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LiMo targets the business mobile

News It's seamless enterprise computing, basically. The LiMo Foundation, a broad industry consortium of manufacturers, operators and software developers working to put Linux onto the mobile phone, is to launch a major enterprise push later this year.

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

AMD chips into business market

News Our [products] are designed to give commercial customers the assurance that platforms are designed with their business in mind to help get more from their computing infrastructure, longer. Dash - the Desktop and Mobile Architecture for System...

Tags: chips, intel, amd

[29 Apr 2008]

Microsoft embraces cloud computing with 'Live Mesh'

News Live Mesh embraces the industry trend toward cloud computing, in which information is centrally stored on websites rather than on local devices, giving users easy access from any computer. Microsoft's "Live Mesh" program, which uses the internet as...

Tags: google, cloud, microsoft

[23 Apr 2008]

Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark

News The initial list of hardware vendors participating in the programme includes Advantech, ICOP Digital, Keith & Koep, Special Computing and Via Technologies. Photos: Introducing - the world's lightest mobile phone

Tags: developers, microsoft

[17 Apr 2008]

Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable

News Developers using the service will get a quota of 500MB of storage as well as enough computing power and bandwidth to handle five million page views per month. In his staff blog, Google App Engine technical lead Kevin Gibbs said: "Google App Engine...

Tags: bigtable, google

[09 Apr 2008]

Microsoft touches the Surface of AT&T

News Pete Thompson, the general manager of Microsoft's surface computing unit, said: "We're in business now. Instead, it is US mobile carrier AT&T that is ready to make use of the touchscreen computers. Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar

Tags: at&t, surface, microsoft

[02 Apr 2008]

Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract

News From July the companies will serve Shell and its subsidiaries in more than 100 countries, with AT&T looking after network and telecommunications, T-Systems hosting and storage, and EDS end user computing services and operational integration of the...

Tags: ito, offshoring, outsourcing

[31 Mar 2008]

Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...

News Leaving technology of the future for a moment, silicon.com took a trip down memory lane to witness computing's pivotal role in WWII espionage with an exclusive peek at Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaking machine.

Tags: android, outsourcing, india, linkedin

[27 Mar 2008]

IBM's latest Lotus targets mobile mash-ups

News Antony Edwards, vice president of developer product marketing at Symbian, said: "Mash-ups and web 2.0 technologies as a whole are proving popular in a variety of delivery formats, as they extend outward from the desktop to the mobile computing arena.

Tags: ibm, mobile, mash-up, lotus

[26 Mar 2008]

Apple iPhone 'ready for business'

News Ken Dulaney, vice president of mobile computing at Gartner, told silicon.com: "The iPhone initially was in the [lowest support rating] level because it didn't have the core elements that were needed to use it beyond a custom supported device.

Tags: gartner, iphone, apple, analyst

[19 Mar 2008]

Microsoft: One mobile device to rule them all

News Microsoft's Bach said five years from now mobile will be about "general purpose computing" - not as a replacement to the PC but rather an addition. The business phone is dead and the industry must now come up with mobile devices that can both work...

Tags: microsoft, device, array, handset

[11 Feb 2008]

$12bn tech spend for UK SMEs in 2007

News IT spending included computing, software and networking support, together with professional services such as IT consulting and IT management. Photos: Five mobile gadgets for cops Rising technology costs saw SMEs in the UK spending $12bn on IT last...

Tags: sme, business, retail, it spend

[14 Jan 2008]

Intel CEO: Personal devices to bring innovation to web

News Increasingly, computing and communications are coming together, bringing a new level of capabilities and intelligence to the internet experience. Otellini said: "Packaging several important functions - such as computing, graphics and audio-video...

Tags: intel, ces, chips, electronics

[08 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time

News In his annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) address, the Microsoft chairman demonstrated a slew of fashionable PCs, touted the role of computing interfaces like speech and touch, as well as announcing a partnership with NBC to jointly run the...

Tags: vista, olympics, ford, gates

[07 Jan 2008]

Revealed: The hottest tech to invest in

News An example of this kind of technology is the Mobile Clinical Assistant which has been developed by Intel with Motion Computing and is currently being trialled. Mobile internet and green IT are among the five hot technologies venture capitalists are...

Tags: mobile internet, wimax, venture capital, bric

[18 Dec 2007]

Experts tip six technologies to watch

News The CST also suggests there needs to be focus on healthcare technology with new medical devices - Intel's and Motion Computing's Mobile Clinical Assistant for example - which would target prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Tags: carbon, climate, plastic, healthcare

[05 Dec 2007]

Microsoft still tinkering with Surface

News Mark Bolger, a senior director in Microsoft's surface computing unit, said: "What we have found out is this is not a one-size-fits-all solution. In a recent interview, Bill Gates spoke about the potential of surface computing to go far beyond the...

Tags: touchscreen, surface, microsoft, cnet news

[09 Nov 2007]

Google to unveil mobile software suite

News The rest of the more than 30 other companies involved reads like a who's-who list of the mobile-computing industry, including Broadcom, HTC, Intel, Qualcomm, Motorola, Samsung, Sprint and Texas Instruments.

Tags: google, gphone, mobile, linux

[05 Nov 2007]

'Security not just about user education'

News Runald said systems are often compromised in spite of the user practising safe computing. Runald also noted that the technology is available to cause serious damage on mobile devices: "All the pieces are in place for a mobile malware outbreak.

Tags: security, trojan, malware

[15 Oct 2007]

Tesco CIO scoops top honour at CNET UK Awards

News Other winners included IBM which won the Green Initiative of the Year for its Big Green project that saw the company pledge $1bn back in May to double computing capacity without an increase in power consumption.

Tags: cochrane, tesco, awards, cnet

[25 Sep 2007]

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