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RSS break-upBeyond Universal Service: Characteristics of Americans without Telephones
White Paper The paper draws on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Census data, and covers the period 1980-1993, encompassing the distribution of telephone service before and after the break up of AT&T. This paper explores the characteristics of... [03 Jul 2008]
Peer-to-Peer Connectivity Using Firewall and Network Address Translator Traversal
White Paper Network Address Translators (NATs) and Firewalls, also collectively called middleboxes, create problems for establishing connections in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks: They limit the outbound connections to the Internet, do not allow incoming... [02 Jul 2008]
Choosing Between OpenMP and Explicit Threading Methods
White Paper The pragma statement that appears just before the for-loop tells the compiler to generate threaded code that will do the following: start up the appropriate number of threads for the run-time environment, break up the for-loop work across these... [30 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Less data equals more privacy
Comment For a brief time data protection and the impact of data breaches was staple tea-break conversation up and down the land. It's been a while since I've mentioned silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign, which is aimed at improving the way... [26 Jun 2008]
BCS warns over IT degree funding
News Around half of the 141,000 new entrants to the IT sector every year come from disciplines outside tech, according to the BCS, and more than a quarter (43,000) are people re-entering the workforce after a career break, early retirement or... [20 Jun 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study We were getting to the point where the computer room was filling up and things like our UPS, our generator, our air conditioning were all requiring some fairly serious maintenance as well," Carter said. [20 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly
Comment This all gets very irritating, all the more so because I engineered filtered, no-break power into everything and exercised extreme care with wiring and how equipment was positioned. The good news is that it can only all get better as we migrate... [13 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Exclusive report: silicon.com CIO50 3008 ¦ Female CIOs break through glass ceiling ¦ The CIO's route to the top ¦ Mars - The CIO training... [12 Jun 2008]
Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed
News The right IT investments can either make or break a company, meaning that an innovative and visionary CIO is vital to the success of any organisation. In the private and public sector the CIO is a key executive, whether it is in opening up new ways... [11 Jun 2008]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile From there, he went on to set up his own venture capital consultancy and advisor business with two partners in the midst of the internet bubble, and joined lastminute.com as CTO, up to its sale to Sabre/Travelocity. [11 Jun 2008]
Google trusts users with the Gmail testing reins
News Coleman wrote: "The idea behind Labs is that any engineer can go to lunch, come up with a cool idea, code it up, and ship it as a Labs feature. Email Addict blocks the screen for 15 minutes and makes you 'invisible' on Google Mail IM to encourage... [09 Jun 2008]
Photos: A snapshot of what HP's got up its sleeve
Photo HP Labs focuses on research and development of new technology that can potentially join the HP product portfolio or be licensed to other businesses.silicon.com went to the HP Labs facility in Bristol to check out what the researchers have been up to. [09 Jun 2008]
iPhone 2.0 - ready for business?
News Yesterday we looked at the predicted new features of the new iPhone in depth in part one of this article but today we examine whether this will be enough for Apple to break into the enterprise smart phone market dominated by the likes of RIM. [06 Jun 2008]
Google - the best workplace in the UK
News Google topped the list of the 50 best workplaces in the UK, compiled by research and management consultancy The Great Place to Work Institute, which uses employee surveys to evaluate the level of trust between staff and their employers - so it's... [28 May 2008]
HMRC tax credit system: Lost "almost £10bn"
News The Her Majesty's Revenue & Custom's (HMRC) system to give a tax break to families has lost £9.91bn in fraud, error and overpayments to date.silicon.com Financial Services Sign up for the FS newsletter today! [22 May 2008]
