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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Firstly, they're huge, great big whopping technology companies with a combined market cap of a trillion dollars. Question: What do Britain's hairdressers and IT technicians have in common? Answer: A shared love of... [06 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment They have accumulated piles of cash so you would think top Indian outsourcing firms such as Infosys Technologies and Wipro Ltd would go hunting for sizeable acquisitions in the current market. Indian outsourcers... [06 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News Spire Healthcare IM&T director Marc O'Brien said the UK does not applaud success and doesn't respect the entrepreneurial spirit in the way the US does, warning: "I can see a future where the ideas and initial launches are UK based but... [03 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News While Symbian continues to dominate the smartphone market it could soon be facing increasing competition from a new quarter - Maemo. New entrants to the market including Google's Android will continue to... [02 Nov 2009]
3 Strategies for Reducing IT Support Costs
White Paper To ensure a seamless transition into the post-recession market, however, slashing and burning is not recommended. As companies brace for more bumps in the economic downturn, many organisations are indiscriminately... [02 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment Where do these times of monetary and market instability come from? Compiled at the IoD, Pall Mall, London, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi connection. For more than a year now I have been in a state of... [29 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment Whereas around 30 per cent of existing hardware wouldn't run Vista when it came to market, we're now looking at 10 per cent or less of existing hardware being unable to run Windows 7. It is likely that Windows 7 will be... [28 Oct 2009]
Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo The Thomson Reuters app helps users keep up to date with breaking news and market data from around the world. However, the App Store currently stocks more than 2,000 business apps and, with the iPhone currently... [27 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Some experts predict the e-book market will be worth $9.5bn by 2010, and many estimate the number to be much higher. Amazon holds just under two-thirds of that market, followed by Sony with a further... [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet According to ABI, an entirely new mass market for AR has opened up in the mobile world, thanks to the increasing availability of technology such as video cameras, GPS, compasses, and accelerometers on smartphones. [27 Oct 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News Other factors holding the UK back include a lack of marketing and management expertise, the tendency to focus on products geared to the UK market rather than considering an international audience, and an overall lack of... [23 Oct 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News My core challenge is time to market, output, development, productivity [and to] crank out new products," he told silicon.com. Kiessling isn't the only gambling CTO focusing on getting new products to... [23 Oct 2009]
Barclays CIO finds a new home with SAP
News Trotta has been appointed the ERP company's SVP and global head of financial services, responsible for product strategy, development and overall market positioning activities in the banking and insurance industries... [22 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News CIOs will need to look into the range of security monitoring and analysis tools on the market that help enterprises detect suspicious activities in order to help protect their companies and keep them up to speed with... [22 Oct 2009]
Photos: New Apple MacBook learns lessons from the Pro
Photo While consumers have long called for lower entry prices for Mac laptops, Apple has always been reluctant to stray into the lower-margin sub-$1,000 market. Apple updated its MacBook line-up this week. Here's a closer look... [22 Oct 2009]
