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Photos: Ubuntu unleashes the Karmic Koala
Photo Gone is the "Add/Remove Applications" menu entry and in its place is the Ubuntu Software Center. Want to know how Ubuntu 9.10 will look once installed? silicon.com sister site ZDNet Australia takes you through the install. [29 Oct 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News These could include reconfiguring datacentre equipment to improve airflow and reduce cooling requirements, removing under-used and redundant applications and turning off the hardware associated with those... [29 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment Microsoft provides a decent approach to compatibility in Windows 7: not only do you get all the compatibility modes (which may or may not work) but you also get the opportunity to embed a full copy of XP into the Windows 7 environment -... [28 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News These would include support provisions, ease of integration, scalability and future applications direction - all of which can be weak for open source products. It would be unwise to save now but build in innate risk and... [28 Oct 2009]
Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo Users can view customised financial, HR, supply chain and customer relationship management analytics for free, as long as they own a licensed version of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus or Oracle Business... [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]
Hackers breach Guardian Jobs site
News Personal details included in users' job applications may have been accessed by the hackers, according to an email sent to affected users by Guardian Jobs on Saturday. The Guardian Jobs site has suffered a hack that could... [26 Oct 2009]
Augmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
News Augmented reality has existed for more than 15 years but has traditionally been used in military, automotive, and entertainment applications. GPS location accuracy is not adequate currently for many... [26 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News Following its sale by parent company Ford last year, car maker Jaguar Land Rover has had to face the thorny problem of cutting itself loose from Ford's web of business applications. JLR is spending £200m separating its... [26 Oct 2009]
Redefining the application lifecycle Management White Paper the application lifecycle
White Paper Realizing the full business potential of modernised applications means expanding traditional software development views. Only by adopting this unique approach to application lifecycle management (ALM), can you cut costs,... [26 Oct 2009]
Video Whitepaper: Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses
White Paper Watch the free, on-demand video whitepaper to learn how Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward toward empowering enterprises across the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a... [21 Oct 2009]
Video Whitepaper: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware
White Paper Its unique design principles-complete, integrated, hot-pluggable, and best-of-breed-improve the agility and intelligence of business applications while maximizing IT efficiency and lowering costs. Watch the free,... [21 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News If you are in a medium-sized organisation you may not have the capability to do the clean install, put back all of the applications and find out where all the data is for every machine. For those looking to make the... [21 Oct 2009]
Successful Agile with HP Quality Center - Market leading software for Quality Assurance
White Paper The complexity of testing is increasing as applications themselves become more complex and initial testing is increasingly difficult—trying to run all these tests in an agile environment compounds the problem even further. [21 Oct 2009]
Turbulent times call for an agile application foundation.
White Paper It also covers methods to ensure trust, management and security across business applications. Does your IT change as fast as the market? A service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a foundation that enables agility... [20 Oct 2009]
