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Polar Rose

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Today, whilst checking through my e-mails, I found an invite to the Polar Rose private beta which has been going on since the end of June. I first came to hear about Polar Rose back in December last year when I blogged about it here. I haven’t had chance to do much with it yet [...]

EV certs or Extended Validation SSL certificate became available some time ago but have been quite slow to take off and are not widely known about or appreciated, but their adoption by organisations is increasing. To the layman, a certificate is used to validate a secure area of a website. When you are browsing such [...]

Microsoft has had Windows Live Mail in beta now for a while, but after hearing a friend was still using Outlook Express I thought a quick post would be in order to let people know that there is something better! Outlook Express has been out since Windows 98 and during its life has had holes [...]

Forget Microsofts Surface, Apple have just done one better… According to Engadget they have filed a patent for a multi-touch mouse which would allow for a buttonless device which knew the position where your hand was, and how your fingers were gesturing on the device. The whole touch-sensitive/ multi-touch device area is really building momentum [...]

Unfortunately it looks like O2 might have pipped the others to the post in obtaining the contract to offer the iPhone to the UK. I say unfortunately, as based on my past experiences with O2 they are one of the last companies I would be wanting to sign up with. Orange seem to have the [...]