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Leader: UK should make hay while MiFID sun shines
Leader The European investment banking regulation that came into force today is aimed at making financial trading across borders easier and fairer by, among other things, promoting best execution for trades and improved record keeping. [01 Nov 2007]
Larry Ellison
AS Profile Always outspoken, Ellison's undeniably larger-than-life ego would appear to be the driving force behind Oracle's success. Larry Ellison has been perhaps the most colourful figure in the global IT industry for the past 15 years. [12 Oct 2007]
Viviane Reding
AS Profile This summer - to the joy of mobile users across Europe - she won her battle to force mobile operators to cut the charges for users roaming abroad - with SMS and data rates likely to be next in the firing line. [12 Oct 2007]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile And in the past month or so, salesforce.com launched a new SaaS CRM platform called Force.com, which makes it easier for businesses to develop their own apps, including the ability to create customer user interfaces for any device with web access. [12 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Social networks
Comment But I reckon they may well emerge as a new social force for those seeking justice and fair play across the board. Written at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK, and dispatched via a free wi-fi service One of the great features of the internet is the... [18 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Public sector and PCs - not boring, official
Comment Does a police force dealing with a terrorist's details have more robust mobile security than a leading investment bank in Canary Wharf? I've been away for a week on holiday. I don't normally do the whole August time-off thing but a chance to... [29 Aug 2007]
Dear silicon.com... ID cards, Auntie's iPlayer, generation web 2.0, robot wars
Comment This also goes both ways and companies who find their productivity levels to be dropping because this generation will either not employ them, preferring older staff who are committed or by upping sticks and moving to countries with a better work... [16 Aug 2007]
Full Disclosure - silicon.com launches data breaches campaign
Comment A number of high-profile data breaches have eroded public faith in the ability of organisations to protect sensitive personal information and only a change in the law to force companies to come clean about data breaches will restore it.silicon.com... [16 Jul 2007]
CIOs must not fend off risk alone
Comment Such an appointment would also refocus other business heads and force them to realise they have as much duty as the CIO to report in to the CRO and act upon recommendations. Will Sturgeon argues in favour of the latter and discusses the reasons why... [10 Jul 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis Red tape and the associated IT changes needed to be compliant with it have always been high on financial services companies' IT priorities and that is currently around the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), which comes into force... [06 Jun 2007]
Ailsa Beaton
CIO Profile One of Beaton's key priorities is delivery of the Met's Command, Control, Communication and Information (C3i) organisational change programme which will integrate all the force's 32 borough control rooms into a central command unit, and addressing... [06 Jun 2007]
CIOs lack skills for growth
Comment Organisations are increasingly waking up to the power and potential of technology as a force for growth and innovation but professor N Venkatraman, of the Boston University School of Management, questions whether CIOs and IT departments have the... [04 May 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The big picture on 'the next five billion'
Comment However, we in the West must also make sure that we do not attempt to force our own regional viewpoints or global aims onto other cultures. Several big tech vendors from the developed world have a commitment to developing economies, not just... [27 Apr 2007]
Minority Report: Should Apple set its music free?
Comment The news is likely to go some way to placating the governments of EU countries such as France and Norway which have complained about FairPlay and threatened to introduce legislation to force the iTunes Store to relax its DRM restrictions to allow... [11 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No locks?
Comment It had to become a legal requirement before the motor industry would fit them on every vehicle, and then it took the passing of another law to force people to wear them. Written in a hotel near Morpeth, Northumberland, polished on the A1 heading... [15 Mar 2007]
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