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RSS playedWindows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
News However, it's likely the global recession as well as the respective timing of the releases of the two OSes - January, when Vista was launched, is traditionally a higher volume month for PC shipments than October, when Windows 7 was... [06 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Receiving their medals in the hall where 60 years earlier they had played table tennis during their break times, the veteran's expressions were a mix of smiles and solemn pride. The first Colossus machine was completed... [05 Nov 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News The UK has played a vital role in the development of the software industry over its 40-year history, having had an early hand in many of today's most popular applications - from databases and email to computer games and... [23 Oct 2009]
Integrate facilities and IT. Realize the value of the green data center
White Paper The paper provides an overview of green data centers and the significant role played by direct and indirect power consumption in today's data centers, as well as technology aspects of green data center management. [20 Oct 2009]
Online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News The introduction of chip and PIN in UK stores has played an important role in this reduction, with over-the-counter losses down by 26 per cent year-on-year. Online banking fraud jumped by 55 per cent during the first six... [07 Oct 2009]
New Communication Behaviours in a Web 2.0 World - Changes, Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of the Information Revolution
White Paper However, associated technological advances, such as email, messaging, rich internet applications, content generation application, mash-ups and enterprise applications, have also played a major role. Social communication... [02 Oct 2009]
Leading Online Game Operators Trust VASCO Solutions and Expertise to Secure Users' Accounts
White Paper The application must not compromise the users' mobility or require extra software to be installed on user's PC as online games are played at home, in internet cafés and public places. The challenge was to implement a... [30 Sep 2009]
Richard Stallman
AS Profile Stallman also played an important role in the creation of the Free Software Foundation that runs the annual Software Freedom Day as part of its efforts to raise awareness. Open software guru, Richard Stallman, is an... [29 Sep 2009]
Photos: Installing Apple's latest Mac OS X
Photo Once the OS X desktop is back up and the "Welcome" video has played, this thank you dialog is shown. Two weeks after the release and one update to 10.6.1 later, silicon.com sister site ZD Australia decided to upgrade... [16 Sep 2009]
Bletchley Park's Alan Turing gets official apology
News Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer whose work played an essential role in the efforts of codebreaking-centre Bletchley Park during WWII, received a posthumous apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown last... [14 Sep 2009]
Google presses play on video ads
News Perhaps the most notable was the recent addition of video ads directly below text ads on the top or right-hand side of the search results page, which can be played directly on that page. Google sought to remind financial... [10 Sep 2009]
Apple's unspectacular launch: It's just a sign of maturity
News He acknowledged that digital music also played a part in doing away with traditional album covers. There was little that was breathtaking about Apple's music-focused announcements on Wednesday but what was clear is that... [10 Sep 2009]
Photos: Steve Jobs takes the stage as iPods, iTunes and iPhone revamped
Photo At its music-oriented press conference Wednesday morning in San Francisco, Apple played up iTunes 9, iPod price cuts, games for the Touch, a video camera for the Nano and much more. But nothing excited the crowd like the... [10 Sep 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo Electromechanical machines such as Bombe and Colossus played a key role in cracking the codes, automating much of the laborious mathematics needed to decipher the messages. During the Second World War these women... [07 Sep 2009]
The Environmental Product Lifecycle: Environmentally Conscious Product End of Life
White Paper HP has long played a leading role in eco-aware product end-of-life issues; and with its Asset Recovery management program, it provides a solid infrastructure to assist its customers in extending the life of their IT... [02 Sep 2009]
