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Google lays out mobile future

News The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile applications for some time and unveiled its own mobile operating system, Android, last year. Google Mobile group product manager, Hugo Barra, added a great user interface - like Apple's iPhone...

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

German Bank Solves IT Problems Quickly With Expert Dedicated Support

whitepaper By the end of the 1990s, Volkswagen Bank (VW Bank) had an online banking system using Microsoft technology. When the solution no longer met the increased demands for scalability and availability, the bank decided to construct an Internet basic...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

Childnet helps parents get web savvy

Case Study Internet awareness charity Childnet International has produced an interactive learning resource for parents who want to know more about the internet, so that they can guide their children through it safely.

Tags: parents, children, education

[08 May 2008]

Microsoft making a move on Facebook?

News The aim of that proposal was to build an online advertising powerhouse to rival Google. Facebook, founded in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, has become one of the hottest properties on the internet because of its rapid growth and the...

Tags: facebook, yahoo, microsoft

[08 May 2008]

Select a Learning Management System

whitepaper Because employees can access online training from virtually any location with an Internet connection, an LMS can significantly reduce expenses associated with classroom-style training. Many organizations are migrating to online Learning Management...

Tags: word processing

[06 May 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo Here, an exhibition of electronic art at the Science Museum in London attempts to digitally interpret the sights and sounds of 100,000 people chatting online. Australian ISP Telstra is installing a 9,000km undersea internet cable running between...

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Mobile market ripe for femtocell loving

News This is due to three main factors: global growth in the number of mobile subscribers - predicted to hit 4.4 billion in three years' time; the proliferation of broadband - itself driven by the popularity of apps such as social networking, online...

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, femtocell

[23 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned

News stuck to its forecast for sluggish 2008 revenue growth of between three and 15 per cent in the face of weaker online-advertising demand in sectors such as finance, retail and travel. Excluding one-time items and stock compensation costs, the...

Tags: profit, microsoft, yahoo

[23 Apr 2008]

UK online spend up 50 per cent this year

News UK consumers spent £13bn online in the first three months of this year, the equivalent to £213 for every person in the country. A whopping £850m was spent online in the week of the Easter holidays alone.

Tags: consumer electronics, alcohol, online retail

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News He said: "The surge in online content is at the centre of the most dramatic changes affecting the internet today. The BBC has come under fire from service providers, such as Tiscali, which claim that its iPlayer online-TV service is becoming a...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Google reports sterling quarter

News Internet leader Google said yesterday it saw no impact from a weakening US economy as it posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit and waved off fears of an online advertising slump. Google, one of the hottest technology stocks of 2007, had...

Tags: profits, google

[18 Apr 2008]

FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

Comment The cyber crime department's main priority is tackling child pornography but it also combats online fraud, such as phishing, and property rights investigations. The growth of international cyber crime and terrorism over the past five years has...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?

Comment Now the internet is a primary tool for accessing services and buying goods, will the new Banking Code put consumers off the internet and dampen the growth of online trading? Because most internet crime cases involve misuse of bank accounts and bank...

Tags: online banking, fraud, e-crime

[15 Apr 2008]

PayPal wages war on phishing

News As one of largest secure online payment providers, Barrett said PayPal needs to step up efforts to stamp out the phishing problem - not just to protect customers but also the internet as a whole. Barrett said: "The internet is a global medium and...

Tags: certification, education, isps, paypal

[11 Apr 2008]

Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News Ertugrul said: "We're delighted to have a dialogue with FIPR but it has to be in the context of how today's online world actually works and how to improve it for the future. Phorm - whose Webwise and Open Internet Exchange (OIX) technologies were...

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

BBC iPlayer comes to the Wii

News The BBC has announced its iPlayer online TV catch-up service is being made available for the Nintendo Wii. Wii owners will be able to stream the last seven days of BBC shows on their TVs through the internet channel on the Wii main menu.

Tags: tv, nintendo, iplayer

[10 Apr 2008]

Computer Security White Paper - How Safe is it Out There

whitepaper So you want to go on the Internet, you want to do business on the web, and online financial transactions with your bank. You want to go online! Past the metaphor, what is not obvious to all the business people going online is how secure they are...

Tags: security management, shares, equipment, transactions

[10 Apr 2008]

What You Need to Implement a Customer Care Solution

whitepaper This paper shows how company can keep pace with fast-evolving customer demands-and increase employee productivity-by deploying an online customer care solution over the Internet and internal network. In today’s service-driven and technology...

Tags: customer support services, economy, learn, demands

[10 Apr 2008]

Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. Uses MySQL to Power Self-Service Intranet

whitepaper By using MySQL on a Sun E450, the SST intranet team was able to create a core system that has a homepage for each department, a profile for each employee, and easy methods for uploading files and creating online forms.

Tags: database management, markets, memory, intranet

[10 Apr 2008]

Establishing a Robust Security Posture With Managed Protection Services

whitepaper However, many organizations do not have the manpower, budget and expertise to appropriately manage, monitor and protect their critical data and online operations on a 24/7 basis. In today's digital economy, businesses are susceptible to an ever...

Tags: security management, expertise, plan, investment

[10 Apr 2008]

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