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In this interview Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 product manager, Mark Quirk speaks to ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran about how the new browser speeds up graphics rendering, by using DirectX and hardware acceleration on PC's graphics processors.

In this podcast, Christine Connelly, chief information officer for Health, responds to questions about what has actually changed, the future of Connecting for Health and value for money on the £5 billion spent so far.

In this podcast, Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health explains how much freedom Trusts will have to buy what they want, in terms of IT, and the future of the Summary Care Records system.

Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health is quizzed on what the NHS will have to pay BT and CSC.

Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health answers how the revised IT plan for the NHS will affect existing IT suppliers.

In this podcast Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer for Health explains why the management and organisation of the NHS National Programme for IT is being revamped.

Orange has launched what it claims is the biggest advance in voice calls in 20 years. The so-called HD voice, uses noise cancellation technology in an attempt to improve the clarity of a mobile phone conversation, by filtering out background noise.

Google has developed an alternative inbox view, called Priority Inbox for Gmail, which separates important messages by using data such as which people users email the most and which messages they actually open and reply to. The system “learns” users’ priorities over time by analysing how they respond to messages from particular senders. Computer Weekly's Cliff Saran speaks to Matt Glotzbach, product management director, Google Enterprise, about how it works.

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For the past six years Chris Taylor has been IT manager for the AT&T Williams Formula One team. The Formula One environment is extremely hectic, but telepresence, provided by AT&T, is becoming an increasingly important communications and collaboration tool for the team. ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran speaks to Taylor about how telepresence allows the team to keep travel costs down, while keeping its UK engineers up-to-date with the race car's track performance and safety issues.

Mobile app development is the focus of the final part of Cliff Saran’s interview with Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon. Vogels says that on iPhone and Android devices, the apps are pretty innovative, yet they are being produced at break-neck speed. Developers are not building services themselves. They consume external services. Small lightweight apps running on your devices connect to cloud-based services, pulling together location awareness and context-based information. This approach to use cloud-based web services will become the building blocks of future enterprise applications.

This is the second part of Cliff Saran’s podcast interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels during his recent trip to London. Here Vogels discusses how cloud is a perfect storm, continuing the concept of service-based architectures, which started with service oriented architecture. Traditional software licensing is also changing thanks to the drive towards cloud computing.

Cliff Saran met up with Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon to find out about where cloud computing is heading. In the first of a three part podcast interview, Cliff catches up with Vogels during his recent trip to London, to ask him where the cloud is heading, how companies are using cloud computing to reduce their carbon footprint and even moving low-end mainframe apps in to the cloud, saving millions in maintenance.

Microsoft sees cloud computing as a way of enabling businesses to tap into the resources of the software company’s infrastructure which offers scalability and high availability on a global basis. But many organisations are still sceptical about the security of the cloud computing model. In this podcast interview, John Shewchuk, technical fellow at Microsoft, speaks to Computer Weekly about how cloud can enable better security and regulatory compliance.

Microsoft is working hard to improve the reputation of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser and is set to raise the security bar even higher in version 9 currently under development. In this podcast interview, John Scarrow, general manager of Safety Services at Microsoft, speaks to Computer Weekly about the latest and coming security enhancements to IE and Windows Live Hotmail.

Microsoft is among the emerging suppliers of cloud computing services that are seeking to win the confidence of enterprises. In this podcast interview, Steve Lipner, senior director of security engineering strategy at Microsoft, speaks to Computer Weekly about what it is doing to allay business concerns. Lipner describes how Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), Global Foundation Services, certifications and transparency combine to provide the necessary assurances. He also lists the things that organisations looking to benefit from cloud computing should look at to ensure their data is adequately protected.

In this podcast interview Alex Cullen, a research director at Forrester Research, speak to Computer Weekly’s Cliff Saran about how IT and the business can collaborate better if they both work on the basis of a Business Capability Map. The theme of this year’s Forrester Forum (June 9-11, Lisbon) concerns making business technology real. Since IT is so intertwined with business, business and IT people need to consider both the business and technology implications of any business activity. It's a perennial problem, but Cullen believes there is a better way...