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Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The government has announced plans to make Whitehall's computer systems wholly carbon neutral by 2020 by adopting various green IT strategies, including automatically powering down PCs, configuring virtual servers and selective deployments of thin... [17 Jul 2008]
Courts to save millions with streamlined tech
News The £7.2m secure web-based application pulls information together from police, CPS and court computer systems to chart defendants' progress.silicon.com Public Sector It provides a rapid snapshot of the criminal justice system allowing problems with... [17 Jul 2008]
Soham report IT systems still not in place
News His recommendations include a full review of IT systems related to criminality information management systems; urgent IT fixes to existing systems to improve information management; information sharing to become a priority in IT projects; and... [17 Jul 2008]
Photos: How to destroy your hard drive
Photo Disposing of computer hard drives in a secure and safe way has become a hot topic, especially after the high profile data leaks in the past year. Organisations like Computer Aid International will take a hard drive off your hands and put them to... [17 Jul 2008]
Apple OS gaining ground on Windows
News While Windows certainly still dominates the computer market, Apple's share continues to grow. Apple's gains on Windows are particularly painful given that US computer shipments only grew 4.2 per cent, again according to Gartner. [17 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry PDF flaw puts business networks at risk
News RIM said: "If a BlackBerry smart phone user on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server opens and views the specially crafted PDF file attachment on the BlackBerry smart phone, the arbitrary code execution could compromise the computer. [17 Jul 2008]
Study of Network on Chip Resources Allocation for QoS Management
White Paper A network on chip draws on concepts inherited from distributed systems and computer networks subject areas to interconnect IP cores in a structured and scalable way. The increasing complexity of integrated circuits and application requirements... [17 Jul 2008]
QoS Monitoring System on IP Networks
White Paper At the current development stage of computer networks, the emergence of new applications that use the high performance available is unavoidable. To help the maintenance of QoS services and QoS provisioning mechanisms, this work proposes a QoS monitor. [17 Jul 2008]
Freedom4 spreads WiMax love to students
News College principal, Ioan Morgan, said in a statement: "The College has a tradition of working with cutting edge companies in every sector, ranging from engineering to computer games manufacturers. WiMax provider Freedom4 is spreading long range... [16 Jul 2008]
Seagate unleashes 1.5TB desktop
News Michael Wingert, vice president of Seagate's personal computer division, said: "Organisations and consumers of all kinds worldwide continue to create, share and consume digital content at levels never before seen, giving rise to new markets, new... [15 Jul 2008]
London travellers hit by Oyster outage
News Travellers in London were forced to pay full price fares on Saturday as the computer system for the Oyster travel smartcard encountered technical problems during the morning. Card readers on the Transport for London (TfL) network weren't working... [14 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News He added this is similar to what happened with computer science several decades ago when academics from the electronics and maths worlds came together. The study of web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to lay the foundations... [14 Jul 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo Another one of the lab's supercomputers, this is IBM's Blue Gene, currently rated the 74th most powerful computer in the world, at 28 teraflops. The computer is liquid-cooled, and piping was installed into the floor for that purpose. [14 Jul 2008]
My 15 minutes with Bill Gates
Comment Before becoming a journalist I had had a real job as a computer graphics programmer, working with some very high-end systems that cost, believe it or not, upwards of $250,000. The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader? [11 Jul 2008]
Syncroness Chooses ADC's Revolutionary CopperTen 10-Gigabit Ethernet UTP Cabling for New Headquarters
White Paper Syncroness employs more than 30 mechanical engineers who use the most-advanced Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software to invent or improve a wide variety of products; from golf clubs to exercise machines, medical devices to products used in space... [11 Jul 2008]
