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News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Microsoft announced its road map and pricing for web-based software suites built for big companies and growing businesses. Enabling telecommuting, which many employers and workers increasingly favour, is likely... [09 Jul 2008]
EU law to end file-sharers time online?
News A set of telecommunications laws has been given the green light by a European parliamentary committee, which includes amendments that some argue could lead to file-sharers being disconnected by their internet service providers. [09 Jul 2008]
Prison tech: Mobiles blocked and bodies scanned
News The technological measures were announced by the government on the back of a report by ex-chief constable David Blakey on how to stop drugs getting into prisons. Body scanning chairs and mobile phone blocking technology will be rolled out to UK... [08 Jul 2008]
Intel's Atom cracks into PC World
News The UK computer-store chain PC World is claiming to be the first retail outlet in the country to offer a netbook using Intel's Atom processor. The Advent 4211, a close relative of the MSI Wind, went on sale last week for £280 - around £60 to £70... [08 Jul 2008]
LiMo adds Openwave browser to arsenal
News Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a member of the LiMo Foundation, has bought the browser and messaging side of Openwave's business. Purple Labs joined the LiMo Foundation - one of three big, mobile open-source consortia... [07 Jul 2008]
UK business lacking high fibre diet
News David Harrington, the CMA's director of regulatory affairs, said: "The gap between government rhetoric and formulation of policy appears to be as wide as ever. The Communications Management Association's (CMA's) Next Generation Access report... [07 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment David Fletcher, UK The issue that got readers talking this week was the IT-teacher drought - is "boring" IT to blame? Also getting readers reaching for their keyboards this week, the OFT and Kangaroo and phones on planes - love them or loathe them? [03 Jul 2008]
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News Deputy information commissioner David Smith said proposals to revise the EU's ePrivacy Directive could be the "catalyst" needed to get data breach notification into UK law. The UK's privacy watchdog says the country is a step closer to getting a... [03 Jul 2008]
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Borrowers have moved from a mortgage feast to a famine so bad that the government has stepped in with a £50bn support package. But there's a better way to ease the situation, argues Steve Boyle. [03 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at... [02 Jul 2008]
The Instantly Responsive Enterprise: The Marriage of Business Process Management and Complex Event Processing
White Paper According to David Luckham's write-up "SOA, EDA, BPM and CEP Are All Complementary," the easiest way to build a (new) event-driven process is to use Event-Driven SOA, which offers event-driven services that new processes need. [02 Jul 2008]
High-speed uplink coming to T-Mobile
News T-Mobile will today turn on its fast uplink mobile broadband service, claiming it is the first UK operator to do so on a nationwide basis. High-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA), also known as 'super-3G', is already commonly rolled out across... [01 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader?
Comment David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Climbing the greasy pole as a CIO depends on certain key factors. These are important for reaching the very top and indispensable for avoiding a rapid return to earth, says the Naked CIO. [30 Jun 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland Nationwide Building Society has signed a seven-year £160m deal with BT to outsource the management of its networked IT services. The contract will see Nationwide's voice and data network infrastructure and... [30 Jun 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News David Lister Royal Bank of Scotland The ability of virtualisation technology to free software from the underlying hardware could give more companies the option to allow employees to choose and run their own devices at work, according to analysts. [30 Jun 2008]
