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Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo The information from the sensors is sent out using wireless signals to a base station that organises the data. As real-time mobile services become more omnipresent, we will begin to see some businesses... [09 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine? Part II
Comment My current Toshiba laptop has seen better days and can barely make it past an hour before crying out for a power feed, meaning I always need to have the power cord with me when out and about. Although... [09 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up It probably doesn't help that all our best techies are spending all of their free time clearing out spyware from their mates' PCs for cash or beer when they should be thinking of how to invent the next... [06 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment Saritha Rai finds out. Infosys is evaluating multiple acquisition targets at any given time. Indian outsourcers certainly have the cash - so why aren't they buying up their competitors? They have... [06 Nov 2009]
Virtualization and Disk Performance
White Paper This white paper analyzes the virtual machine, performance-threatening dangers, and their real-time solutions. Read this white paper now to find out how to automatically eliminate and prevent... [06 Nov 2009]
How File Fragmentation Occurs on Windows XP / Windows Server 2003
White Paper A while ago there was a little research project to find out exactly how fragmentation occurs on Windows XP. Well, it turns out that Windows XP/2003 fragments files whether or not all the free space is... [06 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Often the tape would burst - it could happen very easily - and would fly across the other side of the room, causing people to scream and jump out of the way. At the time I was very excited but now I feel... [05 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News But there are significant rewards for CIOs willing to tough it out, Cheesbrough said, with TMG finding a spike in staff satisfaction and productivity six months after users completed their move to the new system. [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Over time, Microsoft expects to invest $500m in the Chicago facility. Microsoft isn't saying which services are being run out of Chicago, although the Bing posters that covered the second floor server... [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News Other members of the jury had different reasons for ruling out a homegrown software company making the big time. David Supple, head of IT and creative services at Ecotec Research & Consulting, said the... [03 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The National Police Improvement Agency has signed the £39m contract with Airwave, the company that provides the mobile radio network used by every UK police force and currently being rolled out to every ambulance trust... [03 Nov 2009]
VoIP Phone Hardening - Part 1
White Paper There has been a significant increase in the number of companies choosing to deploy Cisco Unified Communications when phasing out their traditional time division multiplexed (TDM)-based systems. Unlike... [03 Nov 2009]
Disaster Recovery Techniques for SQL Server
White Paper The time to think about how to put out a fire is not after it has started, but before. The same principle applies to mitigating data loss in a SQL Server or any other database environment. This white... [03 Nov 2009]
10 Dying IT Skills
White Paper There are some things in life, like good manners, which never go out of style, and there are other things, like clothing styles that fall in and out of fashion, but when an IT skill falls... [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo The Wave platform offers users a chance to chat and work together in real-time within a window in a web browser that Google calls a 'wave'. People can exchange real-time IM, photos, videos, maps and... [02 Nov 2009]
