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The Weekly Round-Up: 23.10.09
Round-Up Research by Top 10 Broadband claimed broadband speed is a more important factor in choosing where to live than the proximity to a local pub. We British love our broadband. We're compelled to hug it, to adore it, to... [23 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.10.09
Round-Up Which makes going online sound like a great night down the pub - except without the hangover, emptied wallet and poorly chosen take-away meal afterwards. How often have you had the following conversations with your... [09 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.10.09
Round-Up Each day, millions of us use mobiles as alarm clocks to get us up in time for work; to book and remember meetings; to distract us from the meetings with social networking applications to arrange a night down the pub; and... [02 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.08.09
Round-Up Isn't Twitter just like transposing a pub conversation onto an online channel - only with the added advantage that the pub bore has to keep himself down to 140 characters. After all, if you did a similar... [14 Aug 2009]
The A to Z of wireless
News From using your mobile phone on a plane to surfing the net while you down a pint in the pub, wireless is revolutionising the way we do business. But it's no longer just a question of untethering your PC from its... [11 Aug 2009]
Naked CIO: We need an offshoring tax
Comment I want to take part in moving the offshoring issue beyond the usual pub debate and into a progressive discussion to assess how we can create work and opportunity for British technology professionals, stimulate local... [20 Jul 2009]
Ben Wishart
CIO Profile Ben Wishart is approaching the end of his fifth year at Whitbread plc, owner of Premier Inn Hotels, Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table pub restaurants and Costa Coffee. Initially responsible for creating a shared... [01 Jun 2009]
Photos: The watches with tech appeal
Photo The Bluetooth also acts as an alarm - if the phone goes out of connectivity range - left on a pub table or removed from an unwary pocket - the watch will alert the wearer to its disappearance by vibrating. [01 May 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.04.09
Round-Up The pub, which is now expected to open by the end of the month, will also be open for lunch but alcohol will not be served. Others think it's just a load of people wasting time online in lieu of going down the... [17 Apr 2009]
Microsoft pub will be pulling pints after all
News Microsoft on Friday cited the sensitive business environment as reason for cancelling plans for the pub, which was planned as part of a collection of restaurants and stores that were due to open this week at the... [16 Apr 2009]
Google's Street View gives UK its close up
News Fancyapint founder Gordon Butler said in the statement that imagery had always been a key factor in the online pub guide because it helps users find their destination, and Street View took this idea to a "whole new level". [20 Mar 2009]
Early Profile Pruning on XML-Aware Publish-Subscribe Systems
White Paper With the increasing use of XML as the standard format on many Internet-based applications, XML aware pub-sub applications become necessary. Publish-subscribe applications are an important class of content-based... [03 Jan 2009]
Cineworld goes green with virtualisation
Case Study A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side weird uses for an iPod hard drive disasters UK cinema chain Cineworld has relaunched its website, saving money and reducing power consumption in the process. [15 Dec 2008]
Value-Aware RoXSum: Effective Message Aggregation for XML-Aware Information Dissemination
White Paper Publish/subscribe (or pub/sub) systems perform asynchronous message transmission, from publishers to subscribers, without any of the parties having knowledge of the other. The pub/sub infrastructure... [24 Nov 2008]
Fujitsu Case Study: Mitchells & Butlers
White Paper Mitchells & Butlers is the UK's leading managed pub and pub restaurant operator. With such a diverse portfolio of establishments, maintaining a high level of availability across its retail systems is... [08 Nov 2008]
