The military rulers of Myanmar seem to be determined to keep out the world and allow their fellow citizens to suffer. Allowed to contunue, another wave of disaster and death will follow the cyclone catastrophe: More»

Microsoft is losing corporate business. The business sector is reluctant to upgrade to the Vista operating system: More»

I should preface this with an admission that Windows 2000 is still one of my main operating systems. It works fine. I have access to Windows XP on my laptop and elsewhere. However, Windows 2000 falls under my category of “if it works fine, keep on”. More»

In many regions, there is legislation against smoking in public buildings. Some jurisdictions have banned smoking in cars. Now there is a movement to stop smoking in private homes: More»

Want to buy an iPhone? If you do, you better have a credit card. Apple does not accept cash: More»

If the crisis of the dog food contamination was a warning model, every American has cause for concern. Imported ingredients for pet food were contaminated and pets were dying from the eating the food given to them. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) kept insisting that the number of reported pet deaths were in the teens. This was not true. It was far from the truth. The reports of pet deaths just from people reading this space numbered well over the teens number that the FDA was reporting. Veterinarians thought that the number was a gross under-estimation. It turns out that the number was in the thousands. The FDA cannot determine what the exact number was nor will it venture an estimation. More»

One of the problems that some XP users are reporting is a reboot problem with SP3. This had been a pre-release problem mentioned on help forums and now the problem seems to be continuing. Chloe Albanesius is reporting a quote from Jesper Johansson which attempts to explain the problem: More»

In Canada, the Vancouver Police will restrain themselves from using the stun gun on pregnant women. And the reason is that these women might fall and hurt themselves: More»

It is not unusual to find daily news items of laptops that have gone missing or jump drives that are lost. However, it is not every day that a bank reports the loss of a server: More»

According to Apple’s findings, approximately ninety per cent of computer users like to flirt with disaster. They do not do backups and their data are at risk. Apple sees this risk taking behaviour as a marketing opportunity. Hence, Apple is launching Time Machine and Time Capsule: More»