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Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs

Comment If medical staff are still risking the lives of patients by not being clean then there is a simple solution - random testing - first failure = verbal warning, second failure = formal written warning, third failure = final warning, fourth failure...

Tags: rim, blackberry, nhs, mobile

[15 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?

Comment To list a few: the short-term approach of politicians meddling with policies, which hard-pressed techies then have to deliver; the resistance of the civil service to change; the fast turnover of senior management on projects; the lack of...

Tags: public sector, government

[30 Apr 2008]

EC monopoly warning after record Microsoft fine

EC monopoly warning after record Microsoft fine

News This followed the European Commission's announcement it was slapping a $1.35bn fine against Microsoft for failure to comply with earlier March 2004 antitrust sanctions. Check out silicon.com's latest photo stories here…

Tags: microsoft, antitrust, ec, compliance

[28 Feb 2008]

Minority Report: MacBook Air - slim chance of success?

Comment The failure of the Cube was a huge disappointment to Apple and Steve Jobs in particular, who took particular relish in the unveiling. Check out the latest in Apple innovation…   Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool?

Tags: apple, laptops, jobs, macbook

[06 Feb 2008]

Business execs snub Facebook

Business execs snub Facebook

News I'm not sure whether that's laziness, lack of time, or failure to prioritise my own future opportunities. Check out silicon.com's latest photo stories here… Just one of the 12 IT executives in silicon.com's weekly CIO Jury IT user poll said they...

Tags: facebook, cio jury, plaxo, linkedin

[11 Jan 2008]

Banking can execute change in real-time

Comment Left too long, this attitude will lead to a systematic failure to keep up with business requisites and check-list complexity. The financial sector is 10 years behind the times in its approach to management - partly because banking systems are...

Tags: change management, banking, legacy, accuracy

[02 Jan 2008]

Gov't needs greater accountability to "ensure security", says Darling

News Hammond said there had been a systemic failure and that the "responsibility for systemic failure lies at the top". Darling said the Information Commissioner's Office, as well as being given powers to "spot check" public-sector organisations, would...

Tags: gov, dva, law, hmrc

[18 Dec 2007]

Webcast: The New Exchange Architecture: Using Continuity to Lower Cost and Improve Email Availability

whitepaper Until recently, however, there were no low-cost solutions to protect your enterprise against all of these failure scenarios. Understanding real-world failure data for Microsoft Exchange Check out this TechRepublic Webcast, now available on demand...

Tags: database management, active directory, continuity, availability

[12 Dec 2007]

Webcast: Why Remote Access is Critical to Your Disaster Recovery Plan

whitepaper Although business continuity planning is often driven by natural disaster risks such as hurricanes, tornadoes, or even a potential bird flu pandemic, it's much more likely that your company's next "disaster" will actually be caused by a hardware...

Tags: disaster, vpn, techrepublic, continuity

[12 Dec 2007]

Building society installs anti-money laundering tech

News Failure to do so might result in a fine or a prison sentence of up to two years, if money laundering is found to have taken place. The building society currently carries out transaction monitoring and exception reporting, which requires staff to...

Tags: money laundering, systems, tech, regulations

[11 Dec 2007]

Editor's blog: What your identity is worth

Comment Considering the failure of the search for the discs so far, how long will it be before 'like looking for a CD in the taxman's office' becomes common usage instead? And check that your own business has strong safeguards in place to protect the data...

Tags: full disclosure, hmrc, data, laws

[05 Dec 2007]

Gordon Brown orders data security spot checks

News But Conservative Party leader David Cameron hit back and said: "I have to say to the Prime Minister that if a junior official in an organisation can access so much information and send it not once, not twice but three times, that is evidence of...

Tags: hmrc, information commissioner, gordon brown, house

[22 Nov 2007]

Offshoring - culture lessons are crucial

News Richard Herbert, CIO of global markets and European IT at ABN Amro, said the failure of outsourcing contracts should not be blamed on overseas service suppliers. Check out the Editor's Blog for the silicon.com chief's take on the hot tech issues of...

Tags: india, outsourcing, offshoring, cio

[16 Oct 2007]

Will's Web Watch: Computer says 'no'

Comment Yet the computer says 'no' effect, when customer service falls in the gap between an over-reliance on computers and the operator's failure to intervene, still exists. The failure to understand why the computer had cancelled my order was one thing...

Tags: web watch

[10 May 2007]

Disable Auto-Reboot

whitepaper This webcast shows how to disable auto restart on system failure. A person could check the error log in this case but that is too easy. When Running windows and it crashes, one gets a blue screen and it automatically restarts, often it will restart...

Tags: error, restart, message, automatically

[04 May 2007]

CIO Jury: CEOs 'don't get' technology

News Mike Roberts, IT director at the London Clinic, said: "The lack of understanding in the complexity and cost of implementing the underlying IT is one of the most common issues at the root of the failure of most business transformation and change...

Tags: cio jury

[08 Mar 2007]

Possible pirates targeted by Windows update

News We have seen many instances where the failure to complete validation is masking other system problems that users should attend to. The software behemoth said the new indeterminate reading can occur, for example, when a local error or network error...

Tags: wga, pirates, pirate, microsoft windows

[28 Feb 2007]

Leader: The big issues of 2006

Leader Many of these people do a great job implementing IT but we still hear so many stories of failure. So check out our 'Re:Viewing' pieces on security and mobile and wireless. Looking back at 2006 is in many ways about looking forward to 2007.

[21 Dec 2006]

New Star beefs up disaster recovery

Case Study Hornung said the introduction of the failover software now means that he and the staff have no need to worry about loss of information or communication as the result of a server failure, and can work in the knowledge that "it won't be five minutes...

Tags: asset management, business continuity disaster recovery, disaster recovery

[15 Dec 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Prince2

Cheat Sheet Prince, and its successor Prince2, were designed to address some of the common causes of project failure. Some of those causes of failure are a lack of co-ordination of resources and tasks, a lack of communication with users leading to products not...

Tags: prince 2, prince2, cheat sheet

[07 Nov 2006]

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