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RSS leaders in newsFirst 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]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News The London Clinic IT director Mike Roberts, one of the IT leaders who will not be investing in open source software, said: "The main issue is around 'contracted support'. CIOs are split on the controversial issue of adopting more open source... [21 Jul 2008]
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News In particular, he expects cable operators to be leaders in this transition, doing for servers what they did for DVRs by including the functionality in set-top boxes. That opens the door to a new market, one that for now remains a niche afterthought... [21 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News 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 Museum of Computing in Swindon.silicon.com asked a number of CIOs whether the UK made the most of its computing... [15 Jul 2008]
UK worst in Europe for green IT
News The majority of IT leaders in the UK, 60 per cent, gave the thumbs down to their firm's environmental credentials, according to a survey of 8,000 executives by data centre networking company Brocade. UK businesses are the worst in Europe for... [08 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News The regulator has written to comms industry leaders inviting them to commit with it to help spur the rollout of NGNs across the UK and said it will aim to publish details of the regulatory framework in September. [04 Jul 2008]
HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
News HP and Parallels (formerly SWsoft) are coming into a highly competitive market dominated by hypervisor-based vitualisation from companies like market leaders VMware and Citrix, with its XenServer. HP has said it will offer technology from... [03 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, 3G iPhone, UK top CIO, Firefox 3, XP and more…
News At this rate it's difficult to see where the UK's next generation of CIOs will come from but in the meantime just enjoy silicon.com's round-up of the country's top tech leaders in our annual CIO50 list. [02 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed
News Group CIO and technology director Dargue scored the most votes to top silicon.com's CIO50 2008 list of the 50 most influential and innovative IT leaders in the UK - read our exclusive in-depth interview with him here. [11 Jun 2008]
Cyber crime: The global battle
News Police forces worldwide are mobilising to tackle the estimated $104bn global cyber crime menace but money, manpower and expertise varies wildly from country to country, with the UK's response being attacked by politicians, police chiefs and... [05 Jun 2008]
BT buys into videoconferencing
News According to Aaron McCormack, chief executive of BT Conferencing, Wire One "is one of the leaders in videoconferencing and is a great acquisition for [BT]". BT announced yesterday it has completed the acquisition of Wire One Holdings, a specialist... [03 Jun 2008]
LiMo targets the business mobile
News Asked whether a serious mobile Linux push into the enterprise would have implications for the current leaders in the business mobile market, such as Microsoft and RIM, Leach said the development would be unlikely to "give them too much to worry... [15 May 2008]
Skills slump eroding UK's top tech talent
News The UK will lose its base of highly skilled technology workers unless training and education is overhauled, industry leaders have warned. The report is based on a survey of Intellect's 100-strong leaders network. [14 May 2008]
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News Dr Steve Foreman, head of IT services at the Met Office, who shared in the Nobel prize for his work on the IPCC reports, said: "The Met Office is one of the leaders in climate change. It seems fitting that after the Met Office helped open the eyes... [09 May 2008]
CIOs are driving the green agenda
News According to the Cisco research, almost a third (30 per cent) of IT leaders say they expect their budgets for technologies aimed at improving sustainable business practice to rise and a quarter anticipate an increase of between 10 and 25 per cent. [01 May 2008]
