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SAP users air support gripes
News The German software giant announced on 16 July that it plans to move all customers onto its Enterprise Support programme by 1 January 2009, discontinuing the less comprehensive Standard Support.silicon.com Classics [25 Jul 2008]
Generation Y setting tech agenda
News Companies are having trouble keeping up with Generation Y consumers who are now setting the technology agenda. Generation Y consists of 18- to 28-year-olds who are leading the way in technology adoption with nine out of 10 owning a PC and 82 per... [25 Jul 2008]
Tesco.com vans cut fuel bills with telematics tech
News The online arm of the UK's leading supermarket chain has a fleet of 2,000 vans operated by 6,000 drivers making more than 70,000 deliveries per day.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Speaking to silicon.com, Tesco.com fleet manager Dino Papas said the... [25 Jul 2008]
Techies swap BlackBerrys for the beach
News silicon.com readers say they will have no problem putting down their BlackBerrys and getting on with the sunbathing this summer. In our poll of more than 230 silicon.com readers, almost two thirds said they would leave their voicemail and email at... [25 Jul 2008]
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The MoJ didn't notify more than 30,000 of the 45,016 affected by the data breaches, first when MoJ supplier records were compromised in June 2007 and then when the names, addresses, birth dates and alleged offences relating to 3,648 people were... [25 Jul 2008]
Oyster outage hits London again
News Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 London's Oyster travel smart card system has failed for the second time in a fortnight with many commuters enjoying a free trip to work during rush hour on Friday morning. [25 Jul 2008]
Windows 7 on track, says Microsoft
News Microsoft Windows unit head Bill Veghte said on Thursday that Windows 7 development remains on track. The company has officially said it would ship by January 2010 but top executives have also said from time to time that it would be done by the end... [25 Jul 2008]
BT embraces open source for business
News Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 BT has joined FossBazaar, an enterprise open-source community and workgroup of the Linux Foundation. The communications and IT giant has already been a member of the Linux Foundation since 2005. [25 Jul 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! talks: In the "off-again" phase
News Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday that its on-again, off-again talks with Yahoo! are firmly in the "off-again" phase. The two sides have talked on and off, he said, first about a purchase and then... [25 Jul 2008]
First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 The first students to take a university degree in Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB) have completed their studies, with a high proportion of the graduates achieving First Class honours. [24 Jul 2008]
Microsoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 In an interview Windows unit business chief Bill Veghte told silicon.com sister site CNET News.com that he wants to see his unit try new things to get the message across. [24 Jul 2008]
Are sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News Sat-navs not only drive motorists to distraction, they've also been driving silicon.com readers to rage following a recent story concerning the devices. This prompted many silicon.com readers to argue that regardless of whether a sat-nav device... [24 Jul 2008]
ISPs join file sharing crackdown
News Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 UK internet service providers have joined forces with the UK record industry to crack down on illegal file sharing. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) - which represents thousands of UK record labels... [24 Jul 2008]
London: Card fraud hotspot
News Take the silicon.com Skills Survey 2008 The UK's top card fraud hotspots have been revealed in a report that shows the crime is spread across the country. London, specifically the south east of the capital, saw the most card-not-present fraud over... [24 Jul 2008]
Greek island gets wireless mesh network
News Tourists and locals on the Greek Island of Patmos will soon be able to enjoy island-wide wi-fi web access courtesy of $100 laptop founder Nicholas Negroponte's passion for the web. The island is the place where St John wrote the New Testament's... [24 Jul 2008]
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