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RSS hardware in newsAll-seeing I-Ball gives troops remote skinny on the enemy
News Paul Thompson, hardware engineer at Dreampact, told silicon.com: "A chap from the MoD told us there was money if [we] came up with a good idea so we came up with an idea, we didn't know if it was bonkers or a good idea -... [17 Nov 2008]
Microsoft web store kills off Windows Marketplace
News The one-stop shop will carry Microsoft hardware too. Microsoft is doubling down on retail, with the launch of a second online store at the start of this year's especially critical holiday shopping season. [17 Nov 2008]
World IT spending still to grow next year
News With the exception of storage, hardware will be the hardest hit by the spending cutbacks, while software and services will be relatively safer, according to IDC. Industry analyst firm IDC is revising its yearly forecast... [14 Nov 2008]
Bye bye BlackBerry, hello Moto in £1m deal
News But the hardware being used had a number of limitations, Segal explained. Mobile workforce management company Cognito has inked a five-year, £1.16m contract with GSH Group that will see UK field service engineers at the... [12 Nov 2008]
VMware gets into mobile virtualisation game
News The company's president and chief executive, Paul Maritz, in a statement: "By abstracting the applications and data from the hardware itself, we expect that virtualisation will not only enable handset vendors to... [11 Nov 2008]
Credit crunch could drive banks to SaaS security
News You know the cost is x amount regardless and you do not have to buy any hardware that will need continual patching and maintenance.Saas vendors] can do it better and more efficiently, they have the expertise," he said. [10 Nov 2008]
Betfair spins into financial trading
News Very often you find that people will trade latency for manageability or core security but what we've done is we've very carefully designed both the hardware and the software together - so that… [essential features such... [10 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 boosts location based services
News Those issues - and how to handle them - was the subject of a discussion this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC). Windows 7 has a new programming interface designed to make it a whole lot easier... [10 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 aims for netbooks as well as PCs
News Senior vice president, Steven Sinofsky, said in a speech at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC): "A key part of Windows 7 is to enable a full spectrum of choices. For hardware makers,... [06 Nov 2008]
Fat lady sings for iPod head
News Fadell will be replaced by Mark Papermaster, a vice president at IBM, who will join Apple as senior vice president of devices, responsible for the company's iPod and iPhone hardware-engineering teams, Apple said. [05 Nov 2008]
Unified comms pumps up Tayside fire service
News Clearly there is the potential for risk of life of our staff and citizens, so we needed the hardware and load balancing capabilities. Firefighters in Tayside are using unified communications to transform everything from... [04 Nov 2008]
SAS CEO: "Teradata merger? They couldn't afford me"
News We don't want them on the hardware and they couldn't afford me! According to the SAS CEO, it's hardware barriers that effectively block a union with Teradata. You take vendors like HP, Sun, Dell, IBM,... [03 Nov 2008]
Is the credit crunch affecting IT?
News Hardware and software upgrades, however, seem to be at less risk: just six per cent and four per cent respectively saying refreshes of these are being put off. Financial markets everywhere may be shedding value with... [03 Nov 2008]
IBM chip guru agrees to join Apple
News If Apple wants to continue its strategy of designing and building complete systems, hardware, software, and now chips for iPhone and iPod Touch, it's going to need someone who can predict the future of chip design and... [31 Oct 2008]
Symbian Foundation prepares to shock the competition
News He added that building a "proper" hardware abstraction layer is another challenge on the road ahead, in order to ensure the platform can easily interface with a variety of mobile hardware. He added: "It... [28 Oct 2008]
