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Comment Tristan Rogers, managing director, Concrete Media Mark Murtagh, technical director, Websense Editor's choice silicon.com news editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week. Q&A: Bruce... [25 Oct 2007]
Lloyds TSB tops website test
News Keynote Systems European director of consulting, Malcolm Otter, said: "Often, people who had initially perceived a bank to be extremely approachable and friendly were disappointed when they visited its site. [15 Oct 2007]
TalkTalk Direct gets faster on its feet
Case Study Gordon Perry, IT director at TalkTalk Direct, said it was clear that the company's old servers, installed three or four years ago, could not support business growth. These replica... [11 Oct 2007]
The CIO revolution in public sector IT: The next phase
Comment He will also work closely with relevant ministers and the senior leadership of the civil service, in particular Alexis Cleveland, the new director general of service transformation at the Cabinet Office. [31 Aug 2007]
Olympic demand for IT contractors
News Matthew Brown, managing director of giant group, said in a statement: "Programming skills are required during the design phase of Olympics projects. Software engineers will build computer models and run simulations to... [26 Jul 2007]
Holidaybreak rolls out site troubleshooter
News The experience management system will be used to improve customer navigation throughout the sites, Holidaybreak camping division IT director Graham Sadler told silicon.com. It's very... [24 Jul 2007]
CIO Essentials: Vista, BBC iPlayer, BlackBerrys and spam
News This week we hear from Christopher Linfoot, IT director at LDV Group. If you are a UK-based IT director or CIO and would like to take part in the CIO Essentials series... [24 Jul 2007]
Photos: E-tailer Iwoot opens Second Life shop
Photo Tim Booth, Iwoot founder and creative director, said Second Life provides a safe way to test how to move the Iwoot business from its 2D website into 3D worlds but added: "We are not expecting to sell... [12 Jul 2007]
Microsoft.co.uk defaced
News Patrick McLaughlin, the European director of security solutions at database company Oracle, said "software can never be fully tested". He added: "When building commercial software for databases, there's a finite amount... [03 Jul 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment Peter Redshaw, research director at Gartner, explained: "Spending on IT budgets is up a little but it's small. One of the brighter areas for tech spend in financial services is... [19 Jun 2007]
Has the Supreme Court killed off patent trolls?
News Robert Greene Sterne, founding director of the patent law firm Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, said in a conference call with reporters: "I think it's very fair to say that it's going to... [01 May 2007]
BBC's iPlayer is go
News Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of future media and technology, said the iPlayer is a critical part of Auntie's strategy to "maintain impact and relevance in a world where viewing and listening habits are shifting... [30 Apr 2007]
Is Skype secure enough for businesses?
Comment Lawrence Orans, a research director at Gartner who wrote a research note on Skype security, says: "While Skype's 3.0 release clearly offers some enterprise-class features, an underlying issue still remains: Skype uses a... [02 Apr 2007]
CIO Essentials: The top five stories of the week
News This week we have Peter Birley, director of IT at Browne Jacobson LLP, a top 100 law firm based in the Midlands. If you are a UK-based IT director or CIO and would like... [27 Mar 2007]
Microsoft quarantines own video site
News No new subscribers will be accepted but anyone who has already signed up for Soapbox can continue to access the site, said Adam Sohn, a director in Microsoft's online-services group. The software giant, which agreed... [23 Mar 2007]
