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Google lays out mobile future

News London is now the main base for Google's mobile application development - with an 80-strong team - but the company also has centres in Bangalore, Beijing, Tokyo, Waterloo in Canada and Silicon Valley.

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Vodafone gets speedy with broadband

News Vodafone's high speed mobile broadband network has been in place in London and British airports since 2007. Vodafone is extending its fast mobile broadband coverage to a further three million people this summer as part of a multimillion pound...

Tags: hsdpa, vodafone, broadband, mobile

[12 May 2008]

Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action

Photo Doron Swade is a world-renowned Babbage Expert and is also the curator of computing at the London Science Museum. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

Tags: history museum, babbage

[12 May 2008]

Policy-Driven Access Control Over a Distributed Firewall Architecture

whitepaper Motivated by a Grid based scientific application, where a dynamic collection of individuals and institutions are required to share resources to achieve certain goals, this paper propose the synthesis of two lines of research.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News Networking giant Nortel's 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine was tested on a 217-mile length of Virgin's optical network between London and Manchester - and successfully carried 40G traffic, according to the two companies.

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

Video: Future security threats

Video silicon.com found out what security issues businesses should look out for in the future through speaking to security experts attending the annual Infosec show at London's Olympia. Find out what the experts had to say about the current threats to...

Tags: expert, infosec, threat, security

[09 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment Haydn Rees, London Stuart Fawcett, London Then we have silicon.com resident Naked CIO who has been ruffling some feathers again: this time, the issue of open source. And are you suffering from password overload?

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: The race to get the Olympic tech ready

Comment I'm hoping (though not too optimistic) London can come up with something to rival it when it's our turn to host the event. I had a fascinating if rather rushed 46 hours in Beijing recently, getting a sneak preview of the 2008 Olympic venues - and...

Tags: infrastructure, server, t5, olympic

[08 May 2008]

The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics

News The systems are designed, built and operated by Atos Origin, which has the world's largest sports-related IT contract - running from Salt Lake City 2002 right through to London 2012. That number will drop to zero again three months after the games...

Tags: infrastructure, servers, olympic

[08 May 2008]

NHS cleans up keyboard act

News The keyboards have been developed by University College London Hospital in a pilot supported by the Department of Health tech agency, Connecting for Health. The NHS is introducing 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards in hospitals across England as...

Tags: hospitals, health, keyboards, connecting for health

[07 May 2008]

Video: Tackling security threats

Video While at the annual Infosec show at London's Olympia, silicon.com asked security experts how businesses should tackle the biggest threats facing them today. Check out what the same experts said are the biggest threats businesses should be aware of.

Tags: infosec, business, threat, security

[07 May 2008]

Photos: HTC unveils its Diamond touch

Photo Peter Chou (pictured above), president and CEO of mobile maker HTC, has announced the latest smart phone in its Touch touchscreen series at a launch event in London. The multimedia device - called the HTC Touch Diamond - will be the first phone to...

Tags: touchscreen, iphone, htc

[07 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 As to be expected, London tech workers bring home around £5k more bacon: average pay in the capital is £41,474. UK IT workers are not letting economic woes get them down, according to a new salary survey of close to 5,000 techies.

Tags: salary, jobs, skills

[02 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment Haydn Rees, London James Button, London Galley Slave, London Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not… And data losses never seem far from the reader comments page...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

Video: Business security threats

Video silicon.com asked security experts attending the annual Infosec security conference at London's Olympia what they feel are the biggest security threats facing businesses today. There were some interesting answers.

Tags: industry, threat, business, security

[01 May 2008]

Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London.

Tags: tech, science, history

[01 May 2008]

Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?

News Mark Kobayashi-Hillary from London said it was "strange to see the old C64 faring so badly" adding that "it had the polyphonic SID chip, the VIC chip that could simultaneously handle eight sprites (more if you started using raster interrupts) and...

Tags: c64, computer, zx spectrum

[30 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later. Dispatched via a free wi-fi service. Before 9/11, I regularly travelled the planet with a full toolkit as well as other objects that are now...

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment I had missed my annual pilgrimage to the great security bazaar at London's Olympia because I had been speaking at the IDC conference in Milan. A short cyber crime story on Al Jazeera TV on Sunday made me realise that this year's Infosec show in...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

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