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RSS benefit in newsGoogle Chrome: Should its rivals be worried?
News Uniquely in this market, we're a public-benefit, nonprofit group, with no other agenda or profit motive at all," Mozilla chief executive John Lilly said in a blog posting Monday. But Safari could benefit indirectly from Chrome: both browsers are... [03 Sep 2008]
Cloud - not ready for mission-critical business
News Eventually, it will not make sense for companies to be their own services and data centre 'experts'," where they can benefit from the economies of scale that larger cloud vendors can provide, he added. [03 Sep 2008]
CIOs ready for flexi-time law
News At present, the right is extended to children aged up to six, but the government launched a consultation last week to discuss whether families with children aged up to 16 could also benefit from parents being at home more. [03 Sep 2008]
Five-year wait for O2 Oyster card mobiles
News While testers saw the benefit of periodically having to enter a PIN to boost security, Maslen added, in some cases secondary authentication isn't practical. The mobile travelcard/wallet trial was announced back in November 2007, with O2 partnering... [02 Sep 2008]
Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners
News And last year, two CDs containing the confidential personal details of 25 million child benefit recipients were lost by HM Revenue & Customs. Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office... [22 Aug 2008]
Microsoft pumps $100m into Novell Linux deal
News Microsoft on Wednesday extended its existing partnership with Novell with a pledge to pump up to an additional $100m into the deal. The companies, which announced an interoperability deal two years ago, said Microsoft will purchase up to $100m in... [21 Aug 2008]
University donates old PCs to Chile
News Nottingham University is sending its old computers on a retirement trip to Chile. The university has donated 500 out-of-use PCs and laptops to rural schools in the South American country with the help of charity Computer Aid International. [15 Aug 2008]
Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News Other technologies within two to five years of mainstream adoption include green IT and location-aware applications - both of which Gartner believes will have a high business benefit. Web 2.0 technologies may make you roll your eyes dismissively... [11 Aug 2008]
TfL ends Oyster card contract early
News For the benefit of all stakeholders, contract negotiations have been taking place over the last year between Transys and TfL. Transport for London has terminated its contract with the Transys consortium that provides the Oyster ticketing system for... [11 Aug 2008]
Start-ups try to cut slice of Google pie
News Advertisers on social networks, he said, could eventually benefit from a single tool that could trace how ads are performing with other types of media. Google wouldn't be Google without its ownership of the estimated $10.4bn annual search... [30 Jul 2008]
Nokia, Qualcomm settle patent dispute
News Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a statement: "We believe that this agreement is positive for the industry, enabling the market to benefit from innovation and new technologies. Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones... [24 Jul 2008]
Telegraph spreads the news on Google Apps
News Cheesbrough said another benefit is that users have the same experience when using work applications both outside and in the office. The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is moving all of its employees onto Google Apps following a successful trial of the... [23 Jul 2008]
BBC to take better care of web budget
News According to the Trust this will ensure "better financial accountability and editorial and managerial oversight of bbc.co.uk to the benefit of licence fee payers". The BBC's independent regulator, the BBC Trust, has approved the corporation's plans... [22 Jul 2008]
Does open source pose a security risk?
News The report said: "Open-source development can benefit from private industry practices - notably those created by financial services organisations and larger independent software vendors. The security practices of open-source IT developers should... [22 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News He said: "We are keen to exploit some of the opportunities that open source brings - not just for the obvious cost advantage but also to benefit from some of the innovative thinking - such as with Service Component Architecture - that we see in... [21 Jul 2008]
