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Project Kangaroo makes leap to December testing
News Project Kangaroo, the online TV joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, is planning to start testing the on-demand media player by the end of the year. The project is making plans to test... [18 Nov 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News Flight bookings must be made in English and paid for with a credit card, although the company plans to widen this to other languages in the near future, and is planning to adapt the service for corporate customers. [23 Jul 2008]
Budget airline launches in-flight wi-fi
News The airline considers the plane - nicknamed 'BetaBlue' - to be an early-stage test as the company explores expanding in-flight communication options. It's been known for more than a year that JetBlue has been... [07 Dec 2007]
One year on: XP still outshining Vista
News CIO Jury: IT chiefs not yet planning for Windows Vista ¦ Vista, both with and without SP1, performed more than two times slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking more than 80 seconds to complete the... [28 Nov 2007]
Microsoft rolls out XP SP3 test beta
News Last week Microsoft released an updated test version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to about 15,000 beta testers. CIO Jury: IT chiefs not yet planning for Windows Vista ¦ The company said before its final... [20 Nov 2007]
£1.5bn farm subsidy chaos: "Inept" planning blamed
News Poor planning and a lack of testing of IT systems have been blamed for "inept" delays in the payment of £1.5bn of vital EU subsidies to thousands of UK farmers. The PAC report said: "Failure to test... [06 Sep 2007]
Outsourcing deals face EC competition scrutiny
News The threshold test for deals that will need EC approval is if the supplier has a turnover of €5bn globally and €250m in Europe, and if the potential turnover of the outsourced IT operation also exceeds €250m per year. [29 Aug 2007]
Council cuts costs of wireless network testing
News Pembrokeshire County Council has reduced the time it takes to test the reliability of its wireless networks by using a network analysis application. Davies said that the time it took to survey locations in the... [03 Aug 2007]
Apple flunks green tech test
News Greenpeace's quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics is designed to help consumers and businesses gauge how green tech vendors are when planning a purchase. Apple has come bottom of a list compiled by Greenpeace that... [04 Apr 2007]
Comic Relief clowns around on YouTube
News The Comic Relief charity has approached several social-networking sites, including Bebo, Flickr, Google Video, MySpace and YouTube to test, trial and play with various ideas to encourage users to do more fundraising. [28 Feb 2007]
Mobile money shifting scheme announced
News The first trial will see MasterCard and the GSM Association (GSMA) team up to test the service for six months next year. Several operators including Telenor and Vodafone are planning to take part. The... [12 Feb 2007]
Windows Vista fails to convince CIOs
News Is anyone planning to upgrade to Windows Vista? He said: "Until we've had hands-on to test and understand Vista it will be impossible to make a case for it. I can't justify the extra cost of upgrading,... [28 Nov 2006]
SAP eyes 'third way' for software - using SOA like a gearbox
News ERP, or enterprise resource planning, can take care of everything in an organisation from payroll to HR to financials to manufacturing and more - only it's costly and has a reputation for not always being easy to implement. [28 Sep 2006]
Pipex WiMax experiment: The results are in
News WiMax cheerleaders have often boasted of a theoretical maximum of 70Mbps but the real world test unsurprisingly failed to match such high speeds. Pipex Wireless is also planning a full commercial rollout... [15 Aug 2006]
Intel unveils 'lean, mean, AMD-busting' Xeon
News They have engaged in a battle of PowerPoint slides claiming superior energy efficiency but now Xeon 5100 series systems are available for customers to test in their own environments, a clearer picture should start to... [27 Jun 2006]
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