Month: November 2007

I just got a T-Mobile Wing which is an awesome Windows Mobile PDA phone, and I’ve been really amazed with the features it is packed with. My oly complaint so far is the OZ Messenger client for Yahoo, AIM and ICQ Instant Messenging won’t close when you click the ‘X’ or from the Task List, and I just found out today that if you leave it logged in and turn off the screen, it drained my battery from fully charged to 10% within about 3 hours. This can’t be right. I haven’t found any posts of anyone having the same issues, so I’m looking around for a new IM client to try instead.

So far I’ve noticed Agile Messenger get’s a lot of comments in forums so I might give this one a try.

Google are offering $10m in prizes for apps developed using their Android mobile application platform, which was released on Monday this week.

At an online security demo this week in the UK, a government and industry sponsored group demonstrated how easy it is to hack into Windows XP if connected to an unsecured WiFi network. They got into the machine as far as being able to run commands from the command line within just 6 minutes. Microsoft apparently commented saying the demo was ‘enlightening and frightening’. Quite why they sound so surprised I have no idea.

I walked past the Moscone Center in SF yesterday morning and found out the reason why every hotel in SF was fully booked this week… it’s Oracle OpenWorld conference. I’ve attended JavaOne a few times, an XML conference and a couple of others in the past, but what surprised me yesterday morning was the number of conference attendees in suits. This sounds like a strange thing to mention, but this is SF, this California – I haven’t had to wear a suit for years, and yet here are all these people making their pilgrimage to the Moscone Center and a large proportion of them are wearing suits. Do DBAs typically wear suits? Not the ones I’ve worked with in the past. I can only imagine that Oracle conferences attract a high proportion of business types for networking possibilities?

Anyway, Oracle’s big news so far this week: they are introducing their own virtualization software based on the Xen open source project, to allow running multiple virtual servers on the same hardware. XenSource incidentally was recently acquired by Citrix, another long time major player in the virtualization space.