Office Jotter - Blog Archive for October (2006)

There were 11 blog postings during October (2006):

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Note taking while online
Like most computer analysts, I spend a large part of my working day on the Web. Until last week I would copy and paste anything of interest I saw there into some form of editor that was not on the Web. Typically that would be NoteTab (a replacement...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 3rd October '06

Unseating Microsoft Office?
Tesco takes on software giants - ZDNet UK News Richard Thurston — 2 October 2006 Tesco is to start selling cut-price software, in a move that could spark a price war among the major vendors.   The supermarket chain is aiming to steal...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 3rd October '06

Help, my PC's just gone funny again
Download Squad — Panic Button - support help for the clueless Jason Clarke — 3 October 2006 [Snip] Panic Button is a simple program that sits in a user’s system tray innocuously, doing nothing. Where it becomes useful is at the...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 4th October '06

I didn't mean that open!
The Register — Google Code Search peers into programs’ flaws Robert Lemos — 8 October 2006 Security professionals warned developers on Thursday that they need to be aware that their open-source repositories can now be easily...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 8th October '06

Move along, now
ComputerWeekly.com — Tesco uses heat sensors to track customer flow Will Hadfield — 4 October 2006 Tesco has improved its customer service by installing heat sensors that can identify bottlenecks of people as they move around its...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 10th October '06

Not so leading edge at HP
Network World - HP's e-mail tracer in widespread use Robert McMillan - 9 October 2006 The tracer software that HP investigators used to try to sniff out boardroom leaks sounded like it had been ripped from the pages of a bad science-fiction novel....
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 10th October '06

Kerching!
Google Blogoscoped - The Acquisition Price Guide Philipp Lenssen - 10 October 2006 Trying to put the recent Google/ YouTube deal in perspective, Tristan Louis put together a great overview on tech acquisitions of the last few years (I added a...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 11th October '06

Really funky but is it art?
New Scientist -'Smart' table could boost brainstorming Tom Simonite - 9 October 2006 A 'smart' table that copies images of objects on its surface to a video display below could improve brainstorm sessions, researchers say. The Blue Eye table...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 12th October '06

Flex those hours
National Commute Smart Day Work Wise UK — October 11, 2006 National Commute Smart Day will be on Wednesday 1 November 2006. With the clocks having gone back the previous Sunday, many commuters will be faced with travelling both to and from...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 13th October '06

Eudora morphing into Penelope
Ferris Research — Goodbye Eudora, Hello Mozilla Penelope Richi Jennings — 11 October 2006 Qualcomm announced that it’s giving up on developing the venerable Eudora email client. Instead, it’s working with the Mozilla...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 15th October '06

Lies, damned lies and…
Download Squad — New statistics show Firefox is moving steadily to the top Chris Gilmer –12 October 2006 Is there still really a browser war? Microsoft hasn’t updated its browser in how many years? So obviously they might not seem...
Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 17th October '06