, 2008 at 2:29 pm

I was sent a great link to a great column by Charlie Brooker yesterday. And sadly - I felt myself nodding in agreement to much that he wrote. As a two year old website, we are..

IT can’t have it both ways

By Miya Knights, March 20, 2008 at 5:02 pm

I must say that the recent prediction that web and collaboration tools will lead to corporate IT departments becoming increasingly marginalised made me smirk. Analyst firm, Gartner published its business intelligence (BI) and performance management research..

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