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Leader: UK ID cards - devil is in the detail
Leader But some of the questions the government still hasn't addressed are quite serious, including who will have access to the data held in the National Identity Register underpinning ID cards (Blunkett says this isn't an issue as the data isn't really... [27 Oct 2004]
Leader: A vote for e-voting
Leader By 2008 the technology and the means of identity verification should be robust enough to guarantee a fairly flawless e-voting system. London Mayor Ken Livingstone has given his backing to the idea of e-voting, suggesting the next mayoral elections... [15 Oct 2004]
Analysis: Has the "CIO" reached the end of the line?
Comment In the silicon.com CIO Jury this week, however, the majority of CIOs put up a robust defence of their role with many claiming IT project failures are often the result of uninformed meddling of business people and accountants in the process. [06 Oct 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.09.04
Round-Up And it’s a bull which now has a good reason to write far more robust code. The simple repeated phrase "Gizza job. I could do that", spoken by Yosser Hughes in Alan Bleasdale's quintessential Thatcher-era drama 'Boys from the Blackstuff' summed up... [17 Sep 2004]
How CIOs mitigate VoIP's risks
Comment The general consensus among CIOs and IT directors was that the risks of VoIP can be minimised by having a resilient and robust infrastructure. The benefits of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) far outweigh the risks involved in putting all voice... [09 Sep 2004]
Inside offshoring: India's telecoms infrastructure
Comment Carrying voice is relatively simple - though hardly unimportant, given how much offshoring is about farming out complete business processes such as customer care through call centres - but data connectivity must also be robust. [16 Jun 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Why computer security's so primitive
Comment Few organisations have robust systems for distributing software automatically, let alone patching it automatically. Perhaps we will have to adopt the revolutionary approach of designing software to be closer to the ideal of being robust and secure... [11 May 2004]
Leader: Spare us the surprise 3G launches
Leader Our main concern now is that the services serve a purpose and are robust - as with users' early experience of Vodafone's Mobile Connect 3G data card. It has been a slightly bizarre week of 3G launches. [06 May 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Design software before you build it
Comment The best designs solve immediate problems, but are also flexible and robust enough to be adapted for the inevitable future changes. It also makes testing more effective and allows projects to be reused. [04 May 2004]
Analysis: Enterprise portals - integration made easy?
Comment Enterprise application integration (EAI) tools have typically offered robust integration - at the price of complexity - but web services, an approach all about connecting different software using various standards, most importantly XML, have... [06 Apr 2004]
Analysis: Enterprise portals in action
Comment It also allows a project leader to invite and authenticate participants, backed by appropriate security and a robust underlying directory solution. The enterprise portal movement is way beyond the vendor-hype stage. [24 Mar 2004]
Devil's Advocate: A puff of steam in the IPO boiler
Comment However, by no means all companies have as robust a cashflow as Microsoft. A reliable dividend places a floor under the share price, since if the company is thought robust, its dividend can be used to calculate the amount of money that would have... [10 Feb 2004]
Leader: Linux comes a long way - but let's be realistic
Leader What has happened with the emergence of more robust enterprise Linux desktop offerings is that it gives businesses more of a genuine bargaining tool when entering licensing negotiations with Microsoft. [22 Jan 2004]
"It'll be alright, we'll buy some security next month..."
Comment Companies are being urged to make robust security their very first purchase before launching online. Any company launching with inadequate security, and putting off its full spend is kidding itself if it thinks it is safe from attack, yet many are... [22 Sep 2003]
Devil's Advocate: The making of an IT professional
Comment Legacy software may have been derided but often it was retained for decades because it was robust and met real needs. Martin Brampton has his doubts… Talk about jobs in IT always seems to involve constant use of the term 'professional'. [02 Sep 2003]
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