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The Weekly Round-Up: 10.10.08
Round-Up In our always-on internet-connected, multi-device existence, sitting as we do at the heart of a network of smart phones, netbooks, laptops and PCs, emailing or text messaging your friends or colleagues is but a key stroke... [10 Oct 2008]
"Be cautious of the message, not suspicious of the tools"
Comment Jack Dorsey was inspired by the away messages in IM applications like AIM. Spam is part of this ecosystem and it needs to be dealt with but it will never go away and it will always evolve. The trio have... [10 Oct 2008]
Yahoo!-Microsoft: New deal on the table?
News In May, Microsoft walked away from its buyout offer of $47.5bn to snap up all of Yahoo! As Yahoo! stock reaches new lows, it appears a private equity fund that owns a small percentage of Yahoo! s stock has proposed a new... [10 Oct 2008]
Kiln builds a bigger insurance data pot
Case Study Five years ago, the family-owned insurance and reinsurance company decided to move away from its reliance on Lloyds of London and expand globally. Along with this shift in business strategy was a move... [09 Oct 2008]
'BlackBerry Storm was Vodafone's idea': RIM co-CEO
News By doing away with the keyboard for its inaugural mobile, Apple left rivals scrabbling to keep up with the consumer frenzy for touchscreen devices. After months of rumours percolating through the blogosphere, RIM has... [08 Oct 2008]
Photos: IBM's store of the future
Photo Esels do away with the time-consuming process of replacing paper price labels whenever there's a price change - an all-too frequent occurrence. The IBM business development centre in Hursley contains a number of... [08 Oct 2008]
Oyster card security vulnerabilities uncovered
News We deliberately tried to stay away from the hacker community. Details of vulnerabilities in the chipset used in London's Oyster travel smartcard have been released by Dutch researchers. The details were made public at... [08 Oct 2008]
The McCue Interview: Nigel Underwood, CIO, DHL
Comment In the office of DHL's CIO, Nigel Underwood, the Lincoln City Football Club calendar on the wall gives away his allegiance. Bracknell isn't the most glamorous of locations and from the outside, a drab, grey 1970's office... [08 Oct 2008]
Jonney Shih
AS Profile Asus' decision to ship its Eee with a Linux OS was also a bold step away from Windows - one that has inspired other laptop makers to follow suit, bringing change and innovation to the mobile PC market. [07 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo Even this is insufficient to store the vast amounts of the raw data produced by the LHC so its four detectors - which each look for different particles and energy signatures - have built-in electronics and smaller computer centres that... [06 Oct 2008]
Microsoft bows to demand and throws XP a lifeline
News That option was supposed to go away early next year, as Microsoft was going to stop supplying Windows XP media after 31 January. Bowing to continued demand, Microsoft has again extended the life of Windows XP. [06 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.10.08
Round-Up The latest recruitment campaign by MI6 sees it moving further away from its traditional recruitment channels. Apparently the Second Life campaign has been a hit so far with 99.5 per cent of its 2,500 staff completing a... [03 Oct 2008]
Chrome future, vintage PCs and credit crunch IT
News I never thought I'd shy away from Firefox but after the trouble I've had just trying to email someone with the problem, I've just given up. September's big stories were a mixed bag, with PCs of yesteryear, credit crunch... [03 Oct 2008]
Stopping data leakage: Exploiting your existing security investment
White Paper As attitudes to work and information continue to evolve away from those of the past, organizations have become more aware of the acute need to control the information that flows into, through, and out of their networks. [02 Oct 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo HTC unveiled its Touch 3G, one of two touchscreen handsets from the maker intended to tempt customers away from Apple's iPhone. Here's a driver giving the tech a spin. To see more click here. Photo credit: Ministry of... [02 Oct 2008]
