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Google lays out mobile future

News Instead, the company can focus on innovative web applications such as Google Grand Prix - the mobile software suite which includes search, email and location based services. Partnerships are central to Google's mobile strategy.

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Microsoft Business Solutions Webcast: Managing, Tracking and Improving Business Processes Using Microsoft Excel and Word-Based Systems (Level 200)

whitepaper This webcast demonstrates an innovative system that promotes collaboration, manages workflow, stores all documents in a single central repository with access control and automatically maps and transfers data from one document to another.

Tags: word processing

[11 Apr 2008]

New Year's deliberations

Comment January is the month for grand predictions, for forecasting the future and picking out the next big thing. An appropriate feedback mechanism asks questions of central intelligence and in return is given guidance.

Tags: predictions, strategy, management, balance

[03 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Data security... e-learning a bit of a bore?... ID cards debate... skip vista?

Comment Undertake proper holistic studies and analysis taking account of all eventualities instead of favouring only those that support the grand idea. We could however have ID cards without a central database, giving each citizen custody of their own data.

Tags: vista, data, id cards, hmrc

[13 Dec 2007]

Photos: Robots race around 'Darpa city'

Photo Virginia Tech's team, VictorTango, won third prize and $500,000 in this year's Urban Grand Challenge. It was part of Darpa's $3.5m robot race, the Urban Grand Challenge. Stanford's robot, Junior, was the first to cross the finish line in last...

Tags: photo, darpa, race, robots

[14 Nov 2007]

India diary, day 7: Mobiles in Mumbai

Comment I take a walk up to the grand central station. Should you ever find yourself driving in downtown Mumbai, here's how to make a right-hand turn. Wait until there is a gap in the traffic (say, about the size of a small car) and nose out into it so you...

Tags: india

[10 Mar 2007]

Indian offshoring - the new worry

Comment When I arrive at Nasscom conferences, I can usually smell a grand-unifying-theme, an issue that transcends industry competition but this year was more like a smorgasbord of issues, rather than a Billy Bragg diatribe on a single topic.

Tags: nasscom, indian it services, offshoring, outsourcing

[14 Feb 2007]

Update: The guide to London's wi-fi pubs

News Central The Grand Café, The Royal Exchange, EC3 Since launching our guide to London's wi-fi pubs it's proved to be a hugely popular resource - and so we have updated it, included more pubs, maps and the handy list below to help you navigate.

Tags: citywide wi-fi, wi-fi, pubs, london

[31 Aug 2006]

The McCue Interview: DWP CIO Joe Harley

The McCue Interview: DWP CIO Joe Harley

Comment CIO jobs don't come much more challenging than at one of Whitehall's biggest central government departments, where staff refer to the work carried out by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as "the daily miracle".

Tags: joe harley, dwp

[27 Jul 2006]

Leader: No to any NHS IT whitewash

Leader The grand plan for this was a central electronic record containing every patient's entire medical record, which could be accessed by authorised medical staff and GPs anywhere in the country. Public spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO...

Tags: nhs cfh, nhs it

[27 Jun 2006]

Collaborative Web Crawling: Information Gathering/Processing Over Internet

whitepaper The main objective of the IBM Grand Central Station (GCS) is to gather information of virtually any type of formats (text, data, image, graphics, audio, video) from the cyberspace, to process/index/summarize the information, and to push the right...

Tags: processing, crawling, type, scalable

[07 Dec 2005]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Gov't IT - get it right

Comment This means having a clear set of objectives that your council, central government department or agency wants to achieve. These should be specific, measurable and targeted to the local situation or central government policy delivery, and should take...

Tags: public sector it

[01 Dec 2005]

Eric Schmidt

AS Profile More and more, Microsoft is coming across as tech's grand old dame while Google is the sexy new model. Schmidt is central to both approaches and isn't without his critics. Eric Schmidt was setting agendas in the tech world long before taking one of...

[23 Sep 2005]

The McCue Interview: Vodafone CIO and CTO Paul Wybrow

Comment He doesn't sport a full head of hair but he's trim around the waist, certainly for someone who will have had to sit around the same number of grand lunchtime tables as most other major heads of IT. It's part of CEO Arun Sarin's pledge to the...

Tags: paul wybrow, vodafone

[07 Sep 2005]

Interview: William Hill bets on new technology

News In 1998, the company took its first bet over the internet, and earlier this month on Grand National day it smashed its record for the number of bets taken in a single day via internet and telephone, accepting more than 300,000 individual bets and...

Tags: online gambling

[27 Apr 2005]

Human Language Technologies for Knowledge Management: Challenges and Opportunities

whitepaper This paper outlines the central role a range of human language technologies play in the emerging discipline of knowledge management. This paper articulates several grand challenges, illustrate some early successes, and recommend areas of continued...

Tags: knowledge management, role, language, knowledge management

[25 Aug 2004]

Grand Central services model leaves station

Video Halsey Minor says services will replace software

Tags: services, cnet, grand central, halsey minor

[12 Aug 2004]

Grand Central and BEA WebLogic Workshop: Web Services Walkthrough

whitepaper This article shows you how to create a Grand Central-enabled Service Control in BEA WebLogic Workshop. Conceptually building on BEA's WebLogic Workshop Jump Start Guide, a sequence of exercises explores how to use Grand Central's Web services...

Tags: communications software, firewall, bea, weblogic

[24 Feb 2004]

Connecting to Grand Central

whitepaper This technical whitepaper that describes the design patterns and features choices in planning Grand Central-based solutions. Web services technology - including XML, SOAP and WSDL - Grand Central helps enterprises create infrastructure that can...

Tags: xml, patterns, enterprises, outsourcing

[24 Feb 2004]

Web Services: Enabling the Collaborative Enterprise

whitepaper Grand Central is pioneering this new element of the Web services architecture with a Web Services Network. Companies must either partner, or perish, in today's challenging environment. There is an imperative to transform the "collaborative...

Tags: xml, collaborative, business processes, enterprises

[24 Feb 2004]

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