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Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment Not sure where and how Ofcom carried out this survey but we have offices in Southampton, Taunton, Bristol and Birmingham with staff living in 'rural' areas around all of them and have had issues in all regions, and don't get me started on services... [29 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment British employers treat IT staff like office furniture, like non-value-based commodities rather than assets. The so-called skills slump in the UK has attracted a lot of attention this week, with many readers blaming the education system and... [22 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: WFH, LOL?
Comment That's why last Thursday most of the silicon.com team worked from home - to see whether we could function as normal with no one in the office. By the end of the day many of the team were happy to be returning to the comparative calm of the office... [21 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up Office workers across the UK were urged to stay at home yesterday. And the rest of them got a bit lonely and were grateful to return to the warm embrace of silicon.com towers this morning, vowing never to leave the office again, or at least not... [16 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom
Comment Between 10 and 20 years ago designers and architects made assumptions about the use of office space and people's working practices. Written during an intensely boring conference session and dispatched via a free wi-fi node outside Liverpool St... [16 May 2008]
The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group
Comment On route to the top of her profession she has successfully tackled some massive IT-based change management programmes in both the private and public sector but out of the office she can also be found charging towards the try line or making... [13 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with the Information Commissioner's Office since April 2005, has stopped data transfers unless there is a business critical need, and now demands adequate security... [02 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Unequal opportunities
Comment Office insights… ¦ Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch ¦ Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT ¦ Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts? From the inside, we know that to be true. [28 Apr 2008]
'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves
Comment Speaking at Gartner's Enterprise Networking & Communications Summit, London-based media company Pearson - which has been using a telepresence system since 2001 - explained that, yes, videoconferencing has allowed its senior execs to reduce trips... [28 Apr 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment And for those with the highest DBI, network downtime has much more impact on external and mobile workers than it does on office-bound ones. The need for enriched communications extends to those workers who spend some or all their time outside the... [24 Apr 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment Despite the growth in digital communications and promises of the paperless office, printed documents remain critical to most enterprises. Who controls printing and imaging? Responsibility is often scattered - so control and costs go out the window. [22 Apr 2008]
Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities
Comment Office insights… Flexibility the key for women in IT Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend Wanted: Women must save IT industry Long-hours tech culture hits morale ... [18 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment This week, readers had a thing or two to say about the Home Office consultancy bill and were not best pleased by the mounting cost of ID cards. I suspect that, once more, the only thing this highlights is total incompetence at the Home Office. [17 Apr 2008]
Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Comment This can apply across business lines or a market group, ensuring that all exceptions are monitored and reported correctly, allowing operations management to push back information to the middle or front office if any controls are breached. [15 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment Four to five years ago there were several offices that may have had one or two agents tied to a white collar crime squad working cyber crime, now every field office has at least one dedicated cyber squad. [15 Apr 2008]
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