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Cool tech gets down with the kids

News This is reflected in the fact technology users often come up with new applications for the tech they adopt - such as mobile pre-pay, which is used as an alternative currency in some parts of the world, or text messages being used as a dumping tool...

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

Open source: 'World's largest software company'

News Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war According to the study from the Standish Group called Trends in Open Source, released this week, the losses of proprietary software makers are disproportionate to the actual spend on open...

Tags: software, ibm, open source

[22 Apr 2008]

UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis

News You're not alone…   Health warning to overweight IT managers   Demand for tech workers hits six-year high   How the staffing crisis is deepening   How techie salaries are faring   Is the...

Tags: premji, wipro, education, engineers

[18 Mar 2008]

C&W hooks up with Orange over FMC

News C&W's FMC system will use low-power GSM spectrum for in-building coverage, powered by picocells (the big brother cellular tech of femtocells) - rather than wi-fi, which is used by BT's rival Fusion service.

Tags: cable & wireless, fmc, orange, device

[05 Mar 2008]

IT skills shortage hits 10-year high

News You're not alone…   Health warning to overweight IT managers   Demand for tech workers hits six-year high   How the staffing crisis is deepening   How techie salaries are faring   Is the...

Tags: it, skills shortage, skills, workers

[11 Feb 2008]

What's hot at Mobile World Congress 2008?

News Analysts have been touting femtocells as a tech to watch this year, so interest in what broadband-piggybacking can offer the cellular world will certainly be high. Operators will announce trials, vendors will demo tech and analysts will chew the...

Tags: mobile world congress, mobile, 3gsm, mwc

[07 Feb 2008]

Apple, open source and SaaS tipped to be tech future

News Photos: When tech chiefs rock out. Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day Gartner's five-year forecasts are out and there are plenty of trends which could prove worrisome for Microsoft - namely the research firm's prediction Apple will...

Tags: gartner, microsoft, apple, stories

[01 Feb 2008]

Stories of the month - January 2008

News Inevitably the post-Christmas January blues prompts many people into looking for a new career or job and recruitment agencies predicted a healthy flow of new candidates and continued high demand for tech skills in this analysis of the 2008 IT job...

Tags: cv, bill gates, shell, apple

[30 Jan 2008]

Accenture calculator: How green is your data centre?

News Trends can be built into the calculation such as the price of electricity, capacity costs and future carbon costs. Data centres are computational workhorses which can greedily gobble up to 100 times more power per square foot than your average office.

Tags: green, accenture, data centre, savings

[30 Jan 2008]

Femtocells coming to a home near you?

News Networking giant Cisco has recently made a show of its interest in the emerging tech by investing in ip.access, a Cambridge-based femtocell manufacturer - opening up the possibility of femtocells being integrated into other consumer entertainment...

Tags: femtocell, 3g, cisco, house

[23 Jan 2008]

Cheat Sheet: CRM

Cheat Sheet You could say that but CRM - despite being a tech industry buzzword bandied about over the past few years - actually stands for something close to the heart of most businesses: customer relationship management.

Tags: customers, crm, microsoft, oracle

[08 Jan 2008]

Outsourcing boom predicted in 2008

News It found that tech support and customer care departments continue to be the most commonly outsourced divisions, standing at more than 60 per cent and 40 per cent respectively, and that India and the USA are the most popular locations, chosen by...

Tags: outsourcing, 2008, bpo, global

[07 Jan 2008]

Local gov't tech spend to hit £3bn

News According to the Society of IT Management's (Socitm) annual IT Trends survey, spending on local government IT will rise again as councils invest in efficiency programmes and securing the information held on their computers.

Tags: local government, transformation, spending, security

[03 Jan 2008]

Top 10 outsourcing stories of the year

News But Nasscom, the India tech industry association, sought to quell such talk saying that although China should not be ignored, it'll be some time before it truly challenges the current status quo. China no tech rival yet, says India

Tags: bric, offshoring, outsourcing, 2007

[18 Dec 2007]

Stories of the year

News But one of the biggest stories of 2007 - and not just in the tech world - turned up in October when two password-protected CDs containing the records of 25 million child benefit recipients were sent unrecorded and unregistered by a junior HMRC...

Tags: christmas, google, apple, revealed

[14 Dec 2007]

Monarch soars with Google search tech

Case Study The company went live with the tech at the beginning of November as a low cost way of reducing the need for emails to be sent by customers to have their queries answered. Compared to the week before the tech went live, Chambers said the first week...

Tags: google, web services, airport, search

[03 Dec 2007]

Outsourcing: Big in Europe

News Check out the Editor's Blog for the silicon.com chief's take on the hot tech issues of the moment. TPI blames two trends in the US for the downturn: organisations moving to smaller and shorter deals and a decline in retendered contracts.

Tags: tpi, europe, us, offshoring

[25 Oct 2007]

Leader: Who's setting tech's agenda this year?

Leader Looking down the 50 names, in this brief space it is worth highlighting a few key trends and the individuals who often personify them. Trends that past Agenda Setters polls have previously brought to the surface are also present.

Tags: social networking, facebook, agenda setters

[15 Oct 2007]

Surprise omissions and trends

AS Analysis As ever, those occupying the top 10 places of this year's Agenda Setters list show great power and influence across several high-tech areas. Diane Greene of VMware is not only leading one of the big tech success stories of the past few years...

[12 Oct 2007]

Survey results: The Oxford Index - Demand Trends for High-end Hardware Engineering Consultants

whitepaper Oxford, which specializes in finding high-tech consultants for mission-critical projects, approaches its research with an expert eye. Based on a survey sent to managers in the hardware engineering field, Oxford Global Resources has released Q2 2005...

Tags: outsourcing, survey, engineering, managers

[10 Sep 2007]

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