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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up A recent report from analyst firm TechMarketView found that the UK software industry is in fine fettle, although much more needs to be done to support the growth of small tech firms. Yes, Autonomy and ARM continue to... [06 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment The top three Indian firms each have around 100,000 employees in large tech hubs such as Bangalore and smaller cities such as Jaipur and Coimbatore. Indian outsourcers certainly have the cash - so why aren't they buying... [06 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment The hope for Wikipedia is a broader pool of contributors with geeks of all stripes - not just tech - involved. In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda Setter Jimmy Wales talks to Natasha Lomas... [05 Nov 2009]
Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
News While the debate over bankers' bonuses may still be generating headlines, it seems the financial services industry has found one way to cut back - slash IT budgets. Financial services firms' IT budgets fell by 8.3 per cent between 2008... [04 Nov 2009]
Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app
Photo Tech companies are already creating custom apps for Google Wave, with software-as-a-service provider Salesforce.com showing off its Wave app this week at SAP's TechEd conference in Vienna. The Salesforce-designed app... [30 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up The tech industry has always had a soft spot for the paranormal, what with its mailer-daemons, software wizards, trolls and the like. It's almost that time of year when nameless horrors not of this world crawl shrieking... [30 Oct 2009]
Parking in the West End goes contactless
News Card issuers MasterCard and Visa already offer cards with wave and pay functionality included, while Barclays, an enthusiastic proponent of the tech, estimates all of its debit cards will be contactless by 2011. [29 Oct 2009]
Who do you trust when you're spending your IT budget?
News While asking colleagues for referrals was voted the most popular way to get advice on new tech, scouring the blogosphere and social networks also proved popular among European execs. Only six per cent of UK execs said... [28 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet While analyst house ABI Research notes that AR technology has been with us for more than 15 years, the company is predicting dramatic growth in the take-up of the tech over the next five years - driven by mobile... [27 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. After a year of limbering up, Atos Origin - the company... [27 Oct 2009]
Augmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
News Today's increasingly feature-packed smartphones are likely to propel the use of augmented reality into the mainstream in the coming years. Augmented reality - the process of superimposing digital information or objects onto real-time... [26 Oct 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News UK online gamblers might not quite fit this image but they can increasingly get into the spirit of their Vegas counterparts through technology that allows them a way to banter across the baize with their opponents.bwin, one of the... [23 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News David Metcalfe, director of green tech analyst house Verdantix, said many big spending plans around carbon management and reduction have been put on hold. It's never been easy being green, especially when it comes to... [22 Oct 2009]
The why behind going green. Midsize companies speak.
White Paper This white paper presents the results of a study conducted by Info-Tech Research Group and sponsored by IBM. More than 1,000 IT professionals in midsize businesses, from 12 countries and eight industries, were consulted... [21 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News Windows 7 has already outsold Vista in the consumer market and you will increasingly have users who have Windows 7 at home ringing tech support asking how they can do the same thing on XP. With software spending down... [21 Oct 2009]
