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Outsourcing: Not just about cutting costs?

News Speakers at the Financial Times Global Outsourcing and Offshoring Conference agreed that companies making a success of outsourcing no longer see low-cost labour as their main motivation. Global outsourcing has moved past corporate penny pinching...

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[12 May 2008]

Conference Company Improves IT Management With New Tools

whitepaper IT staff at conference manager Kenes International used a variety of tools and manual processes to maintain 18 servers and 150 computers. Working with Microsoft Certified Partner Dario, it implemented Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007.

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 1: Why and When Should You Choose SOA? - IBM Technical Leaders Answer Pressing Questions About IT Architecture

whitepaper Take the question of an architect attending an SOA conference hosted by the Open Group. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a de facto standard for developing component-based applications that can be accessed over the network (whether...

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

Premise IP-PBX Checklist

whitepaper Do you use conference calls--how large and across how many locations? Everything you'll need to know before talking with a premise-based PBX provider. This checklist organizes all of the basic information about your current situation that you'll...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, provider, locations, pbx

[10 May 2008]

Microsoft's next plan: Make over Live Search

News Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off some improvements to its Live Search product at a company-sponsored advertising conference later this month. Chairman Bill Gates said to reporters in Japan...

Tags: live search, yahoo, microsoft

[08 May 2008]

Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps

News Sun officially started its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco this week with a series of keynote presentations designed to showcase JavaFX, the company's new rich internet-application (RIA) technology, due to be launched to developers...

Tags: ria, java, sun

[08 May 2008]

Microsoft claims can go it alone online

News Speaking at a Merrill Lynch technology conference, Hall said: "We've withdrawn the offer and moved on, and now are focused on how we grow as fast as possible organically. In the wake of Microsoft's decision to pull its Yahoo!

Tags: aol, google, yahoo, microsoft

[07 May 2008]

SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys

News In a Friday press conference, SAP president Bill McDermott referred to the idea of making SAP applications natively available on BlackBerry smart phones as "record-breaking and ground-shaking". SAP and RIM have announced a "co-innovation...

Tags: blackberry, rim, sap

[06 May 2008]

Photos: Tech ensures a smoother course

Photo Below are the controls that allow Josse to dial-in to the video conference. If you can do a video conference, you do it, but it may not always be possible if you are concentrating on sailing. She is packed with sophisticated communications that...

Tags: yacht, ellen mcarthur, bt

[02 May 2008]

Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support

News Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware procurement processes to "strongly encourage" the delivery of open-source drivers for...

Tags: lenovo, linux, dell, open source

[02 May 2008]

Video: Business security threats

Video silicon.com asked security experts attending the annual Infosec security conference at London's Olympia what they feel are the biggest security threats facing businesses today. There were some interesting answers.

Tags: industry, threat, business, security

[01 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News The products, announced at an IBM business-partner conference in Los Angeles, are designed to measure power consumption and reduction across energy-hungry computer data centres that run corporate networks and websites.

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

Microsoft earmarks $1.5bn for Yahoo! staff

News The documents include transcripts of a conference call hearing on 24 March between lawyers for Yahoo! Microsoft plans to set aside $1.5bn for employee retention at Yahoo! should it succeed in its unsolicited buyout bid for the internet search...

Tags: staff, yahoo, microsoft

[30 Apr 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment I had missed my annual pilgrimage to the great security bazaar at London's Olympia because I had been speaking at the IDC conference in Milan. Five years ago, hopes were high that cyber crime could be cracked.

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'

News These comments echoed earlier statements by Microsoft product unit manager David Cross, who said in a speech at the RSA Conference in San Francisco earlier this month that UAC was deliberately designed to "annoy users", in order to put pressure on...

Tags: hack, uac, vista

[29 Apr 2008]

FSA warns banks to wise up on security

News Speaking at the FSA annual conference on financial crime, FSA director, financial crime and intelligence division Philip Robinson said: "It is worrying that despite increased public awareness of the impact that identity theft can have on customers...

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

[25 Apr 2008]

Microsoft dashes Yahoo!'s hopes of higher bid

News Microsoft chief financial officer Chris Liddell said on a conference call yesterday: "Speed is of the essence for the deal to make sense. He was echoing a public threat made by chief executive Steve Ballmer at a conference near Milan on Wednesday...

Tags: microsoft, yahoo

[25 Apr 2008]

Hacking 'goodies' get industry body

News The Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (Crest) made its public debut this week at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London. An industry association has been created for ethical hackers, in a bid to reassure buyers of systems and...

Tags: body, industry, hacking

[25 Apr 2008]

Ballmer: Windows XP may live and breathe for longer

News According to Reuters, during a news conference Ballmer said: "XP will hit an end-of-life. The death of Windows XP may have been greatly exaggerated. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company could re-evaluate its plans to phase out Windows XP by...

Tags: vista, xp, windows, microsoft

[24 Apr 2008]

Ballmer on Yahoo!: Microsoft prepared to walk away

News Speaking at a technology conference near Milan, Ballmer said Yahoo! Microsoft is prepared to walk away from its $43.6bn bid for Yahoo! if the two sides can't agree on a price, chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.

Tags: steve ballmer, microsoft, yahoo, google

[24 Apr 2008]

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