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RSS all in one placeFirst students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News There are also two ITMB grads from Birmingham City University and one from Greenwich University - all of whom received First Class honours. McKibbin has secured a place on British Airways' IT Graduate Programme in Newcastle, to start this September... [24 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment So earlier this week I found myself in east London, getting kitted out in very big boots and a hard hat to visit a part of the Northern Outfall Sewer, built in 1862-3 and one of the city's six main interceptory sewers. [24 Jul 2008]
Malware-infected site detected every five seconds
News The security threat from email attachments has fallen dramatically during the same period, dropping from one infected attachment in every 332 emails in the first six months of 2007 to one in every 2,500 during the first six months of 2008. [23 Jul 2008]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News It said OneTouch will now be phased in to all 16 of its company-owned coffee bars around the UK, with discussions taking place with franchise outlets to extend the tech across the entire chain in the coming year. [23 Jul 2008]
Soham report IT systems still not in place
News The Impact national intelligence system, intended to be a one stop shop to check on the background of offenders, has been pushed back until 2011 despite initially being due for completion in 2007. All were key recommendations in the Bichard report... [17 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News We need clear and unambiguous regulation in place before we start shelling out huge sums of money," the spokesperson said on Wednesday. However, a spokesperson for Carphone Warehouse, one such provider, said on Wednesday that BT's announcement was... [17 Jul 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo This photo story is a peek into one of the world's great supercomputer labs housed inside the US's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a leading research institution and the site of the reactor in which plutonium for the first atomic bombs was refined... [14 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment Written on the flight back to London and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in the lounge at Heathrow later the same day. We all know it when we see it and we can get irritated when it's absent. Good design is one of those abstract things that are... [09 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment Acquiring revenue in the first couple of years was a hard task and it meant staff from all parts of the business - editorial, sales, marketing and IT development pulled together in a way not really seen at other, bigger publishers. [07 Jul 2008]
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News One of the signs that this will take place is Moonlight - the Novell-sponsored, open source, Linux-based implementation of the Silverlight web application development platform - which Microsoft helped build. [07 Jul 2008]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News We will be the first industry to have compulsory ID passes, even before the voluntary scheme is in place. ID cards for 'airside' workers - those who work beyond airport security checks - will become compulsory in 2009. [07 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment Of course this is all outside school and done in spite of what they are taught there! Students developing an interest in how their computer worked, being able to explore, modify and get involved and then go on to work in IT. [03 Jul 2008]
Fact Sheet: U.S. - Canada Land Borders
White Paper US-VISIT entry procedures are currently in place at 115 airports and 15 seaports. Exit procedures are being piloted in four airports and one seaport and will be operational in additional airports and seaports within the next few months. [03 Jul 2008]
Web Wombat Search Engine Accents the Power of DB2 in B2B Applications
White Paper They found that they needed an enterprise data management solution in place of our existing Paradox database, hardware with much more processing power and a good deal more bandwidth. One IBM RS/6000 S80 server and one RS/6000 Workstation 43P (260... [03 Jul 2008]
How to Choose the Right Location Solution
White Paper The objective is to help to avoid some common misconceptions, such as equating a location solution with Radio Frequency ID (RFID) system, or believing that each technology excludes all the others or that the location solution is independent from... [03 Jul 2008]
