Archive for July, 2009
Microsoft UK launches a website that shows off cool new technology. Taken from Steve Clayton’s Blog: Microsoft Wave is a cool new site from our UK team that is something we’ve long been without – a cool site that isn’t trying to sell anything, simply showing the breadth of cool technology that Microsoft is involved […]
Resistance is futile and my first .EU domain has been purchased (http://imapcblog.eu), now depending on your mood you can access “I’m a PC Blog” on .com or .eu and all because 123-reg is running a sale, how fickle am I? All .EU domains are 0.95p + 15% UK VAT until Friday – go crazy! P.S. The blog […]
Once again Oracle have raised the prices of their 11g database server, in some cases this is hitting its customers by a whopping 40% increase!!! Remember when you buy Oracle you get taxed by core instead of Microsoft SQL 2008 that charges you by physical CPUs, much fairer in my opinion. Source: here
A couple of weeks back Amazon took unfair advantage of their heavily content secured Kindle eBook reader. The Kindle loads books that are embedded with digital rights management (DRM) and is permanently connected to a mobile data network allowing quick access to Amazon’s online book store and (as reported) big brother access to the device. After removing George […]
Microsoft is due to release two out of band security patches tomorrow (28th July 2009), these are specifically designed to address: Bulletin ID Maximum Severity Rating and Vulnerability Impact Restart Requirement Affected Software Internet Explorer Critical Remote Code Execution Requires restart Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer Visual Studio Moderate Remote Code Execution Requires restart Visual Studio […]
Recent rumours are flying that this week Yahoo will announce a shift in it’s search technology to Microsoft’s Bing. Yahoo’s alledged request of an upfront several hundred million dollars payment caused yet another breakdown, which is now supposedly overcome. Source: here
