Previous DayBA takes on first tech hires 'in years'
News Chief information officer Paul Coby has spoken about the importance of tech skills in the UK, and says more should be done to improve IT career paths
Quickoffice adds remote content access
News The company's partnership with SoonR, announced at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, will result in automated backup for users of the Symbian-based office productivity suite
Mystery of Microsoft's automatic updates
News The software maker is investigating why some Windows machines were apparently updated and forced to reboot without their owners' consent
Microsoft lets slip OCS details
Blog Microsoft has released early details ahead of its official launch of Office Communications Server this evening. Bill Gates is due to officially launch OCS – Microsoft’s unified communications...
Microsoft and Cisco divided over unified comms
News At IP'07, PBX and software vendors have been engaged in a fundamental debate over the best way to deliver unified communications
Unified communications come together
Vendorboard Lotus's Darren Adams talks about the benefits of integrating VoIP, video, presence, telephony, unified messaging and other technologies
3G's growing pains hurt WiMax more
Leader Ericsson's profit warning is symptomatic of a market in transition. That makes WiMax's task harder, not easier
Storm botnet 'services' could be sold
News The Storm botnet could be divided into smaller networks and the individual pieces sold to spammers, security experts warn
I'm Google, fly me!
Blog More from Deep Thrust, my overseas aviation correspondent, on GoogleAir. The G-boys have been busy while waiting for the million-dollar dent in their second-hand Boeing 757 to be bashed out at...
I agree with David
Talkback I think that perhaps google is taking the boundries of privacy a bit too far. I suppose one could argue that it is your choice to join up if you are made fully aware of the implementations of doing...
Video blog: Small businesses are ripping out VoIP
Blog Chatting to analyst Clive Longbottom from Quocirca at IP 07, it seems that VoIP can be a complex beast – especially for smaller companies. Clive even goes so far as to say that reliability has been...
Unified comms fails to unify IP vendors
Blog I've just attended one of the big debates of the IP'07 show: and one of the very biggest themes of the event is unified communications. Unified comms involves bringing together voice, data,...
Video blog: VoIP security is a red herring
Blog Down at the IP 07 show in London's Earls Court – we have been chatting to various industry luminaries about whether the whole convergence strategy pushed by the communications vendors is all it's...
Symbian boosts mobile connection management
News At the Symbian Smartphone Show, several enhancements of the popular mobile platform have been announced that help enable seamless transitions between different types of high-speed data connectivity
Symbian: Mobile Linux threat 'shrinking'
Blog Still at the Symbian Smartphone Show... Earlier this year a Symbian exec told ZDNet.co.uk that mobile Linux was "fragmentation city" and therefore not much of a threat. So, does Nigel Clifford,...
The IP IP shake.
Blog Yes, it's that wonderful time of year again when chestnuts are ripening on the trees, golden leaves form a crunchy carpet underfoot for duffel-coated toddlers to frollick in, and the IT industry...
Seeking Microsoft's next billion users
Q&A Bill Gates gave Will Poole a not-so-simple job: figure out how to connect the rest of the world's inhabitants to computer technology
MAX Europe
Blog For the first time in Europe, Adobe is hosting its MAX developer symposium in Barcelona this week. Below are a few distilled key pointers from the keynotes, sessions, briefings and roundtables I’ve...
Symbian Smartphone Show updates
Blog S60 will be the first mobile platform to support Flash Lite 3. According to Nokia's Lee Williams, this will enable rich video applications on the smartphone like watching your baby (?), so that's...
RE:Greenpeace says iPhone ain't green
Blog Comment As Apple has said, it complies with all the regulations and has committed to phase out PVC and BFRs by the end of 2008. It's perfectly in order to say that this isn't good enough, but Greenpeace...
Microsoft's unified communications suite
Tech Guide Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 enable IT departments to provide presence, instant messaging (IM) and voice functionality to users located on either side...
Its unstoppable
Talkback The demand for this technology is already out there and being implemented, this is no longer something we would like but something we need we are running out of ways to send data how can technology...
Office Communicator 2007
Review Office Communicator 2007 is Microsoft's latest desktop tool for instant messaging and internet voice and video calls. At a basic level it provides a viable alternative to Skype and its ilk....
Office Communications Server 2007
Review Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007) provides an array of enterprise-level communications functionality. It also hooks into a number of other Microsoft products, so the adoption of OCS 2007...
Extent of UK tech skills crisis in doubt
News A panel of IT chiefs have said fears over a UK tech skills crisis are exaggerated but education and recruitment are still weak areas
RE:Dell still gets thumbs up
Blog Comment Very valid points. If I were kitting out an office my priorities would be reliability/low maintenance and I'd lean towards IBM or perhaps HP. Had a lot of relieability issues with NEC, Samsung,...
