More IT articles
17 February 2010
IT strategists should be planning for their organisations' transition to the impending introduction of IP Version 6.
Teleworking accelerates BT's development process
17 February 2010
Electronic whiteboards and video-conferencing equipment are being installed throughout BT's global development organisation to speed up the introduction of new services including the UK's next-generation access network.
IT contractors bear brunt of downturn
02 February 2010
IT contractors are facing tough times as budgets bounce and new projects are parked. E&T details the pressures at play on the jobbing freelancer.
19 January 2010
Email has become an essential way for football clubs to keep in contact with their fanbase; but defeating bad email in the form of spam presents a formidable challenge to their IT departments. Everton FC’s head of ICT Steve Fell explains to E&T how ‘The Toffees’ beat the problem.
IT procurement: buying into the future
19 January 2010
HP has stirred up strong feelings by proposing that IT budget models should change in line with technological developments; E&T reports.
18 January 2010
At the recent European Futurists Conference in Lucerne, Switzerland, E&T asked some leading futurologists for their prognosis for year 2020. Here’s what they had to say.
01 December 2009
Thin clients may face thin times over the coming months, but the arguments in their favour remain sound, reports E&T.
Getting a purchase on Christmas
01 December 2009
Christmas is coming, but if you're short on inspiration for gift ideas, don't worry: retailers are using the wisdom of crowds to help.
Inventors' inbox: snowed under with ideas
01 December 2009
Our in-house inventors Mark Sheahan and Patrick Andrews exchange emails on how to avoid the repetition of last winter's technology freeze-up in the UK.
Breaking the ice at the North Pole
30 November 2009
You don't have to be an Arctic explorer to visit the Geographic North Pole these days. E&T visited Murmansk's Atomflot, where we joined the nuclear icebreaker 50 Years of Victory on a trip to the top of the world…
30 November 2009
E&T salutes engineering and innovation that have helped Norway to achieve impressive results in oil exploration, tunnelling and construction in an extremely cold climate.
30 November 2009
Deep under the ice of Antarctica, a telescope is taking shape - not one in the conventional sense of the word, based around optics or a radio dish, but a huge array of optical sensors designed to look for sub-atomic particles called neutrinos, explains E&T.
17 November 2009
Virtualisation? Thin clients? Secure data? Hard and software scalability? Big deal: mainframes have been doing it for 45 years, explains E&T.
The house and supermarket of the future
16 November 2009
E&T travels to Brussels to experience the house and the supermarket of the future.
16 November 2009
Once the dust settles on next month's Copenhagen climate change summit, attention will turn to how new targets are going to be met. We asked E&T's editors to review some of the technologies that could provide the world's governments with an early Christmas present.
16 November 2009
The latest in our series of reports from the emerging countries that will be vital to achieving an agreement at the climate change conference in Copenhagen.
My Way - IT at Simmons & Simmons
16 November 2009
Global law firm Simmons & Simmons has successfully deployed a worldwide upgrade of its IT infrastructure helmed by IT director Abby Ewen and her team.
03 November 2009
Electronics manufacturer TDK-Lambda, always looking for ways to improve efficiency, has made IT a core part of its production system, as E&T reports.
VoIP eavesdropping proves complex
03 November 2009
VoIP calls are more difficult to tap than those traveling over the PSTN. But deep packet inspection techniques and the UK government's proposed Intercept Modernisation Programme may provide new ways of tackling the problem, E&T investigates.
Emerging Estonian Technologies
02 November 2009
E&T visits Estonia, a former province of the Soviet Empire, to find one of the most technologically advanced and IT-savviest nations in the world.
02 November 2009
E&T chronicles some truly ingenious escapes over, through, across and underneath the world's most sinister engineering structure - the Berlin Wall.
Factors governing data centre development toward 2020
02 November 2009
Data centres: what are the trends and market forces that will shape their development over the coming five-to-ten years? E&T solicits predictive views from 12 data centre sector experts.
20 October 2009
Sampling is the latest technology to remake music. It's one more contribution from engineering to a 35,000-year-old art form.
Security and C language: fix it, don't nix it
19 October 2009
Critics who claim that the decades-old C programming language is inherently insecure; no so, argues E&T - as with any other software environment, programmers just have to ensure that they use security tools to fix vulnerabilities.
19 October 2009
E&T reflects on how the arrival of the MP3 player also signalled the rise of contract manufacturing in the consumer electronics industry.
Healthcare to go: the MobiHealth system
06 October 2009
Mobile health monitoring using wireless networks, E&T investigates.
Consumer electronics gets connected
06 October 2009
Consumer electronics devices may start out unconnected, but they soon link up.
Heart models in applied medicine
05 October 2009
E&T explains why cardiac modelling opens the door to the new era of medicine.
Independence Day for the elderly
05 October 2009
Assistive technologies are helping healthcare systems under intolerable pressure relieve the strain.
Storage outsourcing renaissance
05 October 2009
Storage service provision is back on the IT agenda, as bandwidth, management tools, and market forces come together to create a compelling proposition for overstretched IT departments, reports E&T.
Analysis: Skills shortages threaten recovery
21 September 2009
The recession has hit job vacancies, but several reports show that we still need to nurture engineering skills.
21 September 2009
HMS Beagle and the Mars lander of the same name both searched for life and disappeared. Professor Colin Pillinger tells E&T why the search for one of them isn't yet over.
21 September 2009
Manufacturers are cutting the cost of design through investment in virtual tools, explains E&T.
21 September 2009
Cloud Computing: the concept is going to reorganise the tenets enterprise IT; but it's going to take a little time - and effort - before its full force is felt.
21 September 2009
Service-oriented architecture - SOA - is designed to bring cost efficiencies to IT projects, but the economic downturn may have caused many SOA-led IT projects to be shelved; however, like the Monty Python parrot, SOA's not dead, it's just resting, says E&T.
21 September 2009
What does it take to get started in mobile application development? E&T finds out.
Six Million Dollar Man: we have the technology
11 September 2009
In the 35 years since Steve Austin sprinted (very slowly) onto our screens, technology has made bionic leaps and bounds. So how much would it cost to create the Six Million Dollar Man in today's money? E&T finds out. [Video special]
Time to hit the open source road
08 September 2009
It's time for a radical rethink in the way we make, fuel and use cars. E&T takes a look at different approaches to designing eco-friendly vehicles using open-source principles and sustainable, proven technology.
08 September 2009
The Diamond Light Source facility is used for protein crystallography and to see inside complex structures, and developing its systems presented complex challenges.
08 September 2009
Open source solutions: many factors are affecting their adoption. E&T looks at recent market indicators.
Open-source software: is it right for you?
08 September 2009
Open source software adoption in enterprise computing is growing - but this does not mean that it is suitable for every enterprise. E&T considers some reasons to stick with the 'closed source' model.
My Way - IT at Assessment and Qualifications Alliance
08 September 2009
Open Source came to the aid of schools and colleges exam board the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance - AQA - when it needed a secure extranet capable of delivering materials to 35,000 examiners and moderators at low cost.
Manufacturing goes online as Factory 2.0
08 September 2009
Web 2.0 combined with advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) could revitalise manufacturing, generate new employment, and reduce environmental impacts, argues E&T.
A high-fibre diet: how optical fibre is made
08 September 2009
Manufacturing optical fibre requires lots of automation, plenty of process control, a seven-storey tower, and enough energy to power a small town, as E&T discovers.
08 September 2009
E&T looks at the many ways in which the telecoms and transport industries are converging.
04 August 2009
Service level agreements - SLAs - have been the cornerstone of the contract between suppliers and consumers of ICT services. The right SLA will help providers guarantee what they can deliver, and deliver what they can guarantee, reports E&T.
04 August 2009
It's not just components and products that are now simulated and tested in software, before any hardware is built - as E&T discovers, companies are simulating entire factories and supply chains as well.
XML for digital factory automation
04 August 2009
A version of XML - the language for data portability - for factory automation could make it simpler to plan engineering workflows and manufacturing processes on computer, E&T explains.
Cleopatra's wonders to remain submerged
03 August 2009
The world's first underwater museum could be displaying the treasures of ancient Alexandria as early as 2013, predicts E&T.
Latest Issue
"Is augmented reality the next big thing or a marketing gimmick? Is it fundamental to the future or a fashion faux pas?"
News
Most viewed
From forums
- Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 5th Floor Highly Radioactive Debris [03:09 pm 17/05/13]
- Cluster formation on cooja simulator [01:59 pm 17/05/13]
- DSLAM Power Consumption [01:58 pm 17/05/13]
- English is not my first language. [01:23 am 17/05/13]
- Transport 2020 [09:35 pm 16/05/13]
Subscribe
Choose the way you would like to access the latest news and developments in your field.
