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News silicon.com readers say they will have no problem putting down their BlackBerrys and getting on with the sunbathing this summer. In our poll of more than 230 silicon.com readers, almost two thirds said they would leave their voicemail and email at... [25 Jul 2008]
Greek island gets wireless mesh network
News The wireless Patmos network - due to launch this summer - has been jointly developed by MIT Media Lab and Nortel Solutions Interoperability Laboratory in North Carolina. Tourists and locals on the Greek Island of Patmos will soon be able to enjoy... [24 Jul 2008]
EC to outline slash in roaming rate
News A formal legislative proposal will be made in the autumn and could come into force by the summer of 2009. As the European summer holiday season gets under way, Reding's proposal for extending the legislation to cap the price of texts will also help... [15 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up And the sun made its one scheduled appearance of the summer that day too, which was nice. That's according to a survey of 300 City of London workers in which more than a quarter admitted to sneaking a peak at their work email at least once per day... [11 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News The Future Firecrest programme has seen 3,000 computers installed at FCO offices in London and Milton Keynes, with new machines and infrastructure planned at FCO sites in Athens, Tbilisi in Georgia, and The Hague from late summer 2008. [07 Jul 2008]
Mashing it up with Support: Automate, Coordinate and Collaborate with the Incident Escalation Mashup
White Paper Serena Software master masher Summer Ficarrotta shows you how Business Mashups automate and coordinate the way incidents are captured, routed, escalated and resolved through IT Support and Application Development. [05 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: The naked truth about DSL
Comment Discover what happened when silicon.com reporter Natasha Lomas went on the hunt for iPhone 3G… And, lastly, going to a festival this summer? It might sound like something from the seedier side of the internet - but naked DSL might just be the next... [03 Jul 2008]
MoD plans telepresence trial
News According to Towler, the conferencing pilot may involve technology supplied by WebEx, a company Cisco acquired last year, and the pilot is due to commence this summer. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is considering a telepresence pilot, as part of... [03 Jul 2008]
IBM Netfinity Servers and Linux Solution Gets Vote Of Confidence from Mexico's IFE
White Paper All that changed for the mid-summer 2000 elections. Election managers from Mexico’s 335 voting districts manually counted the ballots and sent the vote tallies to election headquarters in Mexico City by e-mail. [03 Jul 2008]
IBM Case Study: Mitsukoshi
White Paper To raise Internet sales and meet the requests of many older customers or those with visual impairments, Mitsukoshi needed to deploy a more accessible summer gift promotion Web site to help more people shop and buy online. [01 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo This month silicon.com looked at tech being used at the summer music festivals, the best mini laptops, the 3G iPhone and a tribute to Bill Gates on his departure from Microsoft. The festival season is also upon us so silicon.com rounded up of the... [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: Top tech for the festival season
Photo Meanwhile O2, is using pedal power as a green way to keep mobiles going for its customers at the summer festivals. With the festival season kicking off with Glastonbury this weekend, silicon.com has brought together the most interesting tech O2 and... [26 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Less data equals more privacy
Comment We kicked off the campaign early last summer and little did we expect that it would become a national issue when in November the taxman managed to misplace a couple of CDs containing records of 25 million people. [26 Jun 2008]
Gov't slams Fujitsu's "core contract" NHS IT failings
News Bradshaw said talks had been going on since last summer with the vendor responsible for delivering the electronic care records system in the south of England. Fujitsu Service's £896m NHS IT contract was terminated because of its inability to... [26 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up Still, with the first official day of summer this weekend BT is urging people to free themselves from the trend of "chain-desking" and work outside the office. Good luck, if the British summer is anything to go by your portable device of choice... [20 Jun 2008]
