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Dell: Why We’re Ditching Smartphones

Kirk Schell, VP of Dell’s client and consumer product group, tells us smartphones are not a priority

12 years ago

CA’s App Development “Wind Tunnel”

Testing software components on a simulated network is the only way to deliver good software, says CA's Shridhar Mittal

12 years ago

LeWeb 2012: How To Provide Support To The Government’s Super-Site

Cloud-based customer support is the future, says Matt Price, VP at Zendesk

12 years ago

Prepare For Power Struggles In The Data Centre

Low energy servers, and high voltage outages. It all add up to an industry power play, says Peter Judge

12 years ago

Le Web 2012: Where Are The Brits?

UK start-ups were all but absent from Le Web, highlighting how far the US is ahead, says Tom Brewster

12 years ago

Let’s Celebrate Tech Success!

The world is full of successful IT projects. Let's give them the recognition they deserve, says Peter Judge

12 years ago

Microsoft Surface Tablet Could Anger Partners

Microsoft has designed both hardware and software for its Surface tablet - which will irk its partners, warns Robert J…

12 years ago

BBC And Guardian’s .Crazy gTLD Gambles

For two news outlets with plenty of financial troubles, BBC and the Guardian are taking big risks with their gTLD…

12 years ago

IT Life: From TV To IT

From acting in EastEnders, Linda Davidson moved to a role reconciling people and technology

12 years ago

PCeU Chief: We’re Punching Above Our Weight

The head of the PCeU says the unit is doing a lot with not much funding. Does she want more?

12 years ago

Microsoft: Windows Azure IaaS Is Not For New Apps

Azure may have an infrastructure option, but it's not pitching against Amazon Web Services, says Microsoft's Michael Newberry

12 years ago

Data Centre Efficiency – There Is No Magic Measure

Measures of data centre efficiency will be unfair because there is no definition of useful work, says Liam Newcombe

12 years ago

Apple Gets Loyalty By Making Upgrades Easy

Users will follow apple for its easy-to-understand upgrade path, says Wayne Rash

12 years ago

LeWeb Brings Startup Culture To London: Loïc Le Meur

French entrepreneur Le Meur discusses LeWeb, his startup Seesmic, and the price of Facebook shares

12 years ago

IT Life: Cisco CTO Wants To Train Britain Up

Cisco's Ian Foddering loves Maggie Philbin, hates email, and wants to fix the skills crisis by getting kids excited about…

12 years ago

LinkedIn: Keep Calm And Keep Connecting

LinkedIn may be a boring place with no secrets, but those passwords are important, says Peter Judge

12 years ago

Flame Is More Than Just FUD

Ignore the sceptics. The Flame worm is significant for what is says as much as what it does, argues Tom…

12 years ago

Cloud: Money Saver Or Money Maker?

Organisations’ move to the cloud is to save money. Mark Young asks, why not focus on making it instead?

12 years ago

Can Data Centres Really Go Off Grid?

Data centre makers want to operate independently of the power grid. That would mean cloud services that close down at…

12 years ago

The Met: We Must Do Better In War On Cyber Crime

Commander Allan Gibson says fresh data sharing initiatives will help the Met get better at fighting cyber fraud

12 years ago

Security Myth Burns With A Brilliant Flame

Like its predecessors, espionage malware Flame has upped the stakes in the security market with its advanced surveillance capabilities, says…

12 years ago

Is Meg Whitman Failing, Or Is HP Just Too Big?

HP has not done well with CEOs from outside. Maybe Meg Whitman should make way for a CEO from the…

12 years ago

EMC’s Great Balancing Act

Can EMC make risky flash plays and avoid a public cloud backlash without shooting themselves in the foot? Tom Brewster…

12 years ago

Certification: Could It Nail Cloud Security?

Google is certifying its Apps to ISO27001. While that may sound boring, without certification, you might as well play Russian…

12 years ago

IT Life: Four Decades Of Computing

We chat to IT veteran Ian Fergus about Bill Gates, Amazon, the Internet of the future, and free burgers

12 years ago

Google Wins Patent Fight – But It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over

In the Oracle v Google legal tussle Judge William Alsup has become The Decider in what could become a landmark…

12 years ago

Open Source Won The Mobile Platform Wars

Open source has won on mobile devices, because it makes for better software, says Funambol's Fabrizio Capobianco

12 years ago

Does Greenpeace Even Get Tech?

It is important to make IT greener, but we need a better watchdog than Greenpeace, says Peter Judge

13 years ago

EMC World: Gelsinger Says Facebook’s Open Compute Isn’t Reliable Enough

Facebook's Open Compute Project isn't reliable enough for critical storage, says EMC's Pat Gelsinger. Or is it just too open?

13 years ago

Don’t Write Off HP And Yahoo Just Yet

With the right direction, both HP and Yahoo can turn their fortunes around says Chris Preimesberger

13 years ago