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Does your business really need an office?
Comment As general manager of Group Property at mining giant Rio Tinto, Neil Usher has a remit to determine the shape and form of the company's future workplace. We meet sometimes at conferences and the like but... [17 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
News According to research by analyst NPD Group, Windows 7's first week after release blew Vista's out of the water. If the prediction is correct, it would mean Windows 7 would have been adopted by business more quickly than... [06 Nov 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment The pharma giant has a huge number of highly trained scientists, researchers and engineers, but it's estimated that for every P&G researcher there are 200 people in the global talent pool who are just as capable of... [14 Oct 2009]
Cisco adds to collaboration arsenal with $3bn Tandberg buy
News Networking giant Cisco has agreed to buy Tandberg, a videoconferencing company, the companies announced today. Under the deal, which is still subject to regulatory approval, a new TelePresence Technology... [01 Oct 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News Don't make my TV act like a PC," customers told Intel after its earlier forays into TV, said Eric Kim, general manager of Intel's Digital Home Group, and Intel got the message. Intel may not have attained the same... [28 Sep 2009]
ERP delays give CFOs a headache
News Angela Eager, senior analyst at the Ovum Butler Group, added: "The complexity of the system in terms of scale (functionality, users, instances, physical and virtual locations), and integration to other systems are also... [25 Sep 2009]
Intel chip expert heads to EMC
News Among his roles: chief architect of a flagship chip from the 1990s, the 486 that followed the 386 and preceded the Pentium; the company's first chief technology officer; and most recently co-general manager of the Digital Enterprise... [15 Sep 2009]
Pro-Linux group snaps up Microsoft patents
News A pro-open-source group said on Tuesday it has acquired 22 patents recently sold by Microsoft - patents that the group said could have been used against Linux. The Open Invention Network said that the... [09 Sep 2009]
eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News Ecommerce giant eBay announced on Tuesday that it's selling its Skype unit to an investor group that includes entrepreneur Marc Andreessen's new venture. The investor group, which will... [01 Sep 2009]
eBay set to hang up on Skype?
News eBay is expected to announce today that it has reached a deal to sell its internet telephone service, Skype, to a group of private investors, the New York Times reported on Monday. The investment group... [01 Sep 2009]
Sanook.com Turns to HP for a Computing System That Is Able to Keep Up With Its Growth
White Paper Sanook.com is a leading integrated Internet service provider, established in 1998 as a subsidiary of MIH Group - the communications giant headquartered in the Netherlands. Sanook.com wanted to serve... [28 Aug 2009]
Betfair CTO bets on new tech architecture
News Betfair's new CTO is embarking on a radical overhaul of the gambling giant's development processes to allow the company to pounce on new international business opportunities faster. Tony McAlister joined the peer-to-peer... [10 Jul 2009]
Photos: India's mega outsourcing training centre
Photo silicon.com's Saritha Rai recently visited the giant training centre run by India's second-largest outsourcing company, Infosys Technologies, in Mysore, a three-hour drive from Bangalore. When trainees aren't in class,... [23 Jun 2009]
Intel spends $884m on Wind River
News Chip giant Intel is set to acquire Wind River Systems, a maker of software for embedded devices. Wind River would become a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel, reporting to the chipmaker's Software and Services... [04 Jun 2009]
Simon Post
CIO Profile It has also embarked on a partnership with US consumer electronics giant Best Buy. Prior to The Carphone Warehouse, Post worked as group IT and strategy director at BSkyB for four years, where he was... [03 Jun 2009]
