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Virtualisation Creates New Business Hype

Posted on 12. Jan, 2011 by Louisa.

Through 2010 virtualisation and cloud hosting was the talk of industries across the UK.

With the economy becoming a little more solid, businesses in 2011 through 2012 will be looking more and more at new initiatives for money saving, with higher spending budgets for operating systems, servers, hardware, and software.

Virtualisation is creating a buzz. It’s a flexible way for businesses to work; it’s greener so healthier for the environment than physical servers; reduces operating costs therefore can save energy, provided the entire server is shutdown (not just a percentage of it); improves risk of downtime so improves chances of rapid disaster recovery; and even saves space – but is it just a new ‘trend’?

Upgrading systems to a virtualisation infrastructure really isn’t just hype in our book, and many others’. It brings businesses large and small, on-demand services with direct access to the companies software and communications whilst remaining secure.

Allowing companies to expand with minimum expenditure is why the amount of business changing their infrastructure to a virtual one is set to rise over the next couple of years.

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Zuckerberg Is Time Person Of The Year

Posted on 16. Dec, 2010 by Matt.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has been named Person of the Year by Time Magazine. The award is given to the individual that has done the most to change the world and had the greatest effect, either for the better or for worse, on people’s lives over the past twelve months. While Facebook and Zuckerberg have certainly impacted peoples’ lives again this year the choice was surprising for many people including Time Magazine readers who overwhelmingly voted for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange putting Zuckerberg in a lowly 10th spot.

There’s no doubting that Facebook has had a massive impact on many people’s lives. It’s difficult to find people who don’t use the social networking site any more and there are various pieces of data and information showing that using Facebook is more important than peeing, one of the country’s greatest business drains, and the way that most people choose to keep in touch with friends, family, and businesses and brands. However, 2010 is not the year of Facebook. 2008 and 2009 were, but even the release of The Social Network film and the continued controversy over Facebook privacy has not made this the year of Facebook.

Zuckerberg was realistically only a convenient choice. The world and their wives are attempting to snub Assange in one way or another and the Times Magazine has made rumblings that Anonymous stuffed the votes. But then Zuckerberg didn’t even manage 2nd place. Or 3rd, or 4th. In fact, he came 10th in the Time Magazine reader’s vote which begs the question, why bother asking for your readers’ opinions if you’re going to blatantly ignore them?

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PC Pro Magazine January 2011

Posted on 12. Nov, 2010 by admin.

Contents of January 2011 issue of PC Pro Magazine.

Features

The ultimate guide to internet TV

The sites worth visiting, the hardware worth buying: switch off your TV set and go and do something less boring instead.

Wired coppers: Old Bill, new technology

We uncover a different world of PC professionals: how the UK’s police forces use gadgets, software and hi-tech hardware to battle crime.

When computers go wrong

Did you know a software glitch almost started a nuclear war? Or that the US blew up Russian gas pipes in a battle against IP piracy? No? Then prepare for a shock as we round up the ten biggest tech cock-ups.

Labs

Laptops from 366 GBP

Whether you’re looking for a lightweight laptop to carry from room to room, a desk-based powerhouse or a happy medium between the two, this test of 14 laptops has the answer.

Digital SLR vs the hybrids

The world of high-end cameras has never been so affordable – or so confusing. Whether you’re just a snapper or a serious amateur, we dissect 12 DSLRs and hybrids to reveal precisely which you should buy.

Reviews

There are no fewer than 70 new reviews in this month’s magazine, including an in-depth examination of Windows Phone 7 and the handsets running the new OS.

In-Depth

We reveal how to edit videos like a pro with VirtualDub; how to automate virtually any task you can think of via AutoIt; and tackle readers’ problems to the nth degree in our revamped Q&A section.

Cover disc

Access your PC anywhere in the world thanks to LogMeIn2 Pro; encrypt your hard disk, USB keys and DVD-Rs with SafeBit Disk Encryption; and try out Kingston Office 2010 for a whole year.

Real World Computing

Advanced Windows

Jon Honeyball examines the inexorable rise of VMware, and tries speaking to Windows 7.

Advanced office

Simon Jones asks whether the new LibreOffice suite means the end of the road for OpenOffice.

Web applications

Website owners know how important SEO is, so Kevin Partner has some simple – and free – tips to get to the top of the search rankings.

Online security

The new malware threat that’s straight out of a Bond film.

Mobile & wireless

Paul Ockenden reveals his favourite Wi-Fi tools, and looks at some options for developing for the iPad.

Open Source

Simon Brock reveals his choice of the best JavaScript toolkits for adding panache to your website.

Networks

Why Hyper-Threading is no substitute for a real processor.

Server Room

Does putting an old product in a new box make it a new product? Plus, David Moss takes a close look at the cloud.

News

Are IP addresses strong enough evidence to catch illegal file-sharers? We investigate in a PC Probe special. Plus, Barry Collins on why Facebook could kill off the web’s anti-social issues.

Enterprise

Does Dell’s entry-level PowerEdge R310 have enough oomph to test SMBs? Our exclusive test reveals all, plus reviews of Oki’s latest laser and the LaCie 12big Rack Network.

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iPhone Alarm System Wakes People Up An Hour Early

Posted on 02. Nov, 2010 by Matt.

The iPhone may be Apple’s flagship product and the smartphone that everybody apparently wants but Apple don’t exactly seem all that bothered about ironing out the problems that users have experienced with it. They sound more like a company that believe customers should feel privileged to own their products rather than the other way around. The whole antenna debacle highlighted this and what amounts to a broken and poorly functioning alarm system has seen the problem resurface.

While the iPhone managed to make allowances for the clock’s going back this weekend, it seems that any recurring alarms that users set did not manage the same and were working on last week’s time. As a result, thousands of users have essentially lost an hour of their lives and many will have missed appointments, been late for work, and suffered various other problems.

Apple’s response to the problem? Don’t use the recurring alarm function, we might get around to fixing it later this month. Or, words to that effect anyway.

What makes it worse is that the problem was actually first reported back in September when users in Australia and New Zealand faced a similar problem as their clocks changed.

For those of us that weren’t affected it might seem like it was little more than a good excuse for people to miss an hour of work, but for others it caused a major upheaval.

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Apple Offering Free iPad Engraving

Posted on 26. Oct, 2010 by Matt.

In a bid to show your affections even more clearly or just to make sure the recipient has no chance of hocking their gift on Ebay this Christmas, you can now have Apple’s iPad engraved for free before giving it as a beautiful gift to a loved one. The service has been set up just in time for Christmas shoppers and the laziest shopper can pay Apple to gift wrap the iPad for them. Knowing Apple and their branding efforts, though, there’s a very good chance that the paper will have the Apple logo printed all over it.

The iPad has spurned a whole new gadget war in the shape of the tablet PC war. Samsung, Dell, and even Next have created their own tablet PCs with varying levels of specification and numerous different price entry points and while Apple had to bemoan the under performance of one of their biggest innovations (kind of) it has certainly provided the company with another string to their bow.

The iPad isn’t a cheap Christmas gift so we find it fairly unlikely that, unless the recession is passed you by and various real estate gambles are suddenly paying off, you’ll be buying one for your long lost Aunt Hilda but nevertheless you can have I Love You or some other vomit inducing message added to the tablet PC before you give it as a beautiful gift. If you don’t have one yourself then we advise against the gift wrapping service because you’ll probably want to check that it works properly before you give it away.

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