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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.07.08
Round-Up That's Gibraltar Point in Skegness - a 1,600 mile detour. The point, Veghte said, is that businesses want to see Microsoft standing behind its product. The first fruits of the company's $300m marketing spurge were visible this week with the launch... [25 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Why we write about the iPhone
Comment And I'd argue that simply to focus on the hardware itself, no matter how shiny or well designed it is, misses the point. Or am I missing the point - what does it do that a high-end Nokia doesn't already do? [17 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News However, some questioned the point of venerating the past of an industry that reinvents itself so regularly. IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing heritage following the mothballing of the Museum of... [15 Jul 2008]
Novel Segmented Cascade Electroabsorption Modulator With Improved Bandwidth-Extinction Product
White Paper While the first solution may be practical (up to a point! A large digital extinction ratio can be achieved either by swinging a large voltage, biasing at a more negative voltage, or using a longer modulator. [11 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone - the business perspective
News Business customers will only be able to buy two devices each (consumers are rationed to one) - so mass corporate rollouts are not really much of an option at this point. As it stands, the iPhone's enterprise reach can only go so far at this point. [10 Jul 2008]
A Load Balancing Technique for Some Coarse-Grained Multicomputer Algorithms
White Paper This method can be applied on different dynamic programming problems such as: Longest Increasing Subsequence, Longest Common Subsequence, Longest Repeated Suffix Ending at each point in a word and Detection of Repetitions. [10 Jul 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News The MoD says the range of improvements delivered by the DII include enhancement of existing MoD systems, delivery of two systems to forces in Afghanistan at short notice, a "single point of contact" help desk and enabling benefits totalling £972m... [04 Jul 2008]
Forrester Research Report: Thirty-One Best Practices for the Service Desk
White Paper This startling revelation might lead some to point at courtesy of staff as the issue. According to a study conducted by Forrester Research, only 53 percent of surveyed IT users reported being satisfied with their help desk support. [03 Jul 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News He said: "The virtual-machine model allows you to maintain a managed end point, using existing management infrastructure on a device that you don't know or care about. The ability of virtualisation technology to free software from the underlying... [30 Jun 2008]
Conflict Resolution and the Project Manager
White Paper At some point in your career, you will be called upon to resolve some type of conflict. At times this will be fairly easy, but on many occasions the resolution of the conflict will be challenging. Some conflicts stem from forces and events that are... [30 Jun 2008]
Offshoring: India still number one
News From that point of view,] other competing cities such as Beijing and Shanghai have an inherently stronger starting position," she added. Jenna Griffin, senior research analyst for global delivery services research at IDC Asia-Pacific, told silicon... [27 Jun 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News Some of these communications are not copied to the required single point of contact (Spoc), which leads to the Spoc being unaware when the first set of discs are sent out. An EDS employee burns the files, containing the full records of all child... [26 Jun 2008]
In his own words: Bill Gates' best quotes
News But there came a point when we realised it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognised in our strategy. As the world's most famous tech boss, Bill Gates has been quoted more times than you can shake a stick at... [26 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up These findings point to a significant vulnerability in British corporate security. You may not get an expensive luke-warm cup of coffee-flavoured milk foam and jazz-lite soundtrack of your favourite coffee shop in the loo but it does at least... [20 Jun 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study We were getting to the point where the computer room was filling up and things like our UPS, our generator, our air conditioning were all requiring some fairly serious maintenance as well," Carter said. [20 Jun 2008]
