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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up A recent report from analyst firm TechMarketView found that the UK software industry is in fine fettle, although much more needs to be done to support the growth of small tech firms. Question: What do Britain's... [06 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
News According to research by analyst NPD Group, Windows 7's first week after release blew Vista's out of the water. That Windows 7 is more popular than Vista is no surprise - but just how much more love is Microsoft's latest... [06 Nov 2009]
Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
News Financial services is not making the steepest cuts, however: that honour goes to the agriculture mining and construction industry with a 9.2 per cent year-on-year fall, followed by the discrete manufacturing industry with an 8.5 per cent... [04 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News New OSes such as Android and Maemo will cut away at Symbian market share," Allen Nogee, In-Stat analyst, said in a statement, adding: "Although there are relatively few open source OS-based smartphones in the market... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo The wave is opened by a home loans manager and a business analyst who use Gravity to design the business process model for selling insurance on mortgages offered by the bank. To help design the process for selling... [02 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News At the datacentre level, the main thing that has happened over the last couple of years is that, whereas previously people didn't care too much about the efficiency of their datacentres, suddenly everybody cares," said Gartner... [29 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]
Augmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
News Augmented reality - the process of superimposing digital information or objects onto real-time video streams in order to create the illusion that they are part of the physical scene - will be pulling in revenues of more than $350m by... [26 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News No stranger to Gartner's strategic lists, virtualisation - however, this time the analyst identifies live migration as a key technology for CIOs to have their eye on. 2009 may not be over yet but analysts have already... [22 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News Mark Blowers, principal analyst at research house Ovum, explained: "If you have to make a large investment, I don't think you could swing it just on sustainability benefits in the current climate, whereas perhaps 18... [22 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News According to James Governor, principal analyst at RedMonk, the adoption of Windows 7 will put that of Windows Vista in the shade. The signs are that the shift to Windows 7 will begin in earnest next year, with Quocirca... [21 Oct 2009]
2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
News By next year, however, the analyst predicts spending will see year-on-year growth of 3.3 per cent. If you haven't guessed already: 2009 was a bad year for IT spending, analysts have found. But fear not - things are... [20 Oct 2009]
Manage security and compliance in an adverse economy in 2009 and beyond
White Paper Learn how to successfully safeguard your enterprise and manage the burden of compliance with Kristin Lovejoy, Director, IBM Corporate Security Strategy and Scott Crawford of analyst firm EMA. This webcast discusses how... [20 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News Gartner analyst Rakesh Kumar told silicon.com that because project managers buy more new hardware and new software for each project, consolidation is not happening - and that IT departments need to be going back and... [19 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: The five things you need to be thinking about now
News According to analyst house Gartner, there are a number of issues companies should already be considering ahead of any planned switch - including the need to put an end to Windows XP. The looming end of support for... [15 Oct 2009]