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I'm proud to announce that Microsoft has renewed my Most Valuable Professional award for 2008/9. Once again my competency is Windows Server System - Small Business Server. There are currently (as of today, according to the MVP web site) about 55 such...
I'm straying into dangerous territory today and saying that I think our House of Lords is an important institution that provides a counterbalance to the House of Commons. Lord Benjamin Mancroft has created a furore today (I was just listening to him...
SanDisk is now up to 72Gb with the SSD SATA 5000 - directly equivalent to what many servers have in the form of SAS or SCSI drives, which come in 74Gb capacity. However, imagine how many of these little cards (5mm thick x 1.8 inches wide) you can fit...
Introducing the TiGra Networks Micro-Business Server™ The name “ Micro Business Server ” is ours, not Microsoft’s. These amusing video clips actually highlight some serious advantages of Microsoft’s new server product. Based on Windows Home Server operating...
After what seems like forever (I've been beta testing since May 2006), Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 is finally available in the UK, along with the Microsoft Professional Accountants’ Network (MPAN) . The basic (yet capable) edition is free to...
One of the coolest things I've seen from Microsoft in a long time is something called Photosynth. The basic idea behind Photosynth is to take a pile of photographs of a location, which it then analyzes and places each image in 3D space, so your photo...
So the music industry is finally beginning to understand something about piracy. When protecting your intellectual property, It's a really bad idea to negatively impact your legitimate users by trying to control how they use your product. If you do...
In February, while discussing Tape vs. Hard Drive backup, I speculated that if [wikipedia:Moore's Law] continued to hold, then magnetic media would be obsolete within 5 to 6 years. Then, in April, I blogged about the new 32Gb solid state memory drive...
Symantec are putting on a free "Sales and Technical Open Day" event in Cardiff tomorrow, Wednesday 30th May at the Hilton hotel on Kingsway. I've only just found out about it and will probably try to attend. Attached is the agenda (PDF)...
A story on CNet News says that the New York state Attorney General has filed a fraud case against Dell for "false advertising and deceptive business practices, including offering misleading financing, and failing to honor rebates, warranties and service...
According to the BBC's technology magazine Click , Dell is to offer 32Gb solid state flash memory hard drives by Sandisk as an option in some of its laptops. Flash memory can be both faster and more robust than the mechanical equivalent because it has...
Acer has released an update kit for Windows Vista that covers most of its desktop and notebook computers. About time too! I've been running Vista for several months now and have lost much of the functionality of my soft buttons and automatic screen rotation...
It seems to be our lucky day for publicity. We got a mention in Tim Kimber's webcast on Office Live today. We're also quoted in a CRN article covering Microsoft's new Business & Technology Assessment Toolkit .
After the theft from an employee's home of a laptop computer last year containing confidential customer data, the Nationwide Building Society has been fine £980,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). "The failure to manage or monitor downloads...
I just announced on the TiGra company blog that our new web site, based on MOSS 2007, has gone live. I thought it would be interesting to say a few words about how it is all implemented. The site is based on the new content publishing feature of MOSS...
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