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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up A recent report from analyst firm TechMarketView found that the UK software industry is in fine fettle, although much more needs to be done to support the growth of small tech firms. The report said... [06 Nov 2009]
Techies and hairdressers united in the moonlight
News A report by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation and KPMG published today shows a third consecutive month of growth in both permanent and temporary jobs during October - with permanent placements rising at their... [04 Nov 2009]
Phishers set their sights on corporate accounts
News The FBI is seeing several new victim complaints and cases every week, according to an Internet Crime Complaint Center report. Fraudsters have attempted to steal an estimated $100m from corporate bank accounts using... [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News According to the TechMarketView report, there are around 40,000 UK nationals now working in the US software industry, and Alastair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash, suggested that given the global nature of big business, UK... [03 Nov 2009]
Magic Mouse - Apple's best ever?
Comment The Apple mouse has long been the weak link in its hardware set-ups. Seb Janacek asks: Can the new Magic Mouse change all that? I have a dream… a dream that Apple finally gets around to creating a really great mouse. [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo Lisa mouse Apple's Lisa of the early 1980s was among the first computers to sport a mouse - albeit a boxy and clunky one. The mouse paradigm was one of the key human-computer interface elements pillaged by Steve Jobs and Co from Xerox Parc. [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo In this case, the customer has opened the wave to report a problem. Earlier this year, Google launched a collaboration platform called Wave. Using the platform, individuals can access shared windows called 'waves' where... [30 Oct 2009]
Taxman to save £110m by taking an axe to its IT estate
News Last June the former chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Kieran Poynter criticised HMRC for the fragmented nature of its then 650 computer systems in his report into the department's loss of 25 million child benefit... [30 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment It's an issue the UK government has already started to address in part through its recent Digital Britain report. And that will keep the lawyers plenty busy, says Callum Sinclair. The internet, as the daddy of all... [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet In a recent report, the company predicted revenue associated with augmented reality will grow from a modest $6m in 2008 to more than $350m in 2014 - a hike of more than 5,700 per cent - largley due to to mobile apps and... [27 Oct 2009]
Augmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
News However, Joe Madden, author of ABI Research's report into augmented reality, warns that other technological advances are needed before augmented reality can fully enter the mainstream. Today's increasingly feature-packed... [26 Oct 2009]
Barclays CIO finds a new home with SAP
News He will report to Bob Stutz, corporate officer of SAP Group and its executive VP of industry solutions, and will be based in New York and SAP's headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. Don Trotta has left his role as CIO with... [22 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News Ovum's Blowers said: "Whilst [green IT is] possibly not a major driver now, it's still something that most organisations are aware of and have to report in the shareholders report about what they're... [22 Oct 2009]
Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis
White Paper Download the independent research report comparing the costs of email from Google and other providers. According to Forrester, "Google is setting a new price floor on email and archiving costs. Should Your Email Live In... [22 Oct 2009]
Going green: A guide for CIOs
Comment Most organisations report only high-level green metrics, such as overall or function-wide energy consumption. In good times and bad, green IT deserves a spot on the CIO agenda. Stuart Roberts explains how to get it right. [21 Oct 2009]
