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OLPC's Sugar gets sweeter with Windows

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. Microsoft has reached an agreement to make available its Windows operating system software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop, the company said yesterday.

Tags: microsoft, windows, olpc

[16 May 2008]

Glitch delays Windows XP SP3 release

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. Microsoft has said it is delaying the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a newly uncovered glitch. The software maker said there is a "compatibility issue" between the XP...

Tags: xp, sp3, windows, microsoft

[30 Apr 2008]

eBay hits back at boycotters

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. eBay has hit back at a proposed seller boycott over changes to the site that will mean sellers won't be able to post negative feedback. From May, eBay is banning sellers from posting...

Tags: ebay, ban, users, feedback

[21 Apr 2008]

RIM doubles quarter profits

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. BlackBerry maker RIM has reported good fourth-quarter profits yesterday after the close of the stock market. The company took in $1.9bn in revenue, more than double last year's fourth...

Tags: iphone, facebook, blackberry, rim

[03 Apr 2008]

Adobe gives Linux breath of fresh AIR

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. Adobe has released an alpha version of AIR on Linux and announced it is joining the Linux Foundation. AIR is Adobe's software for running and creating web applications that run both online...

Tags: adobe, air, mac, linux

[01 Apr 2008]

What governance can really mean to business

Comment It has been used so much there was always a danger it would become just another piece of worn-out jargon. Forget the hype, what does governance amount to in practice? New research suggests there are signs it is finally taking centre stage in many...

Tags: risk, data management, compliance, governance

[28 Mar 2008]

OOXML standard on a knife-edge

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. The British Standards Institution (BSI) could change sides, days before voting closes, and register a vote in favour of Microsoft's Office Open XML becoming an International Organization for...

Tags: uk, office, ooxml

[28 Mar 2008]

The Naked CIO: Cut the bull

Comment Many IT managers constantly complain about not being understood by non-technical colleagues. But what do they expect when no one can make out what they're saying, argues the Naked CIO. For years we in IT have revelled in our pig Latin version of...

Tags: boardroom, management, communication, jargon

[17 Mar 2008]

Editor's Blog: Ever tried to sack a CIO?

Comment But CIOs - according to this argument at least - tuck themselves away, hidden in the jargon and the SLAs that the rest of the business can't understand. Over lunch the other day the chief executive of a large technology company advanced an unusual...

Tags: cio, recruitment, sack, ceo

[06 Mar 2008]

Internet Explorer 8: Beta to be launched

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in the first half of this year. You what…?

Tags: microsoft, beta, internet explorer, browser

[26 Feb 2008]

Jargon-filled software licences baffle consumers

News Consumers are being forced to accept software licence agreements full of confusing jargon that are unfairly biased in favour of the vendors. report examined how licence agreements work in practice and found they are often full of jargon, making...

Tags: consumer, legal, ncc, licensing

[20 Feb 2008]

SAP to sell TomorrowNow

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. German software giant SAP is to auction its subsidiary, TomorrowNow, only two years after acquiring the company. You what…? SAP acquired TomorrowNow in mid-January 2005 as way to compete...

Tags: sap, tomorrownow, oracle, peoplesoft

[16 Jan 2008]

Mobile TV: Europe switches on to DVB-H

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. Mobile TV may yet come of age in Europe - the technology's prospects have been given a boost by EU member states which have given their backing to the European Commission's strategy for tiny...

Tags: viviane reding, dvb-h, mobile tv, council

[30 Nov 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing

Cheat Sheet Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. Supercomputing? Is that just a PC wearing a cape and its underpants over its keyboard? No, a supercomputer is a computer which is considered to be at the frontline in terms of processing...

Tags: supercomputing, blue gene, petaflop, ibm

[20 Nov 2007]

BlackBerrys are an escape tool, says RIM chief

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. The BlackBerry was created to offer execs a way to escape the office - even if some people find it very difficult to switch them off. That's the view of Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of BlackBerry...

Tags: blackberry, email, rim, ceo

[02 Nov 2007]

Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth

Case Study Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics has streamlined its travel and entertainment programme through strategic alliances with SkyTeam and American Express.

Tags: travel, benchmark, american express, philips

[03 Oct 2007]

Social network sites scuttled by shipping business

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. Shipping and tanker agency Graypen has installed web filtering technology across its network to make sure its staff don't spend too much time having fun online when they should be working.

Tags: internet usage, social networking, myspace, facebook

[21 Sep 2007]

Techies 'more unhappy than hairdressers'

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. Techies have lower levels of job satisfaction than hairdressers, librarians and lorry drivers despite higher earnings than many other professions.

Tags: techies, job satisfaction, university of bath

[06 Aug 2007]

Paradoxes of Software Estimation

whitepaper Where there is money, academics jump in - research is conducted - jargon is developed - concepts are proposed and a new branch of science or engineering comes into vogue. The software development has spawned into an independent industry with...

Tags: branch, industries, engineering, software development

[10 Jul 2007]

Recycling directive finally bites

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. The long-awaited, often delayed Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive finally got teeth in the UK yesterday. Despite WEEE coming into force in January 2007, the...

Tags: environment, green, green it, environment agency

[02 Jul 2007]

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