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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up Onto another example of bloated, out of shape IT: the government ID card project continues to rumble on regardless, despite nobody seeming to know what the benefits are, and the fact that the Conservatives are promising to cancel the... [20 Nov 2009]
Photos: Apple's latest Big Apple store
Photo Here's a look inside Apple's latest Manhattan store in New York US. Photo: Sarah Tew/CNET Except for the marble supporting walls, it's mostly glass, with an all-glass roof. Photo: Sarah Tew/CNET Apple's iconic logo on the glass. [19 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment David Allison, IT leader at Infineum, says: "Initially we talked to the high and mid-end providers like BT and Cisco and saw some amazing telepresence-style solutions where you really had to pinch yourself to be sure... [17 Nov 2009]
£500,000 fine coming for businesses that lose data?
News Deputy information commissioner, David Smith, welcomed the ICO's new powers and said they would help stop more breaches from occurring. Organisations that lose individuals' data could face a fine of up to £500,000 under... [12 Nov 2009]
Strategies for Resolving Today's Data Warehousing Challenges
White Paper David M. The focus on data warehousing is changing: no longer is it technological problems, instead the focus is on the day-to-day issues of utilizing a data warehouse to run the business. Issues include: [03 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News David Supple, head of IT and creative services at Ecotec Research & Consulting, said the UK won't turn out the next software powerhouse "until the government puts a more supportive framework in place to help our creative... [03 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News At the Symbian Exchange & Exposition last week, when asked to clarify how its plans for Maemo fit with support for Symbian, David Rivas, Nokia's VP of technology management, suggested Nokia has different plans for the... [02 Nov 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News David Pirie, group IT director, BCA David Supple, head of IT and creative services, Ecotec Research and Consulting Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way... [23 Oct 2009]
The Converging Paths of SQL Server and SharePoint - Don't Wait Until It's Too Late!
White Paper In this Quest Software Pain-of-the-Week webcast, join David Walker, Doug Davis and David Gugick as they discuss the similarities in SharePoint and SQL Server administration, such as their architecture... [23 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News David Metcalfe, director of green tech analyst house Verdantix, said many big spending plans around carbon management and reduction have been put on hold. It's never been easy being green, especially when it comes to... [22 Oct 2009]
Microsoft is learning to share - but not soon enough?
Comment Workers need to share data from many sources - but, says David Tebbutt, today's tools don't do a lot to help. David Tebbutt is programme director at research and analysis firm Freeform Dynamics. Jive, an... [20 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News Apparently so, according to David Wall, professor of criminal justice and information society at the University of Leeds. Scareware is bad for your PC and your pocket - but the fake security warning messages popping up... [19 Oct 2009]
Windows ServerĀ® 2008: Overview of Server Core
White Paper Listen to a discussion about Server Core, which is an integrated piece of the operating system that reduces server maintenance and management from David Troeger, Development Manager for WS08 at Dell. [15 Oct 2009]
Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
News The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has paid tribute to the work done by the World War II codebreakers at Bletchley Park who cracked the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany's military. Foreign Secretary... [13 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo Photo credit: David Meyer/ZDNet UK Smartphones have come a long way in the last few years. Not so long ago, a smartphone all too often meant a cumbersome PDA-style brick running an equally cumbersome operating system, or... [12 Oct 2009]
