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IT education org takes Microsoft grumbles to EC

News Becta's executive director of strategic technologies, Dr Stephen Lucey, has met with the Commission to discuss the matter and said he welcomes the Commission's wider investigation. Becta, the organisation that advises the UK government on...

Tags: becta, ec, eu, microsoft

[14 May 2008]

UK'should 'abandon' software market to China

News Tom Wills-Sandford, deputy director general of Intellect, said China is yet to cut into the UK software market but this could change in future. Sean Finnan, president of the UK trade association for technology Intellect and UK country manager for...

Tags: uk, saas, software

[14 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

[14 May 2008]

Psomas Achieves Global Work-Sharing and Accelerates the Mobile Worker

whitepaper Says Erik Durand, Director of Information Technology at Psomas, "Results (with Steelhead appliances) were pretty dramatic in our branch offices. Now we get the same kinds of results whether it's the field crews out at job sites, home-based workers...

Tags: lan - wan standards

[14 May 2008]

VoIP Visibility, Management and Control (Podcast)

whitepaper Jim Metzler, along with Mark Urban, Director of Product Marketing from Packeteer discuss the expanded use of VoIP technology to build upon an already invaluable communication network. As VoIP evolves to "unified communications" it incorporates data...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[14 May 2008]

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment Behind the success, Hamon says, was a strong and "morally motivated" team of around 100 people, combined with clear organisational boundaries and strong leadership by the director of public prosecutions.

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Google lays out mobile future

News Speaking in London, Google's engineering site director, Ann Mai Chang, said: "We're focusing the majority of our development on web based applications. She added that, although Android is Google's platform, the mobile apps team sees it as just...

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Kindred Healthcare Selects Cisco for New Data Center Storage Network

whitepaper As a solution they deployed four MDS 9509 Multilayer Director switches on two SANs. As a result it reduced SAN complexity for easier management and administration. It increased redundancy to keep patient information always available, increased...

Tags: switching

[13 May 2008]

Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic

News Apacs director of communications, Sandra Quinn, said as retailers stop accepting cheques it is expected that a large proportion of those payments will migrate to debit card payments. It found plastic cards accounted for 65 per cent of all UK...

Tags: debit cards, cheques, apacs

[12 May 2008]

Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News Daniel Hennessy, director of technical architecture at Virgin Media, said in a statement: "Our aim for this trial was to ensure we continue to meet the growing capacity needs of the high-speed services we deliver and provide a quality experience...

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power

News Ames director, Pete Worden, said the massive performance boost will fulfil Nasa's increasing need for capacity for future missions and scientific research. Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda...

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

[09 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Ian Fogg, research director at JupiterResearch, said Carphone Warehouse is facing big investment decisions in its broadband business if it is to keep up with the competition as ADSL2+ products hit the market.

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Denise Plumpton, director of information for the HA, described the massive job of rationalising the sprawling IT infrastructure underpinning nine offices. Government IT is undergoing a major shift as Whitehall attempts to revolutionise its approach...

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[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. This is the most significant WiMax-related deal to be struck in the developed world, as the technology has thus far...

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

BT adds smart phone to home broadband package

News Warren Buckley, director of portfolio convergence BT, said the move extends what the telco has been doing in the SME marketplace with its Office Anywhere product. However it admits broadband speeds will only be achievable in areas with a wireless...

Tags: broadband, smart phone, bt

[08 May 2008]

7 Ways to Reduce your 2008 IT Burden with Email Hosting

whitepaper Director of Service Development, and John Devenyns, Sr. Begin a plan to reduce the IT costs and resources associated with managing your organization's email system. Don't miss this chance to find out how upgrading to Microsoft Exchange 2007...

Tags: infrastructure management

[08 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News Storm researcher Jon Stewart, director of malware research for security vendor SecureWorks, wrote on 8 April that the Storm botnet was "only a fraction of its former self and is rapidly becoming a minor player".

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle

Photo Here, Ant Scientific R&D director, Rob Mullins, is demonstrating how the PC can be used to input commands on the right or show a GPS-enabled map of the area. It's a simple rather unsophisticated device but many of these sensors can be carried onto...

Tags: military, sensor, robot

[06 May 2008]

Males in tech willing to show off their wad

News Luke Archer, London director for Hudson, said in a statement: "IT professionals are ready to break one of the biggest taboos in the workplace - revealing salaries - in order to ensure true equality of pay.

Tags: men, women, salary, pay

[02 May 2008]

Techies: 'We're worth more than last year'

News Nick Dettmar, managing director of Computer People, said in a statement. UK IT workers are not letting economic woes get them down, according to a new salary survey of close to 5,000 techies. The average salary of a full-time employee in the IT...

Tags: salary, jobs, skills

[02 May 2008]

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