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The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment We do this to market more effectively to customers who match the predictive characteristics of people who tend to buy our products. Our lives would clearly be much better if more information were held. [21 Jul 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves
Comment Project Oslo provides the basic characteristics to manage this. But the software giant's approach to SOA is woeful, says Clive Longbottom. Over the past month or so, I've attended two Microsoft events. [30 Jun 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Open source 'brotherhood' closed to co-operation
Comment Now this is a group that is known to have some particular characteristics. It just doesn't fit with the characteristics of open source developers. The reality is sadly very different, says Martin Brampton. [03 Apr 2008]
IT at your service
Comment Consistency, integrity and reliability are inherent characteristics of a good service. One answer may to be move the computing department to a services culture, says Danny Bradbury. Years of inflated budgets, problematic projects and... [09 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment
Comment Once the desired antenna propagation characteristics have been achieved, then it is usual that some closely located system causes interference on one kind or another. Written at a hotel in Taunton, UK, and dispatched via another free wi-fi service... [07 Jan 2008]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment When you do that, you have to make it in such a way that it's robust and has general characteristics as well as specifics in the development. Julian David, IBM's vice president public sector business, has been with the company 26 years, with... [05 Dec 2007]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment These traits are used to identify people by certain characteristics that are either physiological - such as faces, fingerprints, irises, veins and DNA - or behavioural - such as voices, signatures and keystrokes.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics [23 Nov 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment It is a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications or end users interact with those resources. Virtualisation is not just about servers anymore. [15 May 2007]
VoIP threats to watch out for
Comment Some of its characteristics also leave it vulnerable to hackers, such as using text for encoding and SIP extensions that can create security holes. If your business uses or is considering rolling out VoIP, you should be aware of the many ways your... [09 Mar 2007]
The Executive CIO: David Weymouth, ex-CIO Barclays
Comment He says: "The reality is that if you are going to operate at the very top you have to exhibit the characteristics of all of them. The executive CIO is generally the least technical of the four different types of CIO (paratrooper, consultant and... [21 Sep 2006]
Analysis: What is a smart phone?
Comment Many industry watchers and device makers will take issue with the analyst's somewhat simplistic definition but for those supplying the smart bit of the smart phone, there's no doubt data applications are certainly one of the defining... [13 Feb 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Start-ups and gold miners
Comment It seems to me that similar levels of unlikely characteristics apply. Written from Estes Park, Colorado, on a very thin dial-up pipe I just hiked the 2.25km from Longs Peak Ranger Station (in Colorado) up to the long abandoned Eugena Mine at an... [20 Jul 2005]
Devil's Advocate: A little black book of passwords
Comment So far, they cannot really be said to have such characteristics at all. 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 on sticky notes under... [24 May 2005]
Devil's Advocate: The true information age
Comment The talk is of understanding customers, improving corporate governance and making organisations reflect the characteristics of the internet. It is far from clear what characteristics are to be emulated. [12 Apr 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Should we lock up virus writers?
Comment In natural situations, we know the more uniform the characteristics of a population, the more vulnerable it is to diseases, including those carried by viruses. And shouldn't our morally ambivalent society and the creators of vulnerable systems... [02 Nov 2004]
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