Archive - 11 Nov 2005
NB: Microsoft crowns PC-use winner
A 15-year-old drag-racer who uses a PC to analyse the performance of her car has won Microsoft's Sta...
nb the it crowd
Fame at last? Channel 4 is to screen a sitcom based around an IT department. Due to be shown in the ...
Leader: Give Skype a break
It was never meant for the enterprise...
£5m push to boost online services
Take up of e-government still too low
NB: Pong tones
It's Friday afternoon, and what better piece of news to fill the pre-weekend interregnum than this: ...
Shaw Trust turns to Sirocom in £2.5m VNO deal
Dumps traditional telcos
Tsunami 'hacker' gets IT security day job
"His integrity has never been called into question"
NB: IT helpdesk abuse
Computer troubles really get to us, don't they? A recent survey shows IT glitches cause us to cancel...
IT helpdesk staff suffer abuse from end users
Mind your language!
nb tesco email
Time to clear out your inbox? Tesco is sending out 16 to 20 million marketing emails every month. Th...
Is this the end of the techie?
IT know-how "not enough" for future workers, says Gartner
nb gartner
Good IT skills won't be enough on their own to keep you working in the IT industry in a few years, r...
Firefighters warm to Airwave contract
Competition extinguished as O2 snags third emergency service
NB: Trend Micro
We have one of our reporters catching up with the CEO of security vendor Trend Micro this afternoon....
Alliance & Leicester brings intranet closer to staff
Case study: New software does away with layer of web publishers
Students and shoppers leading UK web use
Silver surfers and jobless not...
NB: Daily Mail RCs
Great to see national newspapers catch on to this whole 'dialogue with your readers' thing. Here we ...
Microsoft overcomes Daum lawsuit with $30m settlement
But antitrust investigation continues
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.11.05
Geek Show: Inside the minds of Gates, Jobs and Ellison... (sort of)
NB: poppies
Remembrance Day has gone all high tech, with poppies now available for your mobile phone. More
NB: Microsoft shoddy PR
Microsoft, the big global company which is keen on communication, isn't actually that skilled at it....
NB: MS Korean settlement
Microsoft is making nice again - it's put an end to its last ongoing private antitrust suit by agree...
Amazon wants to pick your brains
... and they'll even pay a small fee...
Intel pours more cash into worldwide WiMax
'It's the future... '
Dell profits dip
Cut-price PCs to blame?
Online game space-station sells for $100,000
Real estate in a virtual world...
