July 2009

Rising IT offshoring undermines UK services

About two-thirds of UK companies have sent IT offshore in the past six months, with...

How many lost laptops can you justify?

I was interested to read the figures published last week about the number of laptops that went missing last year from government departments. I've been tracking this problem for the past decade and ...  Continue Reading

Web-based MS Office 2010 to be unveiled next month

Microsoft is to release a preview of the stripped down web-based version of the Office 2010 product suite in August.  Continue Reading

Making a small business mobile

LTT Vending has improved its bottom line with a BlackBerry mobile integration system, supplied by T-Mobile and rolled out by the in-house IT team.  Continue Reading

And Now Save Money On Your Office Calls...

From the man who roams the length and breadth of Europe - well certain parts of Andorra, France and the UK - searching for networking products with instant ROI...The latest is from a UK start-up ...  Continue Reading

Outsourcing contracts: Getting started - Essential Guide

Outsourcing contracts can be complex affairs, but a good outsourcing contract will examine service level agreements, penalties and rewards, timeframes and measurements, regular reviews, and exit strategies.  Continue Reading

iPhone leads to cannabis stash

iPhone users can now buy an application that guides them to the nearest supply of Cannabis. This is obviously for medicinal purposes in US states where the drug has been approved for medical ...  Continue Reading

Microsoft and Yahoo could unite against Google

The battle between Microsoft and Google has intensified on several fronts  Continue Reading

Getting the basics right

This week's Economist includes an interesting feature on the failure of economics. It addresses three main critiques: that macro and financial economists helped cause the credit crisis, that they ...  Continue Reading

Government abandons £24.4m Scope IT project

The Cabinet Office has revealed it is to abandon the second phase of the Scope IT project at a cost of £24.4m.  Continue Reading

Telehouse data centre to heat Docklands neighbourhood

Telehouse Europe is building a large data centre in energy-constrained Docklands, receiving the planning permission on the condition that it help heat the neighbourhood.  Continue Reading

Study says recession should spur green IT initiatives

Green IT and other energy-saving projects with a hard ROI should be easier to push through in the recession, according to Datamonitor study.  Continue Reading

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Navigating to the Moon and back - Apollo 11 programmer describes the challenges

Pat Norris was among the programmers who worked on the Apollo 11 mission that sent Neil Amstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the Moon. He tells Computer Weekly what really happened.  Continue Reading

Doing nothing is not an option

Erudine have just published the latest edition of Engine, their excellent technology magazine. The theme of this edition is 'Legacy Evolution' and it contains some excellent articles from CIOs, ...  Continue Reading

Information security at the crossroads

Infosecurity have added a few more experts to their list of guest bloggers, including Howard Schmidt and myself. I've just posted a short article on the current status of information security ...  Continue Reading

Tech start-ups thrive at UK universities

According to BERR, there are currently around 4.7 million SMEs in the UK today, but where are the new technology start-ups coming from? Steve Gold looks at the University of Manchester's commercial incubators and some of their business offspring.  Continue Reading

One billion Indians to get biometric ID cards

The Indian government plans to give all of its 1.2 billion citizens biometric ID cards, and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani will lead the project.

The...