Sun/NetApp suit update

Some Christmas cheer Some, not a lot. According to Sun, there have been some significant changes in the mutual lawsuits: In November, the two parties agreed to litigate their mutual lawsuits in northern California instead of east Texas. They are litigating both the...

FastMail fights data corruption

Email is the largest personal database for most people. Easy to search, my gigabyte of email contains contacts, documents, notes and the record of many relationships. I back it up both locally and remotely. But how do I know it isn’t corrupted? FastMail’s...

Magic in the OLPC

Most criticism of the One Laptop Per Child PC centers on the cost for what is a low-spec computer. As ASUS with its Eee machine is proving, a low-cost conventional laptop can be pretty powerful. But that misses the point. The OLPC is a fundamental rethinking of the...