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happygeek in a Nutshell
I am a freelance technology journalist from England, and have been for fast approaching 20 years now. For 14 of them I have enjoyed being Contributing Editor with PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK.
Currently, I hold the title of Information Security Journalist... (Read Blog)
Nintendo has been granted a broad stroke patent covering a “messaging service for video game systems with buddy list that displays game being played.” Patent number 7056217 was originally filed way back in 2000, a whole year before the Xbox was launched, and two years before Xbox Live became a...
Read More | Jun 18th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 18th, 2006
The triple-gate transistor is not new, almost exactly three years ago on June 12th 2003 at the Symposia of VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan, Intel was heralding it as the future of chip design. However, the fact that at the same Symposium this week in Hawaii, Intel reveals the...
Read More | Jun 14th, 2006
Get ready for Patch Tuesday. July 13th will be the biggest update for 18 months, with no less than 12 security bulletins: 9 for the Windows OS, 2 for Office and 1 for Exchange. Of these, both Windows and Office updates include one flagged as critical, the highest Microsoft threat rating. At the...
Read More | Jun 11th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 15th, 2006
On May 23rd I predicted that Microsoft would start the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program (CPP) within a few weeks, and I have been proven right. Microsoft today announced public availability of Vista Beta 2, the same build (5384) as was made available to developers at WinHEC. If you don't mind...
Read More | Jun 8th, 2006 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jun 14th, 2006
Reports of the death of PDF support within Office 2007 and Vista are not only presumptuous but wrong. Despite the high profile publicity given to a spat between Adobe and Microsoft over the ‘Save as PDF’ function seen in the Office 2007 Beta, there is no doubting that users will be able to do...
Read More | Jun 4th, 2006
Multiple core processors are set to dominate the marketplace by the end of 2007, after AMD follows Intel down the ‘more performance for less power’ road. Having already beaten Intel to the dual-core processor punch, the announcement from AMD that it will ship four-core processors for high end...
Read More | Jun 2nd, 2006
According to Symantec it would seem that security flaw + patch in 5 days = result. Certainly compared to the average 140 days it takes Microsoft to patch a vulnerability it’s to be applauded, but only with one hand. 5 days is 119 hours and 55 minutes too long in my book. In the wise words of...
Read More | May 31st, 2006 | Comments: 13 | Last Comment: Jun 4th, 2006
The new Apple MacBook Pro is 17" of all new system architecture, but at what price? Every single benchmark I’ve seen rates applications using the Apple ‘Rosetta’ dynamic software translation technology as running slower than they do on PowerPC based Macs. A lot slower. How about Photoshop CS2...
Read More | May 28th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 1st, 2006
There’s no denying that Microsoft has both audacity and folly in equal measure, and never was this more clearly exemplified than in the news that it is launching an ‘industry leading compression quality’ image format.
Revealed in some detail at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference...
Read More | May 26th, 2006 | Comments: 5 | Last Comment: May 29th, 2006
Bill Gates today announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2006 the immediate availability of Beta 2 versions of the three Microsoft flagship products. This is the first time that Microsoft has released such a trio simultaneously.
“The release of these three betas is a...
Read More | May 23rd, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: May 25th, 2006
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