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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Question: What do Britain's hairdressers and IT technicians have in common? Answer: A shared love of getting a bit on the side. No, not that kind of 'bit on the side'. Well, maybe they do, but it's not what the Round-Up had in mind. [06 Nov 2009]
Join the silicon.com LinkedIn networking group
News silicon.com has launched a networking group on LinkedIn to help readers connect with each other and keep up to date with silicon.com's top stories. The group is open to all silicon.com readers, from CIOs and IT directors to other... [06 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Up to two-thirds of the staff at Bletchley Park were young women and Osborne was one of up to 400 other Wrens at Woburn Abbey, home to the Duke of Bedford, but her accommodation was less grand than might be expected. [05 Nov 2009]
Europe: Brace yourself for a telecoms overhaul
News The European Parliament and Council of Telecoms Ministers have reached a compromise over the rights of internet users continent-wide, setting Europe on course for a major overhaul of telecoms regulations. [05 Nov 2009]
Covert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government
News Local authorities must cut down on using covert-surveillance techniques to investigate petty offences, the government has said. Ripa (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) granted public authorities the power to use surveillance to... [05 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News The company's CIO Paul Cheesbrough knows all about the challenges of moving to the cloud, after recently migrating 2,000 staff from Microsoft Outlook and Exchange to Google Apps Premier Edition and Google's email... [04 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 fastest rate in two... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Inside a Microsoft datacentre
Photo Although the datacentre is massive, it is managed with a staff of 30 to 45, including custodial and security workers. Microsoft recently opened its Chicago datacentre. In its first phase, the ground floor of the facility... [04 Nov 2009]
Phishers set their sights on corporate accounts
News Fraudsters have attempted to steal an estimated $100m from corporate bank accounts using malware and money mules, the FBI said yesterday. The FBI is seeing several new victim complaints and cases every week, according to an Internet... [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News Development costs are too high and staff retention is very difficult," he said. The UK will never create a software giant to rival the likes of Microsoft, Google or Oracle. That's the sobering conclusion of the... [03 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The two-way Tetra comms system has an important role to play during the London 2012 Olympics - with two Airwave networks being deployed, one for the emergency services to use, and a separate network for Games staff. [03 Nov 2009]
'Incompetent': The verdict on gov't prisoner database
News Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has branded the implementation of the National Offender Management Information System (C-Nomis) a failure. Chair of the PAC, Edward Leigh, said of the programme that was... [03 Nov 2009]
'You're responsible for your own wi-fi security' say ISPs
News Customers are responsible for their own wi-fi security, according to hotspot operators. BT Openzone, The Cloud and T-Mobile all recommended wi-fi users adopt VPNs to help protect themselves while using hotspots. [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo At the recent TechEd conference in Vienna, ERP software specialist SAP showed an application called Gravity it has designed for Google Wave that allows staff to draw flow charts to model business processes, as seen here. [02 Nov 2009]
Microsoft to Office Accounting: Your number's up
News Microsoft announced on Friday it is to kill off its Office Accounting product line. Microsoft's Redmond campus. The software giant has called time on accounting software Photo credit: Microsoft) The Redmond giant said it will stop... [02 Nov 2009]