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ID cards: Seven years of missed deadlines and U-turns
News January 2008 - The launch date for rolling out the cards across the UK general public slips for a second time, this time from 2010 to 2012. This increasingly unlikely scenario is how the government... [02 Dec 2009]
Android phones, Firefox history, Google Wave and datacentres galore
Photo Nokia has also been putting out new hardware in time for Christmas: the mobile maker issued an update to its full-Qwerty S60 device, the E72. The Xperia Pureness strips back functionality to focus on the core features of... [01 Dec 2009]
Mini laptops, codebreaking, Wikipedia and why there's no 'British Google'
News Mobile bells and whistles were the subject of another popular story - this time exploring the tech your mobile might be sporting in 2012. November's top stories on silicon.com tackled some big questions: does my business... [30 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can I become faster and smarter?
Comment For us to leverage the next level of IT advantage, we need all this to happen in the background so we can be fed the right information at the right time, and in effect, anticipate our every need. At the same... [30 Nov 2009]
The Evolution of Integration
White Paper Once upon a time life and information systems were simple. Then one day somebody let Pandora out of her box. Someone said -can't we add new requirements to these systems? Can't we have something more sophisticated and... [30 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.11.09
Round-Up A shame-faced 58 per cent said their mobile had rung in the wrong place at the wrong time, such as during a job interview or funeral service. Of those of you who could put down a donut for long enough to answer a survey... [27 Nov 2009]
Photos: When hackers get together to do the world a favour
Photo Viper, which was developed with information gathered from a variety of official and unofficial sources, displays mapped information and provides real-time context from services like Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. [27 Nov 2009]
Minority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
Comment The Mini debuted at a time when the 'Get a Mac' switch campaign was kicking off, and the BYOKDM (Bring Your Own Keyboard, Display and Mouse) ethos was aimed at encouraging Mac-curious PC users to make a change. [26 Nov 2009]
Tesco Mobile to get a taste of Apple's iPhone
News Tesco Mobile has announced today it will stock Apple's iPhone 3G and 3GS. Apple ended its two-year UK exclusive deal with O2 this month by launching the iPhone on the Orange network. Vodafone also announced an agreement with Apple in... [25 Nov 2009]
Beware the turf wars when merging comms
News Spending on UC among businesses worldwide is expected to rise from just $302m last year to $4.2bn in five years' time, according to industry watchers ABI Research. We foresee a booming market for managed services, simply... [25 Nov 2009]
Photos: Sony Ericsson debuts see-through Xperia phone
Photo Daniel Mauritzson, an industrial designer at Sony Ericsson, said the idea behind Pureness was to design a "counterweight" to the feature-rich smartphones of today - and focus instead on the basics of "talk, text and time". [25 Nov 2009]
Why you must rein in your power users
Comment In the majority of cases, harm may be unintentional - but that's cold comfort if an essential disk is wiped or a server goes down at peak time. Read more in Quocirca's report, Privileged user management - It's... [25 Nov 2009]
How the cloud is swallowing your comms
News According to TalkTalk, young people prefer technologies that allow them to contact whole groups of friends rather than individuals one at a time. Unified communications is migrating to the cloud, new research has found. [24 Nov 2009]
Is losing a mobile device really such a big deal?
Comment In that time the questions have very much moved from 'if' the tech is used to 'when and how'. Losing a mobile device is a common occurrence - but that's doesn't mean it's not serious. Jon Collins looks at what businesses... [24 Nov 2009]
Outsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News For example, for the service desk, if we have a lot of calls then Atos Origin are able to roll out a bigger team to handle them without us having to pay for that larger team each time we need it," she said. [24 Nov 2009]
