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Dell's secret to riding out the recession
Comment Two years ago, the company was considering building an additional datacentre at the cost of $200m to $300m. Dell CIO Robin Johnson is tasked with steering the company through the credit crunch. Nick... [04 Sep 2009]
Cern ready to restart LHC at half power this year
News The collider has cost $9bn and taken 15 years to get to where it is now, according to an article earlier this week in The New York Times. The LHC is a much better understood machine than it was a year... [10 Aug 2009]
Introduction to PSD-to-XHTML Services
White Paper As a stand-alone service PSD-to-HTML conversion emerged about 5 years ago. PSD-to-HTML providers turn designs (digital images in .psd, .png, .jpeg, etc formats) into xHTML/CSS templates... [24 Jul 2009]
Apple price cut causing MacBook shortage?
News Munster wrote in a research note on Monday: "We track product lead times and our records show that Apple has never had a 7-10 day delay on its most popular 13-inch model, with the most recent significant delay being 5-7... [08 Jul 2009]
WWF wild about comms upgrade
Case Study Since embarking on a project to upgrade its corporate network two years ago, conservation organisation the WWF has achieved much more than it originally intended. It's taken us a couple of... [09 Mar 2009]
Minority Report: Why I loathe Apple Stores
Comment Over the years I have come to truly loathe Apple Stores. A month ago, my iPhone headphones started giving me electric shocks in my ears. The guy who's looked after me for 10 years... [18 Feb 2009]
Inside the V&A's boiler room
News We have a genuinely stable environment which we didn't have two years ago," according to the IT head. Two years ago, the V&A IT department was in charge of a hardware... [26 Jan 2009]
Virgin Atlantic's IT director on budget cuts and having fun
Comment After five years at British Airways including a stint as CTO, Cope flew the nest to join its comparatively youthful rival just over two years ago. How many CIOs can say that their... [20 Jan 2009]
Cineworld goes green with virtualisation
Case Study Want the best of silicon.com from the past 10 years? Speaking to silicon.com Cineworld's head of IT, Vincent McGann, said the decision to revamp the website was taken around 12 months ago and the company... [15 Dec 2008]
Facebook Koobface worm strikes again
News McAfee's Schmugar said this attack is similar to email attacks 10 years ago in that Koobface is using infected friends lists, reminiscent of early mass-mailing worms. A worm responsible for sending... [05 Dec 2008]
From Firefox to Chrome: Why I made the switch
Comment Years ago, Firefox won me over chiefly with plug-ins, tabbed browsing and some security advantages. The browser wars are heating up, especially with the introduction of Google's Chrome. But has it got... [25 Nov 2008]
Kurzweil: "Technology is a double-edged sword"
Comment For example the fat insulin receptor gene says hold onto every single calorie in your fat cells and that was a good idea 1,000 years ago - it's not a good idea today, it underlies an epidemic of obesity... [19 Nov 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Social networking power
Comment It was the growth of my email address book years ago and the follow-on layer of contacts that first alerted me to the exponential nature of the net. An analysis of all the growth data over the past... [22 Sep 2008]
RIM chasing Apple with "lifestyle" features?
News Photos: 60 years of NHS tech Balsillie said during a keynote address on Thursday that the Facebook for RIM application, which launched about a year ago, has been downloaded 2.5 million times. In what... [12 Sep 2008]
Social networking: Global phenomenon
News Photos: 60 years of NHS tech By increasing the site's relevance to local markets through local language interface translation, the site is now competing strongly or even capturing the lead in several markets where it had... [13 Aug 2008]
