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Computer classics, Vista uptake, iPhone price cuts and Heathrow T5...

News Soon to be ex-BBC tech chief Ashley Highfield raised interesting points about how the broadband industry should deal with the explosion of online content. It was time for some tech nostalgia during April with the Sinclair ZX spectrum crowned the...

Tags: jobs, vista, iphone, heathrow

[28 Apr 2008]

Google CIO to join digital music realm

News The music industry has to figure out how to deal with technology that easily lets people download music for free instead of paying for CDs. At Google, products and strategy focus on opening up content for the world to see and making it searchable...

Tags: emi, google, cio

[03 Apr 2008]

Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML & DITA

whitepaper Any new investment or process improvement starts with infectious optimism, but ROI-focused executive teams need more proof than potential to give the green light - once the deal is signed and the work begins, how to make sure this technology...

Tags: xml

[27 Mar 2008]

Citigroup puts faith in Microsoft upping its bid

News s stock to $34 from $31, saying it believed Microsoft remained committed to its offer and "is capable of and willing to" increase that bid to conclude the deal. deal as the most likely outcome. One possibility is a tie-up with Time Warner, whereby...

Tags: microsoft, time warner, citigroup, yahoo

[25 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment In short we all went for the best bit-hours-per-dollar deal, and in this case the best technology won. In the case of Betamax, which first came out in 1975, and VHS, which appeared the following year, it was a relatively protracted war spanning...

Tags: formats, blu-ray, dvd, storage

[17 Mar 2008]

Microsoft Silverlight makes pact with Nokia

News For Microsoft, the deal with Nokia is a step in its pledge to make Silverlight "ubiquitous", that is, capable of running on multiple operating systems. Silverlight now runs on Windows and Mac OS, and it has a deal with Novell to build a...

Tags: nokia, adobe, silverlight, microsoft

[04 Mar 2008]

Why no united front on cyber crime?

Comment Companies have been developing their security counter-measures to deal with the more common, asymmetric mass attacks launched through spam, phishing, botnets, denial of service and all manner of other exploits.

Tags: cyber crime, internet, botnets, crime

[27 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: Lords above!

Comment Their other suggestions included increasing resources for the police to deal with internet-based crime, and allowing victims of online card fraud to report to the police - rather than to the banks which seem reluctant to act in many cases.

Tags: full disclosure, data, security, house of lords

[27 Feb 2008]

Sales 2.0 - Leveraging Web 2.0 to Sell

whitepaper These solutions promise to reduce the cost of sales, buyer risk, and the time it takes to close a deal. Much of this disruption has been both unplanned and unexpected, and nothing more so than the sudden prominence of what's been called Web 2.0...

Tags: asset management, professionals, disruptive, disruptive technology

[13 Feb 2008]

Newport City Council Simplifies Content Management and Improves Constituent Service

whitepaper The system also needed to provide a comprehensive knowledge base to enable council employees in the contact center to effectively deal with all customer inquiries. To do this, the council realized it needed a content management system to improve...

Tags: web content management

[08 Feb 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News That sparked a furious response from the trade union Amicus, which is threatening legal action against Shell over the redundancy terms for IT staff affected by the outsourcing deal. The BBC's online on-demand iPlayer for watching TV on the web had...

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

BBC beds down with MySpaceTV

News This is first time MySpaceTV has linked up with a major broadcaster, although BBC Worldwide has previously signed a similar deal with video sharing site YouTube. Travis Katz, international MD of MySpace said this kind of deal is the future of...

Tags: bbc, on demand, content, online

[24 Jan 2008]

Data leakage: The stealth threat to business

whitepaper Companies have spent the last few years learning to deal with inbound malicious content like viruses, Trojans, spyware and spam. But implementing firewalls and putting anti-virus and anti-spam software at the gateway have failed to deal with a...

Tags: network security, spam, deal, anti

[12 Dec 2007]

Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier

Comment CIOs will have to deal not only with LAN and WAN performance but with managing internal and purchased content. But many have parts of their organisation with public-facing websites whose team's skills can be leveraged to deal with it.

Tags: new media, convergence, video, internet

[29 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.11.07

Round-Up So that's 1,000 support staff to deal with help calls for the most user-friendly phone in the history of personal communication. What's more, it's gone completely mental and has hired an additional 1,427 members of staff to deal with sales and...

Tags: yahoo, google, iphone, round-up

[09 Nov 2007]

Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt

AS Profile Acquisitions has been the big theme, with the $1.65bn deal to buy video-sharing website YouTube, a proposed $3.1bn purchase of web advertising supplier DoubleClick and the $625m acquisition of web security company Postini.

[12 Oct 2007]

Steve Jobs

AS Profile And it also seems that Apple has been able to strike a deal with the telecoms carriers to take a slice of the revenue coming from mobile users - turning the industry standard around and reflecting how keen mobile operators are to be associated...

[12 Oct 2007]

XML Schema: Creating More Building Blocks Using Object-Oriented Features

whitepaper One has two options: one can try to do it using a single generic element name, or one can define a schema smart enough to deal with the possible content model. In many cases, a vocabulary needs the ability to accept a variety of different content...

Tags: xml, element, models, name

[10 Oct 2007]

Minority Report: Buy the iPhone philosophy...

Comment Financial details about the deal have not been disclosed but some reports suggest the Cupertino company is raking in as much as 40 per cent of O2's contract revenues from the iPhone. The bidding war left each one believing they had clinched the...

Tags: apple, ipod touch, iphone

[05 Oct 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.09.07

Round-Up Shipping PCs with no operating systems is obviously a much bigger deal than shipping them with bundled media players, the crux of the company's lengthy case with the EC. The Italian IBMers and their union, the UNI, are up in virtual arms over a pay...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[28 Sep 2007]

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