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20th November 2010 Archive

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  • Europe IT spending set for 2011 growth

    Asian budgets leap like tigers

    A few weeks ago, the wizards at Gartner put out their prognostications for global IT spending for this year and next, and now they are rubbing their crystal balls to polish them to get a better sense of what will happen in particular markets in 2011. The good news is that IT budgets are expected to grow in EMEA after two years …

    Financial News 20 Nov 2010, 00:11

  • Dell bespoke iron forge punts 'cloud' kits

    DCS jumps for Joyent

    Dell doesn't believe in The Big Switch. Company man Andy Rhodes denies the notion that the entire world will move its IT infrastructure onto so-called cloud computing services along the lines of Amazon's EC2. As you might expect. But Dell does believe in cloud computing. Rhodes and company just announced the general …

    SaaS 20 Nov 2010, 00:21

  • 26,000km 'leccy joy ride crosses finish line

    Petrol-free from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego

    A team of electric-car enthusiasts — well, maniacs might be a more-accurate term — from Imperial College London have completed their 26,000-kilometer drive down the Pan-American Highway from northern Alaska to the world's most southerly city in the Tierra del Fuego district of Argentina. "This project was never just about …

    Science 20 Nov 2010, 06:12

  • Windows hits 25

    A quarter century of DOS, don'ts, and delays

    November 20, 1985, saw the launch of Microsoft Windows 1.01, the first publicly released version. Of course it was late. Microsoft boss Bill Gates announced Windows in 1983, promising release by the end of 1984, perhaps to counter VisiCorp's VisiON, an alternative PC graphical application manager that launched in December 1983 …

    Operating Systems 20 Nov 2010, 06:20

  • Berners-Lee: Facebook 'threatens' web future

    Zuckerberg rains on 20th birthday bash

    Tim Berners-Lee has dubbed Facebook a threat to the universality of the world wide web. Next month marks the twentieth anniversary of the first webpage – served up by Berners-Lee at the CERN particle physics lab in Geneva – and in the December issue of Scientific American, he celebrates the uniquely democratic nature of his …

    Music and Media 20 Nov 2010, 07:50

  • Samsung UE55C9000 55in LCD 3D TV

    Review Thin as a biscuit and just as tasty

    If money was no object, what type of TV could you create? If you’re Samsung, the UE55C9000 is just one possibility. It may be slightly more expensive than many small cars, but the outlay gets you the slimmest TV you can currently buy, yet one that’s still crammed full of high-end features including LED backlighting, Freeview HD …

    reghardware 20 Nov 2010, 08:00