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ID cards are dead

Comment The tactic there will be to try and force adoption by making various student and youth-related public services and benefits dependant on having an ID card. Of course the government is bravely attempting to position this revised timetable for the...

Tags: id cards, physical, cards, register

[07 Mar 2008]

Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008

Comment Electronic fixed-income trading platforms have found expansion and wholesale adoption of their services by dealers and the buy side slower than has been the case for equities, even in relatively benign markets.

Tags: bonds, arbitrage, trading platforms, flow

[30 Jan 2008]

Leader: Why the BBC must do more with iPlayer

Leader And the development of an iPlayer download service for non-XP users also seems to be far from a foregone conclusion, with the the corporation planning to look at the rates of adoption for the streaming service for XP and other platforms before...

Tags: xp, linux, macs, iplayer

[19 Oct 2007]

Leader: No hang ups about subterranean mobiles

Leader It may be naive optimism but perhaps the UK's adoption of mobiles on the Tube will follow the same pattern. With mobile coverage encroaching into nearly every part of our lives - even on planes - it was only be a matter of time before mobile...

Tags: mobile, london underground, tube

[16 Apr 2007]

Leader: Why cash will be weighing us down for years

Leader And sure, in the last decade alternatives to cash have made big leaps forward - with the broad adoption of credit and debit cards and other payment methods such as PayPal coming along too. The cashless society is a bit like the paperless office.

Tags: credit card, cyber criminals, cash, cash machine

[12 Mar 2007]

VoIP threats to watch out for

Comment The increasing adoption of session initiation protocol (SIP) for VoIP is expected to open up a whole new front in the security war. If your business uses or is considering rolling out VoIP, you should be aware of the many ways your systems could be...

Tags: spit, voip security, vishing, hacking

[09 Mar 2007]

Upwardly Mobile: Mobile advertising at work?

Comment Why not facilitate SMEs' adoption of GPS or mobile email with a little advertising-centric price trimming? Sometimes you see a new invention and you think 'great idea'. Take the Valentine's Krispy Kreme donut - so bad, it's good.

Tags: mobile advertising, sugar mama, upwardly mobile, advertising

[27 Feb 2007]

Mobile workforces - how to keep them productive

Comment Again understanding, buy-in and adoption of a corporate usage and etiquette is the way to deal with these problems, rather than a reliance on yet more technology. The way many people work has changed dramatically over the last decade.

Tags: mobile security, mobile working, productivity, quocirca

[19 Feb 2007]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: BI to go mainstream?

Comment One of the main drivers for BI adoption is the need to analyse high volumes of transactional data, which continue to grow exponentially. But whilst Microsoft may indeed increase the awareness of BI tools, achieving mainstream BI adoption still...

Tags: business intelligence

[01 Dec 2006]

Leader: In-flight connectivity is here stay

Leader The main hurdle to adoption for mile-high mobile phone service is the lack of regulatory approval. silicon.com has been writing stories about mobile connectivity on planes for some years - as far back as 2004, to be exact - and in-flight wireless...

Tags: in-flight broadband, in-flight internet, in-flight mobiles, in-flight

[09 Nov 2006]

Q&A: Microsoft UK MD Gordon Frazer

Comment Some analysts and users are questioning the value in the upgrade - what are your predictions for the adoption of the new products? Microsoft's new UK MD, Gordon Frazer, has been in his role for just over three months after relocating from South...

Tags: gordon frazer, microsoft

[03 Nov 2006]

Minority Report: The death of the iPod

Comment The take-up curve of iPod sales since its launch at the end of 2001 is broadly in line with the famous Rogers bell curve for innovation adoption regularly handed out as part of Product Management 101 classes the world over.

Tags: ipod, apple

[03 Nov 2006]

Leader: Could IT suffer a Carr crash?

Leader This time around Carr is telling companies to stop buying IT and to ditch any notion of early adoption. Nicholas Carr has thrown fresh salt into the wounds of an IT industry that appears to still be smarting from his 2003 critical essay entitled...

Tags: nicholas carr

[05 Oct 2006]

Ashley Highfield

AS Profile The emergence of IPTV, a greater move towards on-demand programming and the BBC's adoption of podcasting means there's scope to keep on pushing forward. Why? Keeping the Beeb up-to-date Ashley Highfield has become something of an Agenda Setters...

[25 Sep 2006]

Mark Linesch

AS Profile The adoption of grid computing is on a sharp incline - no doubt due to the work of Mark Linesch and the Open Grid Forum. Why? Paving the way for grid computing Head of the forum for two years, Linesch is leading the effort to enable real-world uses...

[25 Sep 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Are you a windscreen or a fly?

Comment In order to try to understand how to become a windscreen, or at least how to avoid hitting one, it's worth looking at the trends that have combined with the broader adoption of IP. Its history dates from the interconnecting of four computers in the...

Tags: convergence, consolidation, utility computing

[11 Aug 2006]

Leader: IT chiefs need mobile help

Leader While uptake for the likes of mobile sales force automation or field force automation is lukewarm at the moment, once mobile email gets going properly, other apps will find themselves treading the hockey-stick adoption curve it has left behind a...

Tags: mobile, convergence, pc

[12 Jul 2006]

Dan's China diary - day 20

Comment With 400 million mobile phone subscriptions and 110 million internet users, he says the rapid phase of technology adoption is largely over - some places are already saturated so it will be a drip feed process from now on.

Tags: china

[29 Jun 2006]

Analysis: Bringing IT in line with the business

Comment The adoption plan should be broken into smaller steps. While some of these can be done in parallel, breaking the adoption plan into smaller chunks allows IT to declare victory at intervals and show that progress is being made.

[07 Jun 2006]

Analysis: A globetrotter's guide to cyber crime

Analysis: A globetrotter's guide to cyber crime

Comment China boasts a huge population and a rapid rate of internet adoption. Cyber crime is clearly an international problem. Yet certain parts of the world still get blamed for particular threats. Is there any basis to this?

Tags: scam, nigerian 419 scams, malware, spam

[09 May 2006]

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