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RSS it skills in newsBT embraces open source for business
News Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 The communications and IT giant has already been a member of the Linux Foundation since 2005. According to a statement this week, BT joined FossBazaar... [25 Jul 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! talks: In the "off-again" phase
News Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 Ballmer's comments followed an earlier discussion of the continued investment that Microsoft expects as it spends money in its online business. [25 Jul 2008]
First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News The BSc ITMB degree, which was designed by universities and employers in the IT industry with the support of IT sector skills body e-skills UK, focuses on areas such as project management and how to go about designing, developing and implementing... [24 Jul 2008]
Microsoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 Oh wow," said one user, eliciting exactly the exclamation that Microsoft had hoped to garner when it first released the operating system more than 18... [24 Jul 2008]
Are sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 This prompted many silicon.com readers to argue that regardless of whether a sat-nav device tells you to make a turn, it doesn't actually force you to. [24 Jul 2008]
ISPs join file sharing crackdown
News Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 The BPI says a partnership - much like the deal it struck with Virgin Media in June - is the best approach to raise awareness about illegal file sharing. [24 Jul 2008]
London: Card fraud hotspot
News Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 He said: "Police have focused on these problems in these areas and it has worked, it backs up what the House of Lords science and technology committee said... [24 Jul 2008]
Nokia, Qualcomm settle patent dispute
News Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 Nokia said it will also withdraw its antitrust complaint against Qualcomm filed with the European Commission. [24 Jul 2008]
Microsoft training Black Country kids in joys of IT
News Microsoft is helping youngsters in the Black Country learn about the joys of IT - and also plugging a skills gap for helpdesk support technicians in the region. The software giant has launched an apprenticeship scheme for 16- to 19-year-olds to... [23 Jul 2008]
Telegraph spreads the news on Google Apps
News Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 With each user licence costing £25, TMG estimates that over the next three years it will spend a fifth of what it would have done for similar office... [23 Jul 2008]
Orange plots Eee PC mobile broadband coup
News Have your say on the state of tech skills in the UK. Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 Mobile operator Orange UK is hoping the Eee has the edge over Apple's touchscreen mobile as it has stepped up to iPhone-wielding rival O2 - which is Apple... [23 Jul 2008]
Contactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News Take the silicon.com Skills Survey for your chance to win an iPod Nano. The four-month trial took place at Coffee Republic's outlets in Broadgate, Bluewater shopping centre and Canary Wharf between January and April 2008 - and the company said it... [23 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News It's little wonder increasing numbers of them are harnessing their experience and skills to offer freelance services outside office hours. It's a different story for Sachdev, as freelancing also enables him to flex IT skills that are not required... [22 Jul 2008]
Take part in the silicon.com skills survey
News Nearly half of the 2007 survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed there is a skills crisis - and 45 per cent said there are IT jobs in their business they are unable to fill, and project management rated as the non-IT skill in shortest supply... [16 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News So the more important issue is to ensure we're looking forward to invest in skills for future development in the UK. IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing heritage following the mothballing of the... [15 Jul 2008]
