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Plenty of life ahead for RFID and NFC
Comment If you can apply sufficiently low-cost tags to items you can replace the line-of-sight constrained barcode with something that can be read automatically over a range of a couple of meters. When the power... [02 Dec 2009]
Photos: The new gadgets and tech services up Orange's sleeve
Photo The software, available as a downloadable app for Android, iPhone, Symbian and Window Mobile, allows users to answer incoming calls to their home phone on their mobile using wi-fi, or make VoIP calls from their mobile using their home... [26 Nov 2009]
Outsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News He then set about improving Tube Lines' relations with its outsourcers and reviewed the outsourcing contract line by line, replacing technical goals with business service targets. Outsourcing deals... [24 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Cloud computing more expensive than we thought?
Comment The downside of this was the difficulty in accurately predicting cost expenditures in line with future initiatives. It's not just the technology that's important - how you account for its cost can also have a huge impact... [19 Nov 2009]
Photos: Nokia debuts full-Qwerty E72 business smartphone
Photo The E72, pictured above, is the latest addition to Nokia's business-focused Eseries line-up. Not every smartphone has a touchscreen - as Nokia's latest device shows. The device, launched today, will... [18 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The delay to the Manchester rollout is the latest in a long line of setbacks for the £4.6bn scheme: in July this year the government dropped plans to force new airport workers at Manchester and London to get ID cards... [16 Nov 2009]
The State of Resilience and Optimization on IBM Power Systems
White Paper The AS/400 and RS/6000 platforms have evolved greatly over 20 years, and now IBM has brought them together to create the Power Systems server line. Even as transaction and data storage volumes have increased, ensuring... [13 Nov 2009]
Collaborating on Cost Savings: A Scalable Software Whitepaper
White Paper It should surely therefore come as no surprise to anyone that IT executives are unlikely to own up to years of unnecessary expenditure, indeed it is more likely that they deny it and thus perpetuate it, if they feel to... [12 Nov 2009]
An Efficient Method for Service Level Agreement Assessment
White Paper On-line end-to-end Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring is of key importance nowadays. For this purpose, recent researches have focused on measuring (when possible), or estimating (most of the times) network Quality... [12 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo RIM also revamped its Bold line of BlackBerrys with the introduction of the 9700, the first RIM product developed solely in its German R&D facility in Bochum. October saw silicon.com cast its eye over the top iPhone apps... [12 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo The mouse was a key selling point of the first Macintosh in 1984, as it allowed the Mac user to break free from the command-line prompt and explore exciting new graphical user interfaces. Lisa mouse Apple's Lisa of the... [03 Nov 2009]
Microsoft to Office Accounting: Your number's up
News Microsoft announced on Friday it is to kill off its Office Accounting product line. Microsoft's Redmond campus. The software giant has called time on accounting software Photo credit: Microsoft) The Redmond giant said it... [02 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News But even for organisations that don't come into that group, green initiatives can have benefits for the bottom line. It's no surprise that for some companies green initiatives are dropping down the list of IT priorities. [29 Oct 2009]
Microsoft Dynamics: Bringing your Business Systems Up To Date
White Paper Microsoft® recently researched the experience of nearly 200 companies with more than 250 PCs that have deployed one or more of the applications in the Microsoft Dynamics line of business management solutions. [28 Oct 2009]
The Top 5 Challenges in Processing Customer Orders
White Paper Learn about technology that has enabled organizations to process sales orders 76% faster than before, save more than 500 labor hours a month, reduce paper usage by 6,000 pages a month, save $134,000 with ROI in less than 6 months,... [27 Oct 2009]