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Mobiles, internet, email - which tech can't you live without?
Poll: Techies reveal what they're most addicted to...

Tags: mp3 player, email, internet addiction

'Don't just outsource the problem when you outsource IT'
Get the strategy right first, public sector told

Tags: local council, cost savings, public sector outsourcing

Oracle-Sun deal draws official objections from EC
But Oracle hits back claiming "profound misunderstanding" of open source

Tags: european commission, sun, oracle, mysql

Tweets to turn up on LinkedIn thanks to status-sharing deal
News in brief: Twitter updates to get down to business

Tags: linkedin, tweets, twitter

Photos: Firefox through the ages
Phoenix to Firebird to Firefox

Tags: mozilla, pheonix, firefox

Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
Stories of the month - October 2009

Tags: open source, snow leopard, windows 7

Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Move over smartphones… netbooks, e-book readers all get connected

Tags: ebook reader, social networking, at&t

Revealed: Your favourite Windows operating system
Here's a clue - let's just say it isn't Windows Vista

Tags: windows vista, windows 7, windows xp

iPhones under attack from Rick Astley worm
News in brief: Malware is never gonna give you up

Tags: jailbroken iphones, rick astley, iphone

eBay's Skype sale gets green light
And Skype and Joltid founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis join investor group

Tags: joltid, skype, ebay


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Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Xperia X10 and Motorola Droid get ready to join the fray

Tags: droid, motorola, android

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Network with other silicon.com readers

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Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
Microsoft's old OS shown up by new model

Tags: pc sales, boxed copy, windows 7

Weekend Gadget Watch: Canon PowerShot S90
"Elegant, compact and beautifully made"

Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
A journey from the Colossus computer room to the battlefields of Europe

Tags: codebreaking, second world war, bletchley park

Europe: Brace yourself for a telecoms overhaul
News in brief: European Parliament agrees to reform package

Tags: european union, parliament

BT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
FTTC trial offers downloads of up to 40Mbps

Tags: fibre broadband, bt

Covert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government
News in brief: Councils must cut back on using Ripa powers to catch petty offenders

Tags: ripa, surveillance


Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
"You have got to have your seatbelt on" says IT chief - but it's worth it

Tags: salesforce.com, google apps, cloud computing, telegraph media group

Techies and hairdressers united in the moonlight
IT pros - would you do a spot of work on the side?

Tags: moonlighting, uk it workers

Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
The winners and losers in tech spending revealed

Tags: budget growth

Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
3,400 tonnes of steel housing 2,000 servers

Tags: chicago facility, microsoft

Phishers set their sights on corporate accounts
News in brief: Beware the money mules and malware

Tags: fbi, criminal, phishing

Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
CIO Jury: Brains are not enough to create a British software powerhouse

Tags: google, microsoft, oracle, cio jury

£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
Airwave beefed up in time for 2012 Games...

Tags: home office, tetra, london 2012 olympic games, airwave

'Incompetent': Watchdog's verdict on prisoner database
News in brief: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee slams C-Nomis

Tags: pac, database, c-nomis, prison

'You're responsible for your own wi-fi security' say ISPs
News in brief: BBC hack demo sheds light on hotspot holes

Tags: t-mobile, openzone, bt

Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Minority Report: In honour of the recent launch of Apple's Magic Mouse, Seb Janacek takes a look back at Cupertino's mouse history

Tags: steve jobs, mac, magic mouse, apple mice

Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
The next operating system war has already begun

Tags: open source, nokia, maemo, symbian foundation

Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
SAP bring Gravity to Google Wave

Tags: google wave, salesforce.com, sap

Orange unveils iPhone tariffs and launch date
And a truck lot of two-year contracts...

Tags: orange, iphone 3g s

Microsoft to Office Accounting: Your number's up
News in brief: Redmond calls time on accounting product

Tags: online software, microsoft, office accounting

Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Customer service the Wave way

Tags: google wave, salesforce.com, sap

Make haste with the analogue-digital switch, urges EC
News in brief: TV spectrum to make room for wireless broadband

Tags: tv spectrum, analogue, digital

Taxman to save £110m by taking an axe to its IT estate
HMRC trims one of UK's largest outsourcing contracts

How to pay for your Amazon purchases with a feisty mango
PayPhrase service goes live

Tags: payphrase, amazon

'UK must up privacy safeguards following Phorm'
News in brief: Government must boost privacy safeguards

Tags: european commission, uk government, phorm

Weekend Gadget Watch: Apple iMac 27-inch, unibody, 2009
"The LED-backlit display and specification tweaks are very welcome"

Tags: desktop, imac, apple

Parking in the West End goes contactless
Wave and pay on trial with Westminster City Council

Tags: westminster council, parking, wave and pay, contactless payment

Photos: Ubuntu unleashes the Karmic Koala
How will 9.10 look on your desktop?

Tags: operating system, koala, ubuntu

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