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RSS Time OutMinority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
Comment The Mini debuted at a time when the 'Get a Mac' switch campaign was kicking off, and the BYOKDM (Bring Your Own Keyboard, Display and Mouse) ethos was aimed at encouraging Mac-curious PC users to make a change. [26 Nov 2009]
Beware the turf wars when merging comms
News Spending on UC among businesses worldwide is expected to rise from just $302m last year to $4.2bn in five years' time, according to industry watchers ABI Research. We foresee a booming market for managed services, simply... [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]
How the cloud is swallowing your comms
News According to TalkTalk, young people prefer technologies that allow them to contact whole groups of friends rather than individuals one at a time. Unified communications is migrating to the cloud, new research has found. [24 Nov 2009]
Is losing a mobile device really such a big deal?
Comment In that time the questions have very much moved from 'if' the tech is used to 'when and how'. Losing a mobile device is a common occurrence - but that's doesn't mean it's not serious. Jon Collins looks at what businesses... [24 Nov 2009]
Outsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News For example, for the service desk, if we have a lot of calls then Atos Origin are able to roll out a bigger team to handle them without us having to pay for that larger team each time we need it," she said. [24 Nov 2009]
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment I think there is a little bit more thought going into it now and so it takes a little bit more time. We had 33 physical servers at the time and we were rapidly running out of rack-space... [20 Nov 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: BlackBerry Storm 2
Photo SurePress touchscreen is good for slow, accurate tapping; speedy wi-fi and 3G connectivity; attractive screen; push email sends your messages to you in real-time; good apps available; 3.5mm headphone jack [20 Nov 2009]
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment You can view the newly published article, Time to raise the CIO's game, at McKinsey Quarterly silicon.com: Can you describe the 'new normal' for the business world? This] provides a significant challenge to IT leaders... [18 Nov 2009]
Trojan bank fraud gang sentenced
News Four men have been sentenced to prison time for being part of a gang that stole just under £500,000 from UK bank customers. The men were sentenced last Friday at Southwark Crown Court in London for their part in an... [17 Nov 2009]
Increase Reliability with IBM WebSphere File Transfer Edition (FTE)
White Paper Did you know these links require 3 to 4 times more time and effort to build and maintain versus SOA-based Application Integration projects? "Does your organization still use FTP software? Read this whitepaper to find... [16 Nov 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment When was the last time a customer wrote to thank their bank or insurer for services rendered? Which begs the question, why waste time pumping hot air into a vacuum? Twitter, for the benefit of those of... [16 Nov 2009]
Web Use and Misuse
White Paper Three out of four employers have had to deal with employees who waste time online, according to a recent survey by Employment Review magazine1. Companies had problems with employees misusing email, blogs... [13 Nov 2009]
Saving Money in Your Security Spending During a Financial Crisis
White Paper Now is the time for administrators and executives to look at ways of getting the most out of their IT budget. Belts are getting tighter around all budgets and IT budgets are no exception. But how can one... [13 Nov 2009]
Building Secure Software With Java
White Paper Java is much more secure than C and C++ because the byte-code verifier prohibits unsafe type coercions and address arithmetic, garbage collection prevents dangling pointers, run-time checks prohibit null pointer... [13 Nov 2009]
