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RSS talking in newsLarry Brilliant: "Today is a good day to choose to save the world"
News And Brilliant knows what he's talking about after playing a leading role in the successful global effort to eradicate smallpox while working for the World Health Organisation. The tech industry can play a major role in... [06 Nov 2008]
Artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, BT's tunnels and Apple's patents
News Click on the links below to read the stories everyone is talking about. There has been a lot of future gazing this month on silicon.com, although dreams of chatting to our toasters were dashed once again when the world's... [05 Nov 2008]
Top 10 strategic techs for 2009
News The analyst says organisations should consider adding a social dimension to a conventional website or application - and, to avoid being left behind, should adopt a social platform sooner rather than later or risk seeming 'mute' while... [15 Oct 2008]
It's official: Windows 7, no longer a codename
News In a few weeks we are going to be talking about the details of this release at the PDC and at WinHEC. For the first time in recent memory, Microsoft has chosen to stick with its codename for a final Windows release. [14 Oct 2008]
HP-EDS job cuts: "It's business as normal"
News Yes, there will be some job duplication but not to the extent of the 3,300 job cuts they're talking about. They're talking about over… 20 per cent of the [EDS UK] workforce. More details of the job... [09 Oct 2008]
Voice biometrics, war tech and the history of computing
News Click on the links below to see the videos everyone is talking about. In September silicon.com had an exclusive look through the treasure trove of historical technology in the National Museum of Computing at the home of... [08 Oct 2008]
Chrome future, vintage PCs and credit crunch IT
News Click on the links below to read the stories everyone is talking about. September's big stories were a mixed bag, with PCs of yesteryear, credit crunch crystal-ball gazing, 'virtual archaeology' and a variety of iPhone... [03 Oct 2008]
More wisps of Windows Cloud from Ballmer
News Ballmer also talked about desktop Windows at the event, first addressing Vista and then talking briefly about its successor, Windows 7. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday promised it won't be long before the world... [03 Oct 2008]
Do you have what it takes to be an e-caped crusader?
News Speaking at an event organised by payments processing company SecureTrading in London last week, McMurdie admitted there are very few officers in the UK that would know what a victim of computer crime was talking about... [01 Oct 2008]
Cisco invests in business IM
News Cisco Systems is bolstering its unified communications and collaboration portfolio with the purchase of a corporate instant-messaging company. On Friday, the networking giant announced it will purchase Jabber, which uses an open-source... [22 Sep 2008]
Yahoo! gives a glimpse into Open Strategy
News CTO Ari Balogh started off the discussion with members of the press at the company's headquarters talking about Yahoo! Yahoo! showed its vision for what its Yahoo! Open Strategy makes possible, demonstrating how it hopes... [12 Sep 2008]
CIOs: All our apps will be in the cloud by 2013
News I think we're talking about fairly long timescales. Business applications will increasingly head into the cloud as consumer technology filters through to business, according to UK CIOs. More than half (56 per cent) of... [08 Sep 2008]
iPhone 3G apps, Microsoft cloud OS, Facebook ban, YouTube police...
News And by 'inconvenience' it's talking issues such as dealing with iTunes on the desktop; coping with an ungenerous battery life; the abject lack of cut and paste; and a scattering of glitches in the email and calendar... [01 Sep 2008]
Google, Yahoo! ad deal on track for October
News We are in the process of talking to the government. The partnership to place some Google ads next to Yahoo! s search results will go into effect by early October, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt told Bloomberg on... [29 Aug 2008]
Brits spending record time online
News On average, Britons spend a total of seven hours and nine minutes per day surfing the net, using mobile phones, talking on landline telephones, watching TV and listening to the radio, up from an average of just six... [14 Aug 2008]
