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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.11.09
Round-Up We've all made embarrassing mobile phone blunders as part of our busy modern lives. We've all done something with a mobile that has led to fingers pointed in mirth and mockery: a few years ago the... [27 Nov 2009]
Is losing a mobile device really such a big deal?
Comment It's not just mobile phones: when I was speaking to an IT manager at a recent industry conference about disaster recovery policy, I asked him how much data was involved - expecting the answer to be in... [24 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment Fast forward to the present and open source is indeed on the rise - most notably in the mobile industry, for example, where handset makers are falling over themselves to embrace new open source OSes such... [19 Nov 2009]
Revealed: The apps you'll have on your phone in 2012
News Mobile search is ranked number three on the Gartner list because of its high impact on technology innovation and industry revenue, but the analyst said the industry first needs to... [18 Nov 2009]
T-Mobile workers accused over customer record sales
News T-Mobile said of the breach: "While it is deeply regrettable that customer information has been misappropriated in this way, we have proactively supported the ICO to help stamp out what is a problem for the whole... [18 Nov 2009]
Working with Telecommunications: Churning in the Telecommunications Industry
White Paper In the mobile telecommunications market, a 1995 report by Digital Equipment Corp.estimated the cost of churn at around $400 per new subscriber. ISP's have hinted at churn rates as great as 50 percent, the... [03 Nov 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment The explosion of increasingly sophisticated mobile devices, coupled with the recent app phenomenon will also contribute to the proliferation of e-reader technologies, allowing e-publications to be viewed on a vast range... [27 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Who would have thought five years ago that cell phones would have 2MB data network connections for use by special mobile applications or that datacentre capacity would be available "on demand" over the internet and paid... [12 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Though Acorn Computers produced its last desktop machine in 1998, today one of its former subsidiaries, ARM Holdings, designs the chips found in most mobile phones and some netbooks, bringing ARM revenues of £298.9m... [07 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News From later on this year, the iPhone will be available on Orange, as well as Vodafone.iPhone users are well-known as some of the biggest data consumers in the mobile world but are mobile surfers getting a... [06 Oct 2009]
Securing Personally Identifiable Information
White Paper Files are copied to laptop hard drives and mobile devices. Federal government departments, state offices, and industry organizations have enacted tough legislation to force organizations to safeguard... [06 Oct 2009]
The Manycore Shift: Microsoft Parallel Computing Initiative Ushers Computing Into the Next Era
White Paper When major qualitative shifts such as the emergence of the Graphical User Interface (GUI), the Internet, mobile devices, and software services transformed the computing industry, Microsoft has... [02 Oct 2009]
Meteor Mobile Communications Boosts Efficiency With Flexible HR System
White Paper Meteor Mobile Communications wanted to replace six legacy Human Resources (HR) systems designed for a smaller workforce of 200, with an integrated, scalable solution to meet the needs of more than 800 employees and... [02 Oct 2009]
Making a Difference: Achieving Competitive Distinction Through the Rich Communication Suite
White Paper Since its announcement at the end of 2007, and especially during 2008's Mobile World Congress, the Rich Communication Suite Initiative has generated a great deal of interest among service providers and throughout the... [02 Oct 2009]
A Clear Path to 100Gigabit Ethernet on the Alcatel-Lucent Service Router Portfolio
White Paper Leveraging the power and flexibility of innovative FP2 silicon, the service router portfolio goes far beyond faster transport: unleashing powerful 100GigE interfaces that support the full scope and scale of broadband services such as... [02 Oct 2009]
