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Queen Mary Uni ditches Excel, makes student plans with IBM
News Burt told silicon.com the system will significantly reduce the time taken to analyse data around the allocation of classes, allowing the institution to more effectively predict students' teaching requirements and plan... [16 Oct 2008]
Microsoft interoperability makes "substantial progress" in schools
News The company's educational volume-licensing arrangements usually cover all machines in an educational institution, regardless of which operating system is installed on them. Becta, the government body in charge of IT in... [17 Sep 2008]
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News The UK's national body, the British Standards Institution (BSI), told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Monday that it would not comment on how it votes in such matters. The International Organization for... [19 Aug 2008]
Does an MBA lead the way to career success?
News Journalist Philip Delves Broughton ditched his job as the Daily Telegraph's Paris bureau chief to attend Harvard to discover what an MBA from the institution would do for him. His aim was partly to gain control of his... [12 Aug 2008]
UK games industry needs to go back to uni
News Watts said: "Skill requirements vary widely from company to company - [so] it can be very difficult for an academic institution to tailor an appropriate syllabus that will be attractive across the board. [08 Jul 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News At the end of April, the UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) applied for a judicial review of the British Standards Institution's (BSI's) decision to vote 'yes' in an international vote on whether to standardise... [23 Jun 2008]
Revealed: Top tech security risks and cash-sappers
News Unsupported software: The survey found 10 per cent of servers in one financial institution were running unsupported Solaris and Linux software. Viruses, dodgy printers, unsupported open source software and iTunes are all... [29 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format. [02 May 2008]
OOXML standard on a knife-edge
News The British Standards Institution (BSI) could change sides, days before voting closes, and register a vote in favour of Microsoft's Office Open XML becoming an International Organization for Standardization (ISO)... [28 Mar 2008]
Second Life clamps down on virtual banks
News From 22 January organisations will have to provide the relevant government registration statement or financial institution charter to operate within the virtual world. Virtual world Second Life is banning unregulated... [10 Jan 2008]
European tech academy under scrutiny
News Members of the European parliament industry committee will meet to discuss the findings of a report on the proposal to determine whether the new institution would add value to the economy or undercut other... [09 Jul 2007]
National ID Scheme an "essential defence"
News He described the system as "another great British institution without which modern life, whatever it looks like in 2020, would be quite unthinkable". The National Identity Scheme will be essential in combating the... [19 Jun 2007]
Data 'explosion' looming for businesses
News As part of its Information Heritage Initiative, EMC has donated $1m in equipment, products and services to the US Smithsonian Institution's programme to digitise its collections. Speaking at the EMC World conference Ann... [22 May 2007]
Janet chalks up text service
News Educational organisations can regulate and customise the text service so the messages sent out are clearly associated with the institution distributing them. The Joint Academic Network (Janet) has signed a deal for a... [03 May 2007]
Thus lands £11m contract to wire up students
News If an institution needs extra bandwidth the Ethernet infrastructure - called LMN3 - can also increase its capacity to 80Gbps at short notice and without the need for downtime. Thus has signed an £11.3m five-year contract... [24 Apr 2007]
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