1205 Results from 2008
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My colleague Navjeet has taken an interest in the OLPC project which recently had Intel pull out. The Register today have a hands on review of the machine itself - the OLPC XO - and it looks pretty funky.
18 January 2008
Betting on the Dragon Since January 2000, the Shanghai Stock Exchange composite has grown by an average of 20% a year. Compared to other past market bubbles, we can see that while the shanghai market isn’t matching the heady 500% growth of the NASDAQ during the 1995-2001 dotcom bubble, it is coming close. Over the long-term, stocks offer some of t...
17 January 2008 Asia Financial Services
Here's an M&A story that caught my eye yesterday. Sun buys MySQL - the world's most popular open source database for a billion dollars. I'd have just downloaded it for free but there you go. I'll get me coat. LAMP - or Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl is oft quoted as THE combo to go for a robust (and cheap) web site - powering the likes of ...
17 January 2008
Interesting item covered by The Register about a huge number of web sites apparently serving up malware. And as yet no one has worked out how they were compromised. This is a really sneaky exploit - when a user requests the home page from the site, a reference to a local javascript file is included dynamically in the page. The name of the file chan...
17 January 2008 /security
Year 4706, the year of the rat, begins on February 7th in China this year. With the celebration just under a month away, it’s tempting to use the time to procrastinate on making predictions on what will happen in China is 2008 as it’s technically not the new year here yet, but unfortunately, China doesn’t wait. So over the next couple entries we’...
16 January 2008 Asia Financial Services
Coming to Finexpo? Curious to know what's going on? We've just put the updated speaker session listings live - with speaker photos and session profiles. Finexpo CTS seminar sessions Finexpo day at a glanceFinexpo exhibitors
16 January 2008 /wholesale Finexpo
I seem to have developed a reputation in the office for being obsessed with Apple. Not true. I just like things that are well engineered and designed - and easy to use. Oh and they have to work too. And if it's a computer it has to be secure and not just be compromised simply by being connected to a network. I digress. Whether it's a web site or ...
16 January 2008
At US$ 100 oil-a-barrel lots of opportunities can be visible. Every alternative energy / research project on earth was looking expensive at $28 or $36 or $46. But what about $ 60-70-80-90 and now intermediately at $100? Prices are varying everyday and how long one should wait? Do Banks have alternative energy divisions? Has anything done beyond r...
15 January 2008 /regulation /wholesale Going green
I always thought my router and firewall combo with its twinkling green lights was actually on my side in the fight against internet baddies. I may have to rethink this. The Register has an interesting and slightly alarming item on a possible means to compromise home internet routers. It revolves around UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) that is usual...
15 January 2008 /security /regulation
For me the novelty of Facebook wore off quite quickly - a bit like blogging in that respect. Amusing at first and sometimes useful but hardly essential. I admit it's a handy way to track down real friends - but it isn't a substitute for real life. I know - I'm sure I used to have one. Tom Hodgkinson in the Guardian paints a much more sinister vi...
14 January 2008
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