In their ongoing quest to shut down post offices offer a great customer experience, the UK’s Royal Mail has been encouraging visitors to their website to print their own postage-paid labels. As the system is browser based, delivering the labels as pdfs, even hippy Linux lovers were able to use the service to post their [...]

Well, we thought that Sun’s Legal Beagles were still crossing the i’s and dotting the t’s, but there it was on my Eee screen on the top deck of the 44 bus this evening – Sun’s PR announcing that their 1 million US dollar prize money is now officially in play. There will be a [...]

They say that good news (and bad news) always comes in threes. Well, at OpenOffice.org this is “the year of 3″, with our next major release – OpenOffice.org 3.0 – scheduled for release in the autumn. That’s good news for the tens of millions of users we expect to upgrade.
However, I’ve also just taken delivery [...]

You may have seen the news early last December that Sun was putting up one million US dollars to “foster innovation and recognize the most interesting initiatives within open source communities worldwide”. The OpenOffice.org Community was named as one of the lucky recipients who would share in Sun’s generosity.
As some Community members have pointed out, [...]

I’ve now been using my Asus Eee PC as my principle desktop for three or four weeks – time for the novelty value of this cute little machine to wear off. What’s the verdict?

Booting up in seconds is great
I’ve got used to the Xandros simplified interface – it makes sense, although I do miss [...]

BECTA is a UK government agency set up to promote the efficient and effective use of ICT in education: advising government; co-ordinating ICT in eduction; conducting research; and running delivery programmes. As an independent body with the ear of government, its advice is taken seriously far wider than its direct target of the education sector.
So, [...]