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Google lays out mobile future

News Speaking in London, Google's engineering site director, Ann Mai Chang, said: "We're focusing the majority of our development on web based applications. She added that, although Android is Google's platform, the mobile apps team sees it as just...

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic

News Apacs director of communications, Sandra Quinn, said as retailers stop accepting cheques it is expected that a large proportion of those payments will migrate to debit card payments. It found plastic cards accounted for 65 per cent of all UK...

Tags: debit cards, cheques, apacs

[12 May 2008]

Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News Daniel Hennessy, director of technical architecture at Virgin Media, said in a statement: "Our aim for this trial was to ensure we continue to meet the growing capacity needs of the high-speed services we deliver and provide a quality experience...

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power

News Ames director, Pete Worden, said the massive performance boost will fulfil Nasa's increasing need for capacity for future missions and scientific research. Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda...

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

[09 May 2008]

Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost

News Ian Fogg, research director at JupiterResearch, said Carphone Warehouse is facing big investment decisions in its broadband business if it is to keep up with the competition as ADSL2+ products hit the market.

Tags: talktalk, broadband, carphone warehouse

[09 May 2008]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Denise Plumpton, director of information for the HA, described the massive job of rationalising the sprawling IT infrastructure underpinning nine offices. Government IT is undergoing a major shift as Whitehall attempts to revolutionise its approach...

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News There will be WiMax coverage across the UK within the next two years, the managing director of Intel Capital EMEA has claimed. This is the most significant WiMax-related deal to be struck in the developed world, as the technology has thus far...

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

BT adds smart phone to home broadband package

News Warren Buckley, director of portfolio convergence BT, said the move extends what the telco has been doing in the SME marketplace with its Office Anywhere product. However it admits broadband speeds will only be achievable in areas with a wireless...

Tags: broadband, smart phone, bt

[08 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News Storm researcher Jon Stewart, director of malware research for security vendor SecureWorks, wrote on 8 April that the Storm botnet was "only a fraction of its former self and is rapidly becoming a minor player".

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Males in tech willing to show off their wad

News Luke Archer, London director for Hudson, said in a statement: "IT professionals are ready to break one of the biggest taboos in the workplace - revealing salaries - in order to ensure true equality of pay.

Tags: men, women, salary, pay

[02 May 2008]

Techies: 'We're worth more than last year'

News Nick Dettmar, managing director of Computer People, said in a statement. UK IT workers are not letting economic woes get them down, according to a new salary survey of close to 5,000 techies. The average salary of a full-time employee in the IT...

Tags: salary, jobs, skills

[02 May 2008]

Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support

News Linux Foundation executive director, Jim Zemlin, said in a statement: "This year we saw breakthroughs in driver support for the desktop, IPV6 compliance and virtualisation. We feel it's an important venue for solving cross-industry and cross...

Tags: lenovo, linux, dell, open source

[02 May 2008]

SAP SaaS delay - no surprise

News Tim Payne, research director at Gartner, said: "To be honest we're not surprised. Green IT from A-Z… But yesterday the company extended this target by 12 to 18 months and added it will reduce investment in the tech by around €100m during 2008...

Tags: delay, erp, on demand, saas

[01 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News David Meads, operations director financial services for Cisco UK, told silicon.com: "I can't recall the last time I had a conversation with a CIO where sustainability wasn't on the agenda… Jo Causon, director of corporate affairs and marketing at...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

Virgin Atlantic passengers flying through check-in

News Mike Cope, IT Director at Virgin Atlantic, said in a statement: "The software has enabled Virgin Atlantic to provide an excellent service to our passengers. Passengers at Heathrow's terminal three are flying through check-in thanks to joined up...

Tags: planes, virgin, heathrow

[29 Apr 2008]

Top IT job at NHS split into two

News IT at the NHS will now be overseen by two £200,000-per-year executives, as compared to the previous single £280,000 IT director general post - filled by Richard Granger until January this year.silicon.com Public Sector

Tags: richard granger, cfh, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

Dell and HP find ways to keep Windows XP alive

News Kevin Kutz, a director in Microsoft's Windows unit, said the downgrade-rights option meets customer needs. HP said it plans to continue selling the "pre-downgraded" desktops, notebooks and workstations to its business customers until 30 July 2009.

Tags: xp, vista, hp, dell

[28 Apr 2008]

FSA warns banks to wise up on security

News Speaking at the FSA annual conference on financial crime, FSA director, financial crime and intelligence division Philip Robinson said: "It is worrying that despite increased public awareness of the impact that identity theft can have on customers...

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

[25 Apr 2008]

Croydon inks £83m deal with Capgemini

News Nathan Elvery, director of finance and resources at Croydon Council, said the existing deal with Capgemini, signed in 2003, has already been key in helping the council achieve a "step change" in IT effectiveness and overall business efficiency.

Tags: outsourcing, capgemini, croydon

[23 Apr 2008]

WEEE takes council computers to Africa

News Duncan McLeod, director of finance at Brent Council, said reusing IT equipment rather than recycling was the main reason for working with Computer Aid International because of the huge difference it makes in developing countries.

Tags: weee, africa, computer aid, council

[21 Apr 2008]

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