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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Yes, Autonomy and ARM continue to fight the good fight, along with a host of other high-tech start-ups, but when will the UK produce a regular, bonafide mega-tech behemoth? Where to start? Question: What... [06 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment Yet Indian outsourcers should start viewing M&A as a distinctive competency and put in place appropriate processes to integrate buys and build their value quickly, Krishnakumar said. Indian outsourcers certainly have the... [06 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News Jeff Roberts, director of information technology at Norton Rose, said that even if a UK start-up came up with the idea, US investors are still very powerful: "It could well... [03 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine?
Comment I start each day by working from home for a couple of hours before making my way into the office. For my Toshiba, I could probably open further browser tabs, iTunes and a photo editing suite before it started to groan,... [02 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News So where to start? It's no surprise that for some companies green initiatives are dropping down the list of IT priorities. In a recent silicon.com survey, more than a quarter of respondents admitted green IT was off the... [29 Oct 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Google is a company whose products usually start by capturing the imagination of consumers and then business gets interested but we have already had an enormous amount of interest [from companies]," Rasmussen told the... [28 Oct 2009]
Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News With just over 1,000 days to go until the start of the 2012 London Olympics, the team in charge of the Games' tech is poised for the real work to get underway. You cannot be too relaxed because there are steps to meet... [27 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.10.09
Round-Up Partly because it took an age to get through the automated customer service systems to a real person ("press 1 to be ignored, press 2 to be put in a queue until you hang-up from boredom…') and partly because the high... [23 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Windows 7
Cheat Sheet Microsoft says things like speeding up the start-up and shut-down time (although tests by one company claim that Vista is often quicker to boot than its successor). Windows 7 may not be... [20 Oct 2009]
ID cards: 10,000 Brits want to sign up
News Thousands of UK citizens have registered their interest in getting their very own ID card. According to the Home Office, to date 10,000 people have asked for further information on applying for a card through the DirectGov site. [19 Oct 2009]
Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment They are more plentiful among self-employed professionals, portfolio workers, freelance entrepreneurs, forward-thinking start-ups, self-organising online communities and skilled people overseas with valuable new... [13 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo Google, for example, cooked up its Android mobile OS platform to be open from the start. Smartphones have come a long way in the last few years. Not so long ago, a smartphone all too often meant a... [12 Oct 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Companies should also ask other firms what's on their watch list and why, and start working on strategies for highly complex and high-impact technologies now. Companies should create their own "technology watch lists" so... [12 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News Responsibility for running the chain's tech recently passed to former CSC exec Rob Fraser, who took over as Sainsbury's IT director from Angela Morrison at the start of September. Technology has helped Sainsbury's keep... [09 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile As well as co-founding Skype - and selling it on yet keeping hold of the P2P technology which underpins the service - Zennström has a raft of other start-ups to his name. Niklas Zennström is best known as co-founder of... [08 Oct 2009]
