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RSS 1Credit crisis sees eBay slash 1,000 jobs
News eBay said it will cut 10 per cent of its work force and spend about $1.3bn to buy online payment and classified companies to counter a slowdown in its main web auctions business. Investors are concerned the US housing slump, higher fuel... [07 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo The Cern Computer Centre, seen here, is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe. A formidable 8,000 servers housing 40,000 Intel processor cores provide the grunt to... [06 Oct 2008]
Why CIOs aren't on the Chrome straight
News Google's recently launched web browser, Chrome, will have to overcome a number of major obstacles before it can break the business ubiquity of Internet Explorer and counter the rise of Firefox. Chrome is the latest product in Google's... [03 Oct 2008]
Email Management Services (EMS): Providing a total solution for email and BlackBerry continuity, recovery, security, archiving, e-Discovery, and storage management
White Paper Email is indisputably the most important business application for most organizations, yet managing email has always been a no-win proposition. Security threats remain pervasive. New rules are changing legal discovery and compliance... [03 Oct 2008]
BAT lights up Ł26m SAP savings
News British American Tobacco (BAT) has saved millions of pounds by cutting down the number of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems it runs around the world. Since 2005, BAT - which made a Ł2.3bn profit last year - has consolidated its... [02 Oct 2008]
Online retail hasn't killed the high street
News Despite the rise and rise of online shopping, high street retail in the UK and US is far from dead.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! [02 Oct 2008]
Cheat Sheet: The semantic web
Cheat Sheet What's this all about then? The semantic web is being touted as the next stage in the evolution of the internet, no less. I thought that was web 2.0? Web 2.0 was all about the new generation of online applications - like Facebook and... [02 Oct 2008]
The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation - Chapter 1
White Paper Storing data on a disk has become less expensive and more convenient in modern times. But with that increase in storage capacity and decrease in price comes a problem of management. There are many common misunderstandings leading to... [02 Oct 2008]
The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation - Chapter 2
White Paper Storing data on a disk has become less expensive and more convenient in modern times. But with that increase in storage capacity and decrease in price comes a problem of management. There are many common misunderstandings leading to... [02 Oct 2008]
Hasta la Vista baby, we're just not interested
News Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is still playing second fiddle to XP with business users, with more enterprises confessing to checking out the unreleased Windows 7 OS than its predecessor. More than half (58 per cent) of... [01 Oct 2008]
Nokia adds Oz to communications arsenal
News Nokia is bulking up its communications platform with the acquisition of Oz Communications, a privately held Montreal-based company that offers mobile email and instant messaging. On Tuesday, Nokia said it would buy Oz for an undisclosed... [01 Oct 2008]
Legal Eye: Who's tracking your online trail?
Comment Do you know how your personal data is being used online? If you value your privacy, you should, says lawyer Ruth Hoy. With the advent of social networking and the expansion of search engine capabilities, even the most reluctant web 2.0... [01 Oct 2008]
A GPL Linux Device Driver for the EIB
White Paper This paper deals with a Linux low-level hardware driver for the RS-232 Data Interface of the European Installation Bus (EIB). The RS-232 Data Interface is based on the widely used Bus Coupling Unit 1 (BCU1), which... [01 Oct 2008]
Speeding Up Multi-Relational Data Mining
White Paper This paper presents a general approach to speeding up a family of multi-relational data mining algorithms that construct and use selection graphs to obtain the information needed for building predictive models (e.g.decision tree... [01 Oct 2008]
Large-Scale Analysis of Format String Vulnerabilities in Debian Linux
White Paper Format-string bugs are relatively common security vulnerability, and can lead to arbitrary code execution. In collaboration with others, the paper designed and implemented a system to eliminate format string vulnerabilities from an... [01 Oct 2008]
