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RSS back upMinority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
Comment This got me thinking about the launch of the Mac Mini back in January 2005. Apple's Mac Mini could really have become the "most important Mac", as Steve Jobs once called it. Seb Janacek explains what happened instead. [26 Nov 2009]
Beware the turf wars when merging comms
News Adoption will be held back by internal corporate "turf wars", a widespread lack of understanding of the benefits unified communications can deliver, and a high initial cost, the analysts predict. Enterprise... [25 Nov 2009]
Spam threat to email marketing
News And nearly one fifth (17 per cent) of marketers surveyed are not failing to remove email addresses from mailing lists after messages bounce back. Marketing emails are at risk of being blocked as spam because businesses... [25 Nov 2009]
IT skills shortage squashed by recession?
News The result returns demand for IT workers back to 2004's level, when 22 per cent of respondents to the Skills Survey reported empty IT seats. The icy winds of economic gloom have put paid to talk of a tech skills shortage... [25 Nov 2009]
Photos: Sony Ericsson debuts see-through Xperia phone
Photo Choosing a see-through screen was a way "to put thumbscrews on the UI designers", according to Mauritzson - meaning the icons of the user interface had to have the same 'back to basics' principles of the hardware design. [25 Nov 2009]
Outsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News Plumpton decided the best approach was to end its existing outsourcing deals, bring infrastructure management and business analysis roles back in house and to sign a deal with a single outsourcer Atos Origin to handle... [24 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome OS
Cheat Sheet On top of that all user data is encrypted as its sent back and forth over the internet and apps are sandboxed when they are run, so malicious code can't interfere with multiple programs. Alright you've convinced me, how... [23 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves
Comment When fibre was rolled out into the long lines (during the 1980s and 1990s), network staffing reduced by more than 50 per cent, truck rolls went down by 90 per cent and building stock was cut back dramatically. [23 Nov 2009]
Doing business with citizen developers: Beware the legal pitfalls
Comment It is unlikely that any individual citizen developer will carry adequate insurance (if any) for such risks or have sufficient assets to back up such protection. Citizen developers represent an innovative... [23 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up Due for a serious upgrade or a one-way trip to the skip around the back of the office. Wheezing. Coughing and spluttering. Unable to complete basic tasks without falling over. No, the Round-Up is not... [20 Nov 2009]
How to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News Such an approach was taken by the Royal Mail Group (RMG), which has cut its annual IT spend by 10 per cent by paring back its outsourced services. Once every service provided by CSC had been catalogued, RMG assessed... [20 Nov 2009]
Does your business really need an office?
Comment The average coffee shop puts the sofas in the window and straight-back wooden chairs everywhere else. In this age of mobile working, should businesses consider ditching their offices? Richard Leyland weighs... [17 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News Back in 2006 when the Identity Act was passed you had ministers talking about issuing the first cards within a year or two," he said. The controversial ID project has hit another delay, with the government missing its... [16 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.11.09
Round-Up But back to the worm: luckily for the majority of iPhone users, ikee has proved to be less catchy than one of Astley's songs. Warning to iPhone users: you may find the contents of this first part of the... [13 Nov 2009]
Optimized VMware Backup and Recovery With EMC Avamar and EMC CLARiiON Replication Technology
White Paper There are many ways to back up VMware within enterprise environments. This paper discusses the implementation considerations, data flow, and a test reference architecture to optimize large-scale... [12 Nov 2009]
