country in comment and analysis
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment One other European country, which shall remain nameless here, was selling itself on the beauty of its women. What really matters when it comes to chosing an overseas location for your technology - skills, food, buildings, climate? [03 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.05.08
Round-Up The Country Land & Business Association, or CLA for those who like their acronyms, isn't impressed. Worsley might have cried, had that actually been the motto of the Country Land & Business Association, which it isn't, more's the pity. [30 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: The skills drain needs fixing
Comment To all the workers out there, Lloyds TSB's decision does not mirror the views of this and many other CIOs who still want to see the talents of good UK staff developed so that the country can continue to be a bedrock of IT innovation. [27 May 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment When broadband was first introduced in the UK in 2000, households in urban areas were the first to take the service, leading to concerns that a digital divide was emerging between country and built-up areas," it states. [23 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08
Round-Up The Voice Risk Analyser system will be piloted by another 15 councils following its success in seven areas of the country. Benefit fraudsters beware. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities you may find their "liar, liar, pants on... [09 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…
Comment The jurisdiction in the outsource country you choose will have much weaker data protection legislation than the EU. First up this week, readers were engaging in debate over the pros and cons of outsourcing. [08 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: Signs of terminal decline at T5?
Comment It seemed like a cue for much of the UK to sink into a trough of despondency about the country's ability to finish any project successfully. It's a small claim to fame, I know, but I was one of the passengers who flew from the newly opened Heathrow... [16 Apr 2008]
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment While this US act covers companies listed in that country, it can also affect UK firms that are subsidiaries or partners of US firms. Compliance. The word strikes fear into the heart of even the hardened executive. [08 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment I am sorry, as a country we are led/managed by people who have no realistic understanding of our electronic information and most valuable asset. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [20 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment This month in the US one hacker pleaded guilty to creating a network of more than 400,000 computers, which included those belonging to the country's Defense Information Systems Agency. Estonian MP Silver Meikar, a member of the country's defence... [27 Feb 2008]
It's time Indian IT took the lead
Comment And is the country restrained by its education and social norms? This provoked a debate about the barriers to change in a country where in a marriage of two professionals, the man does not relocate but the woman always has to. [20 Feb 2008]
Indian IT outsourcers look ahead
Comment For example voting in elections is fully electronic throughout the country, financial services and capital markets are of a high quality and there is a nationwide railway reservations system in place that works. [14 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Mobile users break free
Comment To every other country and carrier you can name. Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in London. Suppose for a moment you bought a pen and found it would only write on a particular brand of paper. [05 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: Digital cold turkey, Himalayan style
Comment First to go was the mobile - that didn't work anywhere in the country, let alone in the mountains. I've often talked about going digital cold-turkey, dumping the gadgets, the laptop and the broadband, and finding out how long I could cope before... [10 Jan 2008]
The rise of the 'Brics'
Comment What country am I describing if I say that it is the richest in the world, it has the largest military, it is the centre of world business and finance, it has the strongest education system, it has a currency that is the world standard of value... [18 Dec 2007]
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