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Becta axing to save government in future costs

...will save much more in future years than 2010-11. Education minister Nick Gibb has said the abolition of the educational technology agency will save... Read more

10 June, 2010 by Kable

Data matching to aid electoral registrations

...Electoral Registration (IER) has been submitted to parliament by deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and minister for constitutional reform Mark Harper. It focuses on the... Read more

4 July, 2011 by Mark Say

McKinnon could get Clegg hearing

Campaigners for Gary McKinnon are looking to deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to help break the deadlock in his extradition case, as the... Read more

15 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

UK and Australia to discuss cybersecurity

...In previous high-level discussions, the UK's minister of armed forces Nick Harvey pushed for the creation of an offensive cybersecurity capability, while Smith... Read more

17 January, 2011 by Darren Pauli

Minister: Government systems battle regular email attack

...Home Office minister Nick Herbert has concurred with GCHQ's estimate that government networks receive 20... Read more

16 December, 2010 by Kable
Inside Nasa's astronaut training centre

Inside Nasa's astronaut training centre

...Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour — survive as space-faring vehicles today. Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

25 November, 2010 by Nick Heath

EMC gets 'Mavericks' with Isilon file system

...an average of seven milliseconds down to less than one millisecond," said Nick Kirsch, director of product management for Isilon Systems, part of EMC. It... Read more

22 May, 2012 by Nick Heath

1,000-node big data workbench to crunch analytics' toughest problems

EMC launches Greenplum Analytics Workbench to analyse petabyte-scale datasets and pave the way for future big data platforms Read more

23 May, 2012 by Nick Heath

EMC eyes cloudscape with massive product push

At EMC World, the company has introduced 42 software and hardware products for storage, data management and virtualisation, saying there is no point in taking a 'one size fits all' approach to cloud needs Read more

22 May, 2012 by Nick Heath

Birmingham City Council transfers IT roles to India

Up to 100 posts transferred offshore by the end of the year... Read more

24 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

Identity scheme echoes ID cards, say campaigners

The government's new identity assurance scheme has shades of the scrapped ID card plan, campaigners at No2ID have warned Read more

24 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

ID cards: Why they were destined to fail

David Blunkett and others explain why the mega-IT project fell out of favour Read more

8 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

Photos: Robots through the ages: From lunar explorers to emotional machines

...built and developed within MIT's Leg Laboratory between 1991 and 1993. Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

2 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

Photos: Inside London 2012 Olympic Games tech lab

...PCs and 130 servers spread over 2,000 square metres. Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

20 January, 2011 by Nick Heath

Robot photos: AI androids to footballing humanoids

...Aila moves using six wheels and can turn in any direction. Photo: Nick Heath/silicon.com Read more

9 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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

...... and PDP11s too

1 hour 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...

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

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

5 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
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...

6 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...

6 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...

7 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.

9 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...

10 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

11 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

12 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....

12 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...

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

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

14 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

14 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

19 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
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...

20 hours 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...

23 hours 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