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First Raspberry Pi boards to ship next week
The first $40 Raspberry Pi Linux computers will start shipping from early next week after the boards passed final testing.
Posted by Nick Heath | April 10, 2012, 3:39 AM PDT | Latest comment by andrew232006
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Peer calls on ISPs, device makers to block adult content
The UK House of Lords is to debate a proposed law that would force ISPs to block access to adult content - unless a subscriber asks to be able to access it
Posted by Nick Heath | April 10, 2012, 3:38 AM PDT | Latest comment by michaellashinsky@...
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Tech rehearsal puts Olympics IT system through its paces
The IT systems supporting this summer's Olympic Games have been subjected to a barrage of tests to ensure they are ready to cope
Posted by Nick Heath | April 5, 2012, 12:48 AM PDT
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Is the tech skills crisis just a myth?
If tech professionals are in such demand, why aren't salaries higher and unemployment lower?
Posted by Nick Heath | April 4, 2012, 7:46 AM PDT | Latest comment by Peleg
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How sleeping pods will keep a datacentre awake during the Olympics
A UK firm has come up with an unusual way of beating the Olympic traffic congestion problems.
Posted by Steve Ranger | April 4, 2012, 6:53 AM PDT | Latest comment by PReinie
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Olympic home working trial makes staff more productive, richer
More than 2,500 staff at telecoms giant O2 have worked from home to test their processes in the run up to the the London 2012 Olympics.
Posted by Nick Heath | April 3, 2012, 3:41 AM PDT
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UK plans to monitor all online comms are "waste of money"
Why proposed laws to allow UK police and security services to monitor all online communications will likely be hugely expensive and ineffective.
Posted by Nick Heath | April 2, 2012, 6:54 AM PDT | Latest comment by HAL 9000
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Raspberry Pi: Shipping delayed by a "couple of weeks"
You may have to wait a little while longer to get hold of the low-cost computing sensation
Posted by Nick Heath | March 29, 2012, 7:39 AM PDT | Latest comment by janitorman
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Oracle deal saves UK government £75m
UK government says it will save £75m by acting as a single customer to Oracle rather than letting each department deal with the software giant separately.
Posted by Nick Heath | March 28, 2012, 6:35 AM PDT
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Google should censor search results, say MPs
Search engines should remove links to information deemed private by injunctions in UK courts, says a parliamentary report.
Posted by Nick Heath | March 27, 2012, 9:40 AM PDT | Latest comment by Tony Hopkinson
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London Olympics 2012: Businesses prepare for tech disruption
Businesses are preparing for the disruption to their tech infrastructure that the London 2012 Olympics is expected to cause.
Posted by Steve Ranger | March 27, 2012, 7:01 AM PDT | Latest comment by HAL 9000
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BT releases Rabit to catch cable thieves
Can a new network 'burglar alarm' cut the damage that metal thieves are causing disruption to BT's national network?
Posted by Steve Ranger | March 26, 2012, 7:23 AM PDT | Latest comment by CrypticDancer
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Why The Pirate Bay's robot drone idea is just Pi in the sky
Network experts tell TechRepublic whether the torrent site's plans to use flying bots to keep the site online could really work.
Posted by Nick Heath | March 22, 2012, 10:16 AM PDT | Latest comment by Sreekanth_B
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Ten cities in the UK to get "ultrafast" broadband
London and Birmingham are among cities earmarked for some of the fastest broadband connections in Europe.
Posted by Nick Heath | March 21, 2012, 1:56 PM PDT | Latest comment by cybershooters
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BBC brings iPlayer video-on-demand to Xbox Live
The BBC's video service, seen as one of the UK's most successful tech developments of recent years, is now available on Xbox Live.
Posted by Steve Ranger | March 21, 2012, 4:15 AM PDT
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How the UK became an internet economy superstar
Thanks to a nation of "digital shopkeepers", the internet economy now accounts for a big slice of the UKs national output
Posted by Steve Ranger | March 20, 2012, 10:32 AM PDT
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What the Internet of Things means for you
What to expect when intelligent computing is embedded into the world around us.
Posted by Nick Heath | March 19, 2012, 10:41 AM PDT | Latest comment by oeaguirre@...
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Why Facebook won't kill email
Why reports of the death of email may be greatly exaggerated.
Posted by Nick Heath | March 16, 2012, 4:25 AM PDT | Latest comment by dhays
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London 2012 Olympics: Tech on the starting blocks
The London 2012 Games will see a number of technology firsts, from near-field communications payments to 3D TV.
Posted by Steve Ranger | March 15, 2012, 10:37 AM PDT
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Britain's World War II codebreakers tell their story
Bletchley Park's veteran codebreakers talk about how they helped turn the tide of the war by cracking communications between Hitler and his generals.
Posted by Nick Heath | March 15, 2012, 6:09 AM PDT | Latest comment by micjackz@...
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10 coolest uses for the Raspberry Pi
As the $40 Raspberry Pi computer ships we round up the 10 projects to try on your new Pi.
Posted by Nick Heath | April 23, 2012, 4:13 AM PDT | Latest comment by draalinx
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Hunting down the mainframe unicorn
Mainframes are still an essential part of the enterprise computing infrastructure, but staff with the skills can be hard to find - here's how one company solved the puzzle.
Posted by Steve Ranger | April 24, 2013, 1:50 AM PDT | Latest comment by Tony Hopkinson
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Outsourcing wobbles: Blip or something more telling?
The latest stats might suggest all is not well with outsourcing, but the expert view tells a different story.
Posted by Toby Wolpe | April 26, 2013, 1:55 AM PDT | Latest comment by BlueCollarCritic
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BYOD becomes standard - but it's going to hit you in the pocket
Bring your own device will soon become mandatory for many staff, but bosses will expect staff to pay for their own hardware to use at work.
Posted by Steve Ranger | May 2, 2013, 3:49 AM PDT | Latest comment by NickNielsen
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IT projects: Why you need to fail more often
Projects that fail are not necessarily a bad thing. They can end up changing attitudes to experimentation and management, and ultimately improve efficiency.
Posted by Toby Wolpe | May 8, 2013, 5:23 AM PDT | Latest comment by the-dream
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When IT is from Mars, and the business is from Venus
IT and rest of the organisation are still at loggerheads says an analyst who feels more like a psychologist trying to get the two to talk.
Posted by Steve Ranger | April 23, 2013, 10:58 AM PDT | Latest comment by Imprecator
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Why bother building a business case for BYOD? You'll (have to) do it anyway
Bring your own device is an issue for nearly all organisations, but few are trying to justify it using standard metrics anymore.
Posted by Steve Ranger | May 15, 2013, 5:15 AM PDT | Latest comment by CharlieSpencer_Palmetto
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Are developers really skilled up for the cloud?
Writing code for cloud-hosted apps is requiring developers to demonstrate new skills that some CIOs doubt exist in sufficient quantities in their teams.
Posted by Toby Wolpe | April 25, 2013, 2:29 AM PDT | Latest comment by qazolat
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OK, so stick with Windows XP: But how big a risk do you run?
Some organisations intend to keep using Windows XP even in the post-apocalyptic world after Microsoft ends support in 12 months. It's a calculated risk and one they should weigh up carefully.
Posted by Toby Wolpe | April 10, 2013, 6:00 AM PDT | Latest comment by NickNielsen
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IT departments: Compete with consumer cloud apps or risk a security breach
Companies faced with staff sourcing their own cloud apps and services to use in their job are not addressing the risk by simply banning staff-sourced IT.
Posted by Nick Heath | May 3, 2013, 3:33 AM PDT
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Cloud project risks: Five questions the board should ask before saying yes
In a period when individual departments are just going out and buying software services - with or without IT's blessing - international risk association ISACA thinks it's time the board kept all...
Posted by Toby Wolpe | May 10, 2013, 6:48 AM PDT
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Ban social media as a distraction? No, it boosts productivity
Any manager who thinks staff should be banned from using social media at work is seriously misguided and could be doing grave damage to the business.
Posted by Toby Wolpe | March 27, 2013, 9:55 AM PDT | Latest comment by dasha_g
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Build your own OS using the Raspberry Pi
A course teaching Raspberry Pi owners how to build a simple operating system has been released free online.
Posted by Nick Heath | September 3, 2012, 7:42 AM PDT
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Raspberry Pi: Five ways business can use it
The $40 Linux computer is a tempting replacement for expensive, high-end machines in a number of business tasks.
Posted by Nick Heath | May 9, 2012, 6:58 AM PDT | Latest comment by NZJester
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RepRap: The 3D printer that's heading for your home
Once the preserve of large companies, 3D printing is now heading for the home. The founder of the open source 3D printer project RepRap tells TechRepublic about the coming revolution in home...
Posted by Nick Heath | March 7, 2012, 12:10 PM PST | Latest comment by michaellashinsky@...
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Sloppy code: Why it's not (always) the developer's fault
With programmers complaining that managers are forcing them to push unsatisfactory code out the door, TechRepublic looks at whether developers are getting a raw deal.
Posted by Nick Heath | September 3, 2012, 8:26 AM PDT | Latest comment by MyopicOne
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Company boards? Must try harder - you're just not digital enough
Despite all the senior-level chatter about the importance of digital-business initiatives, only a tiny minority of firms have put executives on the board who have any digital knowhow.
Posted by Toby Wolpe | April 17, 2013, 7:32 AM PDT
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IT job cuts: Is the end finally in sight?
A poll of IT chiefs' views on hiring and budgets picks out a whiff of change in the jobs climate.
Posted by Toby Wolpe | March 12, 2013, 5:44 AM PDT | Latest comment by n.gurr@...
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Cloud skills: IT teams' lack of know-how is derailing deployments
Many IT departments just don't have the architecture and infrastructure skills in-house to cope with cloud deployments.
Posted by Toby Wolpe | March 21, 2013, 3:48 AM PDT | Latest comment by CharlieSpencer_Palmetto
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Britain's World War II codebreakers tell their story
Bletchley Park's veteran codebreakers talk about how they helped turn the tide of the war by cracking communications between Hitler and his generals.
Posted by Nick Heath | March 15, 2012, 6:09 AM PDT | Latest comment by micjackz@...
