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BI for real people: Information delivery today
A Reg live broadcast
Webcast When business intelligence (BI) technology first appeared on the landscape the image (and reality) we got was that it was a ‘big ticket project’ and ‘for the favoured few’. The idea of putting all your data in one place and running reports on it was fair enough, but for many, especially smaller businesses, the perception of traditional BI became one of an expensive way to find out what you did, some time after you did it.…
Vulture 1, Eyjafjallajökull nil (half time)
BA, beaks, unions invade pitch in second half
From the Ash Cloud If the latest tranche of volcanic ash has cut off chunks of the UK from Europe again, it certainly didn't hit the traffic of the M25 yesterday morning.…
Ten Essential Android Games
Get gaming on your Google phone
Product Round-up If there is one thing that iPhone owners can be smug about it's the number of quality games available from the iTunes App Store. But Android owners needn't feel too badly done by - the Android Market has a few choice gaming applications all of its own.…
Ten Essential Android Games
Get gaming on your Google phone
Product Round-up If there is one thing that iPhone owners can be smug about it's the number of quality games available from the iTunes App Store. But Android owners needn't feel too badly done by - the Android Market has a few choice gaming applications all of its own.…
Gov beats BOFHs to snatch worst-for-service crown
Civil servants: Even less use than tech guys
Government services have come last in a survey of how easy various services and service providers are to contact by the public.…
<em>Atlantis</em> 'nauts suit & boot up for bolt release spacewalk
'Righty tighty, lefty loosey', remember
Atlantis mission specialists Steve Bowen and Garrett Reisman are due to exit the International Space Station this afternoon for the first of three STS-132 mission spacewalks.…
Flash! Enterprise SSD looming at HP
Dance of the spinning platters to cease. Partly
HP will soon introduce enterprise-class solid state drives (SSD) with a 6Gbit/s SAS interface for its servers.…
Samsung offers $2.7m of grease for wrestling Bada devs
Paltry £2k tucked in Android champ's thong
Samsung likes to play the tart when it comes to a mobile OS, but the Bada Developer Challenge for its in-house environment shows where its affections really lie, with a top prize of $300,000.…
Cops back in on BT/Phorm case
Plods backtrack on tracking of track-pact
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has called in City of London Police to assist as it decides whether to go to court over BT's covert trials of Phorm's web interception and profiling system.…
Five in slammer over iTunes/eBay card-laundry caper
Rochdale quintet nabbed in laptop grab bust
Five UK residents were jailed on Friday over a conspiracy to launder money using iTunes gift vouchers.…
Simpana getting object storage, added de-dupening
Onward, up the storage stack
CommVault is readying a major release of its Simpana software, adding object storage and enhancing deduplication.…
Grow-lamps roast Yorkshire dope farmer in his sleep
Cops swoon on entering deadly hothouse
A West Yorkshire cannabis grower died of hyperthermia after halogen lamps in his illicit indoor dope plantation heated his house to a fatal 38°C, the Sun reports.…
Met Police new HR technology broken, bloated, absent
Fell down the stairs, presumably
An attempted programme to modernise the Metropolitan Police's human resources systems is behind schedule and over-budget.…
Big Blue's big iron: The Biggening. Screening 2010
'This enormous mainframe will devour us all'
IBM, like other server makers, has rolled out a bunch of new iron this spring, but still has a ways to go to completely revamp its product lineup in 2010, as it plans to do.…
Emulex and QLogic both claim to be best
Fight fight fight
Emulex and QLogic have both released statements saying they are winning in Fibre Channel adapter-land, and it's emerged that Emulex's claim to FCoE adapter leadership might be flaky.…
Site auto-trawls embarrassing Facebook posts
'Delete Facebook account' surges into Google top 10
A new site illustrates the privacy perils of users who leave their public updates searchable outside of Facebook.…
Free White Paper - Finding an upside in the downturn with data quality
SAP buys Sybase - but why?
$5.8bn question
Comment German database maker SAP went on a shopping spree last week to buy in rather than build up a mobile platform maker to bolt onto its already bloated business. But why did it drop close to $6bn on Sybase?…
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