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Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?

Comment Despite the widespread availability of security software and more sophisticated means of tracking and preventing internet fraud, e-crime is still rising. The banks and building societies have just signed up to a new code.

Tags: online banking, fraud, e-crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment Their reward was a quick war, a good decision, and more bandwidth availability. There are many theories about how one technology or brand wins the global market over another. But I have a sneaking suspicion that it often largely comes down to fashion.

Tags: formats, blu-ray, dvd, storage

[17 Mar 2008]

How to give tech to those on less than $1 a day

Comment Content availability Availability and cost of hardware How do you give underprivileged children around the world access to technology? New initiatives from an unexpected source let students and educators define their own needs, says Clive Longbottom.

Tags: education, skills, microsoft, third world

[07 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast

Comment But the limit is always the availability of wi-fi and the speed of the broadband connection. During the past 15 years I have seen one generation of laptop after another get faster and more expansive with a consequential loss of facilities that just...

Tags: wi-fi, mobile, laptops, thin client

[28 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... More data breaches and Google vs Wikipedia…

Comment At least criminals are motivated to keep it secure, for fear lest its free availability reduces its market value. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are...

Tags: driver, google, hmrc, encryption

[20 Dec 2007]

Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century

Comment The availability of this prime communications spectrum is one of the biggest band grabs of the century heralding "truly next-generation advanced wireless services", according to FCC chairman Kevin Martin.

Tags: mobile, spectrum, wireless, next generation

[17 Dec 2007]

Itanium revisited - one year on

Comment To be fair, the new processor does contain a new RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) feature called Core Level Lock-Step. Despite a high-profile launch, HP and Intel's Itanium chip has failed to make much of a splash.

Tags: itanium, servers, chips, named

[13 Dec 2007]

Rorie Devine

AS Profile Scalability, security and availability - Betfair processes 99.9 per cent of bets in less than one second - are the key challenges for Devine and his team of more than 200 engineers. Rorie Devine is responsible for the IT infrastructure for the...

[12 Oct 2007]

Web 2.0 and the public sector

Web 2.0 and the public sector

Comment The availability of simple, relatively cheap tools to support new forms of collaboration, information sharing and knowledge management should be a boon to a public sector trying to become more adaptable, innovative and responsive.

[11 Oct 2007]

Leader: How to put out the fires of ID fraud

Leader Taking away the easy availability of personal data will starve the identity fraud fire of oxygen - and take the wind out of the fraudsters' sails. Every fire needs three ingredients: fuel, oxygen and heat.

Tags: identity theft, privacy, full disclosure, data

[08 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...

Comment If Microsoft stick to their position of Vista or nothing then, as availability of XP dries up, all they will do is proliferate unlicenced copies of XP. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and...

Tags: nuclear, naked pc, geek, vista

[27 Sep 2007]

Rorie Devine

CIO Profile Scalability and availability are the two big challenges for Devine and his team at a fast-growing and high-transaction business. Rorie Devine is CTO of Betfair, one of the UK's fastest growing and most innovative online companies.

[06 Jun 2007]

Editor's Blog: How to serve two billion page impressions

Comment And let's face it, if you want to 'big up' your credentials in areas such as load balancing, bandwidth management and application or service availability - as Citrix is since its acquisition of NetScaler two years ago - what better client to pick...

Tags: page impressions, betfair

[05 Jun 2007]

Virtualisation gets trendy

Comment With this, all kinds of solutions - high availability, disaster recovery, consolidated back-up - become possible and enable the next generation computing environment: the optimised data centre. Quocirca's Dennis Szubert explains the many uses of...

Tags: grid, soa, virtualisation

[15 May 2007]

Opinion: Global services' level playing-field

Comment Availability of services on the web enables full customer interaction with them and is now possible with an internet framework that can function as a robust platform for any business. The global services landscape is maturing fast, as a new book by...

Tags: infosys, tcs, wipro, india

[02 May 2007]

Brampton Factor: Network convergence is no simple task

Comment Very high standards are expected for telephony, which has typically operated to extremely high levels of availability, sometimes in the absence of mains power. Martin Brampton considers the subtler elements of convergence.

Tags: voip, skype, network management, convergence

[17 Apr 2007]

Supply chains go on-demand

Comment There are many drivers for the take-up of such services including the switch to a monthly service subscription rather than having to make upfront investments, reduction of management overheads, a simplified user experience and higher availability...

Tags: retail, manufacturing, on-demand, supply chain

[04 Apr 2007]

Do you know what's happening on your network?

Do you know what's happening on your network?

Comment The management of network availability and downtime came a close second, cited as 'critical' by 62 per cent of respondents. Corporate networks have become vast and complex beasts on which staff waste time and criminal activity takes place.

Tags: tv piracy, mpaa, data security, piracy

[28 Mar 2007]

Indian offshoring - the new worry

Comment A further example of how India is changing is the availability and price of good hotels close to where people want to do business. What is the hot topic for the India IT outsourcing community these days?

Tags: nasscom, indian it services, offshoring, outsourcing

[14 Feb 2007]

Editor's Blog: Olympics as tech showcase?

Comment I hope to write more fully on that later today (summary of the summary: still gripes over broadband availability, some of the best-rated suppliers named, a hearty cheer as the CMA chair called for lower roaming fees - see, it's not only a...

Tags: epassports, 2012 olympics, 3g

[07 Feb 2007]

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