SAP Revenues Decline for Q4 and 2009

Results beat expectations but sales slip. Board members shift focus to solutions and innovation.

Happy Christmas for retailers as UK shoppers shell out £5bn

Monday is set to be the biggest-spending day of the year with UK consumers shelling out £350m. According to retail association IMRG, UK shoppers will spend an expected £5bn this month – a year-on-year increase of 14 per cent

Happy Christmas for retailers as UK shoppers shell out £5bn

Monday is set to be the biggest-spending day of the year with UK consumers shelling out £350m. According to retail association IMRG, UK shoppers will spend an expected £5bn this month – a year-on-year increase of 14 per cent.

ID card database: 500 names added in first month

The National Identity Register – the database behind the ID card scheme – contains more than 500 names after a month of operation.

Video: How much is the CIO role about tech?

The CIO role has always been about more than just technology but how much time do IT chiefs actually devote to it compared to business strategy? At this year’s exclusive silicon.com CIO50 event, held in June this year, CIOs present revealed how they spend their time.

Bing sheds its beta skin in the UK

Microsoft has announced the UK version of its search engine Bing has shed its beta tag today. The UK localised version of its Google rival allows users to access UK-specific results and ecommerce sites.

Covert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government

Local authorities must cut down on using covert-surveillance techniques to investigate petty offences, the government has said. Ripa (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) granted public authorities the power to use surveillance to investigate crimes such as terrorism – but councils have attracted criticism for using them to detect petty offences such as dog-fouling

How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints

It may have only been launched a few months ago but Google’s Wave collaboration platform is already attracting attention from businesses, according to one of the key architects of the service. Lars Rasmussen, Google’s software engineering manager and co-creator of Wave, said unlike typical Google services, Wave has stoked early interest among both consumers and enterprises.

Peter Cochrane’s Video Blog: Tapping into London’s 20Mb broadband

While out and about in London, Peter Cochrane discovers there’s an awful lot of unsecured wi-fi on offer, you just have to dig around.

Video: 60-Second Pitch: End-point security

CIOs spend hours listening to suppliers pitch their latest technology. How would these vendors fare with just one minute to get their message across? silicon.com turns up the heat and gives vendors only 60 seconds to impress a panel of CIOs with their products