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How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive
Case Study As far back as 2003 word got out that insurer Norwich Union (NU) was working on a pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) in-car 'black box' device. The Teradata box worked at a fraction of the cost of in-house servers running IBM's AIX flavour of Unix. [27 Nov 2007]
MiFID: No big bang - but it's not over yet
News But he explained most banks approached 1 November as a minimum ticking-the-box exercise, with real work due to get under way in 2008. He suggested companies still have time to sort out the finer details of MiFID compliance, saying: "The general... [26 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.02.07
Round-Up As the wilting roses or half-polished-off box of chocolates on your desk may well attest, this week the merrily gullible were once again celebrating the Hallmark-sponsored persecution of the single that is Valentine's Day. [16 Feb 2007]
Word up! Explore the lexicon of tech
News Click on the links in the grey box above to make your way from A to Z. Do they worry what might happen if word reaches the blogosphere or are they confident all the citizen journalists will either show too much netiquette or be too busy... [24 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Software as a service
Cheat Sheet By and large, yes it does - though there are still relatively few companies making a real name for themselves in this space compared to the real big names who are still shipping box-loads of CDs with software the user must install. [31 Oct 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.09.06
Round-Up Fans of Microsoft and Gervais (and statistically there must be quite a few of them) were in Office heaven this month as the never-released videos finally turned up on video sites, only to be pulled shortly after and replaced with yet another... [01 Sep 2006]
Software as a service hits sweet spot
News I don't know how long it will be before people stop buying software like Photoshop in a shrink-wrapped box but it will happen," said Goldberg, warning vendors they must wake up to this movement. Once you have a lot of people using not only CRM... [12 Apr 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.01.05
Round-Up Well, now Ballmer has a kindred spirit in close Microsoft ally Kevin Rollins, CEO of pre-installed Windows mega-box-shifter Dell. Poor choice of word. One master of the written word even called Rollins "Steve Ballmer's right hand pit stain". [21 Jan 2005]
BT broadband hits 2Mbps
News Although technical details of this set-top box aren't available, it will rely on a fast ADSL service such as IPStream 2000, rather than a slower 512Kbps service. The word from BT is that there is no limit on the number of people who can take part... [03 Nov 2004]
Google squares up to Microsoft
News When a term such as "sailboat" is typed in the search box, Google will return a list of web results and a set of desktop results at the top of the page, earmarked with a new logo that's like a multicoloured Olympic ring. [14 Oct 2004]
Leader: Childish government of the internet
Leader Many parents hand their children the box and that's the last they see of the PC. Perhaps stupid is a better word for it. Putting aside the fact that this initiative totally negates the notion of the internet being a global network with no awareness... [15 Sep 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Out-of-the-box options
Comment As appliances are used to deliver more complex functionality it will be harder to optimise them to deliver the performance benefits that make them competitive - but they will still serve as an alternative for companies that want to think out of... [09 Jul 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Superhighway? What superhighway?
Comment In the case of South Korea the data rate supplied has to be precisely what is on the box. During the dot-com boom of the 1990s and up to 2001 the word on the street was that by now we would be enjoying the information superhighway. [08 Apr 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.03.04
Round-Up But the Round-Up also worries about the effect sighting a robot dog charging over the brow of a hill may have on some of the simpler folk in the UK's more backwards rural backwaters where they are still coming to terms with the horseless carriage... [05 Mar 2004]
Software crime: Would you admit to an accidental breach?
Comment He's undercutting the next best offer by about £10 per box and you think you've found a bargain. And while we have every reason to take them at their word it raises a number of questions, best outlined by the scenarios below. [25 Sep 2003]
