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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom

Comment Between 10 and 20 years ago designers and architects made assumptions about the use of office space and people's working practices. Those estimates were translated into energy densities in the design of air conditioning and the square metre space...

Tags: data centres, green, energy, power

[16 May 2008]

Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power

News The US space agency's Pleiades programme aims to give peak performance of 1,000 trillion operations per second - or one petaflop - by 2009. Exclusive Special Report: CIO Agenda 2008 Nasa is upgrading its supercomputer to cater for an expected surge...

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

[09 May 2008]

Galileo phones home

News Galileo is a joint project between the EU and European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a comprehensive European sat-nav system, which will eventually replace the US military GPS network. It was carried into space by the Soyuz-Fregat rocket which...

Tags: gps, signal, europe, sat nav

[09 May 2008]

Google execs defend a Yahoo! ad tie-in

News It's incorrect to assert there's lock-in or opportunity for dominance in the ad space. Exclusive Special Report: CIO Agenda 2008 Google's top executives have given a glimpse into how it might try to deflect antitrust concerns of a possible ad...

Tags: ad, yahoo, google

[09 May 2008]

Leader: Who's setting tech's agenda this year?

Leader Looking down the 50 names, in this brief space it is worth highlighting a few key trends and the individuals who often personify them. Click here to view the 2007 Agenda Setters special report, including the full top 50 list, along with exclusive...

Tags: social networking, facebook, agenda setters

[15 Oct 2007]

Photos of the month - July 2007

Photo Pictured above is Sun's 'Blackbox' data centre which is built in a shipping container so it can be used in remote locations or where space is at a premium. For more visit silicon.com's virtual worlds special report.

Tags: green it, data centres, mash-ups, second life

[27 Jul 2007]

Photos: Bangalore's Electronics City

Photo This space-age vision is one of the new buildings on the giant Infosys campus. For more news from India visit the special report. silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore to investigate the Indian technology industry.

Tags: india

[27 Mar 2007]

Cisco embraces 'videoconferencing as a service'

News The networking company also announced Regus, which rents out managed office space, became the latest customer for its TelePresence videoconferencing offering. Find out in our special report. Cisco may have just clinched a big name customer and an...

Tags: videoconferencing, cisco

[20 Mar 2007]

India diary, day 11: I heart Bangalore

Comment It's not that there is so much more traffic than you get in central London - it's just that where in London you would have two lanes of traffic going in one direction, here there are at least three lanes in the same space, with overloaded two...

Tags: india

[14 Mar 2007]

India diary, day 1: Cyberbad on Sunday

Comment Still, the domestic terminal is so new I could still smell the paint, gleaming and futuristic like a space port. Special Report: Inside India Sunday 4 February - Hyderabad The cab driver leans hard on the horn as we race past a motorbike upon which...

Tags: bpo

[04 Mar 2007]

The SME hype cycle

Comment The problem is that none of this works very well in the SME space. Meanwhile, the rest of us look on thinking 'here we go again', knowing that it will all blow over as most of the pretenders discover that working the small and medium-sized...

Tags: sme procurement

[25 Jul 2006]

Microsoft reels in VPN specialist

News Analyst company Gartner rates Whale as "visionary" in the SSL VPN space because it has gone further than other vendors in developing special optimisations for applications, including Microsoft's SharePoint and Outlook Web Access, as well as IBM's...

Tags: whale, vpn, microsoft

[19 May 2006]

Leader: Now we are seven

Leader: Now we are seven

Leader Newspapers will see a jostling for space tomorrow morning among several top stories - on events such as London winning the race to host the 2012 Olympiad (and for that we did indeed have a tech angle today), the G8 summit at Gleneagles and the...

Tags: silicon

[06 Jul 2005]

Collaboration: The supply chain reaction

Collaboration: The supply chain reaction

Comment Anthony Plewes looks at the promise and challenges of this space. Read more stories on collaboration in silicon.com's special report. Along with requiring tools for internal communication, businesses need solutions for working with partners outside...

Tags: supply chain, collaboration

[25 Jun 2004]

Microsoft still a collaboration lightweight

Microsoft still a collaboration lightweight

Comment Will Microsoft manage to muscle into the collaboration space like it has so many markets? But of late, it's been trying to make inroads into the wider collaboration space with new technologies designed to push messaging, conferencing and portals...

Tags: collaboration, sharepoint, office, microsoft

[21 Jun 2004]

Leader: Collaboration - do it right or not at all

Leader: Collaboration - do it right or not at all

Leader In the coming weeks we'll explore further aspects of this topic, including Microsoft's play in the space, working with partners 'outside the firewall' and the development of instant messaging for the enterprise.

Tags: email, collaboration technology, microsoft

[17 Jun 2004]

Pie in the sky?

Comment As mentioned above, delivering bytes from space would seem to have its advantages. That's what many of you said in reaction to silicon.com's Broadband special report last autumn (www.silicon.com/broadband).

[05 Jul 2001]

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