Archive for January, 2009
The tech and environmental journalism of Andrew Donoghue
My ZDNet UK blog- Recession is over - it's Champagne time for the IT industry at least October 16, 2009After just receiving my second invite to a Champagne-fueled IT launch for next week - is it safe to assume the recession is over? Microsoft is promising champagne at lunchtime to mark the launch of Windows 7 next week, and if lunch-time boozing wasn't...
- Has EC Shot Itself In the Foot Over Oracle Sun? September 3, 2009The news has just broken that the European Commission is about to kick-off a protracted investigation into Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems. EU authorities are concerned about the implications for the open source database MySQL owned by Sun. An a...
- Twitter Goes Down Just After Iran Election Ceremony August 6, 2009A coincidence - very possibly. But it is odd that someone would choose to launch a DDOS attack at Twitter just after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was voted in as president. Twitter was very useful to opponents of the president during the disputed election as T...
- Forget EC Fines: Microsoft is "IT" for many EU Governments May 24, 2009Although the European commission might be proud of its record of hitting Microsoft with fines that dig deep into Redmond's seemingly bottomless coffers, the fact is that for many European countries, Microsoft is still the first and sometimes only choice w...
- Can netbooks really cut it in Africa? April 23, 2009The genesis of netbooks can be seen in machines such as the One Laptop per Child XO device, and its rival the Intel Classmate - both originally targeted at the developing world. However, design doesn't always translate to execution - so a year or so a...
- Recession is over - it's Champagne time for the IT industry at least October 16, 2009
