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Skype drops open-source appeal

News Skype's appeal argued that the GPL licence was not valid in Germany, claiming GPL breaks the country's antitrust laws. Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux...

Tags: skype, gpl, open source

[12 May 2008]

Kindred Healthcare Selects Cisco for New Data Center Storage Network

whitepaper Kindred's data center is located at its Kentucky headquarters, with remote servers on a Wide Area Network (WAN) deployed throughout the country. Kindred Healthcare wanted to redesign the SAN environment for next generation requirements and maximize...

Tags: switching

[11 May 2008]

Keep Up With Changes to Shared Projects

whitepaper Nowadays, one can keep the documents on an intranet or extranet so that one can collaborate efficiently from two offices down - or from another country. Collaborating on projects with a team has come a long way from the days when team members...

Tags: word processing

[11 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up The Voice Risk Analyser system will be piloted by another 15 councils following its success in seven areas of the country. Benefit fraudsters beware. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities you may find their "liar, liar, pants on...

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

Using CARS to Improve Quality: A Compuware Application Reliability Solution Business Case Paper

whitepaper Compuware recently hosted a one-of-a-kind roadshow, "The Four Courses of Quality," in five-star restaurants across the country - in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Detroit, Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Tags: infrastructure management, dining, class, events

[09 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment The jurisdiction in the outsource country you choose will have much weaker data protection legislation than the EU. First up this week, readers were engaging in debate over the pros and cons of outsourcing.

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Childnet helps parents get web savvy

Case Study The resource has been rolled out to Malta and the education authorities in Egypt have requested an Egyptian version to be distributed in that country. Internet awareness charity Childnet International has produced an interactive learning resource...

Tags: parents, children, education

[08 May 2008]

University Protects Vital Data With End-to-End Cisco Data Center Architecture

whitepaper With 28,000 students enrolled in more than 600 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs on six campuses, Long Island University (LIU) is one of the largest and most comprehensive institutions of higher education in the country.

Tags: switching

[08 May 2008]

Lie detectors to hunt out benefit cheats

News The Voice Risk Analyser (VRA) system will be piloted by another 15 councils following its success in seven areas of the country. A lie detector test that has slashed benefit fraud by more than £330,000 is being rolled out in the UK.

Tags: dwp, benefits, lie detector

[07 May 2008]

Vodafone plugs iPhone gaps

News Mobile operator Vodafone has struck a deal with Apple to sell its iPhone smart phone in 10 markets around the world. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South...

Tags: italy, vodafone, iphone

[06 May 2008]

India edgy about outsourcing newbies?

News The finance minister for India, Palaniappan Chidambaram, decided to extend the tax holiday enjoyed by software companies in the country by one year to March 2010, although this decision must be ratified by parliament.

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

OOXML row continues

News Serious objections have been raised within the decision-making community about the approval vote - notably in Norway, by the head of that country's technical committee - but none yet have come officially from any country's national standards body.

Tags: bsi, microsoft, ooxml

[02 May 2008]

Photos: India 999

Photo The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated ambulance service. For years the country has had no dedicated single number to call an ambulance, with...

Tags: satyam, india, ambulance

[01 May 2008]

Indian techies snubbing US jobs in favour of home

News Most tellingly, 72 per cent of IITians predicted that in 10 years India would be the country holding the most promise of success, with only 17 per cent choosing the US and five per cent Europe. Indian tech graduates are increasingly turning their...

Tags: it, india, outsourcing

[29 Apr 2008]

EU healthcare reaps benefits of broadband

E-health areas identified by the Commission for improvement and further deployment include e-prescribing, practiced by just six per cent of GPs; the exchange of patient data across borders (currently done by just one percent of GPs); and...

[29 Apr 2008]

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year

News The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate reports from police forces across the country, as well as offering a central point of contact for reporting e-crime.

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

[28 Apr 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News E-health areas identified by the EC for improvement and further deployment include e-prescribing, practiced by just six per cent of GPs; the exchange of patient data across borders (currently done by just one per cent of GPs); and telemonitoring...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

Photos: Discover high-tech India

Photo Bangalore is India's most famous offshore location but the city of Hyderabad is also one of the country's tech hotspots, and silicon.com went to see it first hand this month. Hitec City in Hyderabad is a glaring mass of gleaming multimillion pound...

Tags: offshoring, india, outsourcing

[28 Apr 2008]

Police e-crime unit set for green light

News The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate reports from police forces across the country, as well as offering a central point of contact for reporting e-crime.

Tags: funding, government, police, e-crime

[25 Apr 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News Villagers in India are turning to technology to lift them out of the deprivation that keeps 280 million people in the country below the poverty line. Change is stirring in the heart of rural India as computer-filled business process outsourcing...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

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