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Windows 7 on track, says Microsoft
News Veghte showed the Mojave Project, in which users predisposed against Vista reacted favourably when shown Vista when it was presented under the guise of being a new version of Windows, code-named Mojave. [25 Jul 2008]
First students graduate from IT 'business' degree
News The BSc ITMB degree, which was designed by universities and employers in the IT industry with the support of IT sector skills body e-skills UK, focuses on areas such as project management and how to go about designing, developing and implementing... [24 Jul 2008]
Microsoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News The Mojave project is likely to be just one of many efforts designed to resuscitate Vista's image among stepped-up competition from Apple and Google. Microsoft got together a sample of Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista and... [24 Jul 2008]
Greek island gets wireless mesh network
News Mesh networking is an integral part of Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project, with each $100 laptop acting as a wireless node to form a mobile ad hoc network (or Manet). But today it plays host to Negroponte who owns a holiday home on it and... [24 Jul 2008]
Charity Commission saves a bundle with online returns
News It outsourced the project to online specialist Parity to provide a portal that would allow charities to file returns securely online and distribute information to them, based on data in each return. The Commission, which acts as a regulator and... [24 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The study found the market is led by MySQL - bought by Sun in February for $1bn, more than the total size of the market - with other popular choices including Ingres, Oracle-owned BerkeleyDB, PostgreSQL, which forms the basis for commercial... [24 Jul 2008]
eBook: Exploring IBM SOA Technology & Practice
White Paper Intended for readers who are already familiar with service oriented architecture (SOA), it is appropriate for a wide range of people involved with adopting SOA within an organization: IT executives, business analysts, project managers, architects... [24 Jul 2008]
An Introduction to JMXRemote
White Paper This paper introduces the features of JMXRemote project with samples and implementation details. The Java Management Extensions (JMX) API has been added into J2SE 1.5 as a standard Java API. The package javax.management.remote makes it possible to... [23 Jul 2008]
Health trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News A health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it has pulled out of the national NHS IT electronic care record programme because it has lost confidence in the project following the departure of key supplier Fujitsu. [22 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch turns techies to second jobs
News One techie feeling the pinch is Kirpal Sachdev, a Prince2 project manager who has taken on extra work through PeoplePerHour.com Sachdev said he has taken on "quite a few projects" over the past few months - including, most recently, an ecommerce... [22 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo This sewer is a masterpiece of Victorian engineering - part of a giant project aimed at reducing the foul smells in the city and reducing the incidence of cholera - as reflected by this plaque. silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London... [22 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Testing times…
Comment More than three and a half years into this project, I'm getting impatient for the games to begin. The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader? The team has worked at a very high level over the past few months. [21 Jul 2008]
Document Locator Improves Project Collaboration at James G. Davis Construction Corporation
White Paper Of late, DAVIS found itself looking for a way to improve the management of project-related content for its larger projects, those involving more than just a few people. Their old system of using a combination of Windows folders, Outlook .pst files... [18 Jul 2008]
Document Locator Helps BMA Improve Collaboration, Manage Project Files
White Paper Also, the nature of the business means that sometimes new team members are brought in midway through a project, or team members are changed. Document Locator has made sharing and finding project information easier and less time-consuming. [18 Jul 2008]
The EuQoS System: A Solution for QoS Routing in Heterogeneous Networks
White Paper EuQoS is the acronym of "End-to-end Quality of Service support over heterogeneous networks", which is an IST research project aimed at building a complete QoS framework, addressing all the relevant network layers, protocols, and technologies. [18 Jul 2008]
