January 2008
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January 25, 2008
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Jan'08
The power of the blogger
Power of the blogger brings Peter Hain's downfall Continue Reading
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January 25, 2008
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Jan'08
Retail management system fits designer outlet Larizia
Designer retailer Larizia has upgraded its retail management and point of sale system to replace a manual system the retailer had been using since suffering a bad experience several years ago with an early EPOS system. Continue Reading
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January 25, 2008
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Jan'08
Carmen study unites computer science with neuroscience
The University of Newcastle is one of 20 research teams working on a project to bring together neuroscience and computer science. Continue Reading
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January 25, 2008
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Jan'08
AA brings datacentre back in-house to cut costs
The AA, which has saved £22m in IT running costs since the £50m contract began in 2005, believes it can now run its datacentre more cost-effectively internally. Continue Reading
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January 25, 2008
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Jan'08
Ever increasing tape speeds are technical suicide
Managing the end of life of LTO2 and SDLT 600, to be succeeded by LTO3, LTO4, DLT-S4, the StorageTek T10000, or IBM TS1120, is a real pain in the brain! Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Early adopters of unified communications need to ask about security
Unified Communications complicates security, which means special care is needed to extract value from the technology. Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Ginger : the new Netvibes
new Netvibes Ginger in beta Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Trouble working with Cisco Gold partners?
Has anyone else had this problem? A Cisco user told me that his company had worked with an accredited Cisco partner, but that the partner’s lack of knowledge in being able to install one specific ... Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Security Metrics - Are we secure?
It's crunch time and some facts and figures are needed to demonstrate security status to senior management. How are you going to do that? I've been working for a while on making sure that I have ... Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Unicef saves money by unifying communications
Unicef has saved money and improved call-handling efficiency by unifying its communications system on to a single platform. Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Swim with the global tide
Globalisation - oft maligned and ill understood - is creating a new and evolving international division of labour. Western governments and companies are beginning to adapt to this, and to develop strategies that are in long-term alignment with it. Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Courts Inspectorate loses trial details on disks
Four CDs containing details from court cases have gone missing in the post. Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Financial services advisers get easy sign-up platform for e-commerce deals
Origo, the standards body for e-commerce in the UK financial services industry, has launched the first ever industry online agency registration service for advisers. Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
St Helens Council implements e-mail security to protect care records
St Helens council has implemented e-mail security to protect sensitive information and ensure the privacy of its social care clients. Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Profiling coming under scrutiny
The capacity of organisations to build up "profiles" of people based on their use of the internet, their personal choices and other activities is coming under greater scrutiny by legislators and regulators in the UK, US and Europe. Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
NHS online catalogue wins e-government award
An online pharmaceutical catalogue for the NHS has won an award for e-government excellence in e-procurement. Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Hewlett-Packard unveils green business desktop
Hewlett-Packard has unveiled an environmentally-friendly business desktop. The HP Compaq dc5800 Business PC meets the environmental requirements of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Gold registry. Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
IBM promotes Web 2.0 mashups with new tools
IBM has unveiled a range of Web 2.0 and collaboration tools to enable enterprise mashups and drive the deployment of social networking software in business. Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Network engineers with project management skills earn more
Network engineers should learn project management skills such as budgeting and scheduling as they come under pressure to deliver advanced networks for businesses, said attendees at the Cisco Networkers 2008 event this week. Continue Reading
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January 24, 2008
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Jan'08
Hot skills: Ruby on Rails 2.0
Rails is not the only framework for Ruby, and Ruby is not the only language which uses Rails. Rails has also been ported to Javascript by a team at Google (Rhino on Rails), to PHP (Akelos) and most recently, by the BBC, to Perl (Perl on Rails). Continue Reading