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Android phones, Firefox history, Google Wave and datacentres galore
Photo The Xperia Pureness strips back functionality to focus on the core features of text, talk and time. This month saw California's Hacker Dojo host the Random Hacks of Kindness event, which brought independent coders... [01 Dec 2009]
Outsourcing: UK carbon control plan needs a rethink
Comment Much is being said about the UK government's upcoming Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme but it remains unclear how much of this talk is translating into action and what impact the scheme will have on the... [01 Dec 2009]
IT skills shortage squashed by recession?
News The icy winds of economic gloom have put paid to talk of a tech skills shortage - at least for now, the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey can reveal. While the proportion of respondents reporting empty IT seats... [25 Nov 2009]
Users tell SAP "we need to talk more"
News SAP needs to better communicate with customers about the products in its portfolio as well as the technology it's developing. That's according to customers attending the SAP UK and Ireland SAP user group conference in Manchester this... [25 Nov 2009]
Photos: Sony Ericsson debuts see-through Xperia phone
Photo Daniel Mauritzson, an industrial designer at Sony Ericsson, said the idea behind Pureness was to design a "counterweight" to the feature-rich smartphones of today - and focus instead on the basics of "talk, text and time". [25 Nov 2009]
Photos: Take a tour of Microsoft's self-contained datacentre
Photo Microsoft generally prefers not to talk about details such as whose servers are used in its datacentres. At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week, Microsoft gave attendees a close-up look at a... [24 Nov 2009]
Photos: Nokia debuts full-Qwerty E72 business smartphone
Photo Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi Chat. Not every smartphone has a touchscreen - as Nokia's latest device shows. The E72, pictured above, is the latest addition to Nokia's business-focused Eseries line-up. [18 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment We talk about UCC as if it's going to be this glorious pulling together of everything. Vendors may be making a lot of noise about unified communications and collaboration (UCC) but the promised panacea remains a pipe... [17 Nov 2009]
Accelerate Your Cloud Implementation with IBM CloudBurst and Intel Xeon Processors
White Paper Come listen to industry experts from IBM and Intel talk about how to build a private cloud infrastructure using IBM CloudBurst running on the latest IBM blade servers powered by Intel Xeon processors - helping you reduce... [16 Nov 2009]
Google's Eric Schmidt on search, Android and all things Wave
News Last week saw silicon.com sister site CNET News.com sit down with Google CEO Eric Schmidt to talk Google Wave, Android and all things search. We're certainly not done [with search]… We're using a lot more about you;... [16 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.11.09
Round-Up The bad news for those with less than two X chromosomes continues: contact centre staff also said that women are more pleasant to talk to. If you are of a nervous disposition skip to the second part of the Round-Up. [13 Nov 2009]
Actionable Data Governance: Talk Is Cheap, But Can You Really Implement a Sustainable Data Governance Program?
White Paper There is so much written right now about data governance. Who needs data governance? In truth, some organizations do not need a robust data governance program. However, the rest of all do need to consider things like who is using the... [12 Nov 2009]
Future-proof your outsourcing: Stay flexible
Comment Talk to users William Benn explains how to do it. Having explored security and reliability in your IT outsourcing arrangements, today I turn the spotlight on the next critical dimension: scalability. There's little point... [12 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Is IT responsible for workers' output and errors?
Comment We often talk about the power of technology to unite colleagues, boost collaboration and improve working processes to increase efficiency and allow companies to produce more with the same amount of staff - all of which I... [10 Nov 2009]
Plain Talk about Training Payment Options
White Paper You know you need training; the trick today is how to pay for it and work it into your demanding schedule. Staffing and budgets are flat or declining, but the IT workload is rising. Yet even with today's lean budgets, many IT... [03 Nov 2009]
