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It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
News With high-resolution video becoming increasingly affordable, we do now have an increasing number of viable options for replacing physical business travel with other alternatives," service director of analyst house... [13 Oct 2009]
HP video conferencing and collaboration tools reach for the sky
News Looking to take advantage of tightened corporate travel budgets, HP has showed off the latest tech to come out of its labs, called Skyroom. Unveiled together with Intel at the start of the Intel Developer Forum in San... [23 Sep 2009]
Facebook to kill Beacon: Info-sharing programme crumbles under privacy concerns
News Named as defendants were Facebook, along with current and former Beacon participants Blockbuster, Fandango (owned by Comcast), Overstock.com, STA Travel, Zappos, Hotwire (owned by InterActiveCorp), and GameFly. [21 Sep 2009]
Microsoft Bing gets Visual: Searching to gain on Google
News In travel, sports and product reviews, for example, Bing is extremely aggressive in displaying structured data. Microsoft launched a new feature for its Bing search engine called Visual Search on Monday. [15 Sep 2009]
Yahoo! goes after iPhone users with Flickr and finance apps
News It is offering browser-based applications for its more general properties, such as travel, personals, or some of its entertainment sites. announced three new mobile applications on Tuesday as the company continues to... [09 Sep 2009]
All change please: Your train ticket will never be the same again
News The Department is hoping to introduce integrated ticketing over the next five to 10 years - allowing consumers to purchase a single ticket to travel on any mode of transport across any number of transport operators - an... [20 Aug 2009]
Microsoft 'White-Fi' to solve interference worries in white space
News Because much of this spectrum operates at lower frequencies, it can travel longer distances, much longer distances than the unlicensed frequencies used for wi-fi devices. Signals transmitted over lower frequencies tend... [20 Aug 2009]
Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?
News It then calculates the best option depending on the price of electricity and the distance that data must travel to get to a particular location, to provide the most cost-effective route for data based on energy costs. [19 Aug 2009]
Biometrics system for foreign students raises MPs' eyebrows
News In addition, the UKBA does not have enough collection points overseas, the Home Affairs Committee said in its report, citing incidences of people having to travel to different countries to give their fingerprints. [05 Aug 2009]
Credit card that helps out Linux? That'll do nicely
News The money will "go directly toward providing community technical events and travel grants for open source community members", according to the Foundation. For open source devotees, there's now another way to support... [28 Jul 2009]
Microsoft's Bing goes off with a bang in June
News Three times as much traffic landed on Bing Shopping during the month, and Bing Travel has increased its traffic by 90 per cent. Microsoft's internal data credits the launch of its new Bing search engine with an eight per... [14 Jul 2009]
Virtualisation and cloud: The new weapons in the outsourcing arms race
News According to research by analyst Ovum, sectors including financial services, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, retail and travel are showing active interest in IT outsourcing, pointing to recent £20m-plus deals between... [14 Jul 2009]
'Europe needs its own clouds to fight US domination'
News She also called on European businesses to use more videoconferencing services, so as to cut down on business travel and the resulting carbon emissions. European clouds should be set up within the next five years to... [09 Jul 2009]
Take a trip to the future of air travel
News In the future, your mobile phone could become your holiday concierge, reminding you to check-in the minute you arrive at the airport or automatically ordering a taxi for you when your plane lands. It's a vision that airline passengers... [03 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News While the government may have decided to drop the compulsory element of the scheme, it's still hoping to encourage UK citizens to sign up voluntarily by promoting potential uses of the card, such as for travel within... [01 Jul 2009]
