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Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo As real-time mobile services become more omnipresent, we will begin to see some businesses trying to reach customers within their nearby location. The Vizit digital photo frame, seen here, is made by a small start-up... [09 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine? Part II
Comment I then spent a rather ridiculous amount of time searching for the power-on button before eventually locating it on the end of the hinge. However, the one issue I had throughout my time using it was the... [09 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up It probably doesn't help that all our best techies are spending all of their free time clearing out spyware from their mates' PCs for cash or beer when they should be thinking of how to invent the next... [06 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment Infosys is evaluating multiple acquisition targets at any given time. Indian outsourcers certainly have the cash - so why aren't they buying up their competitors? Saritha Rai finds out. They have... [06 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News The best thing was the companionship and camaraderie, we were mostly all 17 to 19 and, for many of us, it was our first time away from home and our parents," said Osborne. One did not realise at the time... [05 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News It also found that staff spend nine per cent less time searching for documents and emails and seven per cent less time managing their inbox. Businesses thinking of switching to cloud computing should... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Over time, Microsoft expects to invest $500m in the Chicago facility. Microsoft recently opened its Chicago datacentre. In its first phase, the ground floor of the facility is designed to hold up to 56 containers, each... [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News So by the time it gets large enough to be really noticed it will look like a US company. Similarly Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director at publisher Hachette Filipacchi, said: "Oracle and Microsoft are old-world software... [03 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The National Police Improvement Agency has signed the £39m contract with Airwave, the company that provides the mobile radio network used by every UK police force and currently being rolled out to every ambulance trust... [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo The Wave platform offers users a chance to chat and work together in real-time within a window in a web browser that Google calls a 'wave'. People can exchange real-time IM, photos, videos, maps and... [02 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine?
Comment So - now is the time to put it to the test. Netbooks have been enjoying the spotlight of late - but are they suitable for the workplace? Bethan Jones puts one to the test. Recently I was quietly enjoying my skinny... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo Using the platform, individuals can access shared windows called 'waves' where they can collaborate in real-time, swapping IMs, photos, videos, maps and documents as they work together. Earlier this year, Google launched... [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. After all, Halloween is... [30 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment Chaos is like that: it comes from a direction you are not looking, via a mechanism you did not anticipate and at a time that is really inconvenient! Compiled at the IoD, Pall Mall, London, and dispatched to silicon.com... [29 Oct 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should I add my boss as a Facebook friend?
Comment Result: It's time to look for a new job. silicon.com's Natasha Lomas deconstructs this Digital Dilemma… It's the mother of digital conundrums: you log into your Facebook account and there's a friend request from a work... [28 Oct 2009]
