2004
RSS 2004IT skills shortage squashed by recession?
News The icy winds of economic gloom have put paid to talk of a tech skills shortage - at least for now, the exclusive 2009 silicon.com Skills Survey can reveal. While the proportion of respondents reporting empty IT seats dipped in 2008... [25 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome OS
Cheat Sheet Google Chrome, that's just a web browser isn't it? Not anymore. Google have used their Chrome browser as the basis for a new operating system that shares the same name. Don't tell me I have to shell out for another OS, I've just bought... [23 Nov 2009]
Assuring PCI-DSS Compliance With Real-Time Database Security and Monitoring
White Paper The Payment Card Information Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) was created in 2004 by the leading credit companies in response to the growing problem of cardholder information theft. Despite heavy fines for violations and... [13 Nov 2009]
Recommendation on the Credential Numbering Scheme for the FIPS 201 PIV Card Global Unique Identifier
White Paper This paper presents a proposal by the Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council (PAC) on the population of the GUID field found within the Cardholder Unique ID (CHUID) of a PIV card. Past industry submissions to the Physical Access... [12 Nov 2009]
Identity Validation for the Biopharmaceutical Industry
White Paper Overall most biopharmaceutical companies have not been able to move from paper to electronic records. This is the result of inconsistencies in technical standards, issues of privacy, data security, and confidentially. [12 Nov 2009]
Photos: Firefox through the ages
Photo Mozilla is celebrating the fifth anniversary of Firefox 1.0, released 9 November, 2004. The project began as a fresh start intended to be leaner and faster. While the official Mozilla effort still was working on the... [10 Nov 2009]
Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News With just over 1,000 days to go until the start of the 2012 London Olympics, the team in charge of the Games' tech is poised for the real work to get underway. After a year of limbering up, Atos Origin - the company leading the... [27 Oct 2009]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile As founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg topped the Agenda Setters list in 2007 after the social network really took off, but he plummeted to 47 last year as judges felt his time had passed. This year's return to the top 10... [08 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile Niklas Zennström is best known as co-founder of Skype - the voice over IP internet telephony service that has been enabling the wired world to talk for free since 2003 and, more recently, to indulge in video calling too. [08 Oct 2009]
SK Telecom Cuts Operating Expenses by 70% and Capital Expenses by 60% for Mobile Cyworld
White Paper SK Telecom is the largest mobile communications service provider in Korea. In 2004, SK Telecom launched Mobile Cyworld, a mobile service that provides access to Cyworld, the largest online community site in Korea,... [01 Oct 2009]
Taobao.com Runs China's Busiest Data Warehouse on 20 Node Database Cluster
White Paper Founded in 2003 by Alibaba.com, Taobao.com is Asia's largest online shopping Web site. The company engages in Consumer-To-Consumer (C2C) and Business-To-Consumer (B2C) trading and has a 70% share of the online market in China. [01 Oct 2009]
Wotif.com Experiences Perfect Database Stability, Reduces Administration Overheads
White Paper Established in March 2000 and based in Brisbane, Australia, Wotif.com is a leading online marketplace that sells accommodations in more than 45 countries. Its portfolio includes over 13,000 hotels, motels, serviced apartments, resorts,... [01 Oct 2009]
Chris Anderson
AS Profile 'The Long Tail' is the name of a 2004 article in Wired magazine, written by current editor-in-chief Chris Anderson and subsequently expanded into a book of the same name. What's so Agenda Setting about a four-year-old... [29 Sep 2009]
Daniel Ek
AS Profile Daniel Ek co-founded the Spotify on-demand music streaming service in 2006 with Martin Lorentzon but it has been over the past 12 months that it's really taken off. The UK-based company's name is a combination of spot and identify and... [29 Sep 2009]
Former eBay CEO vies to become Arnold Schwarzenegger's successor
News Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is expected to officially declare her candidacy for governor of California on Tuesday. Whitman, who has never served an elected public office, will announce her bid for the Republican nomination in 2010 during... [22 Sep 2009]
