certified in comment and analysis
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment Healthcare information, for example, should only be available to healthcare agencies and certified providers. Our lives would clearly be much better if more information were held. Over the past few years we've had some feverish debate about ID cards. [21 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment Now they want me to write to them with a certified birth certificate copy. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Illegal file-sharers [28 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... open source vs MS, budget overruns, the iPhone, patents...
Comment Most of the IT admins that I meet in gov.are poorly paid recruits who come from that great pool of MS certified pros. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are... [20 Sep 2007]
Ken Harvey
CIO Profile Harvey has a degree in finance from Chicago's DePaul University, is certified in multiple programming languages and is widely recognised for his expertise in real-time financial transaction processing. [06 Jun 2007]
Leader: Ethical hacking - launch, teach... hope
Leader Certainly these skills are undeniably useful, which is why they are already offered to IT professionals by numerous certified training companies. News that the University of Abertay in Scotland is to offer a course in 'ethical hacking' is likely to... [19 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.09.05
Round-Up We now hear that Microsoft employees are being given a book of vouchers which they can hand out to enquiring friends and relatives, who in turn can redeem the vouchers against a visit from a Microsoft certified engineer. [16 Sep 2005]
Devil's Advocate: A little black book of passwords
Comment Perhaps we should be insisting that people only use computers that are certified to be honest. Martin Brampton asks if there's a better way than writing them down. After all those years when we ridiculed people for writing their computer passwords... [24 May 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Programme management
Comment Unfortunately, the absorption of some theory and the completion of a set of multiple choice questions seems often to yield certified but unskilled project managers. We're used to a lot of theory and practice when it comes to project management but... [30 Mar 2005]
Insecure about Wi-Fi security? Don’t be...
Comment The new standard is expected to appear in Wi-Fi Certified products any time now but enterprises are still waiting. But as Simon Marshall makes clear, for every problem there is a practical solution. Despite the well flagged security issues with... [03 Apr 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Uncontrollable bits
Comment The reply: "Didn't you know that there is a strict control of all video material in this country and it has to be viewed and certified suitable for public viewing? With a life-time of international travel under his belt, Peter Cochrane has found... [26 Sep 2002]
What's the fuss about... UnitedLinux?
Comment AT&T tried to regain some control, Posix-compliance was born, and promptly died a death when Microsoft managed to get NT certified as a Posix-compliant operating system. The second CD cannot hold anything which an application uses as a main... [16 Aug 2002]
Blames, names and automobiles
Comment But she's got nothing on Randy Bender, Novell's certified directory engineer of the year. The judge decided to make an example of the man, a certain Jaako Rytsola, founder of Finnish ISP Saunalahti, when he was collared back in early 2000. [17 Aug 2001]
Skills crisis over - at least in Silicon Valley
Comment This is unlikely to mean - in the short term, at least - the cost of your friendly database administrator or Cisco certified engineer is going to go down. And - despite the obvious bad news of continued layoffs - many will view any kind of let-up... [30 Apr 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Caught in the learning curve
Comment The introduction of certified engineering courses by major suppliers has gone a long way to providing the manpower needed to roll out applications based on packages such as Windows 2000, Oracle and SQL. [07 Jan 2001]
Linux: it's time to grasp the nettle
Comment It has been designed to comply with Open Group Unix standards - although it's not certified as such. Many think Linux servers have been built only for the web - and, on the whole, they'd be right. IDC's research on server workloads shows it's used... [11 Sep 2000]
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