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Cisco revamps mobility strategy
News Cisco also released details of four software packages to run on the MSE. The Context-Aware Software service relays location or environmental information to the engine, ranging from temperature in manufacturing environments to motion and pressure. [29 May 2008]
BCS signs up to e-Skills body
News The British Computer Society has joined a body that promotes the development of e-skills in Europe. As a board member, BCS said it will provide leadership, co-ordinate industry advice and pool resources and expertise to support EU policies and... [29 May 2008]
Microsoft gets touchy-feely in Windows 7
News Microsoft plans to give users of the next version of its Windows operating system touchscreen controls as one option for controlling the software, its top executives said yesterday. Chairman Bill Gates and chief executive Steve Ballmer showed off... [28 May 2008]
Femtocell market hotting up
News At least that's the hope of the Femto Forum, an industry association of operators, telecoms hardware and software vendors, content providers and start-ups, working to smooth the path for development and adoption of the nascent tech. [21 May 2008]
Health care records service delayed
News The National Audit Office has published a report on the progress of the Care Records Service that underpins the Connecting for Health programme, which found the software development on the Lorenzo database and associated applications that supports... [16 May 2008]
LiMo targets the business mobile
News Leach said: "For LiMo it is a validation of its collaborative-development model and the [intellectual property] safe harbour that it creates, allowing proprietary and open-source software to co-exist within a single platform. [15 May 2008]
UK should 'abandon' software market to China
News UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60bn behind China this year fuelling high-level calls for Britain to abandon the low-cost end of market. Revenues in the Chinese software product and services sector are forecast to reach $140bn by... [14 May 2008]
Google lays out mobile future
News London is now the main base for Google's mobile application development - with an 80-strong team - but the company also has centres in Bangalore, Beijing, Tokyo, Waterloo in Canada and Silicon Valley. [13 May 2008]
Beijing 2008 Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze
News The team members behind the IT systems are preparing to move from their individual project roles to the operational phase, and part of that is bringing software development to a close. Hore told silicon.com: "Right now we are freezing the software... [13 May 2008]
Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more
News Dr Ganesh Natarajan, chairman of Nasscom, said in a statement: "We now see the time as being right to spread this development to a new set of locations, provided the requirements of the industry can be met. [06 May 2008]
India edgy about outsourcing newbies?
News India's fears that other countries are undercutting its dominance of the global outsourcing market have pushed it into extending a tax break for software companies say consultants. The finance minister for India, Palaniappan Chidambaram, decided to... [06 May 2008]
CSC signs $400m contract with Zurich
News Michael Paravicini, CIO at Zurich Financial Services Group, said in a statement: "CSC already provides support for the development and maintenance of our application software, and our expanded relationship will allow us to provide a more... [02 May 2008]
Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'
News Software developers from NeoSmart, a not-for-profit technology-development organisation, claim they have successfully bypassed User Account Control, a security feature in Windows Vista. Another blog post said UAC had been expressly designed to... [29 Apr 2008]
Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year
News Sun is to open source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move that should make it possible to fully integrate the software into Linux distributions. Sun started open-sourcing Java at the end of 2006 but only 96 per cent of Java was able to be... [28 Apr 2008]
Ballmer: Windows XP may live and breathe for longer
News Earlier this month, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates indicated that Windows 7 could come within the next year in some form - possibly a developer-oriented version - far ahead of the development schedule previously indicated by the software maker. [24 Apr 2008]
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