The next version of MS Office looks set to bring powerful tools for creating business graphics – if by powerful you mean create complex, artistic (by MS standards) slides with only a few clicks The problem with such tools is that if you have seen one, you have seen all, of the results. As a [...]
Apple will be charging a nominal fee to users of a particular upgrade: The fee for the software is required in order for Apple to comply with generally accepted accounting principles for revenue recognition, which generally require that we charge for significant feature enhancements, such as 802.11n, when added to previously purchased products. There is [...]
Here is what the makers of the iPhone have to say about Apple’s iPhone. I really must stop doing Apple postings. But I find the way in which a very slick non-launch is unravelling almost impossible to ignore.
This is a somewhat technical but interesting piece on how to choose secure passwords and why you should. I’ve noticed myself that software attempting to break into servers has become increasingly sophisticated over the last two years, to the point that I no longer regard a password-protected ssh login secure. As for how I choose [...]
Though there is a lot of spam in the world, it is possible that relatively few people are actually responsible for it.
Just when I was feeling a little more positive about this new iPhone thingy, I read this suggestion that the iPhone will not allow user-installable applications. If true, it’s not likely to affect most users. But it will upset developers and reviewers. But I suspect that what is actually the case is that “applications” will [...]
The new iPhone might make sense if one does not own an iPod and GPS system and is about to upgrade one’s phone. The iPhone is going to “know where you are” according to Apple, probably not through GPS but through data it receives from the phone network. Though Apple didn’t show off navigation software, [...]
So. Apple has finally given the consumers what they think they want, and as cool a product as no doubt all the blogs will say it is, it could well turn out to be one of the disastrous decisions in history. It is certainly brave. First things first: Apple Computers is now, legally, Apple Inc. [...]
It has been a very long time, it seems, since truly new technology came out. I can remember when a computer that was able to display colour at all, and then more than 8 colours, was something to be celebrated and wondered at. It’s been a while since there has been anything that novel, although [...]
The chip and pin system is marketed as ‘tamperproof’. In which case, as the University of Cambridge points out, it is strange that a C&P terminal can be made to play classic computer games.