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Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Unlike workers in the US, employees in the UK do have an expectation of privacy in the workplace, and if you fail to follow best practice you could find your organisation on the wrong side of the law: under Article 8 of... [22 Oct 2009]
Vista jilted for Windows 7 midway through upgrades
News A survey of European and US IT professionals found more than half of new corporate PCs would run Windows 7 within 12 months. Some businesses that are partway through upgrading to Windows Vista are asking to swap the OS... [22 Oct 2009]
How can today's CIO make the biggest impact on their organization? Learn more here
White Paper Those discussions showed us the demands on CIOs are changing, and in reaction, how today's CIOs are redefining their role. We listened to more than 2500 CIOs worldwide, including 158 CIOs from midsize firms. [21 Oct 2009]
Web Server Improvements with Microsoft Server 2008
White Paper Speaking to us is Steven Grigsby, Development Manager for Microsoft operating systems at Dell. This is another in our series about Microsoft Longhorn, also known as Server 2008. In this series we break down the most... [15 Oct 2009]
Top 10 Ways to Increase IT ROI Without Adding Staff
White Paper Tough economic times are upon us, and no one knows how long they may last. Today, IT managers are looking for alternative strategies to increase their IT ROI. The first principle is: Simplify operations. [13 Oct 2009]
Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
News The company's CIO, Bryan Kinsella, told silicon.com: "As part of that work we've been taking a look across our whole information systems and technology stack and groupware was quite an important area for us to focus on,... [12 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.10.09
Round-Up According to a study by analyst house NPD Group, the percentage of Mac households in the US is inching upwards - reaching 12 per cent this year compared to nine per cent in 2008. Meanwhile, more than 20 per cent of... [09 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News Coupe said: "The key thing for us was to bring in-house the people and the processes to run an efficient IT operation. Technology has helped Sainsbury's keep the tills ringing throughout the recession. [09 Oct 2009]
Barack Obama
AS Profile US President Barack Obama entered the White House with a pledge to use technology to transform government. Since then the BlackBerry-loving President has made a start on realising his promise to be one of the... [08 Oct 2009]
Photos: Amazon's Kindle comes to the UK
Photo This is the first time the device has been available outside of the US, where it launched in November 2007. Best-selling books will start from $11.99 - $2 more than in the US. Research group Forrester... [08 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: What is intelligence?
Comment Looking at this with the cold eye of reason, we ought not to be upset by the fact that machines beat us at anything. And let us say that the product of the SAPM terms increases from 1 in steps 100, 1000,... [08 Oct 2009]
Join Us for the Informatica 9 Launch: Transform your business. Transform your world
White Paper Join Us for the Informatica 9 Launch Join us for the launch of Informatica 9. Transform your business. Transform your world. Business and IT will finally be on the same page. Data quality issues will be... [07 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet That's right - although shoppers outside the US won't be able to buy the Kindle directly from their home Amazon store - Amazon.co.uk in our case - and will instead have to buy directly from the US Amazon... [07 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment He envisages a future where networks of sensors will give us our total individual energy consumption and where computing power could be delivered remotely from large datacentres powered by renewable energy. [07 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle e-book reader arriving in UK this month
News On Tuesday, the web retail giant announced that its e-book reader, previously only available in the US, will now be available in more than 100 countries. Amazon's Kindle is coming to the UK. The new global version, which... [07 Oct 2009]
