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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.11.09
Round-Up We've all made embarrassing mobile phone blunders as part of our busy modern lives. We've all done something with a mobile that has led to fingers pointed in mirth and mockery: a few years ago the Round-Up even had one of those Bluetooth... [27 Nov 2009]
Photos: Sony Ericsson debuts see-through Xperia phone
Photo Mobile maker Sony Ericsson has debuted another phone in its Xperia range - but with a twist. The see-through display is a world first, according to Sony Ericsson, requiring battery, memory card and antenna to be miniaturised to fit... [25 Nov 2009]
Pay for IT chiefs weathers the storm
News Despite the cost-cutting forced on many organisations by the recession, pay packets for the IT management team have held up - and for some even grown. According to the exclusive silicon.com 2009 Skills Survey a greater proportion of IT... [23 Nov 2009]
Firefox 3.6 beta aims to improve stability
Mozilla released a third beta of Firefox 3.6 on Wednesday, adding stability and performance features, and said it hopes to lock down the code soon for its first release candidate. The new beta — for Windows, Mac and Linux — includes a... [19 Nov 2009]
Photos: Dell unveils its very first smartphone
Photo Dell may be better known as a PC vendor but it also has designs on smartphones. Last week the computer giant revealed details of its first foray into the increasingly crowded smartphone market with a touchscreen device called the Dell... [16 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News With the government hoping to offset or reduce all the CO2 emissions produced by its fleet of half a million computers by 2012, IT is under more pressure than ever to go green. As a result, the public sector has "stopped eating pies and... [13 Nov 2009]
Benchmarking Microsoft SQL Server Using VMware ESX Server 3.5
White Paper This paper presents the results of a benchmarking study, in which Brocade used an industry-standard online Transaction Processing Benchmark (TPC-C) in an ESX Server cluster to determine if ESX Server version 3.5 could... [12 Nov 2009]
SQL Server Workload Consolidation: VMware ESX 3.5
White Paper Database workloads are very diverse. While most database servers are lightly loaded, larger database workloads can be resource-intensive, exhibiting high I/O rates or consuming large amounts of memory. [12 Nov 2009]
Understanding Data Location Is Imperative for Data Loss Prevention
White Paper Data Protection and Data Loss Prevention for PII are nothing new in the US. The federal government and over 35 states have enacted legislation to address these critical issues. Both have been discussed by information... [12 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo October saw silicon.com cast its eye over the top iPhone apps for business. Shown above is the Skype app which allows users to make calls and send instant messages to anyone else with a Skype account for free. [12 Nov 2009]
IHE IT Infrastructure White Paper: HIE Security and Privacy Through IHE
White Paper Regions around the globe are looking to link healthcare practices together into Health Information Exchanges (HIE). A Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) is a set of healthcare entities that are cooperating to share healthcare... [11 Nov 2009]
Getting Started with LINQ to XML
White Paper LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query. This new technology comes built into the NET Framework 3.5 and can be used with any of the different languages that run under NET. When using the features provided by LINQ, the... [03 Nov 2009]
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Scalability Benchmark Executive Summary
White Paper Download the Executive Summary to learn more about how Microsoft Dynamics CRM delivered a new CRM industry scalability benchmark record and redefined the price-performance equation with 50,000 concurrent users and 0.12 second response... [28 Oct 2009]
Photos: Second coming for touchscreen BlackBerry
Photo RIM today announced the launch of the BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone, the company's second touchscreen handset. The device is the successor to the original Storm, launched last year and, like its predecessor, the Storm2 is exclusive to the... [15 Oct 2009]
BlackBerry Storm2: RIM's second touchscreen - this time with wi-fi
News BlackBerry-maker RIM has unveiled its second touchscreen device, the Storm2. The Storm2, announced in May this year, will be released exclusively on Vodafone's network on a £35 per month contract and will be available... [15 Oct 2009]
