August 2010

Massive UK job losses loom as change projects approach sign off

Just because the economic climate is improving does not mean an end to UK job cuts and delayed job cuts could be round the corner. According to a well informed source of mine it will actually lead ...  Continue Reading

India could get workaround to view encrypted Blackberry data

Research in Motion and the Indian government are believed to be developing a workaround to allow security agencies to read encrypted Blackberry data....  Continue Reading

If Wipro wants 50% of European staff to be locals it had better get its act together.

When I met Wipro's European head, Jeffrey Heenan Jalil, back in May I blogged about the fact that Wipro said it was struggling to find European staff despite the its efforts. He said Wipro is ...  Continue Reading

Move from Blackberry to iPhone is strategic, says Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered bank says its decision to move employees from the Blackberry to the iPhone is not a reaction to market trends and the so-called "consumerisation of IT."  Continue Reading

Betfair takes online gambling to the iPad

Online gambling firm Betfair has added to its portfolio of interactive betting tools with the launch of an iPad app.  Continue Reading

Online trading is a minefield for SMEs

Data loss is seen as the biggest business risk to SME's says Ross Walker, head of SMB UK & Ireland, at security supplier Symantec. In reaction to a post on this blog last week Ross has given us ...  Continue Reading

Directgov loses its CTO to the Open University

David Matthewman has left his role as chief technology officer at Directgov.uk and moved to a new position at the Open University.

Matthewman started...

Protesters picket Google offices over 'end of net neutrality'

Protestors have gathered outside Google's offices to rally against proposals which they believe could undermine net neutrality.  Continue Reading

A "sneaky peek" at Embarcadero RAD Studio XE

Embarcadero's new RAD Studio XE application development suite is launching it's sneak peak programme now  Continue Reading

Free online datacentre energy efficiency calculator launched

Texas-based Active Power has launched an online energy efficiency calculator to show organisations how to reduce datacentre power consumption and costs.  Continue Reading

Sustainability for competitive advantage in the mobile world

Mobile phone companies are competing over who can appear to be more sustainability friendly  Continue Reading

Are you reading this on the loo?

Regular readers will know that Downtime thrives on the activity of organisations that fund utterly pointless research in the name of desperate PR. But for once, even we have been left wondering ...  Continue Reading

Smaller companies can still be social

There are various interesting people that I have met through tweetups, and one of them that I regularly see at the tweetups in Ealing, west London, is Rod Sloane. Rod is a sales and marketing ...  Continue Reading

Dell bolsters storage portfolio with 3PAR acquisition

Dell, adding to its storage virtualisation portfolio, is set to acquire virtualised storage vendor 3PAR for $1.15 billion; plus more daily news.  Continue Reading

SAN topology guide and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

This SAN topology guide details the key SAN fabric topology types and looks into the future of the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-based converged network.  Continue Reading

Perth Radiological Clinic upgrades HDS SANs

Perth Radiological Clinic (PRC) has selected twin storage arrays from Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and will use the hardware to create a nearline archive containing seven years of medical images.  Continue Reading

Shamed HP CEO could pocket $40m due to legal loophole

This article in the Financial Times reports on how the terms of Mark Hurd's contract mean he still gets a big pay-off despite his "ethical Lapses."Hurd was forced to resign last week after ...  Continue Reading