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OLPC's Sugar gets sweeter with Windows

News Microsoft has reached an agreement to make available its Windows operating system software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop, the company said yesterday. You what…? Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets.

Tags: microsoft, windows, olpc

[16 May 2008]

LiMo targets the business mobile

News The LiMo Foundation, a broad industry consortium of manufacturers, operators and software developers working to put Linux onto the mobile phone, is to launch a major enterprise push later this year. LiMo announced a raft of new members, the most...

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support

News Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware procurement processes to "strongly encourage" the delivery of open-source drivers for...

Tags: lenovo, linux, dell, open source

[02 May 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News The Unesco-recognised scheme to revolutionise rural education, healthcare and sanitation through technology and business acumen, is the work of the Byrraju Foundation - a not-for-profit organisation set up by chairman of Indian outsourcer Satyam...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

Beware the insider security threat

Beware the insider security threat

News Richard Storey, head of IT, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks.

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

Surf's up with ferry wi-fi

News We're also laying the foundation for public wi-fi hotspot services. Wi-fi is to take to the waves as a cross-channel ferry company offers wireless internet access. Wightlink Isle of Wight Ferries will offer 3.6Mbps wireless broadband access on its...

Tags: wireless, broadband, wi-fi

[15 Apr 2008]

Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News Phorm - whose Webwise and Open Internet Exchange (OIX) technologies were used by BT in a trial on its customers - says the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is wrong to say the use of Phorm's technologies constituted unlawful...

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

Bill Gates: Windows 7 coming 'in the next year or so'

News Gates, who is due to leave his day-to-day functions at Microsoft and dedicate himself to the philanthropic efforts of the Gates Foundation in June, said the company aims, through its $6bn annual research and development budget, to take the...

Tags: microsoft, bill gates, windows, vista

[07 Apr 2008]

Adobe gives Linux breath of fresh AIR

News Adobe has released an alpha version of AIR on Linux and announced it is joining the Linux Foundation. Adobe said it joined the Linux Foundation to help promote rich internet application development on Linux.

Tags: adobe, air, mac, linux

[01 Apr 2008]

Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract

News We have built the foundation blocks for success and assuming we achieve our goals there is no reason why we would not continue with the arrangement. Shell is to transfer almost 3,000 IT staff as part of a $4bn deal to outsource the bulk of its...

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[31 Mar 2008]

LiMo Foundation launches Linux Android rival

News The not-for-profit LiMo Foundation plans to announce the launch of LiMo Platform Release 1 at the CTIA show in Las Vegas today. Andrew Shikiar, director of global marketing for the LiMo Foundation, said: "This is a significant achievement for LiMo...

Tags: android, google, linux, mobile

[31 Mar 2008]

Wipo wipes web of record number of 'cybersquatters'

News Last year's domain name disputes involved a wide range of products, events and people, including Airbus's A380 jet, the 2010 Fifa World Cup, Harvard Business School, Lance Armstrong's Livestrong foundation, talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and...

Tags: un, wipo, trademark, domain names

[28 Mar 2008]

Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation

News and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for developer applications on...

Tags: google, yahoo, myspace, foundation

[26 Mar 2008]

Mozilla chief slams Apple's Safari-iTunes move

News In a recent blog post, the head of the foundation behind the Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client attacked Apple for including the option to install the browser as a pre-selected default, saying it compromises the security of all users...

Tags: itunes, safari, apple, install

[25 Mar 2008]

UK businesses testing the water with SOA

News SOA is just going to be the foundation piece in IT strategy. Almost half of UK businesses are looking at implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) technology as they develop their IT infrastructure.

Tags: interoperability, soa, uk, implementation

[20 Mar 2008]

UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis

News India produces slightly more than half a million engineering graduates a year - compared to 75,000 in the US - and Premji said this is because there is still a huge amount of parental influence on Indian children to focus on maths, which is a...

Tags: premji, wipro, education, engineers

[18 Mar 2008]

Nationwide banks on SAP

News Nationwide Building Society will use the latest version of SAP's banking platform as the foundation for its £300m Voyager business transformation project. The first phase of Voyager is due for completion by the fourth quarter of 2009 and will see...

Tags: nationwide, legacy, transformation, platform

[18 Mar 2008]

Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources

Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources

News Peter Russell, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Local units do not have sufficient resources or skills to deal with some of the threats we are now facing. Peter Russell, head of IT, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Tags: cio jury, e-crime, cio, crime

[18 Mar 2008]

Poll: And the next killer app for mobiles is...

News Mobile operators' growing investment in high speed 3.5G networks has laid the foundation for internet on the go - meaning that increasingly, what could be a frustratingly slow business, can now be fast enough to be useful.

Tags: social networking, mobile internet, mobile, mobile phones

[04 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys

News Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people...

Tags: infosys, banking, nandan nilekani, founder

[03 Mar 2008]

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