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RSS USBT shelves Phorm rollout plans
News We want to park Phorm, to give us an opportunity to see how it gets on with other ISPs. In a statement issued on Monday, the telecommunications giant said it would be suspending its plans to implement Phorm's Webwise... [06 Jul 2009]
Inbox: ID cards U-turn: The end is nigh?
Comment Telecoms companies may tell us it's good to talk but they seem to be struck dumb when it comes to communicating with their own customers, according to a new poll. The reason a lot of these companies get away with this... [06 Jul 2009]
Naked CIO: The board must follow corporate policy
Comment It is nether practical or cost effective for organisations to develop locally when China, India, the US and many of our European neighbours have much better incentive programs to support technology businesses. [06 Jul 2009]
Satyam feeling 'bullish' with new governance
News On the other hand, all other clients [that] have stayed with us are staying with us, and are giving us further orders. In the UK and Ireland, Satyam's existing clientele had signed... [06 Jul 2009]
Oh, What a Lovely War!
White Paper Despite a downturn in the global economy, 2008 saw a number of TMS vendors claiming up to 50 per cent growth in sales across the year, according to a new survey by US-based researcher, Aite Group. All vendors profiled in... [04 Jul 2009]
Heatwave? No sweat for CIOs
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a... [03 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up It's an appalling idea and it won't be long before all these gadgets start ganging up on us. Controller of BBC Four, Richard Klein, said: "Those of us that lived through the Eighties will remember the... [03 Jul 2009]
Take a trip to the future of air travel
News One of the key areas for us, which will be the secret sauce, is making use of context," Peters told the Air Transport IT Summit in Cannes this week. In the future, your mobile phone could become your holiday concierge,... [03 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo June also saw performers in the UK giving a show in the US thanks to 3D holograms beamed thousands of miles across the Atlantic. From sustainable mobiles to feature-rich smartphones: June was also the month the Palm Pre... [03 Jul 2009]
More privacy choices in Facebook revamp
News The new controls will first be tested with 40,000 users in the US before rolling out to a bigger, international group of beta testers and then worldwide. Revamped privacy settings are coming soon to Facebook. [02 Jul 2009]
Why Google's security arm doesn't have a war room
News Instead, computerised systems monitor three billion messages per day that flow in and out of customer systems and pass through Postini's thousands of machines in datacentres around the US and in Europe before hitting the... [02 Jul 2009]
Online advertisers pledge to tell us what they're after
News Online advertisers are proposing a mix of disclosures to consumers about what information is being collected, and special protections for children and sensitive information in an effort to head off tough legislation. [02 Jul 2009]
ATM hack talk pulled from security conference
News However, the affected ATM vendor has expressed to us concern about publicly disclosing the research findings before its constituents were fully protected. It's almost security conference season in Las Vegas and with one... [02 Jul 2009]
Microsoft mega datacentre heads to Dublin
News Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new datacentre in Dublin, describing it as the largest it has built outside the US. The site is what Microsoft calls a "mega datacentre", a class the company has constructed previously... [02 Jul 2009]
British Airways: No mobiles on old planes
News The research we have done on voice tells us that the vast majority of customers do not want it. British Airways CEO Willie Walsh has said the airline will not extend in-flight mobile comms to any of its aircraft already... [01 Jul 2009]
