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July 23, 2010 23Jul2010 Photo Story

British Airways launches mobile phone apps

BA has launched apps for iPhone, Android and Blackberry mobile devices to allow mobile check-in and travel updates to passengers Continue Reading

July 21, 2010 21Jul2010 News

Why the ACCC thinks carrier Ethernet is important

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has indicated it may include Ethernet services in its list of Domestic Transmission Capacity Services. Richard Chirgwin analyses the implications of the move. Continue Reading

July 21, 2010 21Jul2010 News

Using 3G as a backup WAN

3G data services are often advanced as a cheap way to provide a disaster recovery service for your WAN. But experts say you need to do more than just cut from one link to another to create a functional connection. Continue Reading

July 20, 2010 20Jul2010 Photo Story

How Intel Atom processors are supporting 1000mph Bloodhound car

Bloodhound, the latest UK attempt to improve the world land speed record, is using Intel technology Continue Reading

July 20, 2010 20Jul2010 Photo Story

Intel is powering the fastest car in the world

July 15, 2010 15Jul2010 Photo Story

David Beckham arrives at a Cisco office near Heathrow airport

July 15, 2010 15Jul2010 Photo Story

David Beckham talks to fans around the world via Cisco telepresence

England footballing superstar David Beckham teamed up with Yahoo to talk to fans around the world using telepresence technology at Cisco's London office. Continue Reading

July 14, 2010 14Jul2010 News

Government scraps £80m Microsoft licensing deal with NHS

The government has scrapped the long-running NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) enterprise agreement (EA) software licensing deal with Microsoft after deciding there was no business case or budget to renew it. Continue Reading

July 13, 2010 13Jul2010 Photo Story

Kingston Technology SSDNow series solid state disk kit

July 13, 2010 13Jul2010 Photo Story

MoD Taranis - unmanned aircraft

July 13, 2010 13Jul2010 Photo Story

Photos: MoD Taranis - unmanned combat aircraft

A prototype unmanned combat aircraft of the future, Taranis, has been unveiled by the MOD for the first time today. Named after the Celtic god of thunder, the concept demonstrator will test the possibility of developing the first ever autonomous ... Continue Reading

July 13, 2010 13Jul2010 Photo Story

Instantly boost PC performance

Even a new PC will eventually slow down. A solid state disk can be a relatively easy upgrade to boost boot time and performance of the operating system. Continue Reading

July 12, 2010 12Jul2010 News

NHS National Programme for IT set for major changes

The controversial £12bn NHS IT project looks set for an overhaul as a result of a major reorganisation of the health service Continue Reading

July 12, 2010 12Jul2010 Answer

RAID 10 vs RAID 50: What is the best way to configure a storage array with 16 1 TB drives?

Learn the characteristics of RAID 10 and RAID 50, as well as which RAID level is appropriate for your applications. I/O and protection needs contribute to your RAID choice. Continue Reading

June 30, 2010 30Jun2010 Photo Story

The state of unified comms

June 30, 2010 30Jun2010 Photo Story

Business case for the Connected Enterprise

Clive Longbottom, founder of analyst house, Quocirca, asssses the business benefits of extending the corporate network to support collaborative applications. Continue Reading

June 30, 2010 30Jun2010 Photo Story

Takeoff, 18 March 2009

June 30, 2010 30Jun2010 Photo Story

Flying car wins its wings

TerraFugia has developed a flying car with the help of Dassault Systems computer-adied design software. Continue Reading

June 29, 2010 29Jun2010 Photo Story

TEEN BEDROOM

June 29, 2010 29Jun2010 Photo Story

Microsoft Home explores future uses of technology

The Microsoft Home explores technology that might enhance life at home in the next five to ten years. Continue Reading

June 24, 2010 24Jun2010 Tip

A plan for crisis communication : Need of the hour

Plans should be in place for communicating with employees in the event of a disaster. An effective plan for crisis communication is critical to this end. Continue Reading

June 22, 2010 22Jun2010 Photo Story

Lord Mayor’s bodyguard

June 22, 2010 22Jun2010 Photo Story

Worshipful Company of Information Technologists receives Royal Charter

The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists (WCIT), the City of London’s 100th livery company, celebrates its receipt of a Royal Charter. Continue Reading

June 21, 2010 21Jun2010 Blog Post

IT openness is coming - Cabinet Office

Government CIO John Suffolk and his colleagues are preparing plans for the publication of IT-related documents that have always been secret and difficult to obtain even under the Freedom of ... Continue Reading

June 21, 2010 21Jun2010 News

Telstra/NBN FAQ

Richard Chirgwin analyses the proposed deal between the federal government and Telstra, explaining how it will work, what it will mean for your broadband connection and the impact on competition. Continue Reading

June 18, 2010 18Jun2010 News

PRIMER: WiFi sniffers

Learn about WiFi sniffers, how they operate, how they can help to manage your WLANs and why Google is far from alone in its use of the technology. Continue Reading

June 16, 2010 16Jun2010 News

Google Maps allows users to see which homes are for sale

Google Maps users will be able to search for listings from estate agents and property websites directly on the maps from today. Continue Reading

June 15, 2010 15Jun2010 Blog Post

iSoft issues market update, and its share price rises

iSoft, an important supplier to the NHS IT scheme, issued a market update today, which appears to have been well received by the market as the company's share price rose by about 16% to 28.5 cents. ... Continue Reading

June 15, 2010 15Jun2010 Blog Post

Life made a misery after IBM took over congestion charge

"Since IBM took over the 'auto-pay' system my life has been a misery" - Bryan Thompson, Operations Director at car rental company Miles & Miles.There are plans to extend the problematic ... Continue Reading

June 15, 2010 15Jun2010 Photo Story

WWF-UK completes Exchange and Outlook migration

June 15, 2010 15Jun2010 Photo Story

WWF-UK cuts IT costs and reduces carbon footprint

The recession has put pressure on charities to cut their overheads. As a result, not-for-profit environmental group WWF-UK had to cut its costs. Continue Reading

June 09, 2010 09Jun2010 Blog Post

Will Coalition scrap opt-out model for summary care records?

Pulse magazine says the BMA is confident it can convince the new government to order a new opt-in model for summary care records. Opt-in is likely to mean that patients would give their consent to ... Continue Reading

June 09, 2010 09Jun2010 Blog Post

Early-day motion calls for immediate halt to summary care records uploads

A new Liberal Democrat MP has put down an early-day motion that "calls on the Government to halt all SCR [summary care records] updates, effective immediately, pending its promised comprehensive ... Continue Reading

June 08, 2010 08Jun2010 Photo Story

FaceTime - iPhone 4

June 08, 2010 08Jun2010 Photo Story

Photos: iPhone 4 - What's new and improved

Apple unveiled the iPhone 4 yesterday, this gallery looks at what changes/improvements have been made. Continue Reading

June 08, 2010 08Jun2010 News

BSkyB and HP/EDS settle on £318m in damages

HP has agreed to pay BSkyB £318m in damages six months after a UK court ruled that HP-owned EDS had misrepresented its capabilities in delivering a CRM system. Continue Reading

June 07, 2010 07Jun2010 Photo Story

The Computer Weekly guide to Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is changing the way IT departments buy IT. Businesses have a range of paths to the cloud, including infrastructure, platforms and applications that are available from cloud providers as online services. Continue Reading

June 07, 2010 07Jun2010 Photo Story

Computer Weekly Guide to Cloud Computing

June 07, 2010 07Jun2010 Photo Story

Inside the new MeeGo Linux operating system

June 07, 2010 07Jun2010 Photo Story

MeeGo test drive

MeeGo is a new Linux operating system for mobile devices, desktop PCs and Net Books. Cliff Saran takes a close look at what it has to offer. Continue Reading

May 26, 2010 26May2010 News

Royal Mail postpones Horizon roll-out after outages

A pilot of the new Horizon Online system at Royal Mail has been scaled back after connectivity problems and outages. Continue Reading

May 24, 2010 24May2010 Blog Post

£6bn of savings - some of the impact on IT

The Treasury outlines in a statement today (24 May 2010) how the government will save £6bn in 2010/11. There's no detail, only headline figures. This is what the statement says: "Government ... Continue Reading

May 20, 2010 20May2010 Blog Post

Goodbye ID cards - is it time to say hello to identity banks?

As expected, the new government has scrapped the controversial and unwieldy identity cards project created as a flagship of Labour policy. Labour's problem was that it never properly explained why ... Continue Reading

May 20, 2010 20May2010 News

Hacker McKinnon to stay in UK, for now

Self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon will stay in the UK for the foreseeable future following home secretary Theresa May's decision to adjourn a judicial review of his case due next week. Continue Reading

May 18, 2010 18May2010 Photo Story

Algerian Sahara

May 18, 2010 18May2010 Photo Story

European Space Agency gets IP Wan to handle satellite images

The European Space Agency is using an IP wide area network from Interoute to link up its 13 sites with bandwidth of between 1.5Mbps and 500Mbps. This picture gallery shows examples of the satellite images stored and secured on the network. Continue Reading

May 12, 2010 12May2010 Photo Story

Microsoft has made major improvements to Office apps

May 12, 2010 12May2010 Photo Story

Office 2010 review in pictures and video

The biggest problem with Office 2010 is earlier versions of Office itself. Any of the past two or three editions of the software are capable of handling day-to-day tasks – so why upgrade? Tim Anderson investigates. Continue Reading

May 11, 2010 11May2010 News

Challenges of SIP trunking for telecom managers and network admins

The challenges of SIP trunking for network administrators include interoperability and compression issues, service availability, security, SIP trunking architectures, lack of fax services, E-911 support and SIP trunk monitoring tools. Continue Reading

May 10, 2010 10May2010 Photo Story

NHS North Somerset PCT revamps telecoms

NHS North Somerset PCT improves communication at its new health centre with a flexible communications system supplier by Virgin Media Business. Continue Reading

May 10, 2010 10May2010 Photo Story

New centre lowers the cost of phone calls

May 07, 2010 07May2010 In Depth

Data migration projects: Avoid data migration errors with automation, orphaned storage remediation

Learn the top three things users should do when planning a data migration project, what data migration tools you should have, describe some of the most common data migration errors, and describe some storage environment challenges when migrating ... Continue Reading

May 05, 2010 05May2010 Blog Post

Would Tories create raft of new IT-related projects?

Board directors of major Government IT suppliers have good reason to vote Tory Plans for major outsourcing deals already underway in private? Sir Peter Gershon, adviser to the Conservative Party, ... Continue Reading

May 05, 2010 05May2010 Photo Story

Photos: The 2010 Election in pictures

The Election has been long and hard for all three parties with each leader vying for our attentions. We sum up the campaign in a bid to help you make up your mind. Continue Reading

May 05, 2010 05May2010 Photo Story

Election date announced

April 30, 2010 30Apr2010 Photo Story

Both small and large businesses can use smaller ERP systems

April 30, 2010 30Apr2010 Photo Story

A guide to ERP for small and large businesses

Bob Tarzey looks at the business case for integrating ERP systems for large and small companies Continue Reading

April 27, 2010 27Apr2010 Photo Story

Photos: Avatar Tree of Life in Hyde Park

Visitors to Hyde Park were greeted with a high-tech model of the Tree of Souls from James Cameron’s film Avatar last weekend. Continue Reading

April 27, 2010 27Apr2010 Photo Story

Colonel Quaritch in Trafalgar Square

April 23, 2010 23Apr2010 News

Small storage devices a hit at big hotel

Riverbed working to optimise iSCSI performance over wide area networks, to boost storage systems’ performance in cloud computing rigs. Continue Reading

April 22, 2010 22Apr2010 Photo Story

Visual Studio flavours

April 22, 2010 22Apr2010 Photo Story

Visual Studio 2010 first look

Visual Studio 2010 offers an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure that Microsoft says can be used to simplify the entire application development process. Continue Reading

April 22, 2010 22Apr2010 News

HDS and EMC's unified plans ridiculed by 3Par, Pillar, NetApp labelled "NotApp"

The storage blogosphere has adopted some wonderfully plain speech to describe the current mania for "unified storage" as EMC, HDS, NetApp, Pillar and 3Par sound off. Continue Reading

April 21, 2010 21Apr2010 Blog Post

More cracks in the NPfIT - or an unlocking of Trust restraints?

Smarthealthcare.com reports that the Department of Health is allowing some trusts in the north of England to use an alternative to the Lorenzo software they were going to install from their NPfIT ... Continue Reading

April 19, 2010 19Apr2010 News

Tier Wars: Hardware, storage management software and document management software stake a claim for

Storage tiering is a hot meme, and rightly so because it can lower costs and is an important way to use the speed of solid state disks to your advantage. But with three tiering choices in the market – hardware, storage software and document ... Continue Reading

April 15, 2010 15Apr2010 Photo Story

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