Monthly Archives: October 2009

Today was full of Android news… Engadget have a good round up of the stories and announcements here

All the major device manufacturers and wireless carriers are getting read to release their Google Android based phones, joining T-Mobile which was first to market with the HTC G1 and more recently the HTC MyTouch3G: Sprint launched their HTC Hero … Continue reading →

Windows 7 launches tomorrow, October 22. I hadn’t thought about this, but just how exactly does Microsoft work out that this version is version 7? Gizmodo takes a guess at it here, but anyway you look at it, it just … Continue reading →

What an awesome ad – see here. Finally Android is gaining some momentum from the big name players, with Motorola starting the mass media onslaught by pointing out everything that the iPhone does not do, Android does. Motorola’s ‘Droid’ phone … Continue reading →

The interesting thing about IntelliJ is that people who have used all 3 major Java IDEs (Eclipse, Netbeans and IntelliJ) all swear by IntelliJ, and yet most Java developers spend all their time using either Eclipse or Netbeans. Hmm. Anything … Continue reading →

Google’s chrome browser will be coming to the Mac soon, according to this post on The Register. Early releases may be found out on the web if you go looking.

Microsoft has seriously embarrassed themselves and brought huge doubt to the viability of their Office Live incentive from their server failure this week, impacting all Sidekick phone users. Although they are saying that Office Live is built with server redundancy … Continue reading →

Here’s the harsh reality of what can happen when you rely on data storage ‘in the cloud’. Microsoft recently bough Danger, the company behind the Sidekick phone devices, in a possible move to offering a Microsoft branded similar device at … Continue reading →

I was slightly cautious with what to expect with the new Exchange integration in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, but was surprised to see how easy it was to set up. Added a new Email account, and just from my … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around for a while you’ve most likely come across Dion Almaer’s name, from either his involvement with TheServerSide.com and The Middleware Company (the founders of TheServerSide.com), and more recently one of the co-founders of Ajaxian.com A few … Continue reading →