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RSS gold in newsHow CIOs learned to stop worrying and love the iPhone
News Gold Associates released in September, 65.5 per cent of North American businesses that deploy mobile computers say they actively support the BlackBerry, compared with 22 per cent that support Windows Mobile devices and... [14 Nov 2008]
Vista SP2 on its way to make things beta
News The reality is that Windows Vista SP1 is a great platform that is both available on new Windows PCs and available as a free download for systems that are running the 'gold' release of Windows Vista. The next update to... [27 Oct 2008]
Artificial intelligence put to the Turing Test
News Although the $100,000 Loebner Prize gold medal for the machine that can fool judges into thinking it's human hasn't yet been won, the device that most closely replicates a human response wins a $2,000 cash prize and a... [10 Oct 2008]
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News Members with platinum or gold status include Cisco, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell and Oracle. Canonical, the company that sponsors the Linux-based operating system Ubuntu, has joined the Linux Foundation. [20 Aug 2008]
Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News But some experts worry it could unleash a gold rush mentality. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted Thursday to relax rules for naming websites. At its meeting in Paris, Icann, a... [27 Jun 2008]
IBM gets chips to chill out in water
News To bond the individual pipes from layer to layer without damaging other chip components, the scientists used a solder consisting of a mixture of gold and tin, which has a low melting point. Scientists from the IBM Zurich... [06 Jun 2008]
London streets paved with gold for IT workers?
News Wages for London IT pros are rising faster than their peers in the rest of the South East region. A survey of more than 4,000 tech staff has found salaries in the capital rose by 4.3 per cent over the last 12 months - outstripping wages... [17 Jan 2008]
Facebook CEO: No IPO for "years"
News What with all the hype and frenzy surrounding Facebook, Zuckerberg not surprisingly attracted a spill-over audience crowding into the main ballroom of the Palace Hotel, an elegant throwback which opened its doors in 1875 (which wasn't... [18 Oct 2007]
BT's latest buy all about SME
News It is also a "gold partner" to Cisco, Microsoft, SurfControl and Symantec, as well as an HP business partner. BT has bought another UK-based IT services company, Lynx Technology. The communications giant, which is... [02 Oct 2007]
FSF slams Microsoft OOXML standards vote tactics
News In the US the national body has seen surprising growth, and [as in previous votes] there has been a clear pattern of people joining later, voting for Microsoft, being Microsoft-certified Gold Partners. [31 Aug 2007]
Beijing Olympics IT infrastructure races on
News The IT infrastructure for the Beijing 2008 Olympics is in place, with testing the systems the next big step. The Olympics' system will relay event results and athlete information to spectators and media around the world in real-time... [16 Jul 2007]
Most competitive IT countries named
News The report said: "All in all, there remains a large gap between the gold standard of countries with the most effective legal regimes, such as the US and UK, and the approach of many emerging economies. [11 Jul 2007]
De Beers ventures into selling diamonds online
News Visitors can search through the jewellery ranges on offer by product, price, gold colour and carat. Diamond jewellery giant De Beers has put its toe in the water of transactional online retailing for the first time. [19 Jun 2007]
Retailers ignoring their online shoppers
News UK high street stores are climbing up the list of top online retail sites but many retailers are still letting the online opportunity pass them by. According to figures from the top 50 sites in terms of visits, only two high street... [30 May 2007]
HP developing shopping kiosks of the future
News That information is gold for marketers looking for demographic data and ways to sell more accurately to individual buyers. HP is developing a technology aimed at bringing the banal task of grocery shopping into the... [30 May 2007]
