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RSS riskBand-X offers cut-and-change telco options
News Chris Rose, director of information at Band-X, is confident there's no risk of bottlenecks should a supplier suddenly drop their rates. ISPs and large corporates will be able to switch IP telco providers every month to... [15 Feb 2000]
Windows 2000 Special: New dawn or dead end?
Comment It's not a single upgrade, it's a new concept and a dramatic change in direction and this brings more risk. In May 1999, Silicon.com spoke to a selection of senior IT professionals to gauge attitudes towards Microsoft's... [15 Feb 2000]
TrustE delivers breakthrough for data protection wars
News TrustE's move is expected to boost consumer trust in global ecommerce and limit the risk to businesses of costly international lawsuits. The prospect of long-term wrangling between EU and US authorities over data... [10 Feb 2000]
Database Nation: Privacy now!
Comment Free societies turn their backs on privacy at their own risk, for privacy is one of the fundamental rights from which all other human rights are derived. Article 12 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference... [10 Feb 2000]
FTC opens a book of worms
News An unproven security risk in Amazon.com's databases has come under the spotlight of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The risk is entirely hypothetical, according to security consultant Richard... [09 Feb 2000]
Corel users wary over Linux migration
News But Clive Longbottom, strategy analyst at Strategy Partners, said: "It's a very large risk. The Corel user group in the UK has voiced concerns over the $2.44bn merger between Corel and Inprise/Borland which will see the... [08 Feb 2000]
Yahoo! falls to hackers
News UK & Ireland said there had been no breach in network security and user details had not been at risk. The Yahoo! Web directory service was brought to a halt for three hours yesterday after hackers subjected the site... [08 Feb 2000]
Recognition chief claims attitudes to CRM are changing
News We found that a lot of evaluations were being run by the IT department who are very risk averse," he said. The chief executive of CRM developer, Recognition Systems, claims attitudes to customer relationship management... [03 Feb 2000]
Ask the Lawyer @ Silicon.com
Comment Do you risk your own money in the business? Q. As an IT contractor, what is the difference between a contract for services and a contract of service? Also, where do I find more information? A. Basically, a "contract for... [31 Jan 2000]
FDA issues online drugs warning
News She added that if medicine is bought from a foreign provider, customers run the risk of receiving a drug that may not be approved in their own country. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned the public to... [31 Jan 2000]
European CEOs consider themselves Web amateurs
News The report, called 'Inside the Mind of the CEO', also found that Europe lags behind the US significantly in its attitudes to ebusiness, and is also at risk of falling behind Asia and Latin America. Only eight per cent of... [27 Jan 2000]
The Value Proposition: IP - a new metric for the Information Age
Comment It is designed for lending organisations and investors to manage their risk. Despite all the journals, reports and seminars which have been produced on the subject, it remains extremely difficult for companies to justify... [25 Jan 2000]
UK finance bill risks breaching ecommerce rules
News The UK government runs the risk of breaking EU ecommerce laws with its latest set of regulations controlling online banking and investment services. According to a report in the Financial Times, one senior EC insider... [25 Jan 2000]
Online music strikes a chord with Computacenter
News He claims MaximumVolume.net is better than competing services for four main reasons: it removes the risk a copyright holder incurs when getting their content online; it was designed with the music industry in mind; is... [24 Jan 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Oracle's 11i under scrutiny, FI's future with Druid, and IT in the mega-merger
Comment This leaves one final major risk: that of Oracle not delivering on the applications. For a company like Millipore to go public on such a high-profile, high-risk project is a good indication that Oracle's... [23 Jan 2000]
