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4sysops – For Windows Administrators – I have been asked to write an article about the Windows Vista vs. XP issue for the German magazine Computerwoche. They translated an InfoWorld article by Randall C. Kennedy which is one of the best Vista bashing articles I read so far. After reading it, I was attracted by the challenge to defend the Vista pro stance. I agree with some of Kennedy’s views, but quite a few of his claims distort the real picture, in my view. [...] read more

Data Center Knowledge – The server thefts are getting out of hand. The latest incident didnt involve a data center, but involved an HSBC server in Hong Kong that contained transaction records for 159,000 customer accounts. The bank said it had lost track of the server during renovation work at a Kwun Tong district branch… read more

Digital Inspiration – Plaxo has added a people search engine to help you find friends who may be using Plaxo but are not connected to you yet.
Earlier, you could search for people on Plaxo only if you remembered their email addresses but now they have relaxed the rules and lets you perform a search by name [...] read more

Blah, Blah! Technology – Company names, slogans and logos can all be legally protected in one way or another. But what about keywords? Where does a company name end and search query begin? In a US law court, of all places [...] read more

Life Rocks! 2.0 – OpenOffice.Org 3.0 which is due in September has released a beta version. This beta release is made available to allow a users to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage. OpenOffice.org 3.0 features new “Start Centre”, fresh-looking icons, and a new zoom control [...] read more

9 to 5 Mac – AT&T has updated its iPhone website, promising use of 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the US as included within the regular iPhone tariffs.

The company briefly last week switched on Wi-Fi access at its hotspots across the country, switching it off just a few days later.

At the time, the company offered [...] read more

IT Blogwatch – Two civil rights groups on Wednesday claimed a shared victory in getting the FBI to withdraw a national security letter (NSL) issued to the Internet Archive secretly seeking information on a patron of the online library. The withdrawal of the letter and an associated gag order [...] read more

NuBlue Blog – For Web Developers, text editors are like football – you love your team even though in your heart of hearts you know they’re rubbish. So what happens when you are forced to pick a new team – how do you choose? This is my current predicament – when I’m developing at home I [...] read more

JQ on Technology – fter rumors of its demise and resurrection, it looks like WiMax will finally get the push it needs in the U.S. to become a viable contender in the wireless communications space.

Broadband for the rest of us? Broadband for the rest of us?

Sprint and Clearwire finally rekindled a deal to launch a nationwide service—thanks to a multi-billion-dollar push from investors Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, and Google. The new service will be marketed under the Clearwire brand, and it could offer true wireless broadband Internet access a year or two ahead of Verizon and AT&T’s planned offerings.

For those not familiar [...] read more

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