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Retired IT entrepreneur sets out to change the world: The Protein Crunch
Book Review
Book Review The Protein CrunchI’d heard promising things about this book. A self made millionaire serial entrepreneur has created a way to end world hunger, using pig slurry and maggots. Sounds good to me. And now he wants to bring his solution to a wider audience.
How green are these new mobile enterprise inventions?
Venture Capital
The DTI is showcasing some of the UK companies who are investing their time and money at Mobile World Congress.We haven't spoke to any of them yet, but here's a summary of their business cases. And our initial gut reactions.
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Willie Jow remembers the days when Mobility was all field workers
Mobility
When Willie Jow started at Sybase, mobility was for the people working in the field. They carried iPags and Palms and lugged suitcase sized laptops around, in order to input data about sales orders and inventories.
In Memory and Cloud Computing are my future says Gabriel Byrne
Unusual Suspect
Screen legend Gabriel Byrne (best known as the lead of The Usual Suspects) gave the performance of his life, as himself, playing the role of a big fan of Sybase.
Review: TruLink 4 Port HDMI Selector Switch
Review
The problem with tellies these days is that everyone wants a piece of them. Trulink can sort all that out.
Review Trulink 3x5 Matrix Switch – showing on a screen near you
Ultimate controller
The ultimate controller, the Matrix switch routes any of three sources to five different output displays. You can have your DVD, HD TV or your video player all feeding simultaneously into this one unit, that then distributes signals out to five different screens.
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Insurance for a green future
The insurance industry is well known for being highly document intensive. This goes against the zeitgeist for being environmentally friendly through reduced paper use. However, following examples from both legal and accountancy industries, there are insurance companies that are taking the lead in going green, and moving towards a paperless office model.
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Has technology really leveled the playing field?
Nick Booth
Wouldn’t it be great if you could go online and shop around for a better deal on your Energy Minister?
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When failing to prepare isn’t an option
Application Migration
Migrating to Windows 7 is a far from trivial exercise, especially in large enterprises where thousands of desktops and applications are involved. Tony Fones, CTO of Camwood, advises on how best to prepare for this pressing task.more...
- Camwood Impressive App Management with three years extension
- Avoiding the common pitfalls when implementing a monitoring solution
- AppSense and App-DNA help herd users across the difficult crossings of the IT landscape
- Dawn of the Dead (Computer)
- HP and Coverity collaboration will speed software development
- Customer service management doesn’t have to be so fiddly and time consuming, says Sunrise Software
- Is your head in the clouds?
- How many global leaders can you have?
- 10 years on and still going strong
SAS Group Helps SThree extends its global footprint
International Rescue
Recruitment firm SThree must be doing something right, because it’s expanding rapidly in a very challenging market. Keeping pace with that growth is tough, which is where SAS Group has proved invaluable
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The internet’s security seatbelt
Security
An interesting aspect of human nature is its penchant for repeat behaviour patterns. Once we feel comfortable with a way of doing things, we tend to stick with it, particularly if there’s a benefit in doing so. Take, for instance, travelling in a car. Putting on seat belt is now second nature, and travelling without one feels unnerving, because we have...
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