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RSS waveGlobal BPO market to hit $450bn by 2012
News The emerging economies of Asia and Latin America will ride the crest of this wave, housing support functions such as finance and accounting services, and benefiting from the relocation of existing shared services centres. [16 Jun 2008]
"Compliance Trends: Evolving Audit Expectations and Best Practices"
White Paper This webinar will help IT management and corporate business executives prepare for the next wave of compliance audit requirements. After the grueling exercise of preparing for the initial audits under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, one can expect... [13 Jun 2008]
Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment Company CEO Andrew Fisher explains: "We cut up a song into slices and look at the vocal performance and the instruments, and it's a sound wave… At any point in the song you've got peaks and troughs… It's a unique fingerprint. [12 Jun 2008]
SMS snitch pilot targets knife crime in schools
News A wave of knife crime violence has claimed the lives of scores of teenagers in London this year, which is why the pilot is focused on gaining information about youths with knives, said Crimestoppers. A plan to use SMS to combat youth knife crime is... [03 Jun 2008]
Photos: Eye across the Atlantic
Photo After almost 100 years a Victorian dream of building a telescope to look from London to New York has been realised. Hundreds of people from opposite ends of the world have been waving to each other, pulling funny faces and scribbling messages... [28 May 2008]
Cheat Sheet: QR codes
Cheat Sheet QR codes were invented in 1994 by a Japanese company called Denso-Wave, for tracking car parts. QR codes? I'm thinking this is something to do with barcodes… And you'd be right. A QR code is a 2D matrix barcode which uses an arrangement of squares... [28 May 2008]
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin to retire
News In the absence of a generalised growth wave, Vodafone's performance has still been solid but less than exciting. Mobile operator Vodafone has announced its CEO Arun Sarin is to retire. Sarin will relinquish the reins after five years in the top job... [27 May 2008]
Google Android - winning apps are location-based
News In accordance with the recent interest around location-based services, a wave of such applications made it through to the first round of judging for Google's new mobile platform, in the Android Developer Challenge. [20 May 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News Thakur noted that third-party applications rather than operating-system vulnerabilities were being targeted but that "only time will allow the method employed in this wave of attacks to be confirmed". [07 May 2008]
Intelligent Communications Powers the Next Wave of Productivity Growth
White Paper This Yankee Group Report examines the emerging intelligent communications market for the real-time enterprise and the impact of having communications embedded into business processes. It highlights the major challenges organizations face and how... [05 May 2008]
TechNet Webcast: System Center Advanced Application Management (Level 300)
White Paper Microsoft System Center Wave 2 brings a collection of new and enhanced capabilities for application management. As the customers and partners begin to think about more advanced solutions in their environments, applications now have new options for... [01 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly, unleashed a tidal wave of tech nostalgia by asking the deceptively simple question: what was your first home computer? This question formed the basis of our latest reader poll - which saw the ZX... [22 Apr 2008]
Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010
News He claimed the "unprecedented new wave of broadband traffic" would increase fiftyfold by 2015 and that AT&T was investing $19bn to maintain its network and upgrade its backbone network. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in... [21 Apr 2008]
Solving the Firewall/NAT Traversal Issue of SIP: Who Should Control Your Security Infrastructure?
White Paper Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) represents the third wave of Internet usage after SMTP (email) and HTTP (Web). Developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), SIP has today become the signaling protocol of choice for establishing... [11 Apr 2008]
Rogue Wave Products Help Lyris Technologies Capitalize on High-Growth Email Market
White Paper Lyris chose Rogue Wave tools. With Rogue Wave DBTools.h++ they were able to support not only Oracle, SQL, and ODBC, but Sybase, DB2, and Informix as well. Lyris Technologies Inc.is a privately held company based in Oakland, California, which... [10 Apr 2008]
