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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.11.09
Round-Up Which might be a pleasant or unpleasant surprise for the unsuspecting recipient, depending on the picture. Much more of this and the Round-Up will be forced to don a leotard and make a fitness video.... [27 Nov 2009]
Photos: When hackers get together to do the world a favour
Photo hope to seed a community of developers that will create new technologies and use existing ones that can be used by disaster relief workers. The Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California, is a community of hackers who have... [27 Nov 2009]
Zurich inks $2.9bn outsourcing megadeal with CSC
News Virtualisation will be the key plank of the deal, with CSC charged with turning Zurich's datacentres into a "fully modernised, flexible and highly virtualised operation". Zurich Financial Services has announced an... [27 Nov 2009]
eBay apps lets users bid from a BlackBerry
News The app is available in the US and Canada, and can be downloaded from BlackBerry App World. eBay has released an app for BlackBerry. The application, co-developed by the auction site and RIM, lets users search, track and... [27 Nov 2009]
Bangalore blooming into innovation hothouse
Comment The fact Bangalore is within a five-hour flight to 70 per cent of the world's population is turning out to be a strategic advantage. To be sure, Bangalore has its challenges. Years ago, when the world... [27 Nov 2009]
Minority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
Comment You'd need to be a damn committed switcher to go for it. On the surface, this may sound like just another hyperbolic quote from Jobs but it had the potential to be true. Had the Mini evolved differently,... [26 Nov 2009]
Photos: The new gadgets and tech services up Orange's sleeve
Photo Orange TV Player, which previously only showed TV programmes using mobile networks, will be wi-fi compatible from the first quarter of next year. ON can also set preferences on how contactable a user is to each group -... [26 Nov 2009]
Tesco Mobile to get a taste of Apple's iPhone
News Tesco hopes to have the iPhone in stores by Christmas, and it will be available on a contract or pay-as-you-go plan, according to a Tesco Mobile spokeswoman. Tesco Mobile has announced today it will stock Apple's iPhone... [25 Nov 2009]
Beware the turf wars when merging comms
News But despite the uptick, it won't all be plain sailing for UC. Adoption will be held back by internal corporate "turf wars", a widespread lack of understanding of the benefits unified communications can... [25 Nov 2009]
Spam threat to email marketing
News More than half of the 157 marketing managers surveyed by the DMA Email Marketing Council said their business did not restrict the number of messages that could be sent to an email account in a given period. [25 Nov 2009]
IT skills shortage squashed by recession?
News The importance of having both business and technical skills to succeeding in IT continues to be the view of the vast majority of respondents - cited by 71 per cent this year. Asked to rate the statement 'business skills... [25 Nov 2009]
Photos: Sony Ericsson debuts see-through Xperia phone
Photo The see-through display is a world first, according to Sony Ericsson, requiring battery, memory card and antenna to be miniaturised to fit inside the bottom portion of the device. The HSUPA device was demoed today at a... [25 Nov 2009]
Why you must rein in your power users
Comment The privileged users that manage your IT systems must be monitored as closely - if not more - than standard users, says Bob Tarzey. Quocirca's research shows that the take-up of certain IT security standards is high: for... [25 Nov 2009]
How the cloud is swallowing your comms
News The shift to a more cloud-centric approach can be seen in the way vendors are now positioning UC as a service rather than a product. Unified communications is migrating to the cloud, new research has found. [24 Nov 2009]
Is losing a mobile device really such a big deal?
Comment If a company secret is released into the wild, it can be copied; if customer data is released, there is a compliance cost as well as reputational damage. In other words, the amount of data that could quite comfortably... [24 Nov 2009]
