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Devil's Advocate: Business ethics
Comment Leaders take credit for successes but blame the rank-and-file for most wrongdoing. As more and more regulations are put in place to crack down on corporate wrongdoings, Martin Brampton questions whether this will really bring about any changes in... [03 Jan 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Lab on a laptop
Comment I called the student using VoIP, and after a short discussion he decided to send me a sound file. Listening to the file, a single note on a guitar D string, I suggested that there was indeed some harmonic distortion. [08 Dec 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft's new allies
Comment And all this comes just at the time when a fresh battle over Office file formats is brewing. The coming version will use XML, and there have been attempts to persuade the ignorant that this is, in itself, a standardisation of the file formats. [15 Nov 2005]
Bram Cohen
AS Profile The man credited for creating the BitTorrent file-sharing technology, Bram Cohen claims a spot on the Agenda Setters list for being a thorn in the side of the big media companies. P2P file sharing may have first made headlines with Napster but it's... [23 Sep 2005]
Richard Stallman
AS Profile Outspoken as ever, he's a vocal critic of George W Bush and Tony Blair, and pet issues include legalising P2P file sharing, opposing UK ID cards and even boycotting Harry Potter books (because of a court order forbidding Canadians from reading... [23 Sep 2005]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile Before Skype, Zennström was the man behind P2P file-sharing bad boy Kazaa, so popular it caught the courts' attention. Niklas Zennström has dropped one spot on the Agenda Setters list from last year but you'd never have guessed - judging by the... [23 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Back me up
Comment What I need is a disk cloner that works and not a simple file and documents back-up system but so far I have failed to find one. Because of the life I lead, the nature of my business and an extensive travel schedule, all my equipment takes quite a... [01 Sep 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Searching for search technology
Comment While the principle of traipsing algorithmically through a file system or database is well-established, such mechanisms are often primitive, unwieldy and slow. Consider the 'find file' mechanism in Microsoft Windows, or the search facility in any... [26 Aug 2005]
Leader: The fine balance between business and IT
Leader Plus it can win them respect with the rank-and-file. To say CIOs must now possess business savvy is nearly a cliché. But just how much should the role and the department which the person in that role heads stray from techie roots? [10 Aug 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The way to mobile security
Comment This has 128Mb of memory (not even enough for a single PowerPoint file); a flash memory slot, which gives me the capability of an extra 8Gb of direct storage or more if I use multiple cards; and an SDIO card slot, which makes it possible for me to... [15 Jul 2005]
Leader: Is file-sharing sacking too heavy-handed?
Leader The sacking of an IT consultant after he appeared on BBC 2's Newsnight TV programme, to comment on the US Supreme Court file-sharing ruling against Grokster last week, raises some interesting issues. He was invited because he had been served legal... [04 Jul 2005]
Leader: Google, a media company?
Leader We're not about to ask them all but a trip to the infamous Googleplex will tell you it's the latter, at least among most of the rank and file. There has been a lot of talk in the past 24 hours about Google. [09 Jun 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Don't hold your breath for 3G
Comment But the public refused and in a legal battle reminiscent of today's RIAA MP3 file-sharing wars, people were prosecuted for non-payment. The Science Museum, London, UK I just had a meeting with a group of young people who brought back a flood of... [02 Jun 2005]
Is BBC trumping Hollywood with free video?
Comment You can move pre-recorded material as a file without having to worry. With plans afoot to distribute video content free of charge to Britons over the internet, is the BBC taking a smarter course than Hollywood? [19 May 2005]
IT pros fear offshoring threatens their jobs
Comment It's the rank-and-file IT pros, not management, who believe most strongly they could lose a job because of offshoring. According to silicon.com's 2005 Skills Survey, IT pros, IT consultants and software developers were the respondents who voted in... [09 May 2005]
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