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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.07.08
Round-Up Or maybe, and this is where the Round-Up thinks it could make a fair few bucks working as a marketing consultant for the software giant, it could just change the operating system's name to Mojave and lay Vista to rest forever as the ghost in the... [25 Jul 2008]
Tesco.com vans cut fuel bills with telematics tech
News Sign up for the R&L newsletter today! He said: "This is the first time we had seen a system that could do everything we wanted but if we could make a fuel consumption improvement, that was an obvious way to pay for the technology. [25 Jul 2008]
A New Approach to Deploying and Managing JavaEE Applications
White Paper Specifically, it's work that's error-prone, repetitive, and time consuming because of the complexity of setting up or tweaking web application servers. The result is lost man-hours, soaring costs, and potential problems associated with hidden or... [25 Jul 2008]
Are sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News Instances of drivers being 'forced' to make an illegal turn or hesitate at junctions were highlighted in the study carried out by Direct Line insurers. This prompted many silicon.com readers to argue that regardless of whether a sat-nav device... [24 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment Once I had climbed down into the sewer I found the flow - and I think you know what that is made up of - was about knee high, though it can rise to six feet. We've abseiled down buildings, walked the tracks of the London underground at 2am and this... [24 Jul 2008]
Take stock for tough times
Comment With recent research suggesting up to 30 per cent of customers are much more actively seeking promotions, it is important that pricing is in line with the market and that the message is delivered clearly. [24 Jul 2008]
UK officials going snoop crazy
News More than 1,400 requests per day were made to spy on phone call records and web traffic last year, up on the average of less than 350,000 per year over the previous two years. Kennedy said local authorities could make greater use of communications... [23 Jul 2008]
Police to get thousands more mobiles
News He said in a statement: "When used appropriately, handheld computers keep officers out in the community and make them visible to the public. Having information in the right place at the right time, which is up to date and accurate is vital to help... [22 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment In some instances I had five active CRT screens as my workspace, backed up by the most powerful computers available at the time. The basic idea was to be able to roam the planet, communicating by all possible means, which at the time invariably... [22 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News PeoplePerHour.com founder Xenios Thrasyvoulou, said in a statement: "On regular salaries skilled professionals are struggling to make ends meet. Discussing how much time he spends doing this extra work, Sachdev explained that while a project may... [22 Jul 2008]
Does open source pose a security risk?
News The company argued that open-source development simply does not live up to enterprise security standards. It found that all or nearly all of the projects examined failed to provide access to an internal security expert, reduce the number of... [22 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the year, a landmark milestone that analysts believe will make the channel a critical business for many high-street retailers. [18 Jul 2008]
XEROX Case Study: FG Wilson
White Paper Originally, FG Wilson outsourced its printing to specialists and manually collated offset printed material from its various suppliers to make up the manual pack. In total, FG Wilson had 10 staff fulfilling the manuals and anything up to 17... [18 Jul 2008]
Courts to save millions with streamlined tech
News Sign up for the PS newsletter today! It is able to scale up from individual courts or forces to provide an overview of regional performance, allowing different forces to learn from best practice elsewhere in the country. [17 Jul 2008]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment It sums up perfectly the approach that an organisation needs to take to understand its requirements and adopt an IT strategy to help achieve them. Drivers Internal drivers might be a desire to make or save money or to look green. [17 Jul 2008]
