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RSS IT directorBT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News Bill Murphy, managing director of BT Business, said the aim of the trials is to get feedback from customers on how they want to use the service and what's possible in real-world conditions. BT is offering a free taste of... [05 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News Mike Roberts, IT director at the London Clinic, believes teaching is also a factor. Jeff Roberts, director of information technology at Norton Rose, said that even if a UK start-up came... [03 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News But speaking to silicon.com the Symbian Foundation's executive director Lee Williams said there is still plenty of life in Symbian. While Symbian continues to dominate the smartphone market it could soon... [02 Nov 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director at Hachette Filipacchi, said all of the publishing house's web development is based on open source technology: "I can't imagine why anyone would use anything different! [28 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News According to Peter Birley, director of IT and business operations at Browne Jacobson LLP, such costs are often greater than potential savings. Alan Bawden, IT & operations... [23 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News David Metcalfe, director of green tech analyst house Verdantix, said many big spending plans around carbon management and reduction have been put on hold. It's never been easy being green, especially... [22 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News Nathaniel Martinez, IDC programme director for European enterprise servers said that last year, more money was spent on powering datacentres than was spent on acquiring new datacentre networking hardware, or new external... [19 Oct 2009]
YouTube presses play on Channel 4 top shows
News We look forward to other similar agreements to come," YouTube's director of partnerships Patrick Walker said in a statement. Channel 4 has signed a deal with YouTube to bring its flagship shows to the video-sharing site. [16 Oct 2009]
It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
News With high-resolution video becoming increasingly affordable, we do now have an increasing number of viable options for replacing physical business travel with other alternatives," service director of analyst house... [13 Oct 2009]
Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
News Foreign Secretary David Miliband with the director of the Bletchley Park Trust Simon Greenish and some of the veterans. The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has paid tribute to the work done by the World War II... [13 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Author of the report, research director Alex Cullen, suggested that the industry is currently entering a new period of technology innovation and growth. Companies should create their own "technology watch lists" so they... [12 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News As a result, trading director Mike Coupe told silicon.com that stock availability has come on significantly. Responsibility for running the chain's tech recently passed to former CSC exec Rob Fraser, who took over as... [09 Oct 2009]
Online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News William Beer, a director at PricewaterhouseCoopers One Security practice, said criminals are now very specialised in identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities, unprotected consumer PCs and the public's lack of... [07 Oct 2009]
How to grow tech businesses during a recession
Comment In the case of small firms, you may find yourself in front of a director with a good grasp of business but limited technical knowledge. Recessions don't need to be a time of doom and gloom. Entrepreneur and Dragons' Den... [06 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News Ibukun Adebayo, IT director of social care organisation Turning Point, told silicon.com that the upfront costs, as well as the productivity hit a move would entail, serve as a deterrent to adopting Macs. [02 Oct 2009]
