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LiMo targets the business mobile

News The LiMo Foundation, a broad industry consortium of manufacturers, operators and software developers working to put Linux onto the mobile phone, is to launch a major enterprise push later this year. LiMo announced a raft of new members, the most...

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

Data Governance for Master Data Management and Beyond

whitepaper This white paper by David Loshin examines how the definition, oversight and adherence to information policies and procedures can create value across the enterprise beyond the immediate benefits of regulatory compliance.

Tags: knowledge and data management, david, compliance, data management

[15 May 2008]

Managed Application Delivery - Is Thin Client the Best Answer? (podcast)

whitepaper Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, available on demand as a downloadable Podcast, to hear Mike Ferron-Jones, Manager, Emerging Models Program, Intel, and David Greschler, Director, Integrated Virtualization Strategy, Microsoft, discuss pros and...

Tags: thin clients, centralized, models, virtualization

[15 May 2008]

IT education org takes Microsoft grumbles to EC

News Becta, the organisation that advises the UK government on educational IT, has escalated its complaint over the interoperability of Microsoft's products to the European Commission. The announcement has already drawn praise from some of the same...

Tags: becta, ec, eu, microsoft

[14 May 2008]

BlackBerry goes Bold with super-3G

News RIM has launched the first of its BlackBerry smart phones to include high-speed HSDPA connectivity. Unveiled on Monday, the BlackBerry Bold - also known as the BlackBerry 9000 - includes not only tri-band HSDPA but also integrated GPS and 802.11a/b...

Tags: rim, blackberry, 3g

[13 May 2008]

Outlawed: Reckless loss of data

News David Smith, deputy information commissioner, welcomed the laws, saying in a statement: "This change in the law sends a very clear signal that data protection must be a priority and that it is completely unacceptable to be cavalier with people's...

Tags: data breach, full disclosure, data loss

[12 May 2008]

Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades

News Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned.

Tags: sp3, xp, ie7, windows

[12 May 2008]

Cloud computing: Silver lining…

Comment Step forward David Tebbutt of Freeform Dynamics with some answers. Since so many people are talking about cloud computing, it really wouldn't hurt to know what it is. It seems the marketing world has settled on its next buzz-word: cloud computing.

Tags: saas, data centres, cloud computing

[09 May 2008]

Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News There will be WiMax coverage across the UK within the next two years, the managing director of Intel Capital EMEA has claimed. Speaking at a roundtable discussion yesterday, Ashish Patel said the long-range wireless technology would find an...

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

O2 hits 3G target at last

News O2 has finally met the 3G coverage obligation that was part of the licence it acquired in 2000 for providing mobile broadband. Broadband from A-Z Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies.

Tags: 3g, o2, ofcom

[06 May 2008]

SAP apps to show up on BlackBerrys

News SAP and RIM have announced a "co-innovation" partnership which will see all the enterprise-software company's applications made natively available on the BlackBerry smart phone. The companies announced last week that the first of SAP's software to...

Tags: blackberry, rim, sap

[06 May 2008]

OOXML row continues

News The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format.

Tags: bsi, microsoft, ooxml

[02 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News David Meads, operations director financial services for Cisco UK, told silicon.com: "I can't recall the last time I had a conversation with a CIO where sustainability wasn't on the agenda… CIOs are increasingly becoming "green ambassadors" - taking...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

Public trust eroded: Data breaches to blame

News David Evans, the BCS's government relations manager, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that BCS members within both the public and private sectors had also been alarmed. On Tuesday the BCS published the results of a survey of members of the...

Tags: data breach, government, hmrc

[30 Apr 2008]

Skype trialled on Java mobiles

News Skype has released a test version of a client for Java-enabled mobile devices, a move which the company said is a significant step forward for its mobile strategy. However, at the same time, executives made it clear the software is preliminary and...

Tags: java, mobile, skype

[30 Apr 2008]

AMD chips into business market

News AMD has released a series of chips which it claims has the stability and performance required for machines aimed at business users. On Monday the chipmaker launched what it is calling its Business Class platform, previously code-named Hardcastle.

Tags: chips, intel, amd

[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]

Scottish Water splashes out on tech

News General manager for IT at Scottish Water, David Brown, said the contracts provide a rounded package of benefits from exploiting the capabilities of "some of the most innovative companies in the business".

Tags: transformation, managed services, fujitsu, water

[28 Apr 2008]

Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year

News Sun is to open source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move that should make it possible to fully integrate the software into Linux distributions. Rich Sands, Sun's group manager for developer marketing, confirmed on Friday that Sun expects...

Tags: linux, java, sun

[28 Apr 2008]

Caption Competition: Who are you calling mobot?

Photo The winning caption, from reader David Eagleberger was "Steven tried in vain to shake off his tag of being a square. This competition is now closed. Photo Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET News.com

Tags: caption competition

[25 Apr 2008]

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