http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000331759b,00.htm Andrew Donoghue's Blog - Triplesourced - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:50:15 +0000 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:50:15 +0000 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) After just receiving my second invite to a Champagne-fueled IT launch for next week - is it safe to assume the recession is over? Microsoft is promising champagne at lunchtime to mark the launch of Windows 7 next week, and if lunch-time boozing wasn't... zdnetuk/10014207 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014207o-2000331759b,00.htm Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:46:47 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) The news has just broken that the European Commission is about to kick-off a protracted investigation into Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems. EU authorities are concerned about the implications for the open source database MySQL owned by Sun. An a... zdnetuk/10013679 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013679o-2000331759b,00.htm Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:23:01 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) A coincidence - very possibly. But it is odd that someone would choose to launch a DDOS attack at Twitter just after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was voted in as president. Twitter was very useful to opponents of the president during the disputed election as T... zdnetuk/10013405 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013405o-2000331759b,00.htm Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:37:07 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) Although the European commission might be proud of its record of hitting Microsoft with fines that dig deep into Redmond's seemingly bottomless coffers, the fact is that for many European countries, Microsoft is still the first and sometimes only choice w... zdnetuk/10012806 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012806o-2000331759b,00.htm Sun, 24 May 2009 17:47:32 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) The genesis of netbooks can be seen in machines such as the One Laptop per Child XO device, and its rival the Intel Classmate - both originally targeted at the developing world. However, design doesn't always translate to execution - so a year or so a... zdnetuk/10012629 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012629o-2000331759b,00.htm Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:13:54 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) I like to work with BBC World News on in the background over here in Budapest. Working on your own is fine but you get used to noises of a busy(ish) editorial office so its nice to have some buzz and chatter on in the background - which is exactly what th... zdnetuk/10012578 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012578o-2000331759b,00.htm Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:39:14 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) Second time is lucky too it seems. Hungarian ex-Microsoft Billionaire Charles Simonyi has landed safely after his second space-tourist mission. I am living in Budapest for a while and so taking an interest in anything Hungarian in the news these days.... zdnetuk/10012530 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012530o-2000331759b,00.htm Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:28:02 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) Temporarily based in Hungary as I am - been here in Budapest for a couple of months - anything Hungarian in the news gets my attention. Right now its mostly how the Hungarian economy is in meltdown - the PM quit on Saturday - but every now and again t... zdnetuk/10012439 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012439o-2000331759b,00.htm Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:37:48 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) Only just noticed that ZDNet.co.uk has updated the way it displays video. This a good thing as it means that I can now embed some of the video I shot while I worked on the site - from 2003 to 2008 - on some of my other blogs. There is loads of grea... zdnetuk/10012225 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012225o-2000331759b,00.htm Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:21:39 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) Yep - in typical fashion, even the government's tacit admission that it was behind the curve on open source was released late. The press release/statement/apology - Government levels the playing field for open source - wasn't sent out from the Ministry... zdnetuk/10012221 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012221o-2000331759b,00.htm Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:52:30 +0000