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• Top five mobile working issues

  There can be little doubt that people work better and more when they're able to access corporate applications and data away from the office. But a bewildering array of mobile devices and solutions on the market means IT managers really need to do ...  Continue Reading

• Case study: NYSE readies 800Gbps super fast network

  Stock exchange NYSE Euronext is deploying a 100Gbps network from Ciena as part of its plans to improve bandwidth tenfold and reduce latency in financial...

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• Case study: Virtualisation at the London Borough of Hillingdon

  Our municipal buildings date back to the 1970s, and use power supplies from the same period. Since moving in there we had simply gone out and bought the...

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• Mitigate against inevitable smartphone losses

  Whatever else you do, "Assume your smartphone will be lost or stolen and plan accordingly," says David Porter, head of security and risk at Detica consultancy.  Continue Reading

• How mobile phones support healthcare in the developing world

  Healthcare is set to be revolutionised in developing countries by mobile technology, with mobile phones being generally affordable and more accessible to the population at large  Continue Reading

• Hardware Hoarders photo competition: terms and conditions

  Mobile working photo competition terms and conditions  Continue Reading

• Renault F1: supercomputer simulation prepares team for Australian GP

  Murray Walker, the veteran Formula One (F1) commentator once said, "There are a lot of ifs in Formula One. In fact, if is F1 backwards." And the key if is "if only the car could go faster".  Continue Reading

• The technical challenges holding back cloud computing

  While companies try to solve cloud computing issues the market remains some way off maturity, writes Danny Bradbury  Continue Reading

• Renault F1: Supercomputer Part 3

  Murray Walker, the veteran Formula One (F1) commentator once said, "There are a lot of ifs in Formula One. In fact, if is F1 backwards." And the key if is "if only the car could go faster".  Continue Reading

• Renault F1: Supercomputer Part 2

  Murray Walker, the veteran Formula One (F1) commentator once said, "There are a lot of ifs in Formula One. In fact, if is F1 backwards." And the key if is "if only the car could go faster".  Continue Reading

• Technology enables mobile typing pool

  There is an advert currently running on TV from a well-known computer company showing people in various jobs saying 'I am a PC'.  Continue Reading

• Why Digital Britain needs a boost

  When communications minister Stephen Carter published his Digital Britain interim report in late January, the UK joined a process that has been going on in Europe for at least five years, and one of which most Britons are unaware.  Continue Reading

• CeBIT 2009 - Latest News

  CeBIT 2009 in Hannover Germany opens on March 3-8. Find the latest news, developments and pictures. You will also find directions, exhibitor list and an agenda. The featured themes this year are Webciety and green IT.  Continue Reading

• Securing the mobile enterprise Executive Overview

  How to reduce the security risk to business assets when deploying mobile technologies  Continue Reading

• A succesful virtualisation strategy needs strong discipline

  Companies are buying virtualisation in a bid to make their operation more efficient.  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation: cost and licensing issues

  Virtualisation brings the promise of cost reductions though IT consolidation and the efficient use of resources.  Continue Reading

• GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009

  The GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona started today, February 16 2009, and will showcase all the major mobile phone retailer's new smartphones (Sony, Nokia, Samsung and LG) as well as reveal the intentions of most mobile companies for ...  Continue Reading

• Top 20 online tools for mobile working

  More and more workers are taking to mobile working, either through choice or circumstance. As a result, knowing where to get the best free or low-cost web and mobile tools is essential.  Continue Reading

• Where next for Infiniband?

  Change of direction Slow adoption Infiniband's days are numbered Useful links Cisco may not have said it directly, but it appears...  Continue Reading

• Videos: Top 10 technology commercials

  Ever wondered what the greatest technology commercial of all time is? Well following much deliberation, and a few tears/bloody noses, the Computer Weekly team have come up with the following list.  Continue Reading

• Video: Google releases Android cupcake update for G1

  The download of the Google G1 Android cupcake update is now available. The update has new features and various bug fixes.  Continue Reading

• Consumer complacency may scupper broadband plans

  Consumer complacency in the face of Britain's deteriorating competitive position in broadband networking may affect government and network operators'...

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• Features list: March 2009 - Virtualisation

  ComputerWeekly.com features list for March 2009 - virtualisation.  Continue Reading

• Video: Apple Mac - 25 years of innovation

  It has been 25 years since Apple launched the Mac, with its groundbreaking $1.5m Superbowl ad. It has been through its dark year, and is now looking at a bright future. But how did it get here and where is it going next?  Continue Reading

• Facebook: what future for social networks?

  Facebook has become the 'vanilla' social site millions use as readily as e-mail, while MySpace and YouTube dominate the consumer media, and LinkedIn the business market. That Facebook, like e-mail, is 'beyond fashion' may be key to its success: ...  Continue Reading

• The networks story in 2008

  Networking is becoming more central to computing than ever before. With wireless becoming increasingly prevalent, and new devices making mobile data more...

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• Video: Palm Pre first look

  The Palm Pre looks like it will take Palm back to it's PDA heritage. The big questions are: Will it compete with the iPhone and will it save Palm?  Continue Reading

• Mobile broadband to evolve in 2009

  In 2009 mobile computing will likely undergo an evolutionary advance with the arrival of what analysts are calling premium mobile broadband services  Continue Reading

• How to cut data centre carbon emissions

  The demand for data centre capacity worldwide ...  Continue Reading

• Video: Watch free live TV on the iPhone

  The video below shows how you can stream live TV straight to your iPhone using the free Livestation desktop application.  Continue Reading

• Meeting the demand for data storage

  As the information storage needs ...  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation in the network

  Are your applications grinding to a halt thanks to all of that VoIP traffic?  Continue Reading

• Telecommuting beating the credit crunch

  In order that they stay competitive and innovative, businesses cannot afford to stop investing in technology says Florian Malecki, Sonic Wall's Product Marketing Manager.  Continue Reading

• IBM's Tivoli has broad business appeal

  The IBM Tivoli suite of products is a pretty broad church. The range of functions it can manage varies from monitoring and discovery of assets to...  Continue Reading

• Video: ASUS EeePC taken apart

  The Asus eee PC has become the travel item of choice for executives and road warriors who are in a hurry to get the job done, say Gartner analysts.  Continue Reading

• Networks enable innovation

  Innovation is key to survival in any economic downturn, but for many small and medium businesses (SMBs) it is often one of the first casualties.  Continue Reading

• Bill & Dave – How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company, by Michael S. Malone

  Book review: Bill & Dave...  Continue Reading

• Has the time come for solid state discs?

  IBM's recent launch of solid state disk storage products for the enterprise was an endorsement of a much misunderstood technology. Could it be time to take this seriously?  Continue Reading

• In-depth: Optimising data centre operations (Next-generation enterprise IT)

  In fat times or thin, the datacentre manager always seems to get it in the neck. Last year, unparalleled growth meant that companies could not fit enough...  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation: an essential guide

  Virtualisation and cloud computing: an essential guide

  1. What is virtualisation?

  2. Is virtualisation a new phenomenum?

  3. So why is there...

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• Hot skills: Blackberry

  What is it?

  The Blackberry has played a regular supporting role in the UK and US governments' attempts to deal with the credit crunch. Alastair Darling...

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• Green Storage and the challenges of data growth

  Whatever their long-term view ought to be, many people see the premium on green goods as discretionary, and among the first thing to be cut when times get...  Continue Reading

• XAM: a guide to standardising archives

  How much money has your organisation invested in storage systems and processes over the last decade? Chances are you have spent many millions of pounds storing...  Continue Reading

• Hot skills: Lotus Notes and Domino

  What is it? IBM's Domino server and Notes client are frequently treated as direct competitors to Microsoft's Exchange Server and Outlook.  Continue Reading

• Networking in a mobile world

  The days are over when networking meant point to point links over shielded cables leased from BT and backed up with a dial-up modem on a telephone line....

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• Thin client computing smartens up

  Thin client computing has been around for many years - predating the PC, if you include standard green screen terminals.  Continue Reading

• Handset makers court software developers to secure enterprise markets

  As businesses get to grips with mobile phones for enterprise computing, the fragmented handset market is likely to consolidate. The big question is who will...  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation: realising the benefits

  Virtualisation: Realising the benefits

  T departments are being pressured to cut costs, and yet deliver more services faster and better than before....

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• Hot skills: Symbian

  What is it? According to figures from industry analyst Canalys , the Symbian ...  Continue Reading

• How to cope with broadband failure

  Your employer - a legal company - is working on a large case, involving several different regional offices. The client's chief counsel has sprung a surprise...

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• Identity is no longer a matter of what you know, but who you are

  Protecting your personal information with "what you know" is no longer good enough as it is now easy to find information like a birth date, address or mother's...

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• Light speed computing

  Photonics investigates how optical technology could replace electrical signals sent through copper cables, which are used in today's computers. Not only...

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• Facing up to security perils of outbound traffic

  What about the threat from within and, more specifically, the security issues that arise from outbound traffic risks?  Continue Reading

• Oyster Card: The highs and lows of Oyster

  Transport for London’s Oyster card system uses radio frequency identification tags (RFID) to enable a contactless ticketing system.  Continue Reading

• Femtocells: delivering in-building mobile reception

  The next generation of mobile network could be built in a totally different way to today's 3G infrastructure. The Femto...  Continue Reading

• Securing the desktop and still allowing for flexibility

  Few enterprises could bear a $7.2bn loss caused by a "computer genius" avoiding company policies and controls. But for international bank Société Générale,...

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• Mish-Mesh

  Mesh Collaboration - Creating Business Value in the network of everything (Andy Mulholland & Nick Earle) "Creating business value in the network of everything", so the claim of the book, seems like a daunting task, for sure.  Continue Reading

• Graphics chips help supercomputers become commonplace

  The sight of supercomputers in every home and office may soon become a reality thanks to video games such as Grand Theft Auto. High-end 3D games need the fastest graphics chips to run well. This has driven graphics cards makers to build ever-faster ...  Continue Reading

• The secret to designing user-friendly interfaces for desktop software

  By the 1990s, user-friendliness had become so ubiquitous in software development that even the fictional programmers in Douglas Coupland's novel Microserfs...  Continue Reading

• Best IT blogs: Full shortlist for Computer Weekly's IT Blog Awards 2008

  Shortlist for Computer Weekly's IT Blog Awards 2008 in full, with links direct to all the shortlisted blogs.  Continue Reading

• Internet doomed unless everyone switches to IPv6, expert says

  The internet is heading for a meltdown in just two and a half years unless every man, woman, child and device on the planet moves to IPv6, it was claimed today.  Continue Reading

• VoIP suppliers - Essential Guide

  The benefits of voice-over-internet-protocol in cost and flexibility are well understood, but what is not yet certain is how the supplier community will ultimately shake out. With multiple companies offering different voice-over-internet-protocol (...  Continue Reading

• Photo story: ERNIE goes on display at the Science Museum

  Photos of ERNIE, the British 1950s computer that generated random numbers for the premium bonds draw, which has just gone on on display at the Science Museum, London.  Continue Reading

• The internet revolution: software as a service

  Is the browser the new operating system? It is by no means a new question, but it is certainly one that has gained in credibility in recent years. That is...

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• Are we entering the age of 10 gigabit ethernet necessity?

  It is not long ago I was asking in various broadband-testing reports whether we really need widespread Gigabit Ethernet. But now the question is, do we need...

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• Efficiency the priority as main players map out datacentre strategies

  Computer Weekly reviews how the main server makers are formulating strategy for the datacentre, and whether any viable alternatives are on the way. Our conclusion: keep an eye on Dell  Continue Reading

• End users 'biggest winners' from HP's acquisition of EDS

  End users could be the big winners following Hewlett-Packard's announcement that it is to acquire outsourcing company EDS for £7.13bn.  Continue Reading

• Keep your datacentre in good health

  The datacentre is the heart of the organisation. The network provides the arteries and the veins that distribute vital information to the various parts of the corporate body, but it is the datacentre that keeps pumping it out. Keeping the heart in ...  Continue Reading

• San in tune for BRIT School

  Centralised storage brings famous music school increased archival security plus added flexibility.  Continue Reading

• GP promotes online medical record access for NHS patients

  NHS patients should have easy access to their medical records through an online database interface, according to the GP who took over Harold Shipman's practice near Manchester.  Continue Reading

• Supercomputers help Exeter reach for the stars

  Are we alone in the universe? Could life exist on other planets? Questions like these have inspired countless science fiction stories, but at the University of Exeter's Astrophysics department, these queries are at the forefront of research. The ...  Continue Reading

• Datacentres move towards virtualised future

  Although it started life as a back-office support function, the datacentre has transformed from a "glorified computerised filing cabinet" (in many people's eyes) to a major consumer of resources. The big question now is how to rationalise it. There ...  Continue Reading

• Constant vigilance keeps Stroud & Swindon secure

  "Information security is part of life now for financial services organisations and you have to take it seriously. If the business is linked to any loss of sensitive data, it causes serious reputational damage and you can't afford for that to happen,...  Continue Reading

• Infosecurity 2008: show guide and preview

  Infosecurity Europe is the event where those responsible for securing their organisations' information can find all the latest technology, services and advice, with more than 300 of the top security companies from across the globe taking part.  Continue Reading

• Spot the Editor: Terms and conditions

  Full competition terms and conditions  Continue Reading

• Radar: Building HIV resistance using grid computing

  The processing power of grid computing will be used by University College London (UCL) this year to develop treatments that could be more effective in the treatment of people with HIV.  Continue Reading

• How to green your IT business: the expert view

  Using energy-efficient technology that has less impact on the environment can benefit the environment and make financial sense...  Continue Reading

• Ice warriors take computing beyond freezing point

  His beard and eyebrows are caked in ice, and the beads of sweat around his nose look like frozen tears....  Continue Reading

• Guess that kit competition round one: Business on the move

  Take a few minutes to enter our new competition. Just Guess that kit for a chance to win!  Continue Reading

• Guess that kit round one: Business on the move (top-right)

  Guess that kit competition: further clues.  Continue Reading

• Guess that kit round one: Business on the move (top-left)

  Guess that kit competition: further clues.  Continue Reading

• Guess that kit round one: Business on the move (bottom-left)

  Guess that kit competition: further clues.  Continue Reading

• Guess that kit round one: Business on the move (bottom-right)

  Guess that kit competition: further clues.  Continue Reading

• Guess that kit round one: Business on the move (bottom-centre)

  Guess that kit round one: further clue to our competition.  Continue Reading

• Guess that kit round one: Business on the move (top-centre)

  Guess that kit competition: further clues.  Continue Reading

• Interview: Bjorn Andersson, manager of shipboard and network operations for Crystal Cruises

  Crystal Cruises, one of the world's pre-eminent ocean cruising companies, is using an accelerator appliance to boost internet speeds over satellite connections to retain customers, boost its reputation among the travelling cognoscenti, and save ...  Continue Reading

• Can Web 2.0 cope with second class security?

  Web 2.0 promises a banquet of tasty features, rich experience and sizzling socialising. But will the dash to gorge bring its own problems?  Continue Reading

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: an expert view

  Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the long-awaited update to Microsoft’s Windows Server family of products.  Continue Reading

• Picture story: how undersea internet cables are repaired

  The recent sub-sea cable breakages have highlighted the world of undersea fibre-optic cables and their importance in the communications between businesses, financial districts and consumers around the world.  Continue Reading

• Game: Debug your system with Infosecurity Europe

  Coffee break? Play Debug, a great free online game from Infosecurity Europe, and get that virus out of your system.  Continue Reading

• Hollow core fibre could shine a light on faster broadband

  The University of Bath is experimenting with a new type of material that could increase data transfer speeds and reduce part of the cost of installing broadband networks.  Continue Reading

• Yahoo Mail LadyBoy commercial

  It's everyone's nightmare, I think the title says it all.  Continue Reading

• Japanese Windows commercial

  Words can't describe this commercial. Mainly because I don't speak Japanese, still very visual.  Continue Reading

• Steve Ballmer sells Windows like a madman

  Aired in the US, Steve Ballmer makes his point with subtlety.  Continue Reading

• Apple Mac 1984 commerial

  Apple launches the Mac with a $1.5m commercial aired during the Superbowl.  Continue Reading

• 1978 Atari games Commercial

  Did you think the Wii was realistic? Well Atari were well ahead of their time with this commercial.  Continue Reading

• Dell (RED) commercial

  Do you need lots of attention? And a policeman to slap your bum? Well buy a Dell.  Continue Reading

• Early 90s Microsoft commercial

  Is Vista baffling your secretary? Well maybe you should downgrade to Windows 3.1 because apparently it was really easy to use.  Continue Reading

• First ever Nintendo commercial

  This was the beginning of Nintendo. You really got value for money back then!  Continue Reading

• Beyond Moore's Law: the growing challenges of computer design

  Progress in computer technology over the past four decades has been spectacular, driven by Moore's Law which, though initially an observation, has become a self-fulfilling prophecy and a boardroom planning tool.  Continue Reading