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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Coming soon: cold-calling IT managers offering bespoke network virtualisation solutions and social media consultants on street corners holding up cardboard signs stating: "Will tweet for money. Answer: A shared love of... [06 Nov 2009]
Windows 7 to trump Snow Leopard?
Comment Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg, long an advocate of Apple products, compared Windows 7 favourably to Snow Leopard. Apple reported record fourth quarter results this week, despite the recession and multiple... [20 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: What is intelligence?
Comment Written in a coffee shop on the corner of 1st and 71st Street in New York on bright autumn day. Dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi node. For more than 20 years now I have worked on artificial life and... [08 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The firm scours the net searching for threats to its customers, which include a selection of Britain's high street banks. BT has set up a shop to promote the uses of the service where it is showing off this TV system... [02 Oct 2009]
BT's home fibre tests: Coming in London and Milton Keynes
News As well as rolling out FTTH, where fibre optic cable is laid all the way to a user's premises, BT is deploying fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC), where cabling only reaches to the street cabinet. BT has revealed more details... [02 Oct 2009]
Minority Report: Is Microsoft competing with imaginary Apple tablets?
Comment It was a launch that never came to pass, despite being widely predicted by Apple fans and Wall Street analysts alike. Are Microsoft and Apple about to lock horns yet again, this time in the battle to reign king of the... [01 Oct 2009]
U-turn for HP: Printers and PCs to pair up again?
News HP is considering a reorganisation that would see the company's printer unit combined with its personal computer business, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday. The plans, which are contingent on CEO Mark... [01 Oct 2009]
Twitter secures "significant round" of funding
News Williams said it's "a significant round" but didn't say just how close it was to the roughly $100m that The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. It seems Twitter's megacash infusion is real. CEO Evan Williams... [28 Sep 2009]
BlackBerrys feeling the squeeze as smartphone rivals smarten up
News Although Wall Street was disappointed in RIM's results, the fact remains that the company is still growing handset sales. Even though RIM still saw strong sales of BlackBerrys, the news sent the company's stock price... [25 Sep 2009]
Bottom falls out of online pants market but e-tail hits £3.8bn
News Online shopping continues to be a beacon of hope for retailers as high street sales stall. UK shoppers spent £3.8bn online last month - 16 per cent higher than in August last year, the latest figures from the IMRG... [22 Sep 2009]
Facebook adds Nielsen to friends for ads
News The announcement of a partnership with Nielsen on a product called BrandLift, which polls Facebook users on ads they see on the social network, was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. As part of the Advertising... [22 Sep 2009]
VeriSign Identity Protection Authentication Services Helps a Top Document Management Services Provider Lead the Way With Two-Factor Authentication for Clients
White Paper Morgan Street Document Systems, LLC was founded to address the urgent need for a service to streamline the numerous, primarily paper-based, interactions between individuals and their many advisors - consultants such as... [19 Sep 2009]
Photos: Inside the RSA cybercrime war room
Photo From the AFCC, the security firm sifts through more than 10 million emails every day, as well as domain names and fraudster chat rooms, searching for threats to its customers, which include a selection of Britain's high... [18 Sep 2009]
Photos: BT previews superfast fibre broadband... in Muswell Hill
Photo BT has opened a new high street shop to promote fibre broadband in London's Muswell Hill - the location for one of its two fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) pilots, along with Whitchurch in South Wales. Residents of London's... [17 Sep 2009]
Skype founders vs Skype: 'You've violated our patents'
News This lawsuit was first reported on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal. Joltid, a peer-to-peer software company established by Skype's founders, filed a copyright suit against Skype on Wednesday alleging Joltid's... [17 Sep 2009]
