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Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News He wrote: "Some customers are running mission-critical transactional deployments with over 3TB of data on open-source databases, while others are running very large workloads that support hundreds and thousands of concurrent users. [24 Jul 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News The three small business packages - all on Orange's unlimited data 'Business Everywhere' tariffs - cost £35, £40 and £45 per month respectively, with the cheaper two using dongles and the most expensive doing it dongle-less with an embedded Orange... [23 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News Mobile is the PC of the future, improved speed and falling costs for downloading data makes searching and booking flights a viable, quick and convenient option, breaking the tie with the office or home PC. [23 Jul 2008]
EC shies away from data-roaming regulation
News However, Nick White, the executive vide president of the International Telecommunications Users Group, said business users still perceived "very little progress" with data roaming prices. White complained that business users were having to employ... [22 Jul 2008]
Indian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? Peter Allen, partner and managing director of TPI, said in a... [18 Jul 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data centresE is for Energy sourcesF is for FreecycleG is for GovernmentH is for HomeworkingI is for Ice capsJ is for Jobs (Steve) K is for KilowattsL is for LandfillM is for MercuryN... [17 Jul 2008]
Location-based services mean business
News Bonte said in a statement: "As the reliability and performance of mobile enterprise solutions improves and the concerns about maintenance costs, data protection and integrity are addressed, corporations will increasingly adopt mobile solutions and... [17 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Gartner said the increase in use of cloud-based office software, such as Google Apps or salesforce.com, means online security services will be necessary to protect mobile IT users accessing business data and services outside the corporate network. [17 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry PDF flaw puts business networks at risk
News He said: "Given the BES needs to access the data store from the mail server, obviously that's quite a high privilege. RIM is warning businesses to disable the function that allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until an update can be issued, after... [17 Jul 2008]
Aviva strikes $1bn BPO deal
News More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? The world's fifth largest insurance group, owner of Norwich Union... [11 Jul 2008]
Businesses have mixed feelings on IM
News This means many are at risk of failing to comply with regulations around the retention of communication data. Around nine out of 10 IT directors quizzed said they were concerned about the use of IM with 56 per cent saying they were worried about... [11 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G: The wait is over
News These tariffs, which all include an £8.51 (excluding VAT) 'iPhone bolt-on' for unlimited 3G data and usage of The Cloud's wi-fi network, start at £30.91 per month on a 24-month contract. O2, which has exclusivity for the iPhone in the UK, has... [11 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News data with internal data. In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo! The iPod and BlackBerry lost property mountain tips for better business travel The service, which entered public beta testing last night, is called Boss (Build Your... [10 Jul 2008]
Intel's Atom cracks into PC World
News Fennell said netbooks - a term initially promoted by Intel to identify low-cost, low-performance, ultraportable laptops, and epitomised by the Asus Eee - are "far more convenient [than laptops] when on the move and provide a full range of viewing... [08 Jul 2008]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News Nine out of 10 organisations that have adopted virtualisation technologies have done so to reduce data centre costs, according to research from IDC. The survey claims "virtualisation is mainstream and is becoming a standard deployment platform for... [08 Jul 2008]
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