http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000621216b,00.htm 's Blog - - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:56:36 +0000 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:56:36 +0000 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) A long time ago at a Usenix conference (I think it was the one in Salt Lake City), there was a "quiz" passed around. I'm going to update one of the questions I remember from that, because it is absolutely perfect for what I just went through. Fill in ... zdnetuk/10014389 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014389o-2000498448b,00.htm Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:34:34 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (S) What’s the future of the web? On one side there’s Flash and Silverlight and the rich internet applications world, which is working on ways of taking the web outside the browser and onto the desktop, where it “lights up” applications and plugs them into... zdnetuk/10014388 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014388o-2000675210b,00.htm Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:32:18 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (M) Motorola Droid Drops Today: Happy Droid Day America! Author: Eric Everson, Mobile Security Expert If you’re wondering what all of the buzz is about with words like Droid and Android 2.0 circling about, you might think for a moment that there is a new... zdnetuk/10014387 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014387o-2000440756b,00.htm Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:14:55 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) Subversion, the open source version control system, is now an Apache Software Foundation incubator project. Subversion was previously sponsored by software lifecycle tools ve...]]> zdnetuk/10014385 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014385o-2000331765b,00.htm Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:56:41 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) In Part 1 of this series, I looked at the "standard" Ubuntu distribution, and found that with some adjustments, it could be made into what I considered to be a fairly nicely usable netbook. In Part 2 I looked at the Karmic Netbook Remix release, and foun... zdnetuk/10014384 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014384o-2000498448b,00.htm Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:19:24 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) have announced that they'll be sellin...]]> zdnetuk/10014382 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014382o-114626b,00.htm Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:30:18 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (w) Should Software-as-a-Service vendors make the switch to charging for their offering based on business outcome? Laurent Lachal of Ovum believes so. I was a delegate at the Cloud Computing World Forum a couple of weeks ago and out of a day of interesti... zdnetuk/10014381 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014381o-2000561249b,00.htm Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:59:31 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) Moblin’s strategy for mobile Linux on Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) built around the Intel Atom processor has, according to the project’s steering committee, reached the Moblin v2.1 project release which features so-called “broad” feature additions inclu... zdnetuk/10014380 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014380o-2000458459b,00.htm Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:28:10 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (l) Link building is cool. Yes, indeed it is. Developing links to help promote a business online is cool. Though, a lot of people may scoff at this, and look down disdainfully at this service. But that is ok, operational hazards the link builders would say. ... zdnetuk/10014379 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014379o-2000679878b,00.htm Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:25:16 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (a) I really think Microsoft have made a mess of Windows 7 pricing. They got the product right, yet there initial pricing of at around £44.95 for the full version of Windows 7 Home Premium (which I feel is about right) has back fired on them. It quickly cam... zdnetuk/10014377 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014377o-2000447838b,00.htm Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:51:21 +0000