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News I believe that a core UK strength is organisation and delivery capability, and while I think we will always have a role to play it will generally be a secondary one on the global stage. That's the sobering conclusion of... [03 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The two-way Tetra comms system has an important role to play during the London 2012 Olympics - with two Airwave networks being deployed, one for the emergency services to use, and a separate network for Games staff. [03 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Using recycled paper, dropping desktop printers in favour of shared multi-function devices and duplex printing also all have a role to play in reducing print wastage. In a recent silicon.com survey, more... [29 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News In future, with the IT department no longer having to run so many services internally, Vincent said staff will instead play a greater role in managing outsourcers, business process management and choosing and integrating... [26 Oct 2009]
Will 'citizen developers' shake up IT development?
News Now step forward the 'citizen developer' - an individual set to play an increasingly important role in creating business apps, according to analyst house Gartner. We've had the 'citizen journalist', blogging from war... [23 Oct 2009]
YouTube presses play on Channel 4 top shows
News Channel 4 has signed a deal with YouTube to bring its flagship shows to the video-sharing site. The agreement will see programming from Channel 4's catch up service 4oD made available for free through YouTube. [16 Oct 2009]
Adobe's Flash coming to smartphones, netbooks
News The company has just announced Flash Player 10.1 which will let users view Flash video and play Flash games on smartphones, netbooks and other mobile hardware. Flash is ubiquitous on the desktop - now Adobe is hoping it... [05 Oct 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News Intel argues that there's more that can be done to augment the experience of watching TV-drilling down into details about particular shows, using computer smarts to find new material people might be interested in, discussing shows as... [28 Sep 2009]
Will software be Motorola's saviour?
News It's not just Motorola who will get to play with Motoblur, either: outside developers will also be able to get their hands on Motoblur with the eventual release of APIs for the software, Jha told Infoworld. [15 Sep 2009]
Intel chip expert heads to EMC
News EMC is extremely well positioned to play a pivotal role in the IT industry for decades to come, and I am privileged to join Joe and his EMC leadership team in that endeavour. Intel has reorganised its upper management,... [15 Sep 2009]
US ramps up probe into Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal
News Given that Microsoft and Google have been fighting behind the scenes in Washington all year as scrutiny of Google ramps up, you might think Google had decided turnabout was fair play. The long road toward Microsoft and... [14 Sep 2009]
Google presses play on video ads
News It can charge either by the click through to the advertiser's website or by the play of the video, therefore adding a revenue stream that didn't exist before. Google sought to remind financial analysts on Wednesday that... [10 Sep 2009]
Are your software licences up to date - and does your CFO know?
News Ultimately, from a governance perspective the tone and the culture is set from the CFO and they have a role to play in ensuring that the organisation - and that includes the IT function - are aware how seriously the... [04 Sep 2009]
Wikipedia editors to stop vandals messing with articles of the living
News The plan is to deploy the feature on a test wiki soon so the Wikipedia community can play around with before it goes public. CNET News.com's Daniel Terdiman contributed to this story Wikipedia will soon... [26 Aug 2009]
Apple's next Mac OS going on sale this Friday
News The next iteration of Mac OS X is getting an early release. Apple announced today that Snow Leopard will be available on 28 August from £25 for a single user licence, with the Apple website taking pre-orders from today. [25 Aug 2009]
