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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08

Round-Up Other benefits claimed include saving time, reducing stress and the pleasure of speaking to the boss wearing a pair of M&S socks and nothing else. It's one of the great life-affirming experiences, up there with swimming with dolphins, skydiving and...

Tags: google sky, amd, apple, work wise

[16 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom

Comment When your requirements are for megawatts of power provided with high reliability and resilience, I'm afraid it still means burning gas or oil. Written during an intensely boring conference session and dispatched via a free wi-fi node outside...

Tags: data centres, green, energy, power

[16 May 2008]

RIM co-CEO: Qwerty is the next big thing

Comment So I'm sorry but this wasn't a response to another device. I'm sorry, it really is. I'm not making this up. The rise of the smart phone… I've always believed that the feature phone market was going to transition to smart phones.

Tags: mike lazaridis, touchscreen, blackberry, rim

[16 May 2008]

National Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?

News The plus side is I'm close to the toaster. This means I'm reduced to IM, web browsing and my phone as business resources. I'm left with a strong feeling of detachment. All the apps, from email to content management, work just as smoothly as when I...

Tags: home, work

[16 May 2008]

Microsoft hits back at Vista security critics

News If I, despite all prompting and consent behaviour, choose to go to a (probably dodgy) website, accept the ActiveX control prompts to download (probably dodgy) code and I actually choose to execute that code then I'm hosed.

Tags: xp, windows, vista

[16 May 2008]

Medical Device Manufacturer Makes Hand-Carried Ultrasound a Reality

whitepaper For its latest product, SonoSite M-Turbo system, the company wanted to maintain rapid boot-up time of less than 15 seconds, while increasing system performance and enabling high-bandwidth transfer of image data files for clinicians to be able to...

Tags: embedded systems

[16 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs

Comment I'm fairly sure that only 10 per cent of the calls are for actual need of contact at that location and time. This week, readers get worked up over rude mobile users - should they be slapped with an ASBO?

Tags: rim, blackberry, nhs, mobile

[15 May 2008]

LiMo targets the business mobile

News Leach said: "I'm surprised they're going out to specifically target the enterprise. I'm forecasting quite an aggressive uptake of mobile Linux over the next three years. The LiMo Foundation, a broad industry consortium of manufacturers, operators...

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

M.T.M. Increases Efficiency to Support Global Business Growth

whitepaper M.T.M.an Italian company that owns the BRC Gas Equipment trademark, was established in 1977 and has grown to become one of the top manufacturers of alternative fuel systems for motor vehicles. M.T.M.wanted to increase efficiency company-wide and...

Tags: erp

[14 May 2008]

Google lays out mobile future

News M is for M2M Google is aiming to make an impact in the mobile sector by focusing on web-based applications, super-fast search and location based services (LBS). The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile applications for some time and...

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Beijing 2008 Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze

News Hore said: "We consider testing to be one of the key success factors; I'm not sure if you can ever do too much testing. With less than 100 days remaining before the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, work on the IT systems to support the event is...

Tags: software, games, beijing, olympic

[13 May 2008]

An Overview of the M Language

whitepaper The MIT Data Center is moving into a new stage of development and application of the M Language. This paper gives an overview of the M Language along with applications. Designed to enhance data interoperability, the M Language serves as a base for...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News M is for M2M There will be WiMax coverage across the UK within the next two years, the managing director of Intel Capital EMEA has claimed. Speaking at a roundtable discussion yesterday, Ashish Patel said the long-range wireless technology would...

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News M is for M2M Tomorrow's wireless world could be a better place to be ill, according to Ofcom which has published a report highlighting technologies that could make it outside the research lab over the next 10 to 20 years.

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[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]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News M is for Microsoft Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm, the malware which contributes to the Storm botnet, is continuing to evolve and now has two further possible avenues of attack.

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?

Comment So I'm pleased that the debate is quietening down and that effective open source applications have now carved out a niche. I know I'm leaving myself open to criticism from open source loving technologists but as a CIO you need to look at these...

Tags: applications, open source

[06 May 2008]

Mobile M2M connections on the up

News M is for M2M Cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connections are set to rise by more than a third in the next four years, analyst Berg Insight predicts, driven by rollouts of vehicle telematics. Wireless from A to Z

Tags: ecall, telematics, m2m

[06 May 2008]

Yahoo! - Microsoft walks away

News Microsoft changes M&A strategy with Yahoo! Yahoo! chief Jerry Yang signalled a more open stance towards Microsoft yesterday, saying he had been seeking common ground when the software maker abruptly ended deal talks on Saturday.

Tags: bid, yahoo, microsoft

[06 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: i'm Campaign

whitepaper To help bridge that gap, Microsoft introduced the i'm Initiative, a program from Windows Live Messenger. Every time a user registered with the i'm campaign has conversations using Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft shares a portion of the program's...

Tags: bridges

[06 May 2008]

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