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RSS activities columnTesting Database Security
White Paper This column focuses on the Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA) and Virtual Private Database (VPD) features in Oracle Database 10g. FGA, introduced in Oracle9i Database, captures user activities at a very... [02 Jul 2008]
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment Exclusive column: The Naked CIO This column is based on the work of McKinsey's London location and its head of practice, Paul Willmott. But they often pay a high price for decentralising development:... [09 Apr 2008]
Architecture in Practice, Part 4: Scenario 1 - Service Creation Options in a Real-World SOA Scenario
White Paper This installment in the Architecture in practice column focuses on the Service Creation scenario, the first of the SOA scenarios. Get familiar with the patterns and their broad activities within the SOA... [09 Apr 2008]
Now Reporting
White Paper This column shows the user different report styles available in Oracle SQL Developer and how one can store and share reports. Oracle SQL Developer provides an easy-to-install, lightweight, multiplatform GUI that enables... [29 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.08.05
Round-Up After feeling pleased at using the word "brobdingnagian" not once but twice in the same technology column, the Round-Up was also pleased to learn that, as part of the settlement, Richter and his company has agreed to pay... [12 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Is online anonymity hurting us?
Comment When my website was hacked, an incident I wrote about in last week's column, the intruder obligingly left web and email addresses. Yet by following activities on the web and reading what people write in... [15 Feb 2005]
Criminal IT: Should you trust the internet?
Comment In his debut silicon.com column, Criminal IT, Neil Barrett examines whether internet users can rely on a system built on so many unknowns. But of course, the internet isn't the element being trusted in... [27 Jan 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Wireless - who's ready to commit?
Comment The level of vendor hype is high and the number of column inches appearing in the press is significant. We could speculate that organisations have not yet had a chance to properly evaluate the results of their initial... [03 Sep 2004]
The BBC: The monopoly it's OK to love?
News Some took issue with silicon.com's own Will Sturgeon after he spoke out in support of limiting the corporation in his Web Watch column, while others were all in favour of changes to the BBC's website, which they believe... [14 Jul 2004]
Ratcheting up the Fee Ratio
White Paper There was a time when the noninterest column in financial reports represented little more than income from trust activities and the service charges on checking accounts. But then technology and... [25 Feb 2004]
An Overview of the OMG CORBA Messaging Quality of Service (QoS) Framework
White Paper This is the final column in our series covering the OMG CORBA Messaging specification. Quality of service (QoS) is a widely accepted term that describes activities and technologies designed to improve... [25 Feb 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Intelligent machines
Comment This column was dictated after an encounter with a really dumb ATM machine that refused to return my credit card for a full five minutes. I expect location-based activities and state to be subsumed into... [17 Apr 2003]
Special Report: Kofi Annan's IT challenge
News Kofi Annan wrote this column exclusively for CNet. But those activities are focused primarily on the United States. At the same time, however, the gap between information "haves" and "have-nots" is... [06 Nov 2002]
Ebusiness Despatches: BBC - the Business Busting Corporation
Comment My last column was about the need for broadband to succeed in the UK, and so for some kind of stability for broadband providers (http://www.silicon.com/a51282 ). Then there is the tremendous success of BBCi, its online... [13 Mar 2002]
Magnificent Seven analysts ride as a posse
News Martin Brampton writes the Devil's Advocate column for silicon.com, and together with Clive Longbottom of Quocirca is a regular guest on the Behind the Headlines TV show. Many of the members are run by a single member of... [26 Oct 2001]
