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RSS systemsMaemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News At the Symbian Exchange & Exposition last week, when asked to clarify how its plans for Maemo fit with support for Symbian, David Rivas, Nokia's VP of technology management, suggested Nokia has different plans for the two operating... [02 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo The Salesforce-designed app integrates the company's CRM tech with the Wave platform, allowing companies to communicate with their customers using Wave while drawing on information held in Salesforce CRM systems. [30 Oct 2009]
Taxman to save £110m by taking an axe to its IT estate
News HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will reduce the £840m it currently spends on IT each year by ditching or shrinking the size of 40 computer systems and shutting down a number of datacentres. HMRC inherited a large number of... [30 Oct 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Server virtualisation, storage consolidation, upgrades to cooling systems and purchasing energy-efficient servers are all top priorities. Cameron Green, green IT partnerships manager at environmental charity Global... [29 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment Third-party security will undoubtedly still be required for Windows 7 but the resultant platform should have fewer weak links, should require less in the way of resources and be far more manageable for centralised control... [28 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News There's no point in spending a fortune on proprietary systems or programming frameworks that don't move with the times. Steve Clarke, systems and operations director at The TalkTalk Group, was similarly... [28 Oct 2009]
Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News By the end of this year the consortium will have largely completed work on designing the IT systems and infrastructure for the Olympics' site in East London and the Games' 94 venues across the UK. Tech that will be put... [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News Jaguar Land Rover already works with software-as-a-service provider Salesforce.com, which provides the systems that house the company's employee records, and Vincent said he is in talks concerning letting Salesforce run... [26 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]
Mind the details with Windows 7
Comment Since receiving the first Community Technology Preview version of Windows 7 last October, I've installed various versions of the product about 30 times across 15 different systems. The systems in... [23 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Building enterprise systems based upon open source software means you end up having to pay to manage the additional risks," he said. Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a... [23 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News According to Gartner, flash memory is becoming more important in the storage world and has an impact in areas such as embedded IT systems. 2009 may not be over yet but analysts have already revealed the top 10 strategic... [22 Oct 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Another possible use for monitoring could be to help prevent damage to computer systems by identifying careless internet and email users who are downloading malware or accessing potentially risky websites. [22 Oct 2009]
Bigger picture, smarter decisions: Today's BI tools
White Paper With people and systems increasingly interconnected, it's hard to keep up with data. In the ForwardView article, "Bigger picture, smarter decisions: BI tools," you'll learn how Business Intelligence (BI) solutions... [21 Oct 2009]
Video Whitepaper: Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A better way to do load testing
White Paper Using this approach, organizations can improve application quality, enhance the customer experience, and lower the cost of deploying new systems. Watch the free, on-demand video whitepaper to learn how to easily launch a... [21 Oct 2009]
