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RSS wave in newsHP dishes out research grants to academic institutions
News HP has announced a slew of grants to academic institutions across the globe for research into the next wave of technology, from cloud computing to greener IT. Thirty-four institutions received 41 awards, whittled down from more than 450 proposals... [18 Aug 2008]
Cisco looks to the future with investment plans
News This time around, Chambers says he already sees the next technological wave. On Tuesday, Cisco reported profits for its fourth fiscal quarter 2008 were up 4.4 per cent to $2bn on revenue that climbed 9.9 per cent to $10.36bn. [06 Aug 2008]
India: Low-cost, high-tech hub
News Indian companies, too, are looking to ride the low-cost wave. Rajdeep Sehrawat, vice president of Nasscom, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet Asia: "This is the biggest untold story about India. Nasscom is India's trade body and chamber of commerce... [06 Aug 2008]
Motorola, Panasonic welcome LiMo Platform
News Seven new mobile phones have passed the LiMo Foundation's certification process, and the group has a few new members to welcome aboard. The new phones, from Motorola, NEC and Panasonic, are the latest to ship with Release 1 of the LiMo Platform, a... [04 Aug 2008]
Global BPO market to hit $450bn by 2012
News The emerging economies of Asia and Latin America will ride the crest of this wave, housing support functions such as finance and accounting services, and benefiting from the relocation of existing shared services centres. [16 Jun 2008]
SMS snitch pilot targets knife crime in schools
News A wave of knife crime violence has claimed the lives of scores of teenagers in London this year, which is why the pilot is focused on gaining information about youths with knives, said Crimestoppers. A plan to use SMS to combat youth knife crime is... [03 Jun 2008]
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin to retire
News In the absence of a generalised growth wave, Vodafone's performance has still been solid but less than exciting. Mobile operator Vodafone has announced its CEO Arun Sarin is to retire. Sarin will relinquish the reins after five years in the top job... [27 May 2008]
Google Android - winning apps are location-based
News In accordance with the recent interest around location-based services, a wave of such applications made it through to the first round of judging for Google's new mobile platform, in the Android Developer Challenge. [20 May 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News Thakur noted that third-party applications rather than operating-system vulnerabilities were being targeted but that "only time will allow the method employed in this wave of attacks to be confirmed". [07 May 2008]
Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010
News He claimed the "unprecedented new wave of broadband traffic" would increase fiftyfold by 2015 and that AT&T was investing $19bn to maintain its network and upgrade its backbone network. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in... [21 Apr 2008]
BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage
News BBC tech chief, Ashley Highfield, has hit back at ISPs who want online organisations to pay extra for distributing bandwidth-draining video and multimedia content. In a posting on the BBC blog Highfield, the corporation's director of future media... [04 Apr 2008]
Lloyds TSB beefs up project management
News The toolkit, called PAT from Ninth Wave, allows project managers to plan and execute the various stages of the project, from initial ideas, to formulating a business case, to completion and using work-flow parameters. [04 Apr 2008]
Taxpayer stung by £2.25m HMRC apology
News Both Conservative and Liberal Democrats MPs attacked the huge spend and said if any of the letters had gone missing it could have triggered a second wave of data loss. The seven figure bill provoked outrage from the Taxpayer's Alliance who attacked... [17 Jan 2008]
O2 Tube trial takes mobile payments underground
News Visa has already launched a contactless payment system known as payWave which is available in some areas of London and enables customers to wave a credit or debit card in front of a reader to pay for low value goods without needing to enter a PIN. [28 Nov 2007]
BT profits take a tumble
News The company's "new-wave revenue" from IT services and broadband was, however, up 10 per cent on the same quarter last year at £1.9bn, now representing 62 per cent of BT's major corporate revenue. BT's latest results show the company's first profit... [09 Nov 2007]
