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All Desktop Software News - January 2008

AstraZeneca upgrades e-mail system for 66,000 employees

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 24 January 2008

AstraZeneca is upgrading its e-mail system to support 66,000 global employees.

Virtualisation vendor vows to boost value of applications

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Author: Joe O'Halloran
Date: 22 January 2008

VMware buys firms to decrease time to reach the value of a software application and also reduce overhead of potentially costly integrations.

Open source software makes inroads at large firms

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Author: Arif Mohamed
Date: 22 January 2008

Open source software is seeing slow but steady adoption among large UK businesses as they begin to take it to the heart of their organisations. One key factor that has held back adoption has been a lack of enterprise-class support and services, but this is changing.

Schools do not use technology to full potential, says Becta

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Author: Rebecca Thomson
Date: 21 January 2008

Eighty percent of schools are not using technology to the full, according to a report by Becta.

Mobile instant messaging use to triple over next six years

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 21 January 2008

European mobile instant messaging (IM) will triple in the next six years, with young consumers fuelling the growth, says analyst Forrester.

VMware extends desktop virtualisation offering with Thinstall acquisition

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 21 January 2008

VMware is to expand its desktop virtualisation offering with the acquisition of application virtualisation firm Thinstall.

Users want e-mail and social networking on basic mobile phones

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 19 January 2008

E-mail is the most desired service for mobile phone users, with a third wanting their messages on the move if speed and quality was not an issue using a basic mobile device.

KDE 4.0 available to Linux users

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Author: Cliff Saran
Date: 14 January 2008

Users of the Linux operating system can now download the latest version of the K Desktop Environment, which has been designed to improve support of mobile devices and multimedia.

Becta tells schools to review benefits of Windows upgrades

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 10 January 2008

The government agency that recommends which technology schools and colleges should use has told them to review the benefits of adopting Windows Vista or Office 2007, because of interoperability and value for money issues.

Geeks.com loses customer data in hack

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 10 January 2008

Computer gadget site Geeks.com has been hacked, with the attackers suspected of stealing customer credit card details, phone numbers and e-mail addresses.

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