http://www.silicon.com Results for Time Out en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://comment.silicon.com/weeklyroundup/0,39024756,39677645,00.htm A shame-faced 58 per cent said their mobile had rung in the wrong place at the wrong time, such as during a job interview or funeral service. And there's more evidence this week: four out of five techies believe their job has an impact on their... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:59:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39677646,00.htm Reaching out to founding partners Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Viper, which was developed with information gathered from a variety of official and unofficial sources, displays mapped information and provides real-time context from services like... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:12:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39674578,00.htm The Mini debuted at a time when the 'Get a Mac' switch campaign was kicking off, and the BYOKDM (Bring Your Own Keyboard, Display and Mouse) ethos was aimed at encouraging Mac-curious PC users to make a change. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:58:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/unified-communications/beware-the-turf-wars-when-merging-comms-39671618.htm Spending on UC among businesses worldwide is expected to rise from just $302m last year to $4.2bn in five years' time, according to industry watchers ABI Research. We foresee a booming market for managed services, simply because unified... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:24:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39668396,00.htm Daniel Mauritzson, an industrial designer at Sony Ericsson, said the idea behind Pureness was to design a "counterweight" to the feature-rich smartphones of today - and focus instead on the basics of "talk, text and time". editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:56:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/unified-communications/how-the-cloud-is-swallowing-your-comms-39668400.htm In related news, ISP TalkTalk is predicting email could die out as younger internet users develop a preference for shorter-style messages such as tweets and IM. According to TalkTalk, young people prefer technologies that allow them to contact... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:52:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39668394,00.htm These days, it's no surprise to anybody that staff mobility - everything from home working to being able to pick up email when out and about - brings with it a business advantage. In that time the questions have very much moved from 'if' the tech... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:25:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39661655,00.htm For example, for the service desk, if we have a lot of calls then Atos Origin are able to roll out a bigger team to handle them without us having to pay for that larger team each time we need it," she said. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/virtualisation/virtualisation-real-life-tales-of-how-to-get-it-right-39661656.htm We had 33 physical servers at the time and we were rapidly running out of rack-space in our environment," he says. I think there is a little bit more thought going into it now and so it takes a little bit more time. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:17:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39658902,00.htm Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy of silicon.com's sister site CNET.co.uk, the home of technology reviews. SurePress touchscreen is good for slow, accurate tapping; speedy wi-fi and 3G connectivity; attractive... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39650567,00.htm This] provides a significant challenge to IT leaders within companies - they're being asked to take the cost down at the same time as they're being asked to improve the efficiency of the rest of the business. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39650566,00.htm Four men have been sentenced to prison time for being part of a gang that stole just under £500,000 from UK bank customers. The convictions of the gang members are the first to come out of an investigation by the Met's Police Central e-Crime Unit... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:08:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60823452p,00.htm Did you know these links require 3 to 4 times more time and effort to build and maintain versus SOA-based Application Integration projects? Read this whitepaper to find out how the IBM WebSphere® MQ FTE solution, built on WebSphere MQ, offers... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39640947,00.htm Or the digested read, digested - and then flung out into the ether for all the world to read (or ignore). If the feed has been going for months and the only entities attached to it are spambots and 'Simon who works in IT', it's probably better to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:18:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60817552p,00.htm Three out of four employers have had to deal with employees who waste time online, according to a recent survey by Employment Review magazine1. Companies had problems with employees misusing email, blogs and damaging comments about the company... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60817618p,00.htm Now is the time for administrators and executives to look at ways of getting the most out of their IT budget. Belts are getting tighter around all budgets and IT budgets are no exception. But how can one do it? editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60817510p,00.htm Java is much more secure than C and C++ because the byte-code verifier prohibits unsafe type coercions and address arithmetic, garbage collection prevents dangling pointers, run-time checks prohibit null pointer dereferencing and out-of-bound... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60817550p,00.htm If one gets attacked by a regular virus, it will cost ones time and money to clear up and reputation may be damaged when company computers start sending out spam email or other irritations. Attacks are still relatively few in number but their... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60817378p,00.htm Enterprise IT is paying out large chunks of its security budget for signature - oriented endpoint security products knowing that those approaches cannot protect the business against lost data from malicious attacks. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60817827p,00.htm As organizations focus on surviving the recession, is this the time to consider adopting industry practices such as ITIL service management? Adopting ITIL practices for service management also helps companies to gain a competitive edge that will... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000