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Open source: The new front
Comment By interoperability, I simply mean the ability of different IT networks, applications or components to exchange and use information, i.e.to 'talk' to each other. The open source debate is moving on, says Simon Moores. [11 Oct 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: SOA - huh?
Comment The composite solution, built on discrete functional components, is no longer dependent on application specific workflows, and visual process tools can enable processes to be changed on the fly. Poor quality... [22 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Laptop error
Comment The battery failure may well be a random event - and I do hope so - but the logic board failures are almost definitely down to the supply of a single or multiple components. Worse still of course, it is well beyond human... [04 Sep 2006]
Brampton Factor: IT and the environment - friend or foe?
Comment Most of the components in equipment that is thrown away are incapable of being reused because they are technically and economically obsolete. Computers and other IT hardware aren't being recycled and use up loads of... [25 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: SMEs rule the world
Comment Everything from food to aircraft components are supplied to the large companies by the small. Written at and despatched from a Xian hotel via a low cost wi-fi service It would be easy to come to the conclusion that the... [10 Jul 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: How small businesses buy IT
Comment For the reseller the margin they make on the three components adds up to a worthwhile deal and once they have pulled the offering together they can sell it over and over again to other SMEs. None of the individual... [03 Jul 2006]
Analysis: Intel's big push for convergence
Comment In recent years, the company has focused on increasing its share of the components within a PC or server under Otellini's platform strategy. It has also made aggressive moves into the digital home, promoting PCs and... [07 Jun 2006]
Minority Report: XP on a Mac - a wise move?
Comment The modern Mac is built from components designed and built by third-party manufacturers and the move to Intel processors made the differentiation between Apple kit and those of rival hardware vendors more difficult to... [12 Apr 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Kids today
Comment All my life I have been involved in wiring things, connecting components, boxes and devices to one another. Dispatched from my home via wi-fi and optical fibre. One inherent role of all parents seems to be a continuing... [20 Jan 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Look out for the little guy
Comment Meanwhile, the largest companies and public institutions will tend to be in the majority for the highly customised IT solutions, even if they are made up of commodity components. Vendors who make software and hardware... [05 Jan 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Lab on a laptop
Comment Expanding the spectral diagram, and producing a sonograph, it was clear the D string was producing second and third harmonics, whilst higher components were insignificant. Written at the Dayton, Ohio airport and... [08 Dec 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Grid's a 'no-brainer'
Comment In most cases, no new hardware is required - the grid can absorb existing hardware and utilise the same network, storage and database components. In just three years' time, grid computing has gone from obscurity to... [18 Nov 2005]
Opinion: It's all about 'right-sourcing'
Comment Large vendors may be less able to propose niche software or services providers or innovative solutions for components of the services. Given the recent collapse of some high-profile IT outsourcing deals, Olswang's Simon... [31 Oct 2005]
VoIP: Don't forget about security
Comment Cisco breaks VoIP policy down into four areas: infrastructure, call control, the phones themselves, and components at the application level. VoIP has many upsides but moving your telephony system to a packet-based... [09 Aug 2005]
Radioactive: The next billion mobile users
Comment By the end of this year, its plant in Shanghai will be producing sub-$5 system components that will make $20 handsets plausible. Forget the latest feature-rich smart phones - the real action is happening at the other end... [03 Aug 2005]
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