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'Don't just outsource the problem when you outsource IT'
News The outsourcer is being contracted to provide skills and expertise but the local authority still needs to provide vital input from its service areas into defining, training and testing systems," the report said. [10 Nov 2009]
Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News Next will come the Games' integration lab, a testing centre where every core piece of tech will be put through its paces. With just over 1,000 days to go until the start of the 2012 London Olympics, the team in charge of... [27 Oct 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News UK online gamblers might not quite fit this image but they can increasingly get into the spirit of their Vegas counterparts through technology that allows them a way to banter across the baize with their opponents.bwin, one of the... [23 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: The five things you need to be thinking about now
News With that in mind, companies should get cracking on their migration project now, as most migrations will take 12 to 18 months of waiting, planning and testing before they start to go live, Gartner added. [15 Oct 2009]
BAA preparing for Windows 7 take off
News Speaking at a Microsoft customer event in London this week, BAA CIO Philip Langsdale said the company has been testing Windows 7 and now plans to roll it out across the company. Langsdale's team has been... [09 Oct 2009]
Microsoft's 'browser ballot' plan gets the green light
News Market testing will now go ahead for the ballot, which was created in response to EC antitrust concerns over the bundling of IE with Windows. Microsoft's plan to offer new Windows users a choice of browser - the... [07 Oct 2009]
O2 LTE tests coming in the next six months
News O2 is set to start testing LTE (the long-term evolution of the 3G mobile standard) technology in the UK "within the next six months". O2 is to start testing LTE within the next six months (photo credit: O2) [01 Oct 2009]
Google Wave opens doors to 100,000 newbies
News In addition to the developers and waiting list, Google also plans to open Wave up to a limited number of Google Apps enterprise customers for testing, Rasmussen said. Google Wave is ready for its next step: a more... [30 Sep 2009]
Microsoft's free antivirus coming in weeks
News Public beta testing of Security Essentials started in June, with Microsoft reaching its goal of 75,000 testers just one day after it issued a call for them. Microsoft plans to release the final version of its free... [22 Sep 2009]
Microsoft's web-based Office: First taster goes live
News Microsoft started public testing for the first browser-based version of Office on Thursday, although the technology preview is perhaps more notable for what it doesn't include than what it does offer. [18 Sep 2009]
BT trial: Broadband goes further than ever
News BT is testing a system of broadband technology, currently used in business-class broadband, which could carry higher-speed broadband further from exchanges than was previously thought possible. For more on BT's... [16 Sep 2009]
Google: Fast Flip to let publishers in on the ad action?
News Google is testing a service that will let newshounds read web pages of magazines and newspapers as though they were flipping through an old-fashioned paper copy. Google is also said to be testing a... [15 Sep 2009]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News It's also testing smart water meters that would provide more accurate consumption data and alert customers if there's a problem, such as a leak. IBM is developing a portfolio of IT-related water management technologies,... [08 Sep 2009]
Can Yahoo! facelift help it ditch the 'peanut butter'?
News And indeed, several of the features demonstrated Monday are either in beta or in bucket testing. Has Yahoo! finally got to the point where it's exchanging peanut butter for WD-40? Three years ago, Yahoo! [25 Aug 2009]
Google Chrome for Linux, arriving soon in 64 bits
News But along with issues such as broken plug-ins, 64-bit software can hog more disk space, complicate programmers' testing and support chores, and often doesn't really run appreciably faster, so the transition isn't... [21 Aug 2009]