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RSS chrisOnline auction slashes gov't laptop costs in half
News Chris Chettle, ICT commercial delivery manager of OGC, added in a statement: "We have always been convinced of the potential for savings through collaboration and e-auctions, and are really pleased with these latest results. [22 Aug 2008]
Birmingham to "enrich lives" through tech
News Chris Leggett, corporate development director of the Service Birmingham joint venture created for the project, added: "Our vision is to create a world class ICT service. Birmingham City Council's technology transformation project is being driven by... [08 Aug 2008]
Firefox 3.1 coming soon?
News Developer Chris Double wrote in his blog: "The backend has been committed to the main Mozilla source code and is enabled by default. Developers working on the next version of Firefox aim to release a beta to the public in August. [07 Aug 2008]
IT chiefs brace for recession
News Chris Ford, IT Director, Nottingham City Council For the second time in a row, the silicon.com CIO Jury is hung, this time over the issue of preparedness for a UK recession. CIO50 2008: Top 10 The UK's leading CIOs revealed… [04 Aug 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News The tool, which has been in use for several years at Google, handles the process in which the company encodes almost any sort of structured information that needs to be passed across the network or stored on a disk, Google open-source programs... [11 Jul 2008]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News The survey claims "virtualisation is mainstream and is becoming a standard deployment platform for applications in data centres around Europe", according to Chris Ingle, research director for IDC's European systems group. [08 Jul 2008]
Toshiba Case Study: Chris Carroll
White Paper Chris Carroll is a mobile warrior for whom face-to-face contact with customers is critical to success. Chris spends most of his time on the road, and knows that the greater the impact he can make to a customer whilst he is in front of them, the... [03 Jul 2008]
New Realities New Rules - Beyond Blocking, Security Enablement
White Paper Join Chris King from the META Group and Ron Moritz from CA to discuss the significant trends in the security industry that have caused a shift from reactive to proactive security planning. In addition, the two security experts will discuss the... [03 Jul 2008]
Like Most Companies, CompuCom Saw Its Volume of Spam Explode Exponentially
White Paper But when Chris Odom and Travis Parker, members of CompuCom’s network services team, went looking to upgrade their content filtering solution, they had more on their minds than blocking spam. Like most companies, CompuCom saw its volume of spam... [03 Jul 2008]
Network-Based IP-VPNs: Sprint IP Intelligent Frame Relay built on Nortel Networks Passport
White Paper Chris Chartrand, Senior Manager, Carrier IP Services Product Marketing, Nortel Networks, and Isaac Negusse, IP Intelligent Frame Relay Product Manager, Sprint, discussed the architecture, features and values offered to service providers and... [03 Jul 2008]
Case Study: PPM Energy Generates Productivity with Citrix GoToMeeting Corporate
White Paper "When we need to act quickly and put something together, GoToMeeting Corporate is there," says Chris Reavis, manager of Enterprise Infrastructure for PPM Energy. Thanks to GoToMeeting Corporate, PPM Energy executives don't have to wait for in... [27 Jun 2008]
Bill Gates' legacy hailed by IT chiefs
News Chris Broad, head of IM & technology, UK Atomic Energy Authority Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 after dropping out of his course at Harvard University and silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel unanimously voted that he leaves behind a... [26 Jun 2008]
iPhone: Beware the wi-fi security threat
News Speaking at the IDC SecurityVision conference in Sydney on Thursday, Chris Gatford, senior security consultant for Pure Hacking, told delegates that the arrival of the iPhone in Australia and gradual adoption by business will "elevate risk to a... [12 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment Chris Goodman, Fareham Chris Walker, Staffordshire Readers were also busy commenting on the "ring of steel" automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera rollout in Manchester, while ID cards were a hot topic once again… [12 Jun 2008]
When is a supplier gift/junket inappropriate?
News Chris Broad, head of IT, UK Atomic Energy Authority Free junkets, gifts, trips to big sporting events and free gifts are all still tools of the trade used by tech suppliers to try and get business out of CIOs and IT buyers - or 'building... [06 Jun 2008]
