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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]

NHS CIO jumps ship

News Need help securing the dream job? The NHS CIO is to step down at the end of April, just months after taking the post. Matthew Swindells was acting as interim boss of the £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) following the departure of NHS IT...

Tags: granger, cio, department of health, nhs

[15 Apr 2008]

Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?

News Need help securing the dream job? European antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft abused its desktop software market dominance in its effort to get the Office Open XML file formats standardised.

Tags: standard, microsoft, ooxml

[04 Apr 2008]

In demand: Tech needs web services skills

News Need help securing the dream job? Businesses need to recruit more tech professionals who can help develop an infrastructure that caters for the increasing use of web services. Application delivery architects and engineers are needed to help plan...

Tags: web services, saas, infrastructure, recruitment

[25 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…

Comment Let's make sure we equip them for the real world and not some geeky utopian dream. Perhaps they could have a sliding scale - cursory investigation with almost guaranteed failure for one price and a premium "efficient" investigation with the job...

Tags: hmrc, police, school, vista

[17 Jan 2008]

eBay takes $900m hit for Skype buy

News It's clear that the dream of massive integration between eBay's auction site and Skype won't happen anytime soon. Even though Skype has done a very good job of getting users to download its software client, most people who use the service do so to...

Tags: voip, skype, ebay

[02 Oct 2007]

Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist

Comment For me it's harder work to irradiate the content of a shipping container [in Spook Country] in a way that at least convinces me, than it is to dream up some gizmo from Chiba city that will crawl in there and do it all by itself.

Tags: william gibson, mobile, technology, cyberspace

[06 Aug 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.05.07

Round-Up Of course it could just be like any other tech job, just with more swipe cards and security, or it could make all your James Bond dreams come true (well possibly not the dream involving the Russian femme fatale wearing nothing but a sultry look...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[18 May 2007]

Spare-Time Study Helps Mohammed Land Dream Job

whitepaper He considers that the Cisco Networking Academy Program played a major part in securing his ideal job, although he had already acquired a degree in IT before joining the Program. Mohammed, now aged 30, is a highly motivated individual who has never...

Tags: training and certification, program, securing, operator

[13 Apr 2007]

Cisco Networking Academy Program Helps Sandra Oberlies Turn Technology Knack to Career Path

whitepaper She wanted one technology job to enable her to support and spend more time with her family, but she couldn't get her dream job without a formal education. As a single mom of three, Sandra began working several jobs to make ends meet.

Tags: training and certification, program, job, consuming

[13 Apr 2007]

Networking Academy Program Launches Singapore Shipping Coordinator Into Promising New IT Career

whitepaper With the encouragement and support of his wife, he decided to follow his dream by enrolling in the Cisco Networking Academy Program through Singapore's National Trade Union Congress (NTUC). At 38 years of age, Khor Kean Hock was in a job that was...

Tags: training and certification, cisco, program, job

[13 Apr 2007]

Sleepless in Wherever - Resolving Issues in Scheduled Jobs

whitepaper Even with the capability of Windows scheduler or other utilities to schedule the SAS jobs to run automatically, life is not always a dream. The paper will describe a relatively simple way to send an e-mail message when a job fails and will show how...

Tags: knowledge and data management, automatically, jobs, variables

[21 Dec 2006]

Symbian: Microsoft has got it wrong

News Major market share is something of an American dream for Symbian - a market where growth in smart phones of any stripe is outstripped by that of China. We do our job, we take the licence fee and best of luck to whoever uses it.

Tags: nigel clifford, symbian, microsoft

[17 Oct 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's education in transition

Comment In a few families there was a dream that perhaps the youngest might escape this fate if sufficient funds could be jointly accumulated to get them educated and off to university. One or two of the smartest might aspire to a job in the local co-op...

Tags: education, china

[19 Jul 2006]

Paperless office - ages-old myth or valuable way forward?

Comment Take a look at any work environment in 2006 and the very idea of that 1980s' dream, the 'paperless office', seems like a sick joke. One company handling the job is Stortext, whose clients include Barclays, Carphone Warehouse, Scottish Courage and...

Tags: it governance, paperless office

[26 Jun 2006]

FireFox Plug-Ins for the Discerning Web Developer

whitepaper This paper will look at some of the more useful ones, how they can be used to enhance the testing work-flow once the site is built in Dream weaver and techniques that they make available to use and why one would want to use them.

Tags: testing, browser, flow, enhance

[09 Mar 2006]

Cheat Sheet: VoIP

Cheat Sheet Internet phones offer features standard phones can only dream of. In the end, the standard phone system is a vast infrastructure in which loads of money has been invested - and it does a great job at providing always-on service a high voice quality...

Tags: voice over ip

[15 Jun 2004]

Cornwall eyes up spot as UK's Silicon Beach

Cornwall eyes up spot as UK's Silicon Beach

News Nigel Ashcroft, actnow's project director, said the organisation will be "using all available technology", including satellite, to achieve the fat pipe dream. One silicon.com reader who has been trying to find a job in the region complained that...

[26 May 2004]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Superhighway? What superhighway?

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Superhighway? What superhighway?

Comment The dream of broadband has yet to materialise, says Peter Cochrane. It would seem a case of market forces unable to do the job. But could it be that the technology will eventually drag business models into the 21st century?

Tags: broadband, cochrane

[08 Apr 2004]

Teenagers <strong>dream</strong> of long hours and a <strong>job</strong> in IT

Teenagers dream of long hours and a job in IT

News IT tops most teenagers' lists of professions they think offer the best career prospects and the chances of becoming the boss, according to a new survey. Nine out of ten of the same teenagers also said they would work longer hours to advance their...

[05 Apr 2004]

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