Microsoft and Nokia are working together to bring a version of Office, the ubiquitous productivity suite, to Nokia's Symbian smartphones. Courtesy of www.expertreviews.co.uk The first application due for release is Office Communicator Mobile, a voice over IP and instant messaging program, sometime in 2010 which will then be followed by the rest of the...
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SAP is using social networking site LinkedIn to help its integrators recruit SAP consultants. This is the first collaboration announcement following a strategic relationship announced in October 2008, when SAP Ventures, a division of SAP, invested in LinkedIn Corporation. SAP business partners can use LinkedIn's Recruiter Basic Starter Package , which...
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The release-to-manufacturing (RTM) buzz around Microsoft Exchange 2010 is starting to grow louder. I’m hearing from various partners and customers it could be finalized any time now, maybe even before this month is up. Exchange Server is directly and indirectly at the crux of a number of new and recently announced products from Microsoft. The...
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Almost a third of organisations feel that their financial systems have failed to meet all their original business objectives, according to research commissioned by the National Computing Centre's Evaluation Centre. In the survey of 100 businesses, 43% blamed the lack of success on a failure to change internal business processes, 38% said the system...
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E-mail, the net, weblogs, instant messaging, text messaging, multi-media messaging... the list of ways to communicate electronically in the 21st Century is growing. Frustrated woman on a computer People need to prioritise and be more disciplined To some, all these tools which are only a couple of clicks and screen flicks away have transformed the way...
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Almost two million PCs globally, including machines inside UK and US government departments, have been taken over by malicious hackers. Security experts Finjan traced the giant network of remotely-controlled PCs, called a botnet, back to a gang of cyber criminals in Ukraine. Several PCs inside six UK government bodies were compromised by the botnet...
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Infant using a computer, Under 5s had the highest injury rate. Home computer-related injuries have increased more than sevenfold, with children hurt most often, data reveal. Over 78,000 patients were treated for such injuries in US hospitals between 1994 and 2006, and 93% of the trips, bumps and falls occurred in the home. Over the 13-year study period...
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Most UK web users are at risk from online fraud, with many unable to spot common tell-tale signs of phishing, a YouGov survey has revealed. Of more than 2,000 UK adults asked to compare two sites, 88% failed to spot the spelling mistakes that would have identified the phishing site. Fifty-seven per cent did not notice that the phishing site did not...
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Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to try to appease European Commission (EC) regulators who are mulling possible remedies in the ongoing Opera-Microsoft browser-bundling case in the European Union. According to News.com, Microsoft’s newest proposal is to offer a version of Windows 7 which strips out Internet Explorer (IE) 8. Not hides it —...
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