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News Users have a screen and terminal (or thin client) on their desk, which connects to the operating system running on the server via the local network. People are recognising that if they want to control their data then... [01 Dec 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can I become faster and smarter?
Comment Compiled on the M6 driving to Liverpool and dispatched to silicon.com a couple of weeks later via a free wi-fi connection in my hotel. I just cannot work any faster or smarter - I seem to have exhausted every degree of... [30 Nov 2009]
Spam threat to email marketing
News Photo credit: pareeerica via Flickr under the following Creative Commons Licence) The newsletter is the most popular form of email marketing but there has also been a significant rise in promotions via... [25 Nov 2009]
Photos: Sony Ericsson debuts see-through Xperia phone
Photo Mauritzson said Sony Ericsson envisages the device as a secondary phone which smartphone owners swap their SIM into - via the flap pictured at the left - when they go out in the evenings. Mobile maker Sony Ericsson has... [25 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves
Comment Compiled at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi network in a London coffee shop four days later. Over the past six months the internet has seen a noticeable slow down and an... [23 Nov 2009]
Illegal downloaders crackdown: Digital Economy Bill to cut them off
News Photo credit: mutednarayan via Flickr under the following Creative Commons Licence) Internet users who illegally download copyrighted content could have their connection cut off as part of the Digital Economy Bill... [23 Nov 2009]
How to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News Photo credit: nikoretro via Flickr under the following Creative Commons Licence) How does a business pay less for its IT services when it's already getting them at rock bottom prices? It takes a long hard look at whether... [20 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Android smartbook fired up by Qualcomm's Snapdragon
Photo While the smartbook may resemble a common-or-garden netbook, it sports a battery life of more than eight hours and always-on connectivity - via 3G, wi-fi and other radios - in the manner of a smartphone. [20 Nov 2009]
Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News Photo credit: sander.duivestein via Flickr.com under the following Creative Commons Licence). Could some of the big names in outsourcing be among the victims of the much-hyped shift to cloud computing? [19 Nov 2009]
Firefox 3.6 beta aims to improve stability
Firefox is still open to third-party extensions via its official add-on mechanism. Mozilla released a third beta of Firefox 3.6 on Wednesday, adding stability and performance features, and said it hopes to lock down the... [19 Nov 2009]
Revealed: The apps you'll have on your phone in 2012
News Photo credit: Gonzalo Baeza Hernández via Flickr.com under the following Creative Commons Licence) The increasing adoption of smartphones and the success of app stores has ignited the mobile apps market (follow the link... [18 Nov 2009]
T-Mobile workers accused over customer record sales
News Photo credit: hirnrinde via Flickr under the following Creative Commons Licence ) T-Mobile employees have been accused of selling millions of customer records and could face prosecution by the UK's privacy watchdog, the... [18 Nov 2009]
Photos: How Dubai's driverless trains get their wi-fi
Photo Photo credit: philcampbell via Flickr.com under the following Creative Commons Licence) Photo credit: philcampbell via Flickr.com under the following Creative Commons Licence The Dubai Municipality is in... [17 Nov 2009]
Accelerate Your Cloud Implementation with IBM CloudBurst and Intel Xeon Processors
White Paper CloudBurst allows you to automate Service Management capabilities across your virtualized cloud environment via a Self-Service Portal. Do you need to determine where to start your cloud deployment and provide immediate ROI? [16 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Facebook saves teen from prison
Comment Dispatched to silicon.com via free wi-fi at The IoD in London two days later. Compiled on the M6 while travelling from Birmingham to Ipswich. I just chanced upon a news story about an innocent New York teenager who had... [16 Nov 2009]
