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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.11.09
Round-Up Trust the Round-Up - it's seen the future and the future is a slightly blurred picture of a drunken colleague's bottom which you've accidentally texted to your granny's brand new Nokia. We've all done something with a... [27 Nov 2009]
eBay apps lets users bid from a BlackBerry
News eBay has released an app for BlackBerry. The application, co-developed by the auction site and RIM, lets users search, track and buy items using their smartphone. The app is available in the US and Canada, and can be downloaded from... [27 Nov 2009]
Bangalore blooming into innovation hothouse
Comment The swing to greater research happened a couple of years ago when Cisco set up its globalisation centre in Bangalore, making the city virtually its second headquarters outside its base in Silicon Valley. [27 Nov 2009]
Minority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
Comment I clearly remember buying a PowerBook G4 for £2,200 in 2005, handing over the credit card to the reseller and hoping he'd hurry up before I changed my mind about spending such an insane amount of money on a computer. [26 Nov 2009]
Photos: The new gadgets and tech services up Orange's sleeve
Photo It can also be used to set up three-way calling. Orange is also hoping to dream up new applications for M2M (machine-to-machine) tech - where two or more bits of kit swap data between them without the... [26 Nov 2009]
Women in IT: Tech has an image problem
News Across the UK's general working population, women make up almost half (45 per cent) of the workforce - close to double the proportion of women working in IT. However a different story emerges when the results are broken... [26 Nov 2009]
Beware the turf wars when merging comms
News Enterprise take-up of unified communications - the merging of IP telephony, conferencing and collaboration, messaging and communications tools - is on a "steeply rising curve", according to analysts. Spending on UC among... [25 Nov 2009]
Spam threat to email marketing
News Marketing emails are at risk of being blocked as spam because businesses are not correctly managing the email communications they send out, a survey has found. More than half of the 157 marketing managers surveyed by the DMA Email... [25 Nov 2009]
IT skills shortage squashed by recession?
News With less positions for job hunters to choose from it seems employers are having less difficulty filling the few vacancies that do pop up. The icy winds of economic gloom have put paid to talk of a tech skills shortage -... [25 Nov 2009]
Photos: Sony Ericsson debuts see-through Xperia phone
Photo Battery life is up to 8.5 hours GSM talk time (up to 3.5 hours UMTS), and up to 350 hours standby time. Mobile maker Sony Ericsson has debuted another phone in its Xperia range - but... [25 Nov 2009]
Why you must rein in your power users
Comment Quocirca's research shows that the take-up of certain IT security standards is high: for example 60 per cent of IT managers claim to have implemented or be implementing ISO-27001. A leading user-facing analyst house... [25 Nov 2009]
Is losing a mobile device really such a big deal?
Comment These days, it's no surprise to anybody that staff mobility - everything from home working to being able to pick up email when out and about - brings with it a business advantage. Draconian rules don't work - they are... [24 Nov 2009]
Second iPhone worm: A botnet risk
News A second iPhone worm has been identified. Like the first worm - unearthed last month - to attack iPhones, this latest exploit also affects jailbroken devices with SSH (secure shell) protocol-enabled and unchanged default passwords. [24 Nov 2009]
Outsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News It's a far cry from 2005, when Tube Lines racked up 75,000 calls to the IT helpdesk, with much of the blame being laid - unfairly - on outsourcers that were providing services to the company, and IT opex was 40 per cent... [24 Nov 2009]
Recession hitting low paid IT jobs
News The research shows that fewer tech workers are on the lowest rung of the pay ladder compared to last year, while the proportion taking home larger salaries is up on 2008. In addition, it notes that a survey of graduate... [24 Nov 2009]
