So, was it worth the wait?Google has given us the merest peak at what Chrome OS is going to offer the user and straight away that it's apparent that the talk of how Google would have the clout to take on...

HP's projected acquisition of 3Com has reawakened a lot of old memories - and raised a lot of questions.3Com is almost a bit-part player in the industry now but there was a time when 3Com was networking - or at...

Energy efficiency - that's the name of the game.Every company I meet these days drops energy efficiency (or power efficiency - the terms seem to be interchangeable, suggesting that rather a large number of people in the IT business skipped...

It's been a day that the industry has waited for for some time: Windows 7 launch day. It seems that it wasn't long ago that commentators were asking whether Vista would be Microsoft's last operating system - we all know how...

No-one derives pleasure from seeing someone lose a job but there must have been a few smiles around the software community when it was reported that SCO president and CEO  Darl McBride had got the boot from SCO.The news came...

Has the supermarket mentality affected IT or are vendors more concerned about giving value for money for customers?While no-one’s expecting to see Cisco to come out with “buy a router and get one free2 offer” or Microsoft to introduce a...

The search engine market used to be cut-and-dried. If you wanted to find something out, you Googled and that was an end to it. There were other search engines of course, Microsoft’s, Yahoo’s, Ask Jeeves and a few more but...

The furore over the memory leak 'bug' in Windows 7 appears to be dying down. There's little doubt that the fault identified by Infoworld and others needs to be fixed but a closer look has revealed that nothing should delay...

Today is Sysadmin Apprecation Day - something to be greeted with fanfares up and down the land?Yes, this is the day when hard-pressed administrators are appreciated by their users. No more frantic phone calls saying the Internet's broken or where's...

Oracle seems to be playing a dangerous game. Its latest price rise shows that it continues to see its customers as a rich resource to be milked - even at a time when mostorganisations are feeling the pinch. And this...