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



