Weekly round-up of IT news from ComputerWeekly.com. This week's highlight include Google Chrome - of course - plus rural broadband access, enterprise resource planning at Irwin's Bakery, and the IT impact of Commerzbank's plans to purchase Dresdner Bank, making savings through headcount reductions post-sale.
Round-up of the latest news in IT including: why software producers are getting tougher on users; Google Apps in the enterprise and Google's 10th birthday.
Ever since the first spam email message was sent back in 1978 to 393 recipients on Arpanet, unsolicited email messages have been causing a headache for IT managers. Dealing with the constant influx of spam costs not only money but time as well.
Internet meltdown could follow if you don't make the switch to IPv6, says Cliff Saran in discussion with Warwick Ashford in this week's UK information technology news round-up. Also: is the iPhone 3G enterprise ready?
Accenture's CIO Frank Modruson talks to Computer Weekly's Bill Goodwin about Accenture's moves to exploit social networking technology within the business to maximise employees' collaborative potential.
There exists a whole host of integrated application suites designed to enable firms to coordinate activities across their organisations and maximise the value delivered to customers whilst minimising operational costs.
Cap Gemini CTO Carl Bate explains to Computer Weekly's Karl Flinders why the IT department - at least in its current form - will soon be a thing of the past.
Cliff Saran speaks to Paul Michaels, director of consulting at Metri measurement consulting, about how to steer a software development project in the right direction.
Microsoft hired Kevin Turner to be its Chief Operating Officer and offered him base salary of $570,000 (£285,000) per year and a $7m (£3.5m) up-front payment in 2005.
Kevin Turner, previously CIO at Wal-Mart, gives his top tips in six minutes on how IT staff can make the progression to managers and earn the big bucks.