March 2009 - Posts

Microsoft Roundtable transitions to Polycom
31 March 09 02:44 PM | Ewan | 4 Comments   

Microsoft & Polycom announced yesterday that the Microsoft Roundtable conferencing device (used with Live Meeting or OCS 2007 to present a 360° view of the room to participants joining from elsewhere), will be replaced. Polycom are taking over the Read More...

Filed under: Unified Comms, OCS

SMSE – a System Center light hidden under a bushel
26 March 09 02:47 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

SMSE – pronounced (in the UK at least) as ‘Smuzzy’, short for Server Management Suite Enterprise – is a licensing package from Microsoft, which can be an amazingly effective way to buy systems management software for your Windows server estate. If you’re Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Virtualisation, Infrastructure, Systems Management

Apple put the ‘Networks’ in their place
22 March 09 10:46 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

Having just read Andrew Orlowski’s article over on The Register , it chimes exactly with a belief I’ve had since the original iPhone came out and showed a clean pair of heels to pretty much every other single device: someone had to put the mobile operator Read More...

Filed under: Mobile, Business

Formula 1 back on the BBC – only 2 weeks to go…
15 March 09 07:09 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

I haven’t been looking forward to an F1 season as much, for ages – since the Damon Hill years, probably. A number of things are helping to build anticipation: Rule Changes – this year, the FIA has torn up the rule book somewhat by resizing aero components Read More...

Filed under: Random Stuff

Sign of the times: new car registrations
12 March 09 08:26 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

I recall the 1st of August in years gone by, as the day that new car registrations would be released – in the UK, if you didn’t know, car registration numbers are centrally issued and every year, the prefix or suffix letter used to advance. For a young Read More...

Filed under: Random Stuff