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Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft

News The company wouldn't disclose sales numbers, but said the sales are the highest in the 19-year history of the unit. While Apple's market share gains are cause for consternation for many in Redmond, one unit is clearly benefiting.

Tags: mac, apple, office, microsoft

[13 May 2008]

iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...

News The BlackBerry and the iPhone must be two of the most talked about devices in the history of mobile. But what do the people who know them best really think about them? A survey of more than 800 US smart phone users has shed light on the most loved...

Tags: smart phone, blackberry, iphone

[30 Apr 2008]

New president takes the reins at Socitm

News Writing on the Socitm president's blog on Thursday, Steel said: "I also feel honoured to now be president of such a well-respected organisation that has achieved so much in its history, and optimistic about our future.

Tags: cio, newham, local government, richard steel

[29 Apr 2008]

Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord

News Contacts can opt out of this sharing but, by default, it includes information such as education history, work history, profile status, photos, groups and relationship status. Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to...

Tags: facebook, privacy, police, submit

[22 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News The post acknowledges that "technically savvy users" see Linux as a practical alternative but says this is not enough to build a sustainable business around the Linux desktop: "History is littered with example efforts that have either failed...

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill

News Davis told silicon.com: "The Home Office has had its worst period in its 200-year history, stumbling from crisis to crisis. Home Office spending on consultants shot up from £7.6m in 1997/98 to £147m in 2006/07, a period described by shadow home...

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

[11 Apr 2008]

Phishers attack social networking generation

News Symantec Australia managing director Craig Scroggie said social-networking sites are a treasure trove of personal data, listing information such as birthdays, location and employment history. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007...

Tags: social networking, phishers

[09 Apr 2008]

Lloyds TSB beefs up project management

News Gibson said Lloyds had a history of best practice in project management and the toolkit would ensure that this level of best practice was being adopted in every project throughout the organisation. Lloyds TSB has made a multimillion-pound...

Tags: best practice, project management, lloyds tsb

[04 Apr 2008]

Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past

News The UK's first museum dedicated to the history of the computer is facing homelessness after receiving no firm offers to save it. We have a very significant collection and the history of computing is so vitally important as, today, computers are in...

Tags: history, museum, computer history

[01 Apr 2008]

Heathrow Terminal 5 suffers first day baggage chaos

News A BA statement said: "This is not unexpected following one of the most complex and largest airport moves in history. On opening day of Heathrow's £4.3bn Terminal 5 (T5), passengers have been hit by delays and flight cancellations as a result of...

Tags: airport, heathrow

[27 Mar 2008]

Google voices Yahoo! bid concerns

News Schmidt pointed to Microsoft's past history and "the things that it has done that have been so difficult for everyone", but he did not elaborate. Google, the world's leading search engine, has said it is concerned about the free flow of information...

Tags: google, yahoo, microsoft, executive

[17 Mar 2008]

Bill Gates knocked off rich-list perch

News Forbes speculates Zuckerberg "might just be the youngest self-made billionaire in history", adding 2008 is "a record-breaking year for young billionaires". Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6bn bid to take over Yahoo!

Tags: microsoft, zuckerberg , yahoo, rich list

[06 Mar 2008]

Open source Ubuntu announces 'need for an adventurous mountain goat'

News Canonical has a history of giving alliterative animal names to Ubuntu operating systems. Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has revealed the name of the version of Ubuntu, due in October: 'Intrepid Ibex'.

Tags: open source, os, ubuntu, interaction

[22 Feb 2008]

Microsoft/Yahoo! - should Google be afraid of the big bad bid?

News For the first time in its history… Microsoft has said it may borrow money for the first time in its history to fund a portion of its $44.6bn unsolicited offer for Yahoo! Is this Redmond's last ditch attempt to close the Google gap and will Yahoo!

Tags: yahoo, google, microsoft, money

[06 Feb 2008]

Top five takeovers that shook the tech world

News Unfortunately Worldcom filed for bankruptcy in 2002, becoming the biggest corporate failure in US history after it failed to survive a brutal consumer price war. When tech services and hardware group HP bought PC maker Compaq, the move was hailed...

Tags: time warner, aol, deal, ibm

[04 Feb 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News This prompted silicon.com's own Apple fan boy Seb Janacek to look back over Apple's history and pick the 10 coolest products it has ever launched from the Macintosh 128k and the first PowerBook to the iPod and the iPhone.

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

BlackBerry's Lotus helps businesses get connected

News Connections in its original form is the "the fastest growing product in IBM software history", according to Heintzman, and has been adopted by firms such as Deutsche Bank and the Film Foundation. Business users will now be able to engage in mobile...

Tags: blackberry, ibm, rim, lotus

[24 Jan 2008]

World's finest tech sites immortalised

News Experts on the history of science and world heritage from 15 countries are taking part in the London-based sessions to create the framework, which is expected to stimulate a surge in the number of science and technology heritage sites across the...

Tags: tech, unesco, global, science

[22 Jan 2008]

Sun heats up open-source with MySQL buy

News He called the deal the most important acquisition in the history of Sun. Sun Microsystems are to pay $1bn for MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database. Sun said it will pay about $800m in cash for MySQL's privately held stock and will...

[16 Jan 2008]

Outsourcing growth expected in 2008

News There is an increasing move towards lower-cost, offshore delivery centres but companies with a history of outsourcing services are also seeking providers that better support business needs. Global outsourcing is predicted to grow by 8.1 per cent...

Tags: outsourcing, ito, gartner, bpo

[10 Jan 2008]

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