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Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?

Could some of the big names in outsourcing be among the victims of the much-hyped shift to cloud computing? As businesses begin to host their IT systems in the cloud - instead of hiring outsourcers to maintain and integrate their systems - outsourcers ...

From NICK HEATH, Silicon.com,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nicholas Carr,  Google Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.,  Flickr,  Creative Commons

Trojan bank fraud gang sentenced

Four men have been sentenced to prison time for being part of a gang that stole just under Ł500,000 from UK bank customers. The men were sentenced last Friday at Southwark Crown Court in London for their part in an international criminal network that ...

From NICK HEATH, Silicon.com,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Santos, Ltd.,  Vauxhall

UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed

The controversial ID project has hit another delay, with the government missing its own deadline to get the cards into the hands of Manchester residents. The Home Office announced today that people living or working in Manchester will now be able to ...

From NICK HEATH, Silicon.com,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Home Office,  U.S. Democratic Party,  John Leech

Westminster computing put on size-zero diet

With the government hoping to offset or reduce all the CO2 emissions produced by its fleet of half a million computers by 2012, IT is under more pressure than ever to go green. As a result, the public sector has "stopped eating pies and put ourselves ...

From NICK HEATH, Silicon.com,  13 Nov 2009

Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words

The codebreaking veterans gather outside the Bletchley Park manor house to show off their medals (Photo: Nick Heath/silicon.com) The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers is credited with shortening the Second World War by two ...

From NICK HEATH, Silicon.com,  5 Nov 2009

Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business

Since Google launched its Wave collaboration platform this year businesses have been testing how they can make use of the system. The Wave platform offers users a chance to chat and work together in real-time within a window in a web browser that ...

From NICK HEATH, Silicon.com,  2 Nov 2009

Photos: Salesforce.com rides the Google wave with CRM app

Using the platform, individuals can access shared windows called 'waves' where they can collaborate in real-time, swapping IMs, photos, videos, maps and documents as they work together. Tech companies are already creating custom apps for Google Wave, ...

From NICK HEATH, Silicon.com,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Salesforce.com Inc,  IBM

How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale

Following its sale by parent company Ford last year, car maker Jaguar Land Rover has had to face the thorny problem of cutting itself loose from Ford's web of business applications. JLR is spending Ł200m separating its IT operations from Ford, largely ...

From NICK HEATH, Silicon.com,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  Jaguar,  Land Rover,  Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Photos: Windows 7 - the latest PCs from Acer to Samsung

New touchscreen desktop panels and laptops designed to take advantage of Windows 7's touch-sensitive capabilities have appeared, while existing netbooks and laptops have also been kitted out with the OS to get a performance boost from its more modest ...

From NICK HEATH, Silicon.com,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: PC World,  Intel,  Microsoft Corporation

Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured

Foreign Secretary David Miliband with the director of the Bletchley Park Trust Simon Greenish and some of the veterans. (Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com) The Foreign Secretary was speaking at the manor house at Bletchley Park, ...

From NICK HEATH, Silicon.com,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Miliband

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