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Canonical hires Ubuntu makeover team
News The company plans to sign up designers and specialists in user experience and interaction to lead Canonical's work on usability and to contribute to other free and open-source desktop-environment projects, including... [12 Sep 2008]
Google judges ad quality in real-time
News With the updates, ad quality will be judged at the time a user searches, Google said on Thursday on its AdWords blog. Google also effectively raises minimum bid requirements for ads that don't meet its... [22 Aug 2008]
iPhone 2.0 cuts business mustard, says Gartner
News In order to pass Gartner's test, the iPhone needed to support "at least one popular enterprise email system" and, on the security side, remote wiping of lost/stolen devices, and a complex user password "consisting of a... [11 Aug 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News Office equipment is the fastest growing energy user in the business world. A variety of measures for optimising servers are detailed in the report, including storage virtualisation and configuring virtual servers to... [17 Jul 2008]
Femtocells to speed arrival of next-gen mobile networks?
News Simon Saunders, chairman of the Femto Forum, explained: "As early adopters find LTE interesting or WiMax interesting they can be provided with both a terminal - both a user device, say a next generation mobile data card... [30 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News Javier Gonzalez, the chief executive of Aquamobile, told ZDNet.co.uk that Android was "more attractive" than LiMo because it will allow his company to "get closer to the hardware features and get a good user experience". [13 Jun 2008]
Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future
News Within two years, the brand and model of the enterprise laptop could be decided by the user, not the IT department. Today's smart phones, however, are still unable to meet the requirements of office... [14 Apr 2008]
'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
News However, there is a user-accessible compartment to insert SIM cards that is not intended to be tamper-proof. Neither terminal meets any of these requirements, said the researcher paper. Security from A to Z [27 Feb 2008]
Outsourcing 'increases IT costs'
News That's the verdict of two-thirds of UK IT chiefs in silicon.com's CIO Jury 12-strong IT user panel, whose verdict is that outsourcing doesn't save money. Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director at publisher Hachette Filipacchi... [31 Jan 2008]
British Energy hires new CIO
News In the meantime Campbell will continue his role as chairman of the blue-chip user group the Corporate IT Forum while he considers his next career move. British Energy's core business is energy generation - its one... [07 Dec 2007]
Hack forces Fasthosts to change user passwords
News Fasthosts is currently in the process of working with these customers to resolve any outstanding technical requirements. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus [03 Dec 2007]
Fibre - coming to a home near you
News Elizalde said DSL is the preferred broadband technology in Europe because it currently delivers sufficient bandwidth to cope with user and application demands. Frost & Sullivan research analyst Fernando Elizalde said... [10 Jul 2007]
NHS to get Outlook email transplant
News Martin Goodman, managing director for public sector business at Cable & Wireless, said: "Cable & Wireless worked in partnership with NHS [Connecting for Health] on a feasibility study to establish the most appropriate technology solution... [10 Jul 2007]
Troublesome 'dong' leads to VSO email overhaul
News Although neither party was willing to confirm the exact value of the deal, Postini would confirm its usual per-user price has been discounted for the charity to "a single figure sum per user". A... [11 Jun 2007]
Next-gen wi-fi kit to get early stamp of approval
News The Wi-Fi Alliance's managing director, Frank Hanzlik, said: "This milestone means that consumers and business users alike can feel confident that the 802.11n products they buy will deliver the user experience they require. [17 May 2007]
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