disparate in news
Microsoft's cloud has an Azure tinge
News The company has released a few things piecemeal, such as Live Mesh, but Monday's announcement marked the first real discussion of how Microsoft's disparate internet strategies fit together. Microsoft on Monday announced... [28 Oct 2008]
Oracle gets collaboration buzz with Beehive
News For example, one security rule would be set to handle disparate functions across the servers, yet the user interface would appear the same to users, even though they may be using different instant messaging applications. [23 Sep 2008]
Ubuntu founder: 'Upstream' bugs must be quashed
News Shuttleworth's move could go someway towards addressing the issue of who should be responsible for patching flaws in open-source code, when that code is developed by disparate, potentially unconnected groups. [01 Jul 2008]
Mobile operators warn over termination rate cuts
News Reding said in a statement: "Disparate termination rates across the EU and large gaps between fixed and mobile termination rates are serious barriers to achieving a Single European Telecoms market that benefits... [30 Jun 2008]
Cisco revamps mobility strategy
News The networking company Cisco has launched a new architecture for unifying disparate networks, clients and access technologies. The company also announced on Wednesday a rebranding of its entire mobility strategy, which... [29 May 2008]
Geographic database opens doors to private sector
News He added that the centralising of address data has created significant efficiencies in public sector organisations - some of which previously had up to 150 disparate databases. A national geographical electronic database... [30 Apr 2008]
National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year
News By identifying patterns of fraudulent activity and linking disparate cases the centre would set priorities for fraud policing, focus major fraud investigations and stop information from slipping through the gaps between... [28 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News With so many disparate developer strategies, the social-media landscape could grow even more fragmented, and Google launched the OpenSocial API (and later the Social Graph API) as a means to provide some connectivity. [26 Mar 2008]
Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation
News He also works on the Social Graph API, which aims to consolidate data across disparate social networks. When the Future of Web Apps conference (Fowa) wound down on Friday, a few things were clear, not the least of which... [03 Mar 2008]
Virtual tech will 'kill the office'
News Bringing comms and applications together to give an intelligent view of the status of a disparate workforce will therefore be increasingly important - factors such as a person's availability, location and even their... [31 Jan 2008]
Torex Retail looks to future
News What I found was a company of disparate businesses. When private investment company Cerberus bought Torex in June this year it flew in its own management team. Since then new president and COO Graham Cooksley has... [13 Nov 2007]
Royal Mail opts for SAP to cut sourcing costs
News It replaces disparate systems and gives staff greater visibility across the contracting process. Royal Mail is aiming to save £300m on procurement costs by 2009 with the help of a hosted e-sourcing application from SAP. [26 Oct 2007]
Campbell Soup boosts supply chain management
News Michael Mastroianni, vice president of North American planning, reliability and operations at Campbell Soup, said in a statement: "The solution's analytical power and simplicity enable our employees to access critical information from... [24 May 2007]
AT&T is Swede on $3m deal
News The implementation is intended to cut the costs and overheads in running decentralised network infrastructure across disparate sites. AT&T has announced a $3m, three-year deal with international industrial and... [22 May 2007]
Poor data hinders corporate social responsibility drive
News But Nigel Montgomery, director of European research at AMR, said the data and information needed to prioritise CSR investment and measure its impact is currently spread across organisations in disparate systems and... [04 Apr 2007]
