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Social networking: Global phenomenon
News ComScore's numbers, also released Tuesday, underscore the fact that social sites are increasingly global in nature - and sometimes unexpectedly. MySpace representatives have said the site's aim is to gain a long-term foothold across the world, not... [13 Aug 2008]
India: Low-cost, high-tech hub
News It's not that India is doing only simple coding work for the global products. Bhamidipati said: "India has a very strong domestic market that is increasingly getting more prosperous. Nasscom is India's trade body and chamber of commerce for the... [06 Aug 2008]
Met Office gets £33m supercomputer
News John Hirst, Met Office CEO, said in a statement: "In a world where the effect of extreme weather events is becoming more severe and the potential impact of global warming is becoming ever more apparent, the Met Office plays an increasingly vital... [04 Aug 2008]
IT chiefs brace for recession
News Reports in the press are increasingly gloomy about the prospect of the UK economy managing to avoid a full blown recession, generally considered to be in effect when gross domestic product growth is negative for two consecutive quarters. [04 Aug 2008]
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News Gates was the person who drove the adoption of Windows as the de facto global operating system by guarding code fiercely. Nobody's suggesting Microsoft will release code for its big name applications in the near future but some industry watchers... [07 Jul 2008]
LiMo adds Openwave browser to arsenal
News Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a member of the LiMo Foundation, has bought the browser and messaging side of Openwave's business. Openwave supplies mobile-client software to 12 of the top 20 global mobile operators... [07 Jul 2008]
Mobile broadband ushers in Blue day
News The company's CEO Sulim Malook met with silicon.com at the Capital Club in the heart of the City of London to explain how a dedicated mobile service giving global financial information could shake up the established information players and help to... [03 Jun 2008]
Exclusive: silicon.com reveals the world's Tech Hotspots
News Silicon.com editor Steve Ranger said: "The silicon.com Tech Hotspots list shows that technology innovation is really a global industry. While Silicon Valley still claims top spot, competition from India and China will increasingly give it a run for... [03 Jun 2008]
UK plc 'needs more skilled migrants'
News A new Work Foundation report, entitled Towards a Global Labour Market? Report author, Katerina Rüdiger, said in a statement: "Global firms need more global people - not just to fill shortages but for the sake of enabling firms to innovate. [02 Jun 2008]
Barclays banks on offshore
News Barclays is increasingly confident in its use of business process outsourcing (BPO) which it says has improved time to market and is now looking to increase the complexity of the services it offshores. [15 May 2008]
Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover
News Thalapalli said Satyam hopes to woo increasingly important European markets by tying itself to the game. Separately, Satyam has announced it has acquired the market research and customer analytics operations of global heavy-machinery maker... [23 Apr 2008]
Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future
News Speaking at a briefing in Singapore to unveil Gartner's top 10 predictions for 2008, Gutberlet pointed out there are greater demands for consumer-type technologies from increasingly tech-savvy generations of workers. [14 Apr 2008]
Dongle mania to kill off wi-fi hotspots?
News According to the GSM/3G supplier forum, the Global mobile Suppliers Association, there are currently 185 commercial HSDPA networks in 80 countries. Currently, mobile data services are generally too expensive for mass market adoption but that will... [28 Mar 2008]
London still wi-fi king of the world
News Hotels are also popular - accounting for almost one-third of global usage - and are becoming increasingly so, with 146 per cent growth on the same period last year. London has shored up its status as wi-fi capital of the world with usage soaring... [14 Mar 2008]
Police backs calls for e-crime unit
News Leading police officers, global cyber security chiefs and FTSE 100 companies are backing a new campaign by silicon.com for the creation of a dedicated UK national cyber crime police unit. Gareth Griffiths, head of UK risk management for online... [12 Mar 2008]
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