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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.11.09
Round-Up Last week The Round-Up (Silicon Towers' reigning 100 yard dash and conkers champion) harangued you all for being couch potatoes. We've all made embarrassing mobile phone blunders as part of our busy modern lives. [27 Nov 2009]
Photos: When hackers get together to do the world a favour
Photo The Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California, is a community of hackers who have come together to work on projects, collaborate, and share expertise in technology and entrepreneurship. The Dojo, which opened in July, offers classes and a... [27 Nov 2009]
Zurich inks $2.9bn outsourcing megadeal with CSC
News Zurich Financial Services has announced an outsourcing megadeal. The company said yesterday is has signed a 10 and a half year deal with CSC to supply datacentre and IT services. Virtualisation will be the key plank of the deal, with CSC... [27 Nov 2009]
eBay apps lets users bid from a BlackBerry
News eBay has released an app for BlackBerry. The application, co-developed by the auction site and RIM, lets users search, track and buy items using their smartphone. The app is available in the US and Canada, and can be downloaded from... [27 Nov 2009]
Bangalore blooming into innovation hothouse
Comment The swing to greater research happened a couple of years ago when Cisco set up its globalisation centre in Bangalore, making the city virtually its second headquarters outside its base in Silicon Valley. [27 Nov 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: Canon Pixma MP560
Photo Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy of silicon.com's sister site CNET.co.uk, the home of technology reviews. Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? [27 Nov 2009]
How IP geolocation can improve your website experience and marketing activity
White Paper With geolocation technology, you can know a web user's real world whereabouts. This report examines the benefits from the fictional retailer's point of view. Things-4-You- a thriving online business, which had a poor record in converting... [26 Nov 2009]
Going Global With Geolocation.
White Paper This white paper, sponsored by Quova, Inc.a leading provider of IP geolocation data and services, illustrates how companies are using geolocation to greatly improve the user experience across languages and borders - resulting in... [26 Nov 2009]
Minority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
Comment Apple's Mac Mini could really have become the "most important Mac", as Steve Jobs once called it. Seb Janacek explains what happened instead. As a Mac user it's not often I gaze admiringly at the product pages on Dell's website but this... [26 Nov 2009]
Photos: The new gadgets and tech services up Orange's sleeve
Photo At Orange's biannual La Collection event in Paris, the mobile operator gives a sneak peek at the technology set for future release.silicon.com went along to the 10th La Collection event last week to take a look at the... [26 Nov 2009]
ID card database: 500 names added in first month
News The National Identity Register - the database behind the ID card scheme - contains more than 500 names after a month of operation. The database went live on 20 October, and the identity commissioner Sir Joseph Pilling said it contains... [26 Nov 2009]
Women in IT: Tech has an image problem
News The lack of women in IT is bad news for the industry and while the tech world doesn't discriminate against them, it does have an image problem that is off-putting to females, according to silicon.com's exclusive 2009... [26 Nov 2009]
Tesco Mobile to get a taste of Apple's iPhone
News Tesco Mobile has announced today it will stock Apple's iPhone 3G and 3GS. Apple ended its two-year UK exclusive deal with O2 this month by launching the iPhone on the Orange network. Vodafone also announced an agreement with Apple in... [25 Nov 2009]
Beware the turf wars when merging comms
News Enterprise take-up of unified communications - the merging of IP telephony, conferencing and collaboration, messaging and communications tools - is on a "steeply rising curve", according to analysts. Spending on UC among businesses... [25 Nov 2009]
Spam threat to email marketing
News Marketing emails are at risk of being blocked as spam because businesses are not correctly managing the email communications they send out, a survey has found. More than half of the 157 marketing managers surveyed by the DMA Email... [25 Nov 2009]
