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RSS team in newsPrivate browsing to arrive in Internet Explorer?
News And for Microsoft's Internet Explorer team, privacy is a feature. For many, privacy on the web is a concern. In a meeting with reporters this week, Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft's search, portal and advertising platform group... [21 Aug 2008]
Wanted - CIOs with opinions
News The subjects are chosen by the editorial team and often tap into hot topics of the week. If you are the head of IT at an organisation - public or private sector, large or small - you should be on the silicon.com CIO Jury. [18 Aug 2008]
Finalists for CNET tech gongs announced
News Awards up for grabs include Business Application of the Year, Security Product or Service of the Year, Public Sector Technology Project of the Year and IT Team of the Year. The entries are in, the judges have voted, and now the finalists for the... [18 Aug 2008]
Hackney Council in £1.9m IT overhaul
News Hackney homes head of ICT services Trish Haill said in a statement: "Rather than update existing systems we wanted to start afresh, implementing the latest technology to deliver a cutting-edge service to tenants and an improved working environment... [15 Aug 2008]
University donates old PCs to Chile
News Phil Andrews, of Nottingham University's IT operations team, said: "Instead of being broken down and recycled, our PCs are given a new lease of life to help disadvantaged communities. Nottingham University is sending its old computers on a... [15 Aug 2008]
NHS names top tech tag team
News The Department of Health has named the new leadership team that will direct the future of the NHS National Programme for IT. The NHS announced in April that it would split the old NHS IT director general role in two following the departure of the... [07 Aug 2008]
CIOs brave the cold for children's charity
News A team of CIOs will be braving the night outside in the cold later this year to raise money for children's charity NCH. This year the 'silicon.comrades' team including Steve Clarke, director, systems and operations at AOL Broadband, Graham Benson... [07 Aug 2008]
Firefox 3.1 coming soon?
News The project team has set a date of 19 August to freeze features and make the test version of Firefox 3.1 available, according to a calendar posting to the Mozilla wiki. Developers working on the next version of Firefox aim to release a beta to the... [07 Aug 2008]
Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Ready for release
News Dan Jones, a member of the product's engineering team, said: "We nailed it, and that just feels so good. Microsoft said yesterday it has finished work on SQL Server 2008, the latest version of its database software. [07 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's Midori not ready for tasting?
News Whereas Singularity was a research effort firmly confined to a small team of researchers inside Microsoft's in-house labs, Midori is an effort to see if there is something commercially viable that could come out of it. [06 Aug 2008]
Nasa hacker loses extradition appeal
News His legal team had argued in the Lords that the US extradition request was an "abuse of process" and "an unjustified interference with the defendant's human rights". Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his fight to block his extradition to the US... [30 Jul 2008]
BT's Ribbit buy to take on Android?
News With Ribbit, not only do we extend our presence in [Silicon] Valley but we also gain a ground-breaking platform, a growing community of developers and a world-class team that share a common vision. Ribbit, which was formed in February 2006, will... [30 Jul 2008]
Microsoft previews research efforts
News Other projects the Situated Interaction team is investigating include "multi-participant engagement and dialog models, conversational scene analysis, spatio-temporal trajectory reasoning, and behavioural modelling". [29 Jul 2008]
Microsoft widens its Live Mesh web
News Microsoft said: "The Live Mesh team is pleased to announce that anyone in the US can now use Live Mesh just by signing in to www.mesh.com with a valid Windows Live ID. Microsoft has opened up its Live Mesh service to anyone who has (or signs up for... [18 Jul 2008]
RIM warns on BlackBerry PDF flaw
News RIM stated in its advisory: "This issue has been escalated internally to our development team. RIM is warning businesses to disable the function that allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until an update can be issued, after a security flaw was... [17 Jul 2008]
