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RSS make upMinority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
Comment The Mini debuted at a time when the 'Get a Mac' switch campaign was kicking off, and the BYOKDM (Bring Your Own Keyboard, Display and Mouse) ethos was aimed at encouraging Mac-curious PC users to make a change. [26 Nov 2009]
Photos: The new gadgets and tech services up Orange's sleeve
Photo At Orange's biannual La Collection event in Paris, the mobile operator gives a sneak peek at the technology set for future release.silicon.com went along to the 10th La Collection event last week to take a look at the gadgets and... [26 Nov 2009]
Women in IT: Tech has an image problem
News Across the UK's general working population, women make up almost half (45 per cent) of the workforce - close to double the proportion of women working in IT. The lack of women in IT is bad news for the... [26 Nov 2009]
Outsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News At the National Outsourcing Association's Sourcing Summit last week, two heads of IT shared their experiences of how to get the best out of outsourcing agreements and make sure they're delivering long-term value. [24 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome OS
Cheat Sheet Not entirely, Google is working to make some web-based apps, files and media available offline. The other loser could be the various other Linux-based netbook OS, which have so far failed to make a... [23 Nov 2009]
Pay for IT chiefs weathers the storm
News Seventeen per cent of IT managers now make do with under £25k per year, compared to just nine per cent in 2008. Despite the cost-cutting forced on many organisations by the recession, pay packets for the IT management... [23 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves
Comment ISPs have been hit by rafts of silly requirements dreamt up by misguided and ill-informed politicians, and the network providers say they can't make it pay. So how come operators can't... [23 Nov 2009]
Doing business with citizen developers: Beware the legal pitfalls
Comment Citizen developers represent an innovative new way of creating software - just be mindful of the legal complications, says lawyer Mark Crichard. One quarter of business applications will be created by citizen developers by 2014,... [23 Nov 2009]
How to squeeze the last drops of savings from an outsourcing contract
News Faced with the need to make substantial savings, Hayes said he realised he was not going to make such large cuts by simply renegotiating a lower cost for the supply of RMG's existing IT services. We were... [20 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment For many organisations, it might simply be the case they want to get their phone calls for free and make sure people can see who's about - in other words voice over IP plus presence. And that openness, agrees Bamford, is... [17 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 following opposition... [16 Nov 2009]
Getting Up to Speed: RFID Powered by Impinj
White Paper Because of the advances in technology that moved electronics from bulky boxes to highly integrated circuitry, engineers can create tiny, inexpensive, and powerful communications chips that make the deployment of wireless... [12 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo Shown above is the Skype app which allows users to make calls and send instant messages to anyone else with a Skype account for free. October saw silicon.com cast its eye over the top iPhone apps for business. [12 Nov 2009]
Photos: The happy robot sat-nav
Photo Engineers are aiming to make the driver bond with the dashboard robot by giving it the ability to display a variety of emotions, using a virtual face on its display. In the future drivers will regard their sat-navs as... [11 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
News Virtualisation is a relatively new area of technology and some analysts have warned companies to take their time to make sure they understand the potential security risks of virtualisation. Software licences are... [11 Nov 2009]
