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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up In fact - as an aside - even Whitehall is putting IT on a diet, with the government's green IT champion, Chris Chant telling silicon.com the public sector has "stopped eating pies and put ourselves on a diet" when it... [20 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News As a result, the public sector has "stopped eating pies and put ourselves on a diet" when it comes to carbon, according to the government's green IT champion, Chris Chant. With the government hoping to offset or reduce... [13 Nov 2009]
Photos: Ubuntu unleashes the Karmic Koala
Photo Photo credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au Photo credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au Photo credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au Photo credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au Photo... [29 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive... [23 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News Chris Mines, analyst with Forrester Research explained: "There are companies that have decided that sustainability is a critical corporate initiative or priority for them. It's never been easy being green, especially... [22 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Acorn's success was partly down to the foresight and technical ability of its founders Chris Curry, Hermann Hauser and Hopper, who saw a chance to capture the personal computing market, which had been created with the... [07 Oct 2009]
Chris Hyman
AS Profile There is little sign of the economic downturn impacting on the fortunes of Chris Hyman's Serco Group. By August of this year the support services company had seen its half-yearly revenues grow to £1.95bn, an increase of... [29 Sep 2009]
Chris Anderson
AS Profile 'The Long Tail' is the name of a 2004 article in Wired magazine, written by current editor-in-chief Chris Anderson and subsequently expanded into a book of the same name. What's so Agenda Setting about a four-year-old... [29 Sep 2009]
Toptable books in new CTO
News MD of Toptable, Chris Wood, said technology is playing an increasing role in the company's global expansion. Online restaurant booking company Toptable has appointed a new chief technology officer to develop technology... [23 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council According to silicon.com's CIO Jury, the release late last month of Apple's latest OS, Snow Leopard, won't signal the company's entry into the business market. [21 Sep 2009]
Faster Payments: All your web banking are belong to us
News Faster Payments transactions continue to grow (photo credit: Chris Isherwood via Flickr.com under the following Creative Commons licence) Just over a year after it first launched, the Faster Payments service has taken... [17 Sep 2009]
Photos: Installing Apple's latest Mac OS X
Photo Photo credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au Photo credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au Photo credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au Photo credit: Chris Duckett/ZDNet.com.au Photo... [16 Sep 2009]
Code, not patents, for Microsoft open source foundation
News Microsoft has created the CodePlex Foundation, which claims it intends to bridge the gap between the open-source communities and commercial software companies. Microsoft has contributed $1m to the foundation and has filled out its board... [14 Sep 2009]
Video Case Study: Verizon UK
White Paper This video case study looks at how Chris Maylor, head of architecture services at Verizon UK, went about implementing vPro. [03 Sep 2009]
IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council The majority of the jury said they believe universities are not producing IT graduates with the right skills for their businesses - bad news for graduates competing for... [02 Sep 2009]
