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Photos: The tech timetable to the 2012 Olympics revealed
Photo The venues - spread hundreds of miles apart, from the sailing events in Weymouth in Dorset to football events at St James Park in Newcastle - will stage sporting contests ahead of the Olympics to see how systems cope with the stresses of... [24 Jul 2009]
Virtualisation and cloud: The new weapons in the outsourcing arms race
News According to research by analyst Ovum, sectors including financial services, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, retail and travel are showing active interest in IT outsourcing, pointing to recent £20m-plus deals between... [14 Jul 2009]
Satyam feeling 'bullish' with new governance
News We did lose a very large order but there's still life beyond that [Telstra] order," he said. A number of Mahindra Satyam executives hailed from Tech Mahindra, essentially a second-tier player focused on... [06 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.06.09
Round-Up The new iPhone also has better battery life - now you can wait until afternoon tea before having to recharge it. The second thing the Round-Up noticed was that it isn't a word. 'Web 2.0' has become the... [12 Jun 2009]
$99 iPhone announced at Apple's WWDC
News The 3G S sports a faster processor, longer battery life, video recording and a digital compass. The video it takes is 30 frames per second at 640x480 VGA resolution, bringing it to spec with most... [09 Jun 2009]
The tech that lifts Pixar's Up
News In Up the story revolves around the main character, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen, who, frustrated with his mundane life, ties the thousands of balloons to his house and sets off for adventures in South America. [28 May 2009]
Photos: Inside a virtually perfect hospital
Photo This is not a real hospital, however, but a virtual model inside the online world of Second Life, set up by Imperial College in London as part of a pilot project to explore game-based learning. Despite... [20 May 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T5010
Photo Battery life could be longer; touchscreen requires use of a stylus; relatively large and heavy Good performance; high-quality keyboard; sizeable screen for a tablet PC; modular bay supports a second... [08 May 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.04.09
Round-Up From one tech fad to another: virtual world Second Life is putting into effect some new measures to keep, ahem, adult content away from users who would prefer to dodge all the smut and instead just get... [24 Apr 2009]
Second Life puts the X-rated in its place
News Virtual world Second Life has put in effect some new measures to keep adult content away from users who might not want to run into it. Second Life is an 18+ environment... [22 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.04.09
Round-Up She told silicon.com: "I've got a little routine that's based on the IT guys that I dealt with who had this pseudo life online… In Second Life they'd have a rippling six pack and all... [17 Apr 2009]
From IT sales to stand-up comedy
Comment Or the one about the techie and his unusual second life? I've got a little routine that's based on the IT guys that I dealt with who had this pseudo life online… In... [14 Apr 2009]
Can the internet change your brain?
News Greenfield said that relationships forged in the "computer world", through social networks and multiplayer environments such as Second Life, are "intruding on the full spectrum of human relationships". [23 Mar 2009]
Will Sun set IBM up for some rainy days?
News Potentially more interesting, though, is Sun's Thumper line of x86-based storage devices, which have shown some life. Cloud computing, which combines hardware and software, is an area where Sun has some experience and... [19 Mar 2009]
Bangalore's brain gain
Comment The study said immigrants were flooding home to enjoy a better quality of life and better career prospects while being close to their family and friends. In India, the world's second fastest growing... [17 Mar 2009]
