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How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News Kiessling's team has just completed a three-year project to build a new poker platform (P5) at a cost of between €20m and €25m which took 250 man years to create. When you think of gambling, smoky casinos... [23 Oct 2009]
Amazon offers to be man in the middle for mobile payments
News Amazon is moving into the world of mobile payments with the launch of a new service that will allow consumers to buy goods, services and mobile apps using the payment information stored on their Amazon accounts. [07 Oct 2009]
Code, not patents, for Microsoft open source foundation
News Microsoft has contributed $1m to the foundation and has filled out its board and advisory panel with many Microsoft staffers, including Sam Ramji, who is leaving Microsoft as its open source point man but is also... [14 Sep 2009]
Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News A 28-year-old Miami man who made millions breaking into computer networks and stealing credit card numbers pleaded guilty on Friday and agreed to forfeit more than $2.7m in restitution, as well as a condominium,... [14 Sep 2009]
Steve Jobs: Firmly back in the driving seat at Apple
News But it became very apparent soon after, when he thanked the man who had taken over day-to-day duties running Apple between January and June, COO Tim Cook, and all of the Apple executive team. Though technically he... [10 Sep 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, and the Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain, and stealing data related to more than 130 million credit and... [18 Aug 2009]
New CTO provides Devine inspiration for Yell
News Yell has appointed a new UK chief technology officer. Rorie Devine, who has twice featured on silicon.com's CIO50 list, joined the directories company at the end of last month. Yell's new CTO, Rorie Devine (Photo credit: Yell) [11 Aug 2009]
Mahindra Satyam's new CEO on the road ahead for the outsourcing giant
News For a man at the helm of a business that has been through so much in the course of this year, Mahindra Satyam's new CEO CP Gurnani looks remarkably relaxed. With his smile and immaculate suit, Gurnani has been away from... [10 Aug 2009]
Microsoft after Gates, Google Chrome, ID cards, printer woes and more
News silicon.com's top stories for July are an eclectic bunch - from calls for an offshoring tax, to work on cows that don't fart to one man's epic struggle to get an all-in-one printer simply to work. Even if Bill Gates... [03 Aug 2009]
Web security warnings being ignored - even by the most tech-savvy
News While SSL certificates often expire for benign reasons, an expired certificate can also indicate that the user could be the victim of a man-in-the-middle attack. Digital certificate warnings in web browsers are not an... [28 Jul 2009]
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group picks newspaper man for CIO
News Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group has hired a new CIO. The insurance and risk management company announced today that Ian Cohen will take up the head of IT role with immediate effect. Cohen, who has featured on silicon.com's CIO50 list, was... [24 Jul 2009]
TalkTalk gets its very first CIO
News TalkTalk has hired a CIO for the first time. The company announced today that it has appointed David Cooper to the newly created post in April, after previously splitting responsibility for IT across a number of individuals within the... [30 Jun 2009]
Is it 999 for emergency services comms?
News Professor Martin Cave, the director of the Centre for Management under Regulation at the University of Warwick, and the man chosen by the government to conduct an independent audit of the UK's spectrum holdings aimed at... [15 Jun 2009]
Whitehall: DIY tech to protect against public service knife
News Sir Michael Bichard, chairman of the Design Council and the man whose 2004 report laid the foundations for the Police National Database, warned that without embracing a "radical redesign of public services" the "future... [11 Jun 2009]
SFO gets new CIO
News The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has hired itself a new CIO from the ranks of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Josh Ellis, a former regional director of forensic services at the consultancy, is now heading up the SFO's IT department as well as its... [10 Jun 2009]