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News Microsoft was not part of the project started by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte to develop an inexpensive laptop computer for school children in developing countries.
[16 May 2008]
News Three years ago, Taylor said, an Office of Government Commerce study reached the same conclusion: a lot of government departments had signed up for an open-source project, only to leave when they found they were locked in.
[15 May 2008]
News Richard Holway, of Farnham Consulting, warned the lack of people to fill entry-level jobs in technology threatens employers' ability to train up the next generation of project managers on the job in the UK.
[14 May 2008]
News The team members behind the IT systems are preparing to move from their individual project roles to the operational phase, and part of that is bringing software development to a close. Everyone works in their own group with their own technology and...
[13 May 2008]
News Galileo is a joint project between the EU and European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a comprehensive European sat-nav system, which will eventually replace the US military GPS network. Galileo project manager, Javier Benedicto, said the successful...
[09 May 2008]
News The project will cost around £30m and will be the largest of its kind in Europe, according to H2O. The race to become the UK's first 'Fibrecity' has been won by the seaside resort of Bournemouth, better known for ice-cream and old people than high...
[08 May 2008]
News On the IT side this is supported by 10,000 PCs, 1,000 servers, 5,000 results systems terminals and 4,000 printers, all looked after by 4,000 IT staff including volunteers, in a project which began in 2003.
[08 May 2008]
News Whitbread information systems project manager, Steven Deakin, said in a statement: "Deployment of the integrated payment solution is a groundbreaking step for the leisure industry and means we have the first large restaurant chain with a...
[07 May 2008]
News Verizon Business is involved in more than 67 submarine cables worldwide, and the Europe India Gateway is its third major project in the last four years. Verizon Communications's business unit said yesterday it would help build an undersea cable...
[07 May 2008]
News NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has implemented a wireless networking project in the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) that involves tracking medical equipment with RFID tags.silicon.com Public Sector The initial driver of this part of the project is to...
[28 Apr 2008]
News The water supplier has been working on a tech transformation project for the past six years and is already working with Atos Origin, Fujitsu, Logica and TCS. Scottish Water has signed three tech contracts to the tune of £120m to help improve its...
[28 Apr 2008]
News Sun started open-sourcing Java at the end of 2006 but only 96 per cent of Java was able to be made available to the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) project at the time. The process of clearing encumbrances is complex, and has involved close...
[28 Apr 2008]
News The UK's proposed central e-crime police unit is close to securing the necessary government funding to make it a reality, according to one of the architects of the project. Speaking at the Infosec security show in London, The Metropolitan Police...
[25 Apr 2008]
News The project is the brainchild of Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, and underscores the company's carefully balanced online strategy, which aims to capitalise on the reach of the internet without damaging its software business.
[23 Apr 2008]
News Open source is often brought in to cover a project's basic requirements; creating a "baseline". Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary...
[22 Apr 2008]
News Highfield has been in charge of the BBC iPlayer project which, although initially controversial, has since proved to be a real success. BBC director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield, is to leave the corporation to head up the...
[15 Apr 2008]
News One result of the SC 34 meeting was an open letter, signed by 30 members, which read: "We the undersigned participants at this SC 34 meeting wish to make it clear that we deplore the personal attacks that have been made during the [OOXML...
[15 Apr 2008]
News Banking group Citi is on the verge of completing a major sustainable data centre project but has admitted the power requirements of its IT equipment are continuing to rise by 12.5 per cent per year. In a statement announcing the Frankfurt project...
[14 Apr 2008]
News Bovill said the in-house support team had been reduced by half and that he expects the cost of the outsourcing project to pay for itself in less than six months. Mosaic Fashions, the owner of Coast, Karen Millen, Oasis, The Shoe Studio Group and...
[08 Apr 2008]
News Verwaayen made silicon.com's 2007 Agenda Setter list - ranked 16th - and is noted for championing initiatives such as BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) project to switch to an all-IP core network. Verwaayen, who will also step down from the BT board...
[08 Apr 2008]
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