By John Walker on November 23, 2010
The UK general insurance industry standards and IT body Polaris U.K. Ltd have launched a new website for their customers.
Polaris Managing Director Martin McLachlan commented, “Over time we have built up a number of discrete and different looking websites for our customers, covering Polaris and ProductWriter, standards and imarket. Based on feedback from insurers and [...]
Posted in Business Software, Equipment & Operational Resources, Financial Services, IT and Telecommunications Services, Insurance, Market Research, Procurement, Product Launches, Product Research and Development, Technology, UK | Tagged imarket, Polaris U.K. Ltd, ProductWriter |
By John Walker on October 19, 2010
Advanced Computer Software Group plc (Advanced) has announced the launch of www.csr10.com, a ‘one stop shop’ resource about the Comprehensive Spending Review.
The Comprehensive Spending Review 2010, which will be announced on 20 October 2010, will deliver significant public sector budget cuts, forcing Government departments and public sector organisations to make spending cuts of up to [...]
Posted in Economic Cycles, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Notable Dates, Politics & Legislation, Procurement, Product Launches, Public Sector, Public Spending and State Aid, Taxation, UK | Tagged Advanced Computer Software Group plc, Cloud Computing, Comprehensive Spending Review, Cost Cutting, cuts, finance, government reviews, trends |
By Robert Steadman on April 2, 2010
Form and function have seamlessly merged in the development and introduction of an utterly new and unique Barwares device, the Ice Jacket.
Designed to conveniently and attractively encase a manufacturer’s bottle of spirits in ice for service and presentation, the Ice Jacket — developed and introduced by The Ice Jacket accommodates a wide range of manufacturers’ [...]
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By John Walker on March 9, 2010
Barclays has become the first bank in Europe to launch commercial contactless debit cards to its business customers. From March, all Barclays Business customers receiving new or re-issued cards will find that they come with contactless technology as standard. This enables them to pay for low value transactions by holding the card over a reader, [...]
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By John Walker on December 3, 2009
Processors could become smart enough to let PCs use “vision” to interact with people.
Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or “single-chip cloud computer,” that rethinks many of the approaches used in today’s designs for laptops, PCs and servers. This futuristic chip boasts about 10 to 20 times the processing engines inside [...]
Posted in Business Software, E-commerce, Financial Services, IT and Telecommunications Services, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Product Launches, Product Research and Development, Production Facilities, Technology, Worldwide | Tagged Cloud Computing, concept chip, Hadoop, Many-Core Supercomputer Processors, MapReduce, Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC), Tera-Scale Computing, warehouse scale computing, WSC |
By John Walker on November 5, 2009
Google Wave Protocol was demo’d at the 2009 Google IO Conference in May this year.
You can see the long developer’s demo video. But, below is a shorter introduction to this new radical concept that may, one day, become a replacement to ‘traditional’ email.
There is one key aspect of Wave that the video (above) does not [...]
Posted in Business Culture, Business Software, Computer Services, Customer Support, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Internet Services, Market Research, Product Launches, Skills and Training, Technology, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Services, Television and Radio Broadcasting, Worldwide | Tagged Google IO, Google Wave, Wave Protocol |
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