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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]
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]
Revealed: The apps you'll have on your phone in 2012
News Mobile search is ranked number three on the Gartner list because of its high impact on technology innovation and industry revenue, but the analyst said the industry first needs to improve the user experience of mobile search so that... [18 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]
No more tax breaks for offshoring?
Comment However the basic place of supply rule applies to certain cases of outsourcing back-office administrative services such as call centre operations. Do you wish to continue your current offshore arrangements or consider... [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: Firefox through the ages
Photo While the official Mozilla effort still was working on the unified browser and email software package dating back to the Netscape era, Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross began work on a simplified browser initially called Phoenix. [10 Nov 2009]
Revealed: Your favourite Windows operating system
News A multitude of Microsoft operating systems have been launched into the world since the first versions of Windows appeared back in the early 1980s. But after all these years of development, which operating system software... [09 Nov 2009]
BT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News Back in 2008 BT announced it would be spending £1.5bn to bring fibre broadband to around 10 million homes and businesses by 2012. BT is offering a free taste of superfast broadband to businesses in Glasgow. [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo Firstly, it was the first Apple mouse I used, back when the whole one-button thing was quite charming. Lisa mouse Apple's Lisa of the early 1980s was among the first computers to sport a mouse - albeit a boxy and clunky... [03 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine?
Comment What started back in 2006 as a niche product aimed at children in the developing world, have quickly become the latest must-have piece of hardware - with many people considering them not as a second machine, but indeed... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo The Wave app copies all of the information contained in the wave back into Booyah's customer records, held on a Salesforce system, so customer service staff can pull out any useful information when needed. [30 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment Looking back over the past 40 years we see the rate of economic crises is speeding up, and the severity of each gets worse. Compiled at the IoD, Pall Mall, London, and dispatched to silicon.com via a... [29 Oct 2009]
