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Microsoft's Zune tunes into video
News Microsoft executives have been making the rounds at talent agencies and production companies in recent months in hopes of licensing exclusive original video programming for the portable media player, which has struggled to gain traction in the... [12 Aug 2008]
And the designer of the next great gadget is? - You
News So-called "prosumers", a marriage of consumers and producers, will use website forums and email to pipe their ideas straight onto company production lines says the report. Apple's style gurus should watch their backs because the killer-gadgets of... [11 Jul 2008]
HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
News Serguei Beloussov, chief executive of Parallels, said: "Container virtualisation is increasingly popular for virtualising high-performance, production workloads. HP has said it will offer technology from virtualisation company Parallels to those... [03 Jul 2008]
Kangaroo web TV faces competition scrutiny
News ITV's executive chairman, Michael Grade, said there must be a "level playing field" for those organisations whose investment "sustains UK production". Kangaroo, the proposed online on-demand video joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and... [30 Jun 2008]
Tech failing to meet business expectations
News Other effects of SLA failure cited by respondents include a negative effect on external customer satisfaction and a slowing of production. Tech teams are failing to meet around a quarter of service level agreements (SLAs) made with other business... [23 Jun 2008]
IBM puts money on solar power
News IBM Research's Supratik Guha, who leads its solar photovoltaic activities, said the companies do not plan to enter the solar module production business but hope to license their technology to producers in the next two to three years. [16 Jun 2008]
Taxman unleashes podcasts on the nation
News The HMRC produces the podcasts' contents in-house but production is outsourced to a media agency called Brand Spanking. As the summer holiday season ramps up, HM Revenue & Customs has published a podcast offering advice to travellers on what can... [05 Jun 2008]
Time to bin ID cards?
News CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, and Thales made the shortlist to win the five parts of the single "framework contract", including a £500m deal to replace the existing passport application system, the £500m biometric fingerprint and photograph database... [23 May 2008]
Bradford & Bingley gets Oracle HR system
News Transactions are completed in real-time enabling the production of management information to be timely and accurate, providing the HR function and line managers the capabilities to proactively identify and address any people-related issues. [20 May 2008]
OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing
News The software is available for public download in US English on Linux, OS X, Solaris and Windows but Sun warned it is not considered suitable for production use. The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 productivity suite was released... [09 May 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News This baseline notion is interesting as products like JBoss used to be considered just for development with BEA for production but over the last two years or so that sentiment has changed, with lots of JBoss in production. [22 Apr 2008]
Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini
News Under the terms of the new contracts Capgemini will retain responsibility for managing the mainframe computers that support core steel production, supply chain, stockholding, purchasing, sales ordering and invoicing at Corus' main UK manufacturing... [17 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News People are employing programmers dedicated to the production of those threats," Scroggie said. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an increase of 167 per cent from the first half of 2007. [09 Apr 2008]
Russia overtakes China as king of malware producers
News PC Tools said the death of Russian Business Network (RBN), a well-known malicious software distributor, has not slowed the country's production of malicious code. Russia has passed China to become the largest generator of spyware and other... [21 Feb 2008]
Confusion over Office streaming service
News The statement said: "Fasthosts has understood, and has had confirmed to it, that the facilitation of this approval is through the production of an addendum to the current SPLA, a decision confirmed in meetings between Microsoft European SPLA... [11 Feb 2008]
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