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Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo The 3.7-inch touchscreen slider device arrives in the US today - where it's called Droid - but Motorola says it will also be coming to Germany and Italy "soon", under the Milestone moniker. It's two years since Google... [06 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
News NPD found that boxed copies of Windows 7 outsold their Vista equivalent by 234 per cent in the US. A recent survey of European and US IT professionals found that more than half of new corporate PCs are... [06 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News I got married in 1948 but the need to keep it secret was drilled into us so hard that it was 10 years before I told my husband what I did there," she said. It was impressive living in the surrounds of Woburn Abbey but... [05 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News Cheesbrough said that the key to a successful transition is compulsory training for staff on using the new system, warning that initially TMG swapped workers over to using the Google system with no formal training, a policy Cheesbrough... [04 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Social networks are useless for finding a job
Comment Let us know by posting a reader comment below While social networking sites can be fun for connecting with family and friends, they're no use when it comes to professional networking, says the Naked CIO. [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News Spire Healthcare IM&T director Marc O'Brien said the UK does not applaud success and doesn't respect the entrepreneurial spirit in the way the US does, warning: "I can see a future where the ideas and initial launches... [03 Nov 2009]
Magic Mouse - Apple's best ever?
Comment PC users taunted us. Second button envy haunted us. The Apple mouse has long been the weak link in its hardware set-ups. Seb Janacek asks: Can the new Magic Mouse change all that? I have a dream… a... [03 Nov 2009]
Microsoft to Office Accounting: Your number's up
News The Redmond giant said it will stop distributing the free Office Accounting and Office Accounting Express in the UK and US next month. Microsoft announced on Friday it is to kill off its Office Accounting product line. [02 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up Leaving the Halloween terrors behind us, let's talk of an issue similarly likely to strike horror into the sturdiest of office workers: should you be friends with your boss on Facebook? Which leaves us... [30 Oct 2009]
How to pay for your Amazon purchases with a feisty mango
News The PayPhrase service, launched yesterday in the US, will see Amazon users able to combine a set of payment details - such as their credit card information and shipping details - and then name the data with a memorable... [30 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment The much vaunted Windows 7 is now among us, and consumer pre-orders look strong. While Windows 7 solves most of the qualms about Vista, the new OS still has plenty of room to grow, says Quocirca's Clive Longbottom. [28 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Sales of e-readers are expected to double in the US in 2010. One recent legal controversy took place in July, when Amazon apologised to its US Kindle users for deleting copies of the George Orwell... [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet While analyst house ABI Research notes that AR technology has been with us for more than 15 years, the company is predicting dramatic growth in the take-up of the tech over the next five years - driven by mobile... [27 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.10.09
Round-Up It completes us. We British love our broadband. We're compelled to hug it, to adore it, to nuzzle it lovingly. It is our North, our South, our East and West; our working week and our Sunday rest. Broadband speed is now... [23 Oct 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News There is a tendency to write-off the UK software industry because most of the familiar software companies are in the US, said TechMarketView chairman Richard Holway who warned: "That would be a big mistake. [23 Oct 2009]
