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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Question: What do Britain's hairdressers and IT technicians have in common? It probably doesn't help that all our best techies are spending all of their free time clearing out spyware from their mates'... [06 Nov 2009]
Join the silicon.com LinkedIn networking group
News The group is open to all silicon.com readers, from CIOs and IT directors to other business leaders - including CEOs, finance directors, HR, sales and marketing chiefs who want to help their organisation reach its goals... [06 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Up to two-thirds of the staff at Bletchley Park were young women and Osborne was one of up to 400 other Wrens at Woburn Abbey, home to the Duke of Bedford, but her accommodation was less grand than might be expected. [05 Nov 2009]
Europe: Brace yourself for a telecoms overhaul
News The Telecoms Reform package, which consists of a set of new laws tackling subjects ranging from data breach notifications to faster number porting, will become law in every EU country by May 2011, it was agreed on... [05 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News A survey of workers in October this year found that in their first six months of using Gmail about 45 per cent of staff rated it as worse or the same as using Microsoft Outlook as their mail client.... [04 Nov 2009]
Techies and hairdressers united in the moonlight
News A report by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation and KPMG published today shows a third consecutive month of growth in both permanent and temporary jobs during October - with permanent placements rising at their fastest rate in two... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Although the datacentre is massive, it is managed with a staff of 30 to 45, including custodial and security workers. Although Microsoft aims to use ambient air when it can,... [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News Development costs are too high and staff retention is very difficult," he said. David Supple, head of IT and creative services at Ecotec Research & Consulting, said the UK won't turn out the next... [03 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The two-way Tetra comms system has an important role to play during the London 2012 Olympics - with two Airwave networks being deployed, one for the emergency services to use, and a separate network for Games staff. [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo At the recent TechEd conference in Vienna, ERP software specialist SAP showed an application called Gravity it has designed for Google Wave that allows staff to draw flow charts to model business... [02 Nov 2009]
Microsoft to Office Accounting: Your number's up
News Microsoft announced on Friday it is to kill off its Office Accounting product line. The Redmond giant said it will stop distributing the free Office Accounting and Office Accounting Express in the UK and... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo The Wave app copies all of the information contained in the wave back into Booyah's customer records, held on a Salesforce system, so customer service staff can pull out any useful information when needed. [30 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up It's almost that time of year when nameless horrors not of this world crawl shrieking into the light, creating terror and provoking instant madness in all that see their horrible, bloated faces. Luckily, silicon.com has... [30 Oct 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Companies often renew their office hardware every three years without necessarily questioning the business case of upgrades, staff retraining and other overheads involved. It's no surprise that for some... [29 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News While open source is often touted as a cost-saving option for CIOs (especially ones with CFOs unwilling to sign off on expensive proprietary software licences), several CIOs on the jury warned that the costs of migrating to open source -... [28 Oct 2009]
