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Archive - 17 May 2006

Love Google, hate Pot Noodles

News Despite proving reluctant to spend money on advertising, Google tops the list of most-loved brands in the UK

RIM: Email? Been there, done that

News The company's latest trick is mobilising enterprise data applications, but it may face corporate scepticism

CIOs: 'Gas-guzzling' PCs pose IT power issues

Analysis Corporate ethics and cost are driving IT energy consumption up the agenda

Transparency 'crucial' for RFID systems

News Privacy concerns must be addressed if RFID is to avoid the kind of consumer backlash that greeted GM foods, the European Commission has heard

Achieving executive balance: Nine ways leaders and managers work together

Help/HowTo Although it's not apparent in the structure of some organisations, leaders and managers have highly distinct roles, and both are essential to the success of the business

Control conference calls from your BlackBerry

News Brief: Ring2's Conference Controller offers nifty features, but its prices may deter some

IT pros fear offshoring, executives don't

News IT directors and chief information officers are the most confident their jobs will not be offshored, while the rank and file live in dread of the pink slip

Symbian checks into executive class

News CIOs are the smartphone company's next targets, as it looks to break out of a narrow geographical focus

Microsoft search wants to pick your brain

News Chairman Bill Gates is to show off server software that aims to help workers find data stored on their company's computers as well as information located only inside the brains of their colleagues

2010: The year of the techie

News Tech professionals will find it easier to climb the corporate ladder by the end of the decade – helped in part by more intelligent cars

BT to create wireless cities

News The '12 Wireless Cities' plan will see BT make wireless Internet access more widely available, in partnership with local councils

SAS marks 30 years with data integration record

News SAS showed off speedy business intelligence software, toasted another year of growth and explained why it has no plans to go public

Oracle's fight for Wall Street cred

Q&A Oracle co-president Charles Phillips, a former financial analyst himself, discusses analysts' continuing complaints about Oracle and why its stock price remains in the doldrums

AMD unveils architecture for its next generation of chips

News Next Generation Processor Technology enhances the design underlying the current Opteron, Turion and Athlon 64 chips without fundamentally altering a successful formula

Microsoft: Open source's best friend?

News Microsoft is simultaneously running a lab to help open source projects and a programme to get open source developers working with Windows

Sun flirts with Ubuntu

News Builder: Without making any definite announcements just yet, it is clear Sun and Ubuntu are forming a beautiful relationship

NHS hits million electronic prescriptions milestone

News The million mark was passed this week as part of the first stage of the rollout of the Electronic Prescription Service, which aims to replace existing paper prescriptions by the end of next year

IBM backs OpenDocument in Lotus Notes

News The 'Hannover' release will support ODF in its word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and data analysis editors

Researcher: Macs not as expensive as thought

News Research shows an average price difference of only 13 percent for desktops and 10 percent for laptops

AMD's Turion gets a second core

News AMD expects the dual-core Turion to finally offer the same performance as Intel's Core Duo chip at similar frequencies

Sun promises to open source Java

News Builder: It's no longer in doubt that Java will go open source, 'it is just a question of how', executives say