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With Mobile Workplace Solution, DSS Makes Significant Gains in Productivity and Cost Savings

DSS UK Limited specialises in the servicing and support of digital and electromechanical hardware. To perform this function it uses field service engineers based throughout the UK. Traditionally, the field service engineers employed by DSS spent a considerable amount of time communicating by mobile phone with their headquarters between printer...

Tags: Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Decision Support System, DSS UK Ltd., OfficeLive, Business Structures, Telephony, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Management

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News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Microsoft Student Technology Day UK

Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies will be in London for the Microsoft Student Technology Day. It's a day about and for students,...

Tags: Entrepreneurial, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-04

IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with Firefox

The plug-ins, the add-ons, the "download and use with" programs. So many people have been on about the "porn mode" InPrivate feature, the coloured tabs and the accelerator features, but what seems to be missing from the blogosphere is the entire gallery of additional software for the product. ...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-04

(Photos: The brains behind Google Chrome)

(Photos: The brains behind Google Chrome)It's absurd to refer to 'The Brains Behind Chrome'Google Chrome, at this point in time, adds very little to the WebKit rendering engine. It's clearly a very early release, and currently does nothing clever. It will be interesting to watch it develop.Kevin, G-Portal UKhttp://cms.da.gp

Tags: Google Chrome, Google Inc., photograph

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Who wins with Google Chrome

Who wins with Google ChromeChrome adds a lot. By about any measure, Chrome will be way ahead of IE8.If there was nothing new here, there would be no excitement.Chrome Adds Nothing NewAt this point in time, Chrome adds effectively nothing new. It's little more than a late attempt to...

Tags: Web browsers, WebKit, FF 3.1, Chrome, Google Inc., Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Class action bait on iPhone problems

Class action bait on iPhone problemsoverload the network?How is that an APPLE problem. This is an AT&T issue where their networks are not up to snuff. Try suing thw correct party, dummiesRE: Class action bait on iPhone problemsIt overloads the network because of a flaw in the iphone software. ...

Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, Apple Inc., iPhone problem, Apple iPhone, class action, network

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Five reasons Chrome will take over the world

Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...

Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?

Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?Where has this been?Oh, hello, MS, is that you? Did you remember that little OS side-project that you've had going on for a couple decades now? I'm so glad to see a renewed interest, please stick around to...

Tags: Operating systems, Boot-time, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Google Chrome: The five best new features

Google Chrome: The five best new featuresThe biggest crap is IE, which STILL ships with ActiveX, is slower thanmolasses in January, STILL includes old obsolete proprietary rendering, and is years behind in standards.More Google crap. Use at your own risk!http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/chrome_privacy_is_full_of_dents.htmlGoogle is wanting your material.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/So far impressedI am quite impressed by...

Tags: Web browsers, VERY SELDOM, HEARSAY, Google Inc., Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

iPhone's remote deletions may help crooks cover tracks

Certain features of increasingly widespread enterprise smartphones may aid criminals in hiding incriminating evidence, says the UK's Serious Fraud Office. Criminals can remotely destroy incriminating evidence by exploiting security features on the Apple iPhone, a leading digital-forensics expert has warned. The head of the UK's Serious...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Team, Mobile, Unit, Encryption, Keith Foggon, PC Architecture, Team Management, Smart Phones, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Nick Heath silicon.com, fraud, iPhone, security, Apple

News items 2008-09-03

(Images: How Google's Chrome browser shines)

(Images: How Google's Chrome browser shines)You can't have used it yet!Admittedly, what Chrome does, it does well. The point is that it doesn't do much at all! In fact, it looks like an alpha product rather than a beta. Seems desperate to me, given that the bones of the product...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Chrome, Google Chrome browser shine, browser shine, Web browser, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

News to know: Google Chrome; WinMobile's future; WiFi's big success; VMware

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Google Chrome One day after Google inadvertently discloses the impending release of Chrome, we get to see the browser first-hand. See my gallery tour...

Tags: Google Inc., VMware Inc., Wi-Fi, Virtualization, Web Browsers, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Internet, Sales, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-03

GOOG browser seeks to curb mounting traffic costs and cut payments to Apple and Mozilla

GOOG browser seeks to curb mounting traffic costs and cut payments to Apple and MozillaSure, this WILL reduce traffice costs, and it could reduce the ammount thatGoogle pays Mozilla. But, Google WILL keep funding Mozilla, and the main thing Google is worried about is MS controlling the internet and the...

Tags: Web browsers, payment, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Mozilla Corp., Web browser, Internet, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?

What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?Really?"I think we all know what the answer is, but we’re afraid to say it — Google is taking an entry directly from the Microsoft playbook: Embrace and Extend."Really? By basing it on open source projects? ;-)Google is going after the platform, the same way...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Desktops, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Hacker wants promise he'll be returned to UK

Hacker wants promise he'll be returned to UKI would guess......that in exchange, the US would want assurances that McKinnon wouldn't be pardoned by the UK, or paroled before he would have been eligible under US law.RE: Hacker wants promise he'll be returned to UKWhat he's really got is ass-burger syndrome....

Tags: Hacking, Food & Beverage, hacker

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Hacker wants promise he'll be returned to UK

British hacker Gary McKinnon is almost out of options to avoid extradition to the US, but not quite. The BBC reports that McKinnon is asking the British Home Office to ensure he won't be jailed in the US once he's convicted. His lawyer wants him returned to the UK after...

Tags: U.S., Home Secretary, U.K., Mr., Hacker, Government, Hacking, Vertical Industries, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Will Google Chrome be the Android's mobile browser?

Will Google Chrome be the Android's mobile browser?I can not imagine that they would NOT put Chrome on Android. But, the firstshipping version might not be. For them to not use their own browser on their own mobile OS would be suicide.Memory Models may Dictate OtherwiseGoogle state that Chrome's design...

Tags: Web browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Google Chrome, mobile, Web browser, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

New SOHO networking blogger intro: The Network Effect

New SOHO networking blogger intro: The Network EffectWhat are you looking for from networking in the near future?Hi Sean ... got a project for you :-)I want to network a bunch of my neighbours houses together. We get on pretty well in the terrace. I am 'local IT support' and...

Tags: network, blogger intro, SOHO Networking, network effect, SOHO

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Google's new Chrome browser based on WebKit (updated 2x)

Google's new Chrome browser based on WebKit (updated 2x)Why chrome?Isn't that also the name of the UI of Firefox? Are they trying to intentionally cause confusion?Google want control of privacy modeGoogle clearly want to be in control of what 'privacy mode' does to our browsing experience (read: to their data...

Tags: Chrome Browser, Google Inc., privacy mode

Discussion threads 2008-09-02