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Offshoring stymied by new VAT rules?
Comment Nick Beecham is a tax partner and Belinda Doshi is a technology partner at law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP. Lawyers Belinda Doshi and Nick Beecham explain how financial firms can protect their... [11 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News Also popular last month was silicon.com reporter Nick Heath's interview with Acorn co-founder, Andy Hopper, and a look at the best sectors to work in IT from a pay-packet point of view. October's highlights on... [09 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Photo: Nick Heath/silicon.com) Photo: Nick Heath/silicon.com) But for three decades, those who worked on decrypting Nazi communications could tell no one what they had done. Such was the secrecy in which... [05 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News Businesses thinking of switching to cloud computing should expect a bumpy probation period, if the experience of The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is anything to go by. The company's CIO Paul Cheesbrough knows all about the challenges of... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo Since Google launched its Wave collaboration platform this year businesses have been testing how they can make use of the system. The Wave platform offers users a chance to chat and work together in real-time within a window in a web... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo Earlier this year, Google launched a collaboration platform called Wave. Using the platform, individuals can access shared windows called 'waves' where they can collaborate in real-time, swapping IMs, photos, videos, maps and documents... [30 Oct 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News It may have only been launched a few months ago but Google's Wave collaboration platform is already attracting attention from businesses, according to one of the key architects of the service. Lars Rasmussen, Google's software... [28 Oct 2009]
Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News With just over 1,000 days to go until the start of the 2012 London Olympics, the team in charge of the Games' tech is poised for the real work to get underway. After a year of limbering up, Atos Origin - the company leading the... [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News Following its sale by parent company Ford last year, car maker Jaguar Land Rover has had to face the thorny problem of cutting itself loose from Ford's web of business applications. JLR is spending £200m separating its IT operations from... [26 Oct 2009]
Photos: Windows 7 - the latest PCs from Acer to Samsung
Photo Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com The official release of Windows 7 last week has seen the debut of a slew of hardware sporting the OS. New touchscreen desktop panels and laptops designed to take advantage of Windows... [26 Oct 2009]
Vista jilted for Windows 7 midway through upgrades
News Some businesses that are partway through upgrading to Windows Vista are asking to swap the OS for Windows 7, according to Microsoft. Speaking at the London launch of Windows 7 today John Curran, the Microsoft exec who until recently... [22 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News With software spending down 16.5 per cent year-on-year, Windows 7's launch tomorrow will see it enter the market amid one of the toughest squeezes on IT budgets for some time. The outlook from analysts, however, is a positive one. [21 Oct 2009]
Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
News Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com) The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has paid tribute to the work done by the World War II codebreakers at Bletchley Park who cracked the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany's military. [13 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News Technology has helped Sainsbury's keep the tills ringing throughout the recession. The supermarket giant is busy revamping its tech, from fitting stores with self-scanning technology to replacing its warehouse and supply systems. [09 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge.silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, Acorn's early days and... [07 Oct 2009]
