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Mothercare web sales boom

News In a statement, Mothercare CEO Ben Gordon said: "Although there is some caution about the UK consumer environment, we are well placed as we enter the new financial year. Online sales at Mothercare rose by more than 78 per cent over the last...

Tags: clothing, mothercare, online retail

[22 May 2008]

Mobile industry advise on handset security

News The two documents - entitled Advanced Trusted Environment: OMTP TR1 and Security Threats on Embedded Consumer Devices - can be downloaded here. The mobile phone industry has come up with a set of recommendations for improving handset security.

Tags: mobile, malware, m-commerce, security

[22 May 2008]

Asus dives into instant Linux

News Splashtop is described by DeviceVM as a "secure web-surfing environment", and is embedded on motherboards so that it can be booted within seconds, as an alternative to booting up a full operating system.

Tags: linux, asus

[19 May 2008]

Gov't department readies for Vista rollout

News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll out Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system from June. The deployment will cover 10,000 computers and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Tags: upgrade, encryption, carbon, defra

[15 May 2008]

Google targets business with Postini-based security app

News Philippe Courtot, chief executive of Qualys, which offers security as a service to corporations, said: "Securing the current enterprise environment is futile. Google has announced a re-branded web security for Enterprise based on the Postini...

Tags: postini, google

[12 May 2008]

BT adds smart phone to home broadband package

News He added: "We've learnt a huge amount from Fusion that's gone into the user interface [of BT ToGo], getting our addressable marketplace right, getting the support and converged services right, thinking about how it links into the billing environment.

Tags: broadband, smart phone, bt

[08 May 2008]

NHS cleans up keyboard act

News This period is adjustable depending on the environment. The NHS is introducing 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards in hospitals across England as part of efforts to make hospitals cleaner and safer. The keyboards have been developed by University...

Tags: hospitals, health, keyboards, connecting for health

[07 May 2008]

Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more

News The study looked at 100 metrics such as business environment, government support, infrastructure, the knowledge pool and skill-set availability, operating cost and social and living environment in the 50 Indian cities.

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs

News Care was needed in implementing these changes at its call centre as IT has the potential to have a very noticeable impact on productivity in that environment. Although it may sound counter-intuitive, energy giant E.ON has been setting its sights on...

Tags: green, e.on, carbon emissions, travel

[25 Apr 2008]

FSA warns banks to wise up on security

News BT Global Services finance industry sector MD Andy Nicholson said in a statement: "With an ever increasing regulatory environment, operational risk and business continuity planning must extend to every employee, business process and ICT asset.

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

[25 Apr 2008]

Vodafone CEO: We will slash CO2 by 50 per cent

News Sarin said: "It is good for the environment but also makes sense for the business. Vodafone has said it will halve its carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, largely by making its networks more energy efficient.

Tags: co2, green it, vodafone, sharing

[22 Apr 2008]

Google reports sterling quarter

News Chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt told investors on a conference call: "It's clear to us that we're well positioned for 2008 and beyond, regardless of the business environment that we find ourselves surrounded by.

Tags: profits, google

[18 Apr 2008]

Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers

News However, another recommendation in the report called on the Commission to "do what is necessary to enforce and protect literary and artistic property rights, especially in the digital environment". IFPI executive vice president, Frances Moore, said...

Tags: eu, isps, file sharing

[14 Apr 2008]

'CopNav' to track Met's police officers

News He added the pilot would ensure the system was secure and worked effectively within the city's built-up environment. Every police officer in London is to be tracked using a new electronic tagging system that will be able to pinpoint their location...

Tags: tag, london, police

[11 Apr 2008]

Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable

News Google says this launch represents a fully integrated application environment that will help deal with tasks such as replication and load balancing. Google is offering web developers a slice of its own infrastructure by announcing the preview...

Tags: bigtable, google

[09 Apr 2008]

Social networks to stamp out sex offenders

News In a statement, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: "We are working together with police, industry and charities to create a hostile environment for sex offenders on the internet and are determined to make it as hard as possible for predators to...

Tags: criminals, protection, children, guidelines

[04 Apr 2008]

More than 1,000 gov't laptops lost since 2001

News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs lost 94 laptops, 10 mobile phones and 23 PDAs during the same period, while the Department for Children, Schools and Families revealed it has misplaced 84 laptops and 25 mobiles.

Tags: stolen, mobiles, laptops, lost

[01 Apr 2008]

The high-tech road to happiness

News Archie Robertson, HA CEO, said in a statement: "It is clear our aims are to provide the information and infrastructure necessary to help these drivers use our roads in a safe and reliable way, whilst also taking the steps necessary to tackle the...

Tags: cars, highways agency, traffic

[01 Apr 2008]

High speed TGV trains get online

News Frank Bernard, head of European business at SNCF, told silicon.com: "What we want to bring to [passengers] is a real, 100 per cent secure efficient [online] environment just like their office or at home.

Tags: wi-fi, train, satellite, charge

[26 Mar 2008]

Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall

News An £800m environment fund to work with Japan, the US and other countries, as well as the World Bank, to fund clean technologies in developing countries. The technology industry has pledged to fight for a share of a public sector contract windfall...

Tags: budget, public sector, sme, innovation

[12 Mar 2008]

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