Category Archives: Technology

Windows Mobile 6.1 Receives Common Criteria Certification

Posted on October 18, 2008 by oliver

I need to check, but if memory serves me correctly this is the first time we have submitted Windows Mobile for common criteria certification. You’ll find details of the target of evaluation and the certification report on the Australian DSD … Continue reading →

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Silverlight 2.0 & Eclipse

Posted on October 15, 2008 by oliver

You can’t have missed the fact that we announced the release of Silverlight 2.0 earlier today. Scott Guthrie has the details of the release on his blog; Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2.  You can download Silverlight … Continue reading →

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Weekend Reading – 50 Internet Milestones

Posted on October 11, 2008 by oliver

CNet have a summary of their top 50 milestones for the Internet posted as a single story; We decided to plough the history of the entire Internet, from the roots of its underlying technology, to the Web properties that helped … Continue reading →

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Freddy Mac chooses x.400, vendors rush to deliver

Posted on October 11, 2008 by oliver

In other news sixteen years ago the US mortgage provider Freddie Mac has selected x.400 as their primary standard for electronic mail. For those of you who do not know Freddie Mac, the first paragraph of this article explains more; … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Live Labs Political Streams

Posted on October 10, 2008 by oliver

Mary Jo Foley is has a post up this morning about the Political Social Stream that Microsoft Live Labs are launching today. Microsoft’s Live Labs — the Microsoft incubation lab that combines Microsoft researchers with MSN product managers — has … Continue reading →

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Obama and McCain debate tech issues…

Posted on October 9, 2008 by oliver

Well sort of, this is video of two separate meetings, visits to Google campus by each of the candidates. “The 463: Inside Tech Policy” blog put these two together; Not shockingly, outside of knowing nods at the benefits clean technologies, … Continue reading →

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Fun with Microsoft PowerPoint, pptPlex

Posted on October 8, 2008 by oliver

A colleague of mine used this for a presentation at an event I attended last week, pptPlex provides a very different way of delivering PowerPoint presentations. From the pptPlex homepage; pptPlex is a plug-in that explores an alternate method for … Continue reading →

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EC calls for businesses to act on IPv6 deployment

Posted on October 8, 2008 by oliver

It is very encouraging to see the European Commission push for more IPv6 deployment activity. The story in the UK’s ITPro magazine focuses on comments made by Detlef Eckert at a recent conference in Madrid. The inevitability of IPv6 means … Continue reading →

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Thailand, a spiritual computing hub

Posted on October 8, 2008 by oliver

It has now been almost two years since I made the jump from Redmond to Singapore, it has been a fun and educational journey. Early on it was evident that the use cases for technology here in the region had … Continue reading →

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The Race to 6

Posted on October 2, 2008 by oliver

Right before I went on vacation I posted some initial thoughts about the relevance of IPv6 to countries wanting to bring new users to the internet and expand existing internet based economic markets. While I still don’t see enough governmental … Continue reading →

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