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Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment BlackBerrys are expensive proprietary devices for magpies to show off at the golf club. XP lives? Dell and HP find ways to keep Windows XP alive I don't know why Microsoft don't do the blatantly obvious thing, allow downgrade rights on any Windows...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Unequal opportunities

Comment Sometimes it seems IT is the golf of the business world. From the outside, IT looks like an occupation for white males. From the inside, we know that to be true. But what can we do about it? The Naked CIO offers some ideas.

Tags: discrimination, careers, women in it

[28 Apr 2008]

Video: The tech behind golf's PGA European Tour

Video At the HSBC World Matchplay Championship 2007 at Wentworth, PGA European Tour CIO Mark Lichtenhein talks exclusively to silicon.com's Andy McCue about the challenges of this unique IT role in ensuring the success of 100 golf tournaments in 36...

Tags: golf, mark lichtenhein, pga european tour, andy mccue

[19 Nov 2007]

Double-Take Software Case Study: Hershey Entertainment and Resorts

whitepaper Hershey Entertainment and Resorts (HE&R) caters to the recreational pastimes of five million guests annually with over a dozen facilities, including a top amusement park, zoo, convention center, two hotels, four golf courses, three entertainment...

Tags: disaster recovery, entertainment, tape, data protection

[25 Oct 2007]

American Golf drives expansion with store system

Case Study American Golf has upgraded and integrated its store and headquarters systems to help with its expansion plans. American Golf finance director Ged Gould told to silicon.com that previously the head office ran its retail systems, mainly controlling...

Tags: distribution, europe, microsoft, golf

[14 Sep 2007]

Perl Keeps Golf Dream Alive

whitepaper Charles Jones, LLC is a public records search company that cut it's teeth on computers made by a company known as GE. When the Senior Manager of Systems Development at Charles Jones, LLC realized that his company's monthly sales reporting system...

Tags: jones, reporting, records, computers

[13 Sep 2007]

Perl Keeps Golf Dream Alive

whitepaper Charles Jones, LLC is a public records search company that cut it's teeth on computers made by a company known as GE. When the Senior Manager of Systems Development at Charles Jones, LLC realized that his company's monthly sales reporting system...

Tags: jones, realized, computers, manager

[13 Sep 2007]

Richard Rundle

CIO Profile A fan of musicals, golf and Tottenham Hotspur football club, Rundle also contributes to the wider IT industry and is a member of a number of professional institutions and supplier advisory groups, as well as being a non-exec director of a tech...

[06 Jun 2007]

Neil Cameron

CIO Profile Cameron plays golf and swims and is also a keen woodworker with his own state-of the-art workshop equipped with all the power tools known to man - tools he says he does intend to one day actually use.

[06 Jun 2007]

Stephen Brannan

CIO Profile His hobbies include golf and tennis. An aggressive acquisition strategy that started at the beginning of the decade with NatWest has seen the Royal Bank of Scotland become one of the five biggest banking groups in the world.

[06 Jun 2007]

Darin Brumby

CIO Profile A keen traveller, Brumby enjoys spending time with his family in Scotland and playing tennis, squash, golf and snooker. What they say about him: "Ambitious and energetic, clear and focused with a matter-of-fact style - like an Australian cricketer.

[06 Jun 2007]

JP Rangaswami

CIO Profile A self-confessed "child of the Empire" - Rangaswami grew up playing billiards, bridge, golf and doing The Times crossword - he is an avid reader with more than 27,000 books in his home library. What they say about him: "A CIO 'paratrooper' who took...

[06 Jun 2007]

Golf Equipment Leader Boosts Order Processing, Realizes ROI in Just 18 Months

whitepaper As the manufacturer of well-known golf equipment brands such as Titleist, FootJoy, and Cobra, Acushnet Company places significant emphasis on customer service. In fact, the company's sales representatives keep a quantity of stock on hand to deliver...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, windows mobile, person, efficiency

[16 Apr 2007]

Makers of Prized Golf Application Add Richer Functionality and Enjoy Increased Revenue

whitepaper Using Microsoft Windows Mobile development tools, IntelliGolf developers provide more value to customers with features like full-color trend graphics, Dream Round scoring, support for fivesomes, 30 wagering games, posting and honors display...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, pc, pocket pc, microsoft windows

[16 Apr 2007]

Photos of the month - March 2007

Photo As part of his recent trip to India, Steve Ranger visited the campus of IT company Satyam in Hyderabad (above), which includes a swimming pool and golf course as well as a zoo with a variety of animals - including emus and rabbits.

[02 Apr 2007]

Photos: Bangalore's Electronics City

Photo Around 17,000 staff work at the site, which is so big that tours are conducted from a fleet of golf buggies. silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore to investigate the Indian technology industry.

Tags: india

[27 Mar 2007]

Keeping the techie workforce happy - Indian style

News Most of the large companies have luxurious campuses (click here to see photos) where staff can swim, play golf and even visit the zoo. With their swimming pools, tennis courts and even zoos, the campuses of many Indian high-tech companies have more...

Tags: outsourcing, wages, india

[21 Mar 2007]

Golf Equipment Manufacturer Drives Deployment Costs Down 60 Percent

whitepaper PING prides itself on its use of technology and innovation to help design and build golf equipment known world-wide. During an inventory it was discovered that there were several business processes running on a single server apiece.

Tags: data center, class, single server, equipment

[16 Mar 2007]

Golf Equipment Manufacturer Drives Deployment Costs Down 60 Percent

whitepaper PING prides itself on its use of technology and innovation to help design and build golf equipment known world-wide. During an inventory it was discovered that there were several business processes running on a single server apiece.

Tags: data center, class, single server, equipment

[16 Mar 2007]

India diary, day 13: Thirsty in Bangalore

Comment My luck holds and it's a swift journey back into town - to the Embassy Golf Links Business Park, where a number of big tech names have their offices. After the horrors of four hours stuck in traffic yesterday I'm not especially looking forward to...

Tags: india

[16 Mar 2007]

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