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From silicon.com:
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.07.09
Video: 60-Second Pitch: Voice recognition tech
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Voice, video, data: £1bn gov't telecoms contract up for grabs
Betfair CTO bets on new tech architecture
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Photos: How touchscreen tech helps a hospital keep tabs on patients
Google's Chrome OS: On the frontline of the new operating system war
Is BT's super-fast broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
What does Google's Chrome OS mean for Android? |
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From ZDNet UK:
IBM's ID card contract to last 7 years The government signs up to a long contract to run an ID card database, even though the Conservatives have said they will scrap the scheme if they come into power at the next election
Google Apps users to get OpenID authentication Google is about to announce OpenID log-in functionality for enterprise users of its Apps productivity suite. The search giant has already adopted the authentication standard - whereby a...
Cisco replaces Nortel in key 2012 Olympics role Nortel has been dropped as the official communications supplier for the 2012 London Olympics, and has been replaced by Cisco. In a statement on Friday, the London 2012 Organising Committee...
Mobile can fill in UK broadband gaps, says 3 The operator says 3G services can help fulfil the government's aims of universal 2Mbps broadband, but only if key radio spectrum issues are resolved
Gov't to spend £1bn on telecoms framework A £1bn contract to provide telecoms equipment across the public sector has been put out to tender
Microsoft to integrate Twitter into its CRM Businesses will be able to use Twitter to engage customers through Microsoft's Dynamics CRM software within the next few weeks
Chrome OS: what does it mean for Android? Google already has what seems to be a viable netbook operating system in Android, so why does it need Chrome OS too?
Google search filters for free-to-use images New options in Google's search tool let people filter images according to their licensing status, allowing users to find photos free for commercial reuse
DirectX holes to be plugged next week Microsoft is to issue six security updates on Patch Tuesday next week, including a critical one that will fix two outstanding holes in DirectX
Users upset as CA anti-virus attacks Windows CA user forums were filled with comments from confused and upset customers after the software detected a Windows system file as a virus
O2 to offer landline numbers for mobiles The operator is set to offer a service that gives small business users a landline number that goes straight through to their mobile phone
Behind the scenes at chip firm NXP Dutch semiconductor company NXP shows how its chips are being used in transport, medicine and smart metering during a tour of its research facility in Eindhoven
High-street ID card plan won't work, MPs say Workers in post offices and other retailers don't have the skills to handle ID card enrolment, leaving the scheme open to fraud, a government committee has found
Silverlight 3 makes an early debut The final version of Silverlight 3 has been released to the web, a day ahead of the product's launch event in San Francisco
Met will not reopen phone hack investigation The Metropolitan Police will not reopen its investigation into alleged phone hacking by the News of the World. In a press statement delivered outside Scotland Yard on Thursday, Assistant...
BT fibre broadband coming to 69 more towns The second stage of BT's £1.5bn rollout of high-speed fibre broadband will kick off in 69 towns and cities around the UK
Memory price hikes make SSDs less attractive Surging prices for NAND-type flash memory have created a new hurdle for the adoption of solid-state drives by making them significantly more expensive
Orange to exclusively sell Toshiba's 1GHz phone The TG01 Windows Mobile handset will be on sale by the weekend, Orange has said
Fujitsu to plug in Citrix virtualisation Citrix's Xen technology will be combined with Fujitsu's servers and workplace virtualisation portfolio to provide an integrated bundle for setting up VDIs
Europe falling behind US in cloud, says Reding Small European businesses need Europe-hosted cloud computing services within five years, according to telecoms and media commissioner Viviane Reding
First open-source Symbian software released The launch of the OS Security Package is the first step in the Symbian Foundation's plan to eventually open source its entire Symbian mobile operating system
Apple patches two critical Safari bugs The update fixes two bugs that put Mac and Windows systems at risk of cross-site scripting attacks or of being taken over
XHTML 2 is finally laid to rest It was meant to set standards, but from its beginning, XHTML 2 was due a slow demise
Google names Chrome OS hardware partners The search and advertising giant has named the companies it will work with to develop hardware to support its Chrome operating system
How Google will continue its watch over you The company's all-or-nothing approach of tracking user activity means its new OS could leave your privacy compromised
EMC wins Data Domain storage acquisition battle After a good old fashioned bidding battle, storage company EMC has won control of storage company Data Domain over rival suitor storage company NetApp. DataDomain is best known for its...
Microsoft pilot offers schools 'fairer' software deal Under the Subscription Enrolment Schools Pilot, schools will not be required to pay licence fees for systems not being used for educational needs
Sinofsky named as Windows division president
Google reveals winners of Native Client bug contest A researcher who won a bug-finding contest says Google Native Client technology is architecturally sound The UK internet service provider will not use behavioural advertising technology from Phorm, the companies announced on Wednesday
Feds take DDoS in their stride The US Department of Homeland Security has said that a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks began on US government networks on 4 July. However, Amy Kudwa, deputy press secretary for...
Gartner finds lukewarm response to SaaS The research firm's findings contradict the general impression that SaaS could help alleviate costs in the economic downturn
Fujitsu introduces entry-level Primergy server
Mozilla calls on coders to build web-tool index
IBM plans to end final-salary pensions The company is to launch a consultation with staff about stopping its final-salary pension scheme, while the plans have been criticised by the Unite union A new alpha version of LiveAndroid has been released, adding mouse-controlled cursor and keyboard functionality to the PC port of Google's mobile operating system
Microsoft aims to break new ground with Gazelle Helen Wang, the researcher behind Microsoft's Gazelle browser, talks to Ina Fried about making the browser more like an operating system
Google Chrome OS takes shine off Windows
EMC bundles IT tools for virtualisation The company has integrated its existing and acquired IT management technologies into a package, named Ionix, that it says will speed the move to virtualisation in the datacentre
Maps compare 3G coverage across UK
The search giant has taken Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk out of beta, and announced new disaster recovery measures, in a push to attract business users
Major spike in spam containing shortened URLs MessageLabs has warned that email spam which includes truncated web addresses has seen a dramatic increase
Former ICO head urges data-protection 'step change' In the ICO's annual report, prepared just before he stood down from the information commissioner's job in June, Richard Thomas argues for greater resources for the privacy watchdog
Google announces Chrome operating system The Google Chrome Operating System project aims to build a Linux-based OS available for purchase on netbooks in the second half of 2010
Microsoft, EC 'in talks' to settle antitrust issues Bloomberg has reported that Microsoft is looking to settle several pending issues before EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes steps down at the end of the year
Labour MP takes gov't to task over ID scheme The government has faced fresh calls for the £5bn scheme to be scrapped, this time from within the Labour party
Microsoft promise lets Mono off the hook The software maker is to extend its Community Promise to cover standards that underpin the .NET framework, thus clearing up some of the uncertainty surrounding the Mono project
ComScore stats show rapid UK video growth The number of videos watched online in the UK increased by 47 percent between April last year and April this year, according to digital-world-measurers comScore. The firm said on Monday that...
Sony shows off its Vaio W-Series netbook
Symantec backup gets client dedupe The next update of NetBackup will add deduplication at the client, which should allow users to cut both storage and network bandwidth needs, according to Symantec |
The former Office executive has been leading engineering efforts in the post-Vista era and will now assume business responsibility as well
The Primergy TX100 S1 is aimed at small businesses that have not yet upgraded from external hard drives to servers for their storage
Mozilla Labs is asking programmers to help build an Open Web Tools Directory, in a bid create a comprehensive index of all the open-source developer tools available
The Chrome OS is perfectly pitched at Microsoft's weaknesses. Addressing those will be Redmond's biggest challenge
Regulator Ofcom has published maps that reveal the extent of each operator's 3G coverage across the UK
The manufacturer has taken the wraps off its first true netbook, despite having said in December that it would not produce one
