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News Fashion retailers are champing at the bit to embrace software as a service (SaaS) technology, a new report reveals. A total of 44 companies, with combined sales of £5.6bn - representing about 16 per cent of the UK... [14 Nov 2008]
'Downturn? What downturn?' say SMEs
News While the credit crunch has claimed banks and thousands of technology jobs, the UK small and medium businesses are optimistic about their tech fortunes over the coming year. According to a survey of SMEs across the UK, US and Canada by... [11 Nov 2008]
Web shopping slowdown continues as recession bites
News The biggest rate of growth was in clothing, footwear and accessories (up 24 per cent year on year) with shoppers seeming to take advantage of the early winter fashion deals in the coldest September since 2001. [22 Oct 2008]
Google's Android: Beware the malware?
News Absolutely, any application development platform has to be secured in some fashion. Google's mobile operating system Android could spell the advent of new security threats, according to security experts. [14 Oct 2008]
Tech helps logistics firm speed up 20 per cent
News The warehouse system supplied by RedPrairie is being used by the company - which has contracts with footwear company Clarkes, hardware store JML, fashion designer Paul Smith, footwear manufacturer UGG and lubricant... [13 Oct 2008]
Sales rocket for online star-studded fashion
News Online fashion retailer ASOS (As Seen On Screen) has seen its sales double year-on-year. For the six months to 30 September, the web clothes store saw sales jump 104 per cent on the corresponding period the year... [01 Oct 2008]
OLPC rivals get 'vicious'
News If you talk to a kid in Brazil the girls want to become fashion models and the boys want to become football players. When the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation first mooted the idea of a super low cost laptop... [16 Sep 2008]
Apple issues iPhone 3G software update
News Apple has released an update for the firmware for its iPhone 3G but, in typical fashion, has refused to give details of 'OS 2.0.2' - beyond saying it incorporates "bug fixes". However there's no shortage of blogs and... [19 Aug 2008]
Femtocells to save mobile operators over $5bn?
News Operators also face a potential headache if femtocells are sold in a "sporadic" fashion, said Saadi, as a scattered deployment would undermine savings by making the access points hard to manage. Saadi added: "If... [13 Aug 2008]
Bill Gates, 3G iPhone, UK top CIO, Firefox 3, XP and more…
News But as one iconic piece of software dies, another is reborn, this time in spectacular fashion as internet browser Firefox 3 racked up more than eight million downloads in one day on its launch. This month silicon.com... [02 Jul 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk last week, Gartner analyst Brian Gammage said that, increasingly, portable-technology consumers are identifying with particular devices and brands, in much the same way as a car is seen as... [30 Jun 2008]
Game over for Mobile Linux standards forum
News There's a question of pace; standardisation bodies tend to operate in a more deliberative and stately fashion, but commercial interests are interested primarily in having code to work with. The attempted standardisation... [27 Jun 2008]
NHS data left lacking encryption
News David Nicholson has sought and received assurances from the heads of all trusts that they are working to ensure encryption takes place in a timely fashion. A number of health trusts are expected to be months late meeting... [24 Jun 2008]
Bank invests in low latency monitoring
News The system will support the bank's need to handle hundreds of thousands of market data messages per second in an auditable fashion. Global investment bank Credit Suisse is rolling out a monitoring system for its... [23 Jun 2008]
Euro 2008 blues dents online booze and TV sales
News The index analysts attribute increases in these areas to interest in the premiere of Sex and the City, a film centred around a group of fashion-conscious women in New York. Online fashion sales have been... [20 Jun 2008]
