Microsoft tells businesses: It's time for Vista
News We have tried to close gaps for consumers, and we're doing the same for enterprises," Mike Nash, vice president of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft, told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, CNET News.com.
[June 5, 2008, 13:04]
Motorola's consumer handsets chief resigns
News On Wednesday a company spokesperson told ZDNet.co.uk that Shaddock, who became a senior vice president in the mobile devices division in April this year, had been a "valued member of the team". Motorola has confirmed that its head of consumer...
[August 20, 2008, 17:53]
Photos: Data centre in a shipping container
News On Friday Sun invited ZDNet.co.uk to an army museum in London to see what it is calling the world's first "virtualised data centre" — basically a data centre housed in a standard 20-foot shipping container.
[May 21, 2007, 17:52]
CIOs ally to beat software firms
News Black, who spent his childhood on a Minnesota farm, explained to ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com how farming co-ops may have influenced his vision and why he thinks Avalanche is an idea whose time has come.
[April 30, 2004, 10:30]
ICANN to vote on internationalised domain names
News The policies that are to be voted on have taken around three years and $10m (£5m) to formulate, ICANN president Paul Twomey told ZDNet.co.uk on Monday. The organisation that manages the world's most important web address extensions — what goes...
[June 23, 2008, 17:44]
Security expert: Beware virtualisation in 2008
News McAfee told ZDNet.co.uk that companies need to understand the risks, as well as the benefits, before implementing virtualisation technologies. Security company McAfee has predicted that virtualisation will be an area of security concern in 2008.
[November 19, 2007, 15:57]
Bletchley Park campaign makes appeal to US
News Phil Dunkelberger, chief executive officer of PGP, told ZDNet.co.uk in a video interview that the group of companies would be making donations to repair the buildings at Bletchley Park, including the National Museum of Computing, and would be...
[September 8, 2008, 1:00]
IBM reworks storage offerings to tackle data build-up
News I think between 15 and 20 of the announcements are genuinely new products and then there are a lot of upgraded and enhanced products," Charlie Andrews, IBM's worldwide director for systems storage products, told ZDNet.co.uk.
[September 8, 2008, 8:21]
McAfee offers near-instant malware updates
News Marcus told ZDNet.co.uk sister site CNET News.com that the difference is that McAfee plans to use a desktop communication channel already built into the product, so existing users won't need to download new software.
[September 9, 2008, 13:32]
Ousourcing Disaster
Talkback As reported in Jan 2007 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39285463,00.htm badly managed unrealistic expectations
[May 17, 2007, 12:36]
HSBC may roll out iPhone to 200,000 staff
News We are actually reviewing iPhones from a HSBC Group perspective.and when I say that, I mean globally," HSBC's Australia and New Zealand chief information officer Brenton Hush told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, ZDNet.com.au, yesterday.
[August 14, 2008, 9:06]
Microsoft uses trucks to install its datacentre servers
News The trucks back them in, rack them and stack them," chief software architect Ray Ozzie told ZDNet.co.uk sister site CNET News.com. Then it bought them by the rack. Now it's preparing to load up servers by the shipping container.
[August 21, 2008, 8:24]
HP and Tandberg target Cisco with conferencing tie-up
News Tandberg's director of strategic alliances, Steve Vobbe, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that it had no plans for integration with Cisco TelePresence, because of the proprietary nature of Cisco's solution. The gist of the Tandberg/HP partnership is that...
[January 5, 2007, 8:52]
There's a better explanation of the fault...
Talkback .on Rupert's blog.http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009655o-2000331777b,00.htm It was a "quench" that went past the LHC's quench suppression systems.
[December 12, 2008, 6:41]
Visa unveils credit card with own PIN pad
News Alzetta told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com, the transition from contactless payment cards to near-field communication (NFC) mobile devices is also firmly on Visa's long-term agenda and to that end the company has entered into an agreement...
[November 11, 2008, 7:38]
BT sees low demand for video among SMEs
News Demand for videoconferencing capabilities from BT's small-business customers will continue to be low for now, a senior executive at the telco has told ZDNet.co.uk. Speaking on Tuesday, BT's general manager of broadband, VoIP and software services...
[September 5, 2007, 13:49]
Duffield's back in business
News Later, in an interview with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com, a much more sombre-sounding Duffield recalled his last days at PeopleSoft. The PeopleSoft co-founder was due to launch his new company last week at the AMR Research Strategy conference...
[January 24, 2006, 11:45]
Businesses see barriers to iPhone adoption
News Despite the cost, a poll of more than 700 readers by ZDNet.co.uk's sister site silicon.com found a third would switch mobile operator just to get their hands on an iPhone. Apple has just revealed details of the UK version of the iPhone, which will...
[September 25, 2007, 10:19]
SQL Server 2008: Licensing will be exploited to win customers
News Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk, Microsoft's UK marketing director for databases, Matt Dunstan (pictured), said: "Our challenge, now we have picked off a lot of the low-hanging fruit, is to attack the traditional Oracle strongholds.
[November 15, 2007, 15:00]
Skype U-turns on 'second class status' video
News However, after ZDNet.co.uk published a story covering this launch, several readers added comments noting that, before Skype upgraded to its HQ-supporting version 3.6, the application had already included an option to manually activate VGA...
[November 22, 2007, 9:05]



