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RSS mobile 1bnFormer eBay CEO vies to become Arnold Schwarzenegger's successor
News Possible primary rivals include state insurance commissioner Steve Poizner, a former Silicon Valley exec who founded SnapTrack, a mobile phone locating company, and sold it to Qualcomm for $1bn in... [22 Sep 2009]
Voice, video, data: £1bn gov't telecoms contract up for grabs
News The systems under the framework will handle voice, video and data and include telecoms equipment and network infrastructure, call centre systems, unified communications, fixed to mobile communications, radio equipment,... [10 Jul 2009]
CIO Job Report: June's job moves and CIOs wanted
News Prior to joining TalkTalk, Cooper was chief technology and operations officer at mobile operator 3. Let silicon.com keep you up to date with all the latest CIO job moves and changes with our regular CIO Job Report. [30 Jun 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News Hillingdon invested in software to automatically shut down PCs, server virtualisation, replaced power hungry CRT monitors with TFT screens, bought duplex printers and introduced remote access software from Citrix and... [29 Jun 2009]
Exclusive: HMRC names new CIO
News Former T-Mobile executive Deepak Singh has been acting CIO at the HMRC since the previous incumbent Steve Lamey was promoted to COO at the HMRC in October 2007. Transport for London (TfL) CIO Phil Pavitt has been... [02 Jun 2009]
Cost-cutting sees Vodafone slash 500 jobs
News A spokesperson for Vodafone told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Tuesday morning that 170 of the jobs cuts will take place at the mobile operator's Newbury headquarters. Vodafone UK has announced it is cutting... [24 Feb 2009]
How my team didn't slip up in the snow
Comment The mainstay is web access to email and for the mobile warriors in the workforce we've enabled both BlackBerry and Windows mobile devices to access corporate email. IT director Steve Clarke shares his... [17 Feb 2009]
Taxman hunts for new CIO for £1bn IT dept
News Former T-Mobile executive Deepak Singh has been acting CIO since the previous incumbent Steve Lamey was promoted to COO at the HMRC in October 2007. The taxman is looking for a CIO to complete the transformation of its... [13 Jan 2009]
2008: The year in numbers
News The times spent by the average Briton surfing the net, using mobile phones, talking on landline telephones, watching TV and listening to the radio per day m $1bn The value Steve Jobs reckons the iPhone... [02 Jan 2009]
Natwest claims first with mobile money transfer
News NatWest has launched what it claims is the first international money transfer service over mobile phones offered by a UK bank. Customers will need sign up for the service over the bank's website and transfer the cash via... [22 Dec 2008]
Microsoft nears Verizon search deal
News Microsoft could share advertising revenue with Verizon under terms being considered, with guaranteed payments to the mobile service provider of up to $650m over five years, or twice what Google was offering, according to... [12 Nov 2008]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Eric Schmidt
News Google has spread its tentacles into the browser and mobile phone markets with the release of Chrome and the announcement of its Android OS for handsets. As the countdown begins to silicon.com's ninth annual Agenda... [22 Sep 2008]
Minority Report: Apple alienating App Store developers?
Comment The app streams and downloads podcasts over wi-fi and mobile networks. These are heady times for Apple's App Store. The online marketplace for third-party iPhone and iPod Touch apps is reporting huge sales since its... [16 Sep 2008]
Nationwide WiMax in next two years?
News WiMax is currently only available in very limited deployments in the UK and only in its "fixed" variant, with the prospects for "mobile WiMax" - the type needed for portable devices - depending on upcoming spectrum... [09 May 2008]
ID cards are dead
Comment M is for Mobile phones If you wondered what the loud screeching of brakes was in Whitehall this week it was the sound of the government attempting to halt the ID cards juggernaut and execute an almighty handbrake u-turn... [07 Mar 2008]
