Time to check in on the daily Windows 7 RC rumours and yet again we’re in for a treat. If much of the Twitter buzz is true then the RC will be released on April 10. What a wonderful way to spend the long weekend (Australia has a 4 day weekend starting Friday), reformatting my machine and loading on...

Just a quick link to the download (approx 900MB) for SQL Server 2008 SP1 which was released earlier this week. The release is predominantly a bug fix release (you can view the full list of fixes here). There’s nothing really new in the product itself, although install (via slipstreaming) and uninstall...

More on Surface, this time with Health Care taking the focus (see also our earlier post on Surface in Education). At the annual HIMSS Health Care conference this week, Microsoft is demonstrating a number of health care scenarios with Microsoft Surface (along with Amalga and HealthVault technologies). You...

Michael Kordahi may yet turn me back to Internet Explorer (I’ve been living in FireFox and Chrome for the last few months). His ‘3 minute’ series kicks off with how to add a web slice to your page. It’s so easy, even I could do it! (see the Featured section on this site’s home page –...

Its been a good week for rumours with the Google-Twitter discussion generating a lot of interest on the interwebs. So, it  must be time to re-stoke some other rumours – how about the Windows 7 release date rumours again. This time the suggestion is for a September RTM according to today’s Windows...

To be profitable, OR not to be – that is the question. The latest YouTube expenses news shouldn’t really come as a surprise. The price of enormous popularity is often high, and if the business model isn’t clear, then profits might not be in tandem. YouTube expense estimations have emerged from...

This just in from the department of paranoid and illogical: Buckinghamshire village has managed to thwart the evil plans of Google by stopping the Street View car from taking pictures of their streets. Residents joined forces after one of their members got the mob mentality going with gems like the following:...

It’s not until you get to the end of Mary Jo’s excellent summary of Microsoft Office ‘versions’ that you hit the gold. It’s all about Silverlight. Well, in my mind at least. The Silverlight 3 details announced at MIX last month are exciting in their own right, especially the opportunities for...

It will be fascinating to see how this latest Twitter-being-acquired rumour plays out. As TechCrunch reports, there’s rumours of Google in late stage (or perhaps early stage depending on which update you read) acquisition talks with Twitter. The value of Twitter is in using the service as a real time...

According to StatCounter, FireFox 3.0 is now more popular than IE7 in Europe. Here’s the graph based on usage from weeks 4 to 13 this year (we are currently in week 14 as I write this). The green arrow is where Firefox has just overtaken IE. The red arrow down the bottom is pointing at the uptake...

Perception is a funny thing. I’ve sometimes said that ‘perception is reality’ – meaning that it doesn’t matter what the reality is, all that matters is what people think the reality is. Take web browsing speed for example. Someone applies a patch to IE8 that they are informed will speed it...

I really like Twitter. But how to manage it effectively? Over the last 18 months or so (I joined Twitter in September 2007) I’ve tried a number of different client apps. TweetDeck, Twhirl, etc. But the one I keep coming back to is OutTwit (from the fine folks at TechHit) . Its a simple little Outlook...

I’ll keep a list of April Fools’ Day pranks here. In no particular order. Add a comment with your favourite and I’ll update the post. UPDATE: TechCrunch has an awesome list of pranks happening today, as does AprilFoolsOnTheWeb. Google gBall Google can always be relied upon to come...