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MPs criticise BBC-Siemens £38m contract failure

...key reason for the contract's failure. The BBC's Digital Media Initiative (DMI), which was designed to save £17.9m, ended up costing £38... Read more

7 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Software groups urge probe of Novell patent transfer

...The Open Software Initiative and the Free Software Foundation on Wednesday released a joint statement that... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

TippingPoint sets vulnerability patch deadline

...deadline to fix vulnerabilities reported to them by TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative rather than allowing holes to remain unpatched indefinitely. Vendors will be required... Read more

4 August, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Green coalition makes progress on CO2 emission cuts

...to make further cuts, according to a study. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) — a coalition of Dell, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft and others — commissioned... Read more

28 July, 2010 by Larry Dignan

Siemens tech contract 'will cost the BBC millions'

...National Audit Office report, The BBC's management of its Digital Media Initiative, found that the Digital Media Initiative (DMI), approved by the BBC Trust... Read more

3 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

German investigation of Novell patent sale halted

...Holdings, the notification was withdrawn before this decision was possible. Open Source Initiative The withdrawal also came one day after the Open Source Initiative (OSI... Read more

12 January, 2011 by David Meyer
Compliance Law 4.0

Compliance Law 4.0

...and trends relating to healthcare compliance and litigation. Stay abreast of government initiatives, False Claims Act cases, whistleblowers, health care reform and other timely topics... Read more

23 July, 2011

Cyber security defences will crumple without government backing

...period of political neglect in the US and the UK. But recent initiatives point to a positive change of climate, says Alan Paller. In late... Read more

16 September, 2010 by Alan Paller

IBM and 14 partners in smart cloud initiative

On Friday IBM announced that it is leading a joint research initiative with 14 European partners to develop a new type of storage architecture... Read more

15 November, 2010

IBM launches $100m healthcare initiative

...IBM on Thursday rolled out a $100m initiative to focus its research division on healthcare breakthroughs and new technologies, with... Read more

16 July, 2010 by Larry Dignan
Governance from the Ground Up:Launching Your Data Governance <endeca_term>Initiative</endeca_term>

Governance from the Ground Up:Launching Your Data Governance Initiative

The list of initiatives that are data-enabled-indeed, data-intensive—vary from company to company... Read more

19 April, 2011
Governance from the Ground Up: Launching Your Data Governance <endeca_term>Initiative</endeca_term>

Governance from the Ground Up: Launching Your Data Governance Initiative

The list of initiatives that are data-enabled-indeed, data-intensive-vary from company to company... Read more

15 March, 2011
Compositional Specification and Realization of Mixed-<endeca_term>Initiative</endeca_term> Web Dialogs

Compositional Specification and Realization of Mixed-Initiative Web Dialogs

...authors present DialogXML a markup language approach to specifying and realizing mixed-initiative web dialogs on mobile devices. By capturing the functional structure of the... Read more

1 January, 2011
New <endeca_term>Initiatives</endeca_term> for Imagery Transmission Over a Tactical Data Link. a Case Study: JPEG2000 Compressed Images Transmitted in a Link-16 Network. Method and Results

New Initiatives for Imagery Transmission Over a Tactical Data Link. a Case Study: JPEG2000 Compressed Images Transmitted in a Link-16 Network. Method and Results

This paper presents the results of an initiative to transmit imagery content through a Link-16 tactical network using a... Read more

23 October, 2010
ESG whitepaper: IBM Information Infrastructure <endeca_term>Initiative</endeca_term> Tames the Information Explosion

ESG whitepaper: IBM Information Infrastructure Initiative Tames the Information Explosion

The IBM Information Infrastructure initiative is a new and vitally important pillar supporting the firm‟s Dynamic... Read more

19 October, 2010

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

5 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

5 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

7 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

10 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

10 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

11 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

13 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

14 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

14 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

16 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

16 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

18 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

18 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

18 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

1 day ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

1 day ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry