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Beijing Olympic diary: Producing results
Comment Hits on the intranet from the media were close to 1.3 million. People are trying to get out and see the competition, getting to meet new people and really also experiencing Beijing. Follow the link for more on the technology behind the Games. [19 Aug 2008]
Brits spending record time online
News The telecoms regulator has released its fifth annual communications market report, which shows people in the UK are spending more time than ever consuming a variety of comms and media services. During this period there were 511,000 new mobile... [14 Aug 2008]
Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News Fenn said cloud computing and SOA will deliver business transformation by "driving deep changes in the role and capabilities of IT", while virtual worlds - such as Second Life - are currently suffering from being over-hyped but, in the long term... [11 Aug 2008]
BBC reveals iPlayer user habits
News Writing on the BBC blog, Anthony Rose, head of digital media for BBC Future Media and Technology, said: "It's great to have some solid evidence to back up our ideas on how people were using the service, and I've been delighted to see how positive... [06 Aug 2008]
No More FTP: Eliminate FTP and Email Attachment Issues
White Paper Systems for sending large files have not kept pace with the needs of today's enterprise, where increasingly large and sophisticated business documents, files and media need to be quickly transmitted and shared with coworkers, business partners and... [05 Aug 2008]
Switch from oil to silicon
Comment Many services and products have been digitised for delivery over the network - even formerly physical goods, such as the delivery of media or software. Even new revenues generated will benefit from decisions on acceptable margins. [31 Jul 2008]
Start-ups try to cut slice of Google pie
News Clickable CEO David Kidder said that part of the growth plan in the next year will be to create a single "Clickable" interface for other types of web advertising, including social media and display ads. [30 Jul 2008]
Greek island gets wireless mesh network
News Negroponte's MIT Media Lab then went on to look at ways of bringing broadband web access to Patmos and eventually settled on wireless mesh networking tech as the best solution. The wireless Patmos network - due to launch this summer - has been... [24 Jul 2008]
Virtualizing Storage for VMware Success
White Paper Any restore operation that requires data to be copied from another form of media can take days. Server virtualization has made day-to-day life a whole lot simpler for systems administrators; however, the benefits have not been shared by storage... [24 Jul 2008]
Telegraph spreads the news on Google Apps
News The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is moving all of its employees onto Google Apps following a successful trial of the technology. But he added there was initially some resistance due to the cultural changes the new technology represented. [23 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment Experts in convergence between the technology, communications and media sectors, it advises some of the world's leading multinational entertainment, media, sport and technology companies. Its award-winning technology, media and commercial practice... [22 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Testing times…
Comment But in addition to supporting these systems, we now have our last two big tasks to complete: final results testing at all the venues with our partners, and the installation of the remaining Info 2008 kiosks and CIS terminals for the media at the... [21 Jul 2008]
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News Most digital media today is stored on an individual computer and then synched to one device or another or streamed through a home network to an entertainment system or other appliance. That opens the door to a new market, one that for now remains a... [21 Jul 2008]
Beeb appoints new iPlayer chief
News The BBC has appointed former Microsoft employee, Erik Huggers, as the new director of its Future Media and Technology division. Huggers, who joined the BBC last year and is currently group controller of the Future Media and Technology division... [18 Jul 2008]
Survival of the Fittest: Disaster Recovery Design for the Data Center
White Paper Business and market changes of the new global economy coupled with the explosion of digital media have made obsolete the traditional methods of tape backup/restore for corporate disaster recovery (DR). [18 Jul 2008]
