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Nokia: Science skills gap is Europe-wide
News However, according to Ryhanen — Nokia's head of global research in the nanotechnology field — the lack of uptake in scientific education is "not only a UK problem", but a more generic European issue. Meanwhile, in the UK a National Skills Academy...
[March 12, 2007, 12:17]
Government to relaunch IT NVQ
News Speaking to ZDNet UK at an event to publicise the new user-level NVQ qualification, the Information Technology Qualification (ITQ), Lloyd claimed that the existing IT professional NVQs had suffered from poor uptake and lack of interest.
[May 5, 2004, 18:05]
Office for the Mac vs OpenOffice 3 for the Mac
Blog Be interesting to keep an eye on the development of OpenOffice 3.0 and see what the uptake from Mac users is like as well as trying to find out what the actual numbers are which Microsoft is so proud of as the company isn't disclosing anything...
[May 13, 2008, 14:46]
Government digital TV plans under threat
News The uptake of digital TV has been very promising, with 30 percent of homes now having access. All the signals that we are getting is that uptake is going to increase. The government's plans for universal digital television, and an analogue signal...
[April 10, 2001, 16:02]
Microsoft releases Windows 7 worldwide
News Even with that legacy, expect enterprise uptake and migration programmes to start to appear during the first two quarters of 2010, with greater acceleration once budgets become released on the back of the green shoots of recovery, and when XP...
[October 22, 2009, 12:37]
What the hell are Grids anyway?
News How would you define it and is this lack of clarity affecting its uptake? Are they holding back widespread uptake? The term Grid computing has joined the august pantheon of IT terms which are banded about without much precision.
[December 10, 2004, 13:30]
BT to trial voice-over-Wi-Fi for Bluephone 2
News Initial uptake will be among businesses keen to reduce their communications costs," he said. Interest in VoWLAN technology is set to see considerable uptake over the next two years, according to analysts at Meta Group.
[March 15, 2005, 14:30]
Analysts: Windows Server 2008 will please users
News Regarding uptake, Illsley said companies will want to see customer case studies and may wait for problems to be ironed out by the first service pack before deciding to take it up. He also suggested significant uptake will occur when companies...
[February 27, 2008, 7:41]
Report dismisses MMS hype
News As you see more handsets become available at a range of prices uptake will increase," the spokesperson said. One of the ways Optus is hoping to drive uptake is by enabling MMS to be sent to any mobile or email address.
[August 9, 2002, 8:10]
Mandelson launches 'bold' e-commerce initiative
News He believes cross border tariffs and Internet charges are two key reasons for the slow uptake of Internet business. Robinson also believes the government needs to do more to adopt higher bandwidth technology and introduce tax breaks within the e...
[December 17, 1998, 10:21]
Customer care - talk is good
News Slower uptake at financial planning firm However, Diversified Investment Advisors, a 50-year-old financial services company, has had a different experience with the use of its Web-based customer care features.
[July 30, 2002, 13:41]
No free broadband for businesses
News That said, the analysts agree it will probably have the effect of increasing broadband uptake in the UK. Adam Legresley, head of operations at the IT Forum Foundation (which works with British e-business and the Department for Trade and Industry...
[August 1, 2006, 9:20]
China telecoms market to overtake Japan by 2014
News China's telecommunications market is on track to generate $187bn by 2014, fuelled by mobile uptake in its rural areas and 3G, according to Pyramid Research. The latest annual report from the analyst firm estimated the country's telecoms market...
[July 27, 2009, 9:51]
EC reforms aim to smooth path to fibre era
News As well as improved security, the reforms are also seeking to overcome the hindrances to wider uptake of fibre broadband in Europe. The European Parliament has been debating EU telecoms reform proposals ahead of a vote later this month that could...
[September 5, 2008, 12:11]
Single biggest thing holding Linux back? Vendor lock-in
Blog Matthew McKenzie over at InformationWeek raised some points recently which got me thinking about the level of uptake of desktop Linux. Among his comments were: Conversely, Windows 7 delivers a clear message to every Linux distributor aiming for a...
[February 17, 2009, 7:54]
IBM: Linux desktops bucking the recession
Blog Comment I suppose there will need to be a massive sale and then a massive uptake to follow. Thanks Adrian, that clears thing up nicely! Are Apple going for a slice of the pie?
[May 22, 2009, 20:20]
Teleworking hits security barriers
News Over 80 percent of companies now have staff who work from home on a regular or occasional basis, according to the latest research, but security is still seen as a major barrier to more widespread uptake.
[November 5, 2002, 13:45]
Aging drives Internet growth
News Broadband uptake gathers speed The survey of 700 metropolitan residents, aged 16 years and older, found that Internet usage among younger age groups had reached saturation point. However, growth in older age groups and women using the Internet...
[September 22, 2003, 16:10]
Linux.conf.au: Sysadmin role changing via the cloud
News The uptake of cloud computing was rendering many traditional systems-administrator functions obsolete, tech author and Google sysadmin Tom Limoncelli told attendees at Linux.conf.au (LCA) in Hobart this week.
[January 27, 2009, 8:49]
Virtualised Windows 7 Migration
Blog The wait for Windows 7 combined with the comparatively lower than anticipated uptake of Vista has, as we know, left many users clinging for dear life onto XP. It has also, arguably, provided a breathing space for the virtualisation market to edge a...
[May 5, 2009, 11:01]
