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LiMo targets the business mobile

News He told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk: "We're looking at two of the very well-known Linux-distribution companies that currently operate in the enterprise space but are interested in bridging between the enterprise and mobile.

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

Microsoft users surf the skies from the web

News The program, which was developed by Microsoft's research arm, marries together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others. The program is similar to Google Sky, a mode of...

Tags: google sky, space, microsoft

[14 May 2008]

Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power

News The US space agency's Pleiades programme aims to give peak performance of 1,000 trillion operations per second - or one petaflop - by 2009. Nasa is upgrading its supercomputer to cater for an expected surge in workload associated with future...

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

[09 May 2008]

Galileo phones home

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. It was carried into space by the Soyuz-Fregat rocket which...

Tags: gps, signal, europe, sat nav

[09 May 2008]

Google execs defend a Yahoo! ad tie-in

News It's incorrect to assert there's lock-in or opportunity for dominance in the ad space. Google's top executives have given a glimpse into how it might try to deflect antitrust concerns of a possible ad-sharing deal with rival Yahoo!

Tags: ad, yahoo, google

[09 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News Fahy said the drive for efficiency at Lehman Brothers has meant the company has shifted to charging for internal services based on consumption - by calculating how much resource is required to run individual applications, instead of, say...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?

News Unfortunately, there simply wasn't enough space to include all the early computers this time around, which means silicon.com will simply have to run a similar poll sometime in the future… Amstrad or Spectrum?

Tags: c64, computer, zx spectrum

[30 Apr 2008]

Skype trialled on Java mobiles

News Gareth O'Loughlin, general manager of mobile and hardware devices at Skype, said in a statement: "These are still the early days for making Skype calls on mobile phones but we've already made great strides in this space.

Tags: java, mobile, skype

[30 Apr 2008]

Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML

News He said: "Actively working to make OOXML an internationally informed standard will help them to retain their considerable share of the desktop office space, as this removes objections to Office having a proprietary, vendor-controlled format.

Tags: microsoft, office, word, ooxml

[21 Apr 2008]

Single-sign-on system makes sense for logistics firm

News The supply chain specialist manages more than one billion square feet of warehousing space supported by 1,600 vehicles across Europe and has retailers such as Argos and Early Learning Centre on its books.

Tags: password, argos, security, sign

[21 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News The company's decision to stay away from the consumer desktop is less about Microsoft's dominance there than about Ubuntu, which is the leading challenger in that space, Blankenhorn said. Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a...

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Apple patches up Safari

News He added: "From Apple's perspective, it's been good to have that flaw publicised and to appear to have done something about it within a relatively short space of time. Apple has released another round of security patches for its web browser this...

Tags: safari, apple, security, macbook air

[18 Apr 2008]

Coffee Republic to offer free wi-fi

News One of the ways the free wi-fi service will be subsidised is through advertising - the landing page when people logon will offer space to advertisers. Coffee Republic will become the first UK coffee chain to provide free wi-fi to customers when it...

Tags: wi-fi, coffee republic

[14 Apr 2008]

Microsoft Windows 'collapsing' under own weight

News The Windows user experience will become less integrated and more "a composite adaptive work space", they said, meaning that some applications will be tied to location and the user's identity. Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing under its...

Tags: vista, windows, microsoft, gartner

[11 Apr 2008]

Ofcom primes WiMax spectrum auction

News The 2.6GHz spectrum release is part of a wider programme to liberate around 400MHz of 'prime spectrum' over the next few years to create opportunities for wireless innovation and to boost competition in the space.

Tags: mobile broadband, ofcom, wimax, spectrum

[07 Apr 2008]

Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend

News The survey of 1,000 business people found the main reasons for spending the day hunched over a laptop sipping skinny lattes at the local Starbucks include avoiding interruptions (24 per cent) and having more space to work and meet (18 per cent).

Tags: caffè nero, bt openzone, wi-fi

[07 Apr 2008]

Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits

News The availability of 'sophisticated' free mobile apps offering features such as social networking, videoing and messaging is helping to drive app development and user activity in the mobile space, according to mobile apps aggregator GetJar which...

Tags: facebook, blackberry, rim

[02 Apr 2008]

Web 2.0 'imperative' for business

News To drive more traffic to their corporate sites, vendors can create forums for online users to chat or blog about a product, or provide an editorial space for people to discuss topical subjects on the web.

Tags: oracle, social networking, web 2.0, facilitate

[27 Mar 2008]

Green carrots needed for IT chiefs

News He added, electricity costs are often calculated according to floor space rather than actual demands of different departments. There needs to be greater incentives for tech departments to become greener by reducing their overall energy consumption...

Tags: green, carbon, quocirca, data centres

[19 Mar 2008]

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