Archive for February 13th, 2006
Google web accelerator – a mixed blessing
A few days back, I noticed that my PC’s IP address was reported by a website as being 72.14.192.45. That address isn’t in my IP stack, and isn’t my router’s ISP-provided IP address either.
After checking the address out at DNSstuff, I found that address is registered to Google and then I remembered that I’d [...]
Posted: February 13th, 2006 under Google.
Comments: 2
Live Communications Server 2005 overview
Next week, I’m planning to spend three days on a Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 course, which has prompted me to look back at some earlier notes from last year’s Microsoft Technical Roadshow. At that event, Paul Brombley, a Messaging Technology Specialist with Microsoft UK, gave an overview of the LCS product – this [...]
Posted: February 13th, 2006 under Live/Office Communications Server.
Comments: 7
Opening multiple browser home pages in Firefox
I’ve not been that bothered with Internet Explorer (IE) 7 up to now – I use Firefox 1.5 on my Windows XP machines and Mozilla 1.7 on Solaris, so I already have the most significant new IE 7 feature (tabbed browsing); however, during his Windows Vista overview and roadmap session at last week’s IT Forum [...]
Posted: February 13th, 2006 under Web browsers.
Comments: 4
This time it’s Apple who’s heading to court
Generally, news about yet another anti-trust suit bores me. Intended to protect consumer interests against monopolistic suppliers, it seems to me that anti-trust court cases rarely have that effect and are more often than not just a chance to beat up an established supplier when another vendor’s product fails to gain the market share that [...]
Posted: February 13th, 2006 under Apple, DRM, IT law, iTunes.
Comments: 1
