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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Coming soon: cold-calling IT managers offering bespoke network virtualisation solutions and social media consultants on street corners holding up cardboard signs stating: "Will tweet for money. Yes, Autonomy and ARM... [06 Nov 2009]
Windows 7 to trump Snow Leopard?
Comment Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg, long an advocate of Apple products, compared Windows 7 favourably to Snow Leopard. Aesthetics will matter little to corporate buyers for whom user experience is a trivial... [20 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The firm scours the net searching for threats to its customers, which include a selection of Britain's high street banks. BT has set up a shop to promote the uses of the service where it is showing off... [02 Oct 2009]
Bottom falls out of online pants market but e-tail hits £3.8bn
News Online shopping continues to be a beacon of hope for retailers as high street sales stall. UK shoppers spent £3.8bn online last month - 16 per cent higher than in August last year, the latest figures... [22 Sep 2009]
Photos: Inside the RSA cybercrime war room
Photo From the AFCC, the security firm sifts through more than 10 million emails every day, as well as domain names and fraudster chat rooms, searching for threats to its customers, which include a selection of Britain's high... [18 Sep 2009]
Photos: BT previews superfast fibre broadband... in Muswell Hill
Photo BT has opened a new high street shop to promote fibre broadband in London's Muswell Hill - the location for one of its two fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) pilots, along with Whitchurch in South Wales. Here... [17 Sep 2009]
Intel chip expert heads to EMC
News The New York Times had reported Gelsinger's departure and the Intel reorganisation, while The Wall Street Journal had reported his arrival at EMC. Intel has reorganised its upper management, and one executive, Pat... [15 Sep 2009]
Give workers a say in corporate IT
Comment Extremely advanced mobile tech is accessible to anyone in the high street, making the standard issue corporate mobile look pretty lame in comparison. Don't fear employees' involvement in workplace tech,... [09 Sep 2009]
Photos: Game over for boring business training
Photo Good performance is rewarded with exploding fireworks, while failure will see the avatar on the street, holding a sign saying "Will BPM for food". Players then have to tell the virtual execs how they would run the... [08 Sep 2009]
Cisco and EMC planning to partner up and go after large datacentres
News Networking giant Cisco Systems and storage area networking company EMC may be teaming up to form a new joint venture to provide technology services to big companies, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. [04 Sep 2009]
Delivering High-Speed Wireless Commercial Services With Canopy Cable
White Paper Construction costs to access the potential customer across the street, parking lot - or both - may make the ROI too long to justify the investment necessary to run cable. Wireless commercial services present tremendous... [15 Aug 2009]
Eyes on the Street: How Wireless Video Solutions Are Transforming Public Safety
White Paper They are empowering experienced police officers to view live, real-time, 24/7 visuals of their communities: commercial districts, neighborhoods, high-risk areas, crowded public events, dangerous intersections, public... [15 Aug 2009]
BT superfast fibre broadband destined for London brownfield pilot
News BT's fibre rollout will therefore mostly entail fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), where fibre optic connectivity is extended as far as the street cabinet, and the connections between the cabinet and buildings remains... [07 Aug 2009]
Web to be number one choice for banking in 10 years
News Online banking is viewed as an important channel for financial services firms, helping to take pressure away from high street branches. People will do the majority of their banking online within 10 years... [31 Jul 2009]
Minority Report: iPhone puts the 'smart' in smartphone
Comment However, as has been the case in recent quarters, it's been the iPhone that has turned Apple into Wall Street's darling, outperforming the company's own traditionally conservative estimates and beating a path through the... [27 Jul 2009]