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The Weekly Round-Up: 21.08.09
Round-Up The Round-Up isn't sure whether to be more impressed by the brazenness of the request, or depressed by the techie who agreed to do it. Sticking with the holiday theme for a little while longer, a couple... [21 Aug 2009]
Twitter gearing up to put geolocation in tweets
News If geodata in tweets can only be written and read by apps and third-party web services, those services will become even more valuable, possibly kicking off yet another round of Twitter client battles. [21 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.08.09
Round-Up OK, the Round-Up will break it to you gently. The Round-Up can't help but wonder what software package the statement was drafted on… The... [14 Aug 2009]
E-mail Security Buyer's Guide: Software, Appliance, Managed Service
White Paper Round-the-clock, constantly updated real-time protection Email security solutions fall into three basic categories: software-based, appliance-based and managed services (also known as SaaS - Software-as-a-Service). [14 Aug 2009]
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Performance and Scalability - Bandwidth Utilization Improvements
White Paper Improvements were evaluated in the number of round trips, bytes sent, and bytes received. Microsoft Dynamics CRM business software is designed to help enterprise organizations achieve a 360-degree view of their customers... [10 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.08.09
Round-Up The Round-Up certainly has. Eliot wrote "April is the cruellest month" he had clearly never faced the prospect of writing pithy news round-ups in August. In two different organisations... [07 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo With the world going crazy for the iPhone, July saw a round-up of apps that could actually make you much more productive on the move. Last month marked the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk, an... [04 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up What amazes the Round-Up is that its ISP came out on top. The Round-Up's talking about ID cards. What most people have focused on is the absurdity of a 20-page document... [31 Jul 2009]
Offshoring is bad for IT skills, say UK tech chiefs
News Click here to read page two of this article sufficiently interested and qualified people out of our universities to fill roles," said Alan Bawden, IT & operations director at The JM Group, adding: "They will be further put off a career... [28 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up It's the press officers the Round-Up feels sorry for. The Round-Up's still on about the phishers, by the way. Surely one of the meanest scams ever, the... [24 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.07.09
Round-Up The Round-Up thinks it might be churlish to point out the presence of Windows XP (via downgrade rights from Vista), the eight versions of Vista itself and the Windows 7 beta not to mention Windows... [17 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BT's £1.5bn fibre plans
Cheat Sheet Apparently so - when it named the second round of exchanges to get fibre-enabled, it promised to resell fibre access on a wholesale basis to ISPs that wanted it. It's the new copper, I hear. Yes indeed - it's the next... [14 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.07.09
Round-Up Despite the best attempts of the political correctness lobby, appearance and image are very important, especially to middle-aged men working in corporate IT. Yes, personality counts but unless you've got a lot of stickers on your side... [10 Jul 2009]
Microsoft CRM boards the Twitter train
News CoTweet on Friday announced it had secured $1.1m in venture funding from firms including Baseline Ventures, Founders Fund, First Round Capital, SV Angel, Maples Investments and Freestyle Capital. Microsoft has integrated... [10 Jul 2009]
Google's Chrome OS: On the frontline of the new operating system war
News Here's a round up of the silicon.com coverage of the technology that could have Microsoft quaking in its boots. Google is developing its own PC operating system in its latest attempt to move into a new... [09 Jul 2009]
