Nov 08 2006
Microsoft are following VMware’s lead by providing pre-built virtual machines for download. Have a look at this search on the Microsoft downloads site and you’ll find a few there already: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?pocId=&freetext=VHD&DisplayLang=en These are only official trial versions from Microsoft, so VMware still has the lead here with a whole community of user-created virtual machines most […]
Oct 18 2006
Sun are breaking all the rules once again with a datacenter in a box product. Dubbed Project Blackbox, this is essentially as many servers, networking and storage devices as possible all crammed into a shipping container. Using revolutionary cooling systems this thing is guarranteed to stay cool in any situation. You could even consider it ‘portable’ […]
Sep 28 2006
A new version of Windows Live Writer has just been released. This is by far the best Live product that has been released yet, and the only one that actually shows some originality. (The rest of the Live product range are all clones of competing software, or, renamed MSN services.) This is a really useful […]
Sep 06 2006
As if they weren’t having enough problems as it was, but Sony have now delayed the release of the Playstation 3 by almost half a year to all countries that use the PAL system! The console was due to be launched in Europe in November this year, but they have had to delay it until […]
Jul 12 2006
It’s not that often that I get overly excited about a server, but you’ve got to hand it to the guys at Sun – this is an impressive box! It’s a 4 core server with 24 TB (yes, that’s TERRABYTES) that fits in a 4U chassis and weighs 170kg when fully loaded. It packs in […]
Jul 07 2006
The rumour mill is buzzing around Microsoft’s plans to release their own portable media player which will compete directly with the iPod. I’m losing track about what is fact or fiction here so take the following with a pinch of salt, bu this is what we know so far: The media player will be released […]
May 22 2006
To celebrate the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Google have released a memorial logo depicting the figure of Sherlock Holmes. From Wikipedia… Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who made his first published appearance in 1887. He was devised by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur […]
May 22 2006
The NZ Herald is reporting today about Wellingtonian Claudia Batten who sold her startup company, Massive, to Microsoft in a US$400 million deal. The software allows publishers to download adverts into online games which is estimated to reach a $US700 million a year industry by 2010. Claudia isn’t revealing the exact figures but the sale […]
May 02 2006
I noticed this on Niall Kennedy’s blog: Apple’s new TV ads. I think they are really good, you should check them out. Apple – Get a Mac – Watch The TV Ads
Apr 27 2006
I am now the proud owner of a FeedDemon 2 license! I’ve been trying to decide on a feed reader recently and with so many cool online readers available I thought I didn’t need an offline version. But at the end of the day, nothing beats a full, desktop application for speed and functionality. And […]