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Boosting Administrative Efficiency and Speeding Time to Market for Academic Programmes
White Papers The University expects to see a dramatic improvement in time to market of new academic programmes thanks to increased collaboration. Kingston University is a forward-thinking institution at the forefront of innovation for Virtual Learning...
[June 2, 2007, 1:00]
IBM expands pay-as-you go programmes
News IBM wants to turn more customers on to pay-as-you-go PC ownership. The company's Global Services division this month began offering a new menu-based service that will enable companies to treat PCs as they would utilities such as electricity, paying...
[February 23, 2005, 8:45]
Very flexible, especially with my \Panasonic DVD recorder, which is excellent.
Member Review My decision to go for the Panasonic LF-D521 was to enable editing and DVD burning of programmes recorded on my Panasonic DMR-E50 DVD recorder, which is excellent as is the LF-D521. We often record TV programmes while we are out.
[May 17, 2004, 13:08]
Techies' poor business skills impede progress
News Poor communication, leadership and project-management skills among IT staff are hindering change management and business transformation programmes. Almost three-quarters (73 percent) of chief information officers and IT managers admit that the...
[June 27, 2007, 17:07]
ISPs fear greater Net regulation
News UK ISPs are worried that communications regulator Ofcom may be given powers over the delivery of television programmes over the Internet. The ISPA's fear is that the TV watershed, which prevents terrestrial broadcasters from transmitting programmes...
[January 27, 2005, 15:35]
A Year Ago: Internet TV arrives with promise of revolution
News Get free drag and drop programmes via Media Player or RealPlayer Users can drag and drop programmes into a personalised television schedule. UK startup ichooseTV, launched on Monday what it claims is the world's first personalised Internet...
[April 11, 2001, 6:07]
IBM gets behind physics research
News The University of Rochester will use five top-end p690 "Regatta" Unix servers from IBM for physics and computing research programmes, Big Blue plans to announce on Thursday. IBM and rivals such as Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard court research...
[October 24, 2002, 9:20]
BT plays down talk of broadband broadcasting
News BT is reportedly close to launching a device that could be used to record television programmes transmitted down the telco's broadband network. A similar product could be plugged into BT's high-speed ADSL network, recording selected programmes that...
[July 12, 2004, 17:20]
IBM announces hosted application plan
News Increasing its focus on the hosted-applications sector, IBM on Wednesday launched programmes designed to support companies that build, sell and market Web-based software to businesses. With its latest initiative, IBM executives said, the company is...
[May 26, 2005, 16:20]
Craft.com another dot-com dud?
News The arts and crafts supply site last week told subscribers the company was "eliminating all membership programmes and benefit programmes, effective immediately". Eliminating loyalty programmes can backfire on dot-coms, even though it can save them...
[June 20, 2000, 9:33]
IBM sets up courses in China
News IBM has sealed a deal to provide software development programmes for 40,000 students in the mainland over the next five years. These programmes are aimed at both university and college students, as well as graduates, and are expected to complement...
[September 6, 2004, 11:55]
Asia entices talent with top pay
News A skills shortage continues to plague Asian businesses, prompting many employers to use higher salaries and comprehensive training programmes to attract the talent they need, a new Hudson study has revealed.
[July 30, 2007, 12:31]
Is video conference calling on a iphone really a cost cutting way to meet?
Blog Apple have been mulling a new in-house developed video calling software (ichat for iphones) to add to their functional programmes on the iphone. Various conference programmes exist already with Cisco (document and chat via iphone) services being...
[February 3, 2009, 13:03]
BBC iPlayer chalks up 75m downloads
News The BBC iPlayer online, on-demand TV service has hit 75 million in streamed or downloaded programmes since it launched last year. The most requested programmes were The Apprentice and Doctor Who. Programmes shown on BBC Three also made a strong...
[May 21, 2008, 9:00]
Electronic signatures struggling in Europe
News ID card programmes and e-government initiatives are hoped to spur the development of an electronic signatures market across the EU, according to the European Commission. It is hoped that ID card programmes could encourage the use of e-signatures as...
[March 20, 2006, 15:10]
iPlayer enjoys 'wonderful start' to 2008
News More than 3.5 million BBC programmes have been watched using the BBC's online, on-demand iPlayer TV service during the fortnight after Christmas Day. The programmes were watched by more than one million visitors using the iPlayer during the same...
[January 16, 2008, 11:06]
Microsoft says security programme is speeding fixes
News One year after launching three security programmes designed to improve security industry-wide, Microsoft is finding that more security patches are beating exploits out the door. In August 2008, the Microsoft Security Response Center announced three...
[July 28, 2009, 9:41]
IBM to focus on industry-specific software sales
News IBM intends to reorganise its salesforce and increase spending on partner programmes to boost sales of its software. At the same time, he said, IBM will increase investment in existing partner programmes to accelerate the delivery of applications...
[December 1, 2003, 15:40]
Qualifications launched for outsourcing industry
News The National Outsourcing Association has launched the UK's first academically accredited qualifications and training programmes that cover both the supply and use of outsourcing. The three qualification programmes — which take the form of work...
[November 24, 2008, 7:23]
Discovery Channel tunes in to broadband content
News Television station The Discovery Channel moved into the broadband market this week by making some of its natural history, science and lifestyle programmes available on the Internet. For £5.99, broadband subscribers can get unlimited access to...
[February 11, 2004, 16:55]
