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Future-proof your outsourcing: Stay flexible
Comment Scalability is one important factor in keeping your outsourced IT product future-proof, and the good news is that technology trends are providing an ever-wider range of potential... [12 Nov 2009]
Photos: The happy robot sat-nav
Photo In the future drivers will regard their sat-navs as their friends, if robotics experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are to be believed. Its analysis will then allow it to... [11 Nov 2009]
Offshoring stymied by new VAT rules?
Comment Soon offshoring will no longer offer the considerable tax incentive it has to date. The reality today is that many financial services providers use a portfolio of service providers and any change to... [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo AT&T Labs in San Francisco opened its doors on Thursday to show off its Emerging Devices division, as well as some research projects around location-based services, social networking, and medical devices of the... [09 Nov 2009]
Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo It's two years since Google announced it was building an open mobile OS platform - and the number of smartphones with Android inside is on the up. The Xperia X10 runs version 1.6... [06 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News However, some IT chiefs remain enthusiastic about the future of the UK software industry, including Andrew Wayland, CIO at Michael Page. David Supple, head of... [03 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News But Maemo in particular is not just any old competitor - it was developed by Nokia, the same company responsible for the lion's share of Symbian devices in the market today. I think what you're going to... [02 Nov 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director at Hachette Filipacchi, said all of the publishing house's web development is based on open source technology: "I can't imagine why anyone would use anything different! [28 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment It also set out rules allowing copyright holders to partially benefit from future use by Google of their works. It will be interesting to observe whether, in due course,... [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News JLR is spending £200m separating its IT operations from Ford, largely on carrying out the painstaking process of copying and cloning more than 1,600 business applications. JLR's move to Google Apps is... [26 Oct 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News According to bwin CTO Thomas Kiessling, the development of tech - and the social side of online gambling in particular - will be a key way of building the business in the... [23 Oct 2009]
Cloud Computing— Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future?
White Paper Cloud computing frees up budgets hand-cuffed by IT expenses. Instead of purchasing software licenses and hardware for new employees and locations, businesses simply add accounts to expand computing... [22 Oct 2009]
Vista jilted for Windows 7 midway through upgrades
News Businesses have been reluctant to install Vista because of software compatibility problems and its powerful demands on hardware and, as a result, it is installed on only about 15 per cent... [22 Oct 2009]
Microsoft is learning to share - but not soon enough?
Comment But it remains to be seen whether any vendor can deliver the sort of sophisticated collaboration tools that some businesses urgently need today. The company has also announced its Future... [20 Oct 2009]
Photos: What's new in AVG antivirus?
Photo Although the number of screens the user sees when installing AVG 9 has been cut in half, the installation process is still time-consuming as the program attempts to configure itself best to users' answers. [19 Oct 2009]
