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GPS-chip boom as mobiles enter the frame

News He predicted: "The average price of the [GPS] chipset will fall to $3.50 or below by the end of 2008, permitting a true mass market adoption. The popularity of consumer sat-nav devices is fuelling the market for GPS receiver chips, with one billion...

Tags: gps, mobiles, location based services, chips

[20 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...

Comment NHS IT savings predicted to hit £1.14bn What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.e-cops

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

Doctor iPhone will see you now…

News The next time you go to your doctor's office you could find them using an iPhone along with a stethoscope, analysts have predicted. Earlier this month Apple released its iPhone software development kit (SDK), which will allow third-party developers...

Tags: iphone, wireless, doctor, carry

[17 Mar 2008]

Two IT Giants Tackle Globalization--Together

whitepaper Learn why Wipro has been successful far beyond its native India--and its hopes for its relationship with Cisco in a world where, it's predicted, 60% of the world's working population will be located in India in 15 years.

Tags: infrastructure management

[15 Mar 2008]

NHS IT savings <strong>predicted</strong> to hit £1.14bn

NHS IT savings predicted to hit £1.14bn

News The £12.4bn national NHS IT project will save the health service £1.14bn by 2014, a government report claims. The first annual Benefits Statement published by the government estimates the National Programme for IT in the NHS has already saved £208m...

Tags: nhs, government, connecting for health, programme

[13 Mar 2008]

Security skills top IT chiefs' wish-lists

News While skills in areas such as hardware and operating systems are predicted to decrease in value. 'Safety first' is still the motto written in sweat above the door of IT departments everywhere but research suggests change is coming.

Tags: security, wireless, skills, rfid

[13 Mar 2008]

MiFID compliance warning

MiFID compliance warning

News In the near future algorithmic trading and smart order routing are predicted to be priorities along with efforts to cut tech costs due to the credit crunch. Many firms in the financial trading sector are still adopting a 'wait and see' approach to...

Tags: mifid, banks, compliance, europe

[13 Mar 2008]

Inflation-busting tech budgets predicted

News The median growth rate for IT spending is predicted to be 4.9 per cent with the highest growth likely to be seen in the construction and health sectors. And desktops may become less popular with a 57 per cent increase in the number of laptops and a...

Tags: spending, vista, recession, virtualisation

[10 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08

Round-Up After all, despite a recent admission by most of silicon.com's CIO Jury that they were employing open source software in the enterprise in various shapes and forms, it's not had the impact on the corporate world that many predicted.

Tags: microsoft, torvalds, robots, open source

[29 Feb 2008]

Oracle contractor shortage <strong>predicted</strong>

Oracle contractor shortage predicted

News If you have Oracle skills 2008 could be something of a jackpot year with contractors in short supply as demand ramps up over the next 12 months, says IT recruitment company Technojobs. The enterprise software giant has built up a head of steam over...

Tags: oracle, jobs, skills, demand

[27 Feb 2008]

The Perils & Promise of Flash Email Marketing Campaigns in China

whitepaper This paper describes the i-ems (Intelligent-Electronic Mail Sorter) mail interface, which offers a view of the inbox based on predicted classifications of messages. Classification of email is an important everyday task for a large and growing...

Tags: email

[19 Feb 2008]

An Intelligent Interface for Sorting Electronic Mail

whitepaper This paper describes the i-ems (Intelligent-Electronic Mail Sorter) mail interface, which offers a view of the inbox based on predicted classifi-cations of messages. Classification of email is an important everyday task for a large and growing...

Tags: email

[19 Feb 2008]

Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008

Photo The concepts that you see in social networking will go straight into business," he predicted. The world's biggest mobile phone trade show - Mobile World Congress 2008 - kicked off in Barcelona on 11 February.

Tags: mwc, android, hsdpa, mobile

[18 Feb 2008]

Reference Frame Optimization for Multiple-Path Video Streaming With Complexity Scaling

whitepaper Recent video coding standards such as H.264 offer the flexibility to select reference frames during motion estimation for predicted frames. This paper studies the optimization problem of jointly selecting the best set of reference frames and their...

Tags: streaming media

[14 Feb 2008]

2008 - worse than predicted for IT spending

News The global outlook for 2008 IT purchasing could be grimmer than previously believed due to the US economic difficulties. Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics  Encryption

Tags: purchase, 2008, it spend, house

[12 Feb 2008]

Location-based services set to boom

News Increasing numbers of GPS-enabled phones - recently predicted to more than triple over the next five years - and hefty investment in the navigation space from heavyweights such as Nokia underpin these predictions.

Tags: location, location-based services, csr, gps

[11 Feb 2008]

Dell sees the future - and it's mini!

News Last week Gartner predicted that by 2012, around half the developed world's workers will be running virtualised desktops transported on portable storage devices like the iPod, rather than carrying laptops between work and home.

Tags: dell, mobile, smart phone, screen

[08 Feb 2008]

Ethernet in the World's Top 500 Supercomputers

whitepaper This growth rate is slower than for other recent lists, but continues to compare favorably with the rate of improvement predicted by Moore's Law (2x every 18 months). The world's most powerful supercomputers continue to get faster.

Tags: ethernet

[07 Feb 2008]

UK fraud hits 12-year high as methods go high-tech

News In a statement Hitesh Patel, partner at KPMG Forensic, predicted fraud could continue to rise this year: "Given the developing economic conditions, companies and individuals need to be more alert than ever to the fraud threat.

Tags: fraud, id theft, phishing, theft

[04 Feb 2008]

Can Microsoft/Yahoo! deal take on Google?

News rebuffed an initial approach by Microsoft last February - as revealed in Steve Ballmer's bid letter - but analyst TBR predicted Yahoo! would help both companies fight Google in the online advertising and services market but it also faces some major...

Tags: microsoft, merger, google, web

[01 Feb 2008]

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