The UK Trade Union Congress (TUC) has voted to call for an end to private finance initiatives (PFI) and public-private partnerships (PPP). The TUC General Council's statement on the subject was carried following a debate yesterday afternoon.
It is interesting to note that in the launch material Intel explicitly mentions the potential use of servers built using both of these processors tackling, head on, jobs that have traditionally been undertaken on RISC computers.
Statistics from the office of the e-Envoy concerning computers in the home show that eight out of 10 people who have a PC outside work believe that their employer had seen the benefit, and more than half had learned skills that they could go on to...
Microsoft has been mailing free copies of its pricey Office productivity software to government employees, but silicon.com's sister site CNET News.com has learned that at least two federal agencies are warning recipients to return the gifts or...
Traditionally this has been associated with pornographic websites and those in the darker corners of the internet, but now even seemingly innocuous sites could be infecting users.silicon.com has learned that even websites which purport to offer...
Vaughan said in an email to CNET News.com: "Right now we are letting in about 150 million visitors a year on the honour system, and if we learned anything from 9/11, it's that it's very risky to admit so many people without confirming their...