The time for narrow-minded self-interest is over
Posted by Mike Halsey in cloud computing on 07. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
This week it came to light that there have been senior people at Microsoft who have blocked, or tried to block new products from the company on the grounds that they hadn’t come from their own department.
Now it’s widely known that different departments within Microsoft don’t talk to each other. Examples of this are SkyDrive [...]
How much power is your PC or mobile phone really using?
Posted by Mike Halsey in cloud computing, eco, saving money on 06. Nov, 2008 | 0 Comments
You switch on your PC to do a little light surfing, now probably more than ever conscious of the electricity it uses. There’s a new breed of low power home computers and they’re proving increasingly popular. But how much power are you really using?
Take your mobile phone for instance. You’re not just using the battery [...]
Paying by direct debit to access your files and photos? You must have your head in the clouds!
Posted by Mike Halsey in cloud computing on 21. Oct, 2008 | 0 Comments
Your PC has cost you pots of money, you pay extra for your broadband and then there’s the software you’ve had to fork out for. Why oh why would you want to subscribe to your software and the very services that allow you access to your files and photographs by direct debit? Would you have [...]
