Monthly Archives: September 2007
Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal
Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position. … Continue reading
Fossett sought via Google Earth
Images from Google Earth are being enrolled in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett. Many people are scouring up-to-date satellite images of Nevada to try to spot Mr Fossett’s downed plane or wreckage. The project is being co-ordinated via Amazon’s … Continue reading
Windows Live @ Edu brochure
Ray Fleming and Mark A’Bear have been busy with their Education Partners blog and recently published this Windows Live @Edu brochure (using Skydrive of course). What is Live @Edu? The guys explain: Windows Live @ Edu is a hosted email … Continue reading
WHS Rocks Berlin: New Partners, New Systems, New Pics!
Berlin’s IFA is the world’s largest consumer electronics exhibition. Bigger than CES, bigger than CeBIT and this year it’s where the Windows Home Server roadshow kicks into gear. (To Charlie’s comment re: German football, at this point I should confess … Continue reading
Interview: What Vista SP1 means to you
The first service pack for Windows Vista is slated for release to manufacturing in the first quarter of 2008. The announcement was made via Microsoft’s Windows Window Vista Blog by Nick White, a product manager at Microsoft. We got a … Continue reading
Don’t ban Facebook, pleads union
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has urged employers to allow staff to continue to access social networking sites at work. The TUC said that, while employers are within their rights to forbid staff from using sites such as Facebook, MySpace … Continue reading
Bank’s U-turn on student charges
A student campaign using the social networking website Facebook has forced an international bank into a U-turn over charges. HSBC is to abandon plans to scrap interest-free overdrafts for students leaving university this summer. Thousands of students on Facebook had … Continue reading