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Why the key to saving big bucks is right under your nose
News Businesses that want to use green IT to save big bucks need to look beyond the server room and start getting creative with their business software. Companies should stop thinking that green IT ends with ramping up server utilisation or... [12 Nov 2009]
HP goes after networking with $2.7bn 3Com buy
News HP has announced plans to acquire networking products maker 3Com for $2.7bn. With the purchase, HP hopes to boost its networking business, particularly in the Chinese market where 3Com is strong, in order to compete better with Cisco. [12 Nov 2009]
Tech grads finding it harder to land job in IT
News The number of IT graduates able to land a job in the industry has slumped, according to new research. A survey of 2008's IT grads around six months after they'd graduated found the number finding roles in IT-related fields has fallen... [12 Nov 2009]
Future-proof your outsourcing: Stay flexible
Comment Your outsourcing deals must be able to ramp up or down depending on your business needs at the time. William Benn explains how to do it. Having explored security and reliability in your IT outsourcing arrangements, today I turn the... [12 Nov 2009]
Photos: The happy robot sat-nav
Photo In the future drivers will regard their sat-navs as their friends, if robotics experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are to be believed. Engineers at the university are developing a robotic dashboard assistant that can... [11 Nov 2009]
Orange iPhone sells more than 30,000 on first day
News Apple's iPhone 3G and 3G S went on sale on the Orange network yesterday, ending two years of mobile monogamy for Apple with O2 in the UK. On the iPhone's first day on Orange, 30,000 of the devices were sold across the UK by 16:00(GMT). [11 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
News Research by Gartner earlier this year predicted one in five businesses will be using virtualisation by year's end - up from 12 per cent in 2008.silicon.com's CIO Agenda research also found many heads of IT are eyeing the... [11 Nov 2009]
UK web snooping plans: Full steam ahead
News The UK government has confirmed it intends to push ahead with plans to monitor the UK's communications. Under the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), the government wants communications service providers to store details of all... [11 Nov 2009]
Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. silicon.com's Bethan Jones put one to the test. You can write to... [11 Nov 2009]
Offshoring stymied by new VAT rules?
Comment Soon offshoring will no longer offer the considerable tax incentive it has to date. Lawyers Belinda Doshi and Nick Beecham explain how financial firms can protect their business. Banks, insurance companies and other financial services... [11 Nov 2009]
Mobiles, internet, email - which tech can't you live without?
News The latest silicon.com reader poll pitted four technologies against each other to find out which is the most addictive to the high-tech fraternity. A silicon.com poll earlier this year found more than... [10 Nov 2009]
'Don't just outsource the problem when you outsource IT'
News Local council IT departments' tendency to outsource problematic tech functions means their outsourcing projects are rarely successful, according to a new report. The report, from consultants Deloitte, reveals that local councils need to... [10 Nov 2009]
Oracle-Sun deal draws official objections from EC
News The European Commission has formally objected to Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing from Sun, the EC has filed a statement of objections, which says the combination of Sun's open... [10 Nov 2009]
Tweets to turn up on LinkedIn thanks to status-sharing deal
News Screenshot: Bethan Jones/silicon.com) Join silicon.com's LinkedIn group here, and for all the latest news and comment follow silicon.com on Twitter. Microblogging phenomenon Twitter and... [10 Nov 2009]
Photos: Firefox through the ages
Photo Mozilla is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Firefox 1.0, released 9 November, 2004. The project began as a fresh start intended to be leaner and faster. While the official Mozilla effort still was working on the unified browser and... [10 Nov 2009]
