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 Financial Times: HP faces raft of complaints in China
Chinese lawyers file a complaint on behalf of more than 170 consumers against Hewlett-Packard, asking the government's quality watchdog to order a recall of allegedly faulty notebook computers
Network World: Symantec security, storage offerings now on Amazons EC2
Businesses looking at using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for pay-as-you-go servers can now add Symantec security, backup and storage protection.
Financial Times: MySpace plans phased revamp
MySpace will be relaunched in phases over the coming months, its new co-chief executives have revealed after a difficult period that has seen the site's market share drop as users migrated to other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook
Financial Times: Caution puts limit on tech excesses
Investors embrace restraint and lower expectations after infamous failures that led to the bursting of the dotcom bubble
Financial Times: How today's killer apps died first time round
Technology had not evolved sufficiently first time round, but commodities such as storage are a tiny fraction of what they cost in 2000 and conditions are right for some ideas to make billions
Financial Times: Inmarsat expects lift from quake disasters
The satellite communications equipment group, which supplies aid agencies, journalists and the military, could see revenues rise after catastrophes in Haiti and Chile
Network World: Ford gets scrappage boost from modelling software
Ford has improved its understanding of its sales leads process using a business process modelling software from Metastorm.
Network World: Intel investigating sale of fake Core i7 chip
Intel acknowledged Monday that at least one counterfeit version of its Core i7-920 processor made its may into the U.S. market, and said it's trying to determine how many more are out there.
Network World: IBM CEO's pay hit $21.2 million in 2009
IBM CEO Sam Palmisanos bonus fell 14% in 2009, but his stock awards rose 11%. His total compensation is up slightly compared to 2008.
Network World: Cisco says new monster CRS-3 router paves way for more powerful Internet
Cisco Tuesday announced a major upgrade to its Internet core router, which is designed to serve as the foundation of the next-generation Internet and support growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services through this decade and beyond.
AOL sees $20 bn opportunity in quality gap
''Enterprise data should be put on diet with de-dupe''
Symantec simplifies Info Management
Dell launches new Vostro series for SMBs
Avaya enables advanced UC for small business
Health Ministry to form ICT working group
TCS deal with UK on way to hit a road block?
Pranav Mistry: Of sixth sense and digital life
Conduit enable developers to create games
Sony India eyes 30 pc mkt share in LCD TVs
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·IT gender pay gap getting worse
The IT gender pay gap is getting worse, according to results from the 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey. More than a third (35 per cent) of female IT workers responding to this year's survey said they were on the bottom rung of the tech pay ladder, earning less than £25k, compared to just under a third of women (32 per cent) last year. And only 14 per cent of male IT workers are in the lowest pay bracket this year, dow ...
·Shared services - how to get it right in your business
With so many businesses looking to cut costs, shared services have become a popular option. Stuart Roberts offers advice on making them deliver. I think everyone agrees that since mid-2008 the economic situation has been somewhat difficult, with all the cutting of costs and jobs.
·Plenty of life ahead for RFID and NFC
Radio and tagging technologies have loads of promise - though the applications may not be quite what you were expecting, says Quocirca's Rob Bamforth. RFID and its close cousin near field communications (NFC) have both been touted for great and sexy futuristic applications. These range from the tagging and tracking of all consumer goods to the conversion of mobile phones into all purpose 'super wallets' where simply ...
·Android phones, Firefox history,Google Wave and datacentres galore
This month saw California's Hacker Dojo host the Random Hacks of Kindness event, which brought independent coders together with developers from Google, Microsoft, Nasa, Yahoo! and other organisations to work on projects to help with disaster relief. See more photos from the hackathon here.
·Anti-ageism legislation isn't working, say IT pros
Anti-ageism legislation isn't working and the IT industry continues to discriminate against older techies. That's the verdict of the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey. The majority (51 per cent) of survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed that the IT industry discriminates against older workers, compared with less than a fifth (18 per cent) who held the opposite view.
·Mini laptops, codebreaking, Wikipedia and why there's no 'British Google'
November's top stories on silicon.com tackled some big questions: does my business need an office? Can I work solely on a netbook? Will the UK ever create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle of its very own? November also dealt with the perennial question of will the UK's ID cards programme ever run to plan?
·Your top HR tech priorities for next year revealed
Working out your budgets and trying to figure out the tech priorities for your HR department in 2010? Nick Heath has a few suggestions for HR directors as to where to invest that cash on technology to get the most benefits for your team and the rest of the business. Consider standardising your systemsTake a look at what you do in the HR department and the chances are a number of companies are doing exactly the same t ...
·Recession fuels fears of UK jobs being sent offshore
With recession leading businesses to cut IT costs as much as they can, tech workers are increasingly feeling the impact of offshoring, results from the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey show. Almost half (47.5 per cent) of respondents said their organisation has probably offshored IT jobs - up from more than a third (36 per cent) who thought that was the case last year.
·Bangalore blooming into innovation hothouse
No longer just the domain of call centres, Bangalore has matured into the place for world-class research and development, says Saritha Rai. Years ago, when the world pictured Bangalore they imagined an outsourcing hub full of call centre agents and paid-by-the-hour software workers. How that has changed.
·Women in IT: Tech has an image problem
The lack of women in IT is bad news for the industry and while the tech world doesn't discriminate against them, it does have an image problem that is off-putting to females, according to silicon.com's exclusive 2009 Skills Survey. The majority (51 per cent) of respondents agreed or strongly agreed the lack of women in IT is bad for the industry, slightly down on 2008 when 54 per cent held that view. The same proport ...
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·Green light for UK IT skills school to arrive next year
The opening of a National Skills Academy for IT in the UK hasmoved a step closer, after the government announced it has approved the business plan submitted by sector skills body e-skills UK. In October 2008 the government gave the green light to a tech academy on account of IT's "critical" role in growing the national economy, and because of strong and growing demand for tech workers - more than 140,000 new IT recru ...
·IT gender pay gap getting worse
The IT gender pay gap is getting worse, according to results from the 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey. More than a third (35 per cent) of female IT workers responding to this year's survey said they were on the bottom rung of the tech pay ladder, earning less than £25k, compared to just under a third of women (32 per cent) last year. And only 14 per cent of male IT workers are in the lowest pay bracket this year, dow ...
·Anti-ageism legislation isn't working, say IT pros
Anti-ageism legislation isn't working and the IT industry continues to discriminate against older techies. That's the verdict of the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey. The majority (51 per cent) of survey respondents agreed or strongly agreed that the IT industry discriminates against older workers, compared with less than a fifth (18 per cent) who held the opposite view.
·Mini laptops, codebreaking, Wikipedia and why there's no 'British Google'
November's top stories on silicon.com tackled some big questions: does my business need an office? Can I work solely on a netbook? Will the UK ever create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle of its very own? November also dealt with the perennial question of will the UK's ID cards programme ever run to plan?
·Recession fuels fears of UK jobs being sent offshore
With recession leading businesses to cut IT costs as much as they can, tech workers are increasingly feeling the impact of offshoring, results from the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey show. Almost half (47.5 per cent) of respondents said their organisation has probably offshored IT jobs - up from more than a third (36 per cent) who thought that was the case last year.
·Minority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
Apple's Mac Mini could really have become the "most important Mac", as Steve Jobs once called it. Seb Janacek explains what happened instead. As a Macuser it's not often I gaze admiringly at the product pages on Dell's website but this week was a notable exception.
·Women in IT: Tech has an image problem
The lack of women in IT is bad news for the industry and while the tech world doesn't discriminate against them, it does have an image problem that is off-putting to females, according to silicon.com's exclusive 2009 Skills Survey. The majority (51 per cent) of respondents agreed or strongly agreed the lack of women in IT is bad for the industry, slightly down on 2008 when 54 per cent held that view. The same proport ...
·Beware the turf wars when merging comms
Enterprise take-up of unified communications - the merging of IP telephony, conferencing and collaboration, messaging and communications tools - is on a "steeply rising curve", according to analysts. 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.
·IT skills shortage squashed by recession?
The icy winds of economic gloom have put paid to talk of a tech skills shortage - at least for now, the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey can reveal. While the proportion of respondents reporting empty IT seats dipped in 2008 after several years of rising steadily, this year's result shows a much steeper decline as the worldwide economic recession mothballs big tech projects and puts recruitment hopes on ice. ...
·Recession hitting low paid IT jobs
In the main IT industry wages look to be weathering the economic storm, according to this year's silicon.com Skills Survey, but there are signs that first-time tech workers are taking a hit. The research shows that fewer tech workers are on the lowest rung of the pay ladder compared to last year, while the proportion taking home larger salaries is up on 2008.
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