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Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...

Comment But no, this was a first-class, fully functional item of the kind I paid £25 for only a few years ago. Written in a coffee shop in Ipswich UK and dispatched via a company wi-fi service. Today I was in a well-known electronics store buying an audio...

Tags: storage, innovation, technology costs

[14 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08

Round-Up After all, there are small businesses and middle-class citizens to tax heavily. Time heals all wounds. And over at the head offices of HM Revenue & Customs, life is returning to normal. Life is good again.

Tags: iplayer, iphone, blackberry, vista

[02 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes

Comment We must all make sure - whether we're on the board or not - that our function is not viewed as second class in our organisations. So however much you know about the business you'll find it hard to shake off the techie label, says the Naked CIO.

Tags: careers, boardroom, stereotypes, board

[07 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…

Comment In the US they have a law on disclosure which boils down to - if it is encrypted you do not have to disclose what is therefore just the loss of a laptop, however, if it is not you must disclose and place yourself in the firing line for class...

Tags: vista, data, anpr, sp1

[21 Feb 2008]

Why you should be outsourcing your data centres

Comment This means that being a global leader in the world of investment banking, asset management and insurance is challenging enough, without having to create a world-class technology organisation and own all the assets, too.

Tags: data centre, outsourcing, green, advances

[04 Feb 2008]

Losing control in the SaaS lane

Comment This has worked very well for us, not just in terms of low hassle and low-risk computing but also because we have access to enterprise class functionality that we would not otherwise enjoy as a business of our size.

Tags: saas, applications, contracts, hosting

[16 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Data security... e-learning a bit of a bore?... ID cards debate... skip vista?

Comment Why make the possibility of a class-attack more likely than it already is? What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views...

Tags: vista, data, id cards, hmrc

[13 Dec 2007]

Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier

Comment It provides IT job security in managing a new class of enterprise assets that entail: Experts argue new media will spell the demise of the IT professional. Not true, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield.

Tags: new media, convergence, video, internet

[29 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.11.07

Round-Up Still, it's one of the few things that we're still world class at. So, after much waiting, gnashing of teeth and an absurd amount of press attention the iPhone finally makes its UK debut today. Hooray.

Tags: yahoo, google, iphone, round-up

[09 Nov 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: How I boosted my mobile signal

Comment However, I have just moved home and office to a new location that is in the zero to one bar (some of the time) class! Of course the human race has been overcoming this class of problem for thousands of years, and in the last 100 the use of passive...

Tags: mobile signal

[18 Jul 2007]

Editor's Blog: Tech improves... but we don't?

Comment Many people expect - to generalise massively - a mix of economy, business and first class, to use the generic terms, when they get to an airline's counters. Forget that Virgin doesn't even employ that division, having its Premium Economy and Upper...

Tags: airline websites, westminster, mobile payments, m-commerce

[28 Jun 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 15.06.07

Round-Up Picking up the largely uncomplicated format of the game, the Round-Up quickly worked out, in about week six, that the impressive Irish battleaxe, Kristina, would march to success over the trampled bodies of the obligatory upper class twits, call...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[15 Jun 2007]

Lesley Hume

CIO Profile At the company's headquarters subsidised treatments from a therapist and a weekly Pilates class are also available to staff. Zimbabwe-born Lesley Hume has been group IS director at Atkins since 2002 and leads a team of 300 developing the...

[06 Jun 2007]

Will's Web Watch: Let the train take the strain

Comment What's more, travelling First Class on GNER I get the wi-fi access free of charge, on a ticket which still costs less than a flight (£56 single, £120 return). In standard class GNER's wi-fi would cost me £9.95 for access during my entire journey...

Tags: wi-fi, gner

[04 Jun 2007]

Is Skype secure enough for businesses?

Comment Lawrence Orans, a research director at Gartner who wrote a research note on Skype security, says: "While Skype's 3.0 release clearly offers some enterprise-class features, an underlying issue still remains: Skype uses a proprietary signalling...

Tags: social engineering, spoofing, spit, vishing

[02 Apr 2007]

From CIO to consultant: The first month

Comment Taxi to the airport, quick check-in, breakfast in the lounge, business class seats to New York, car to the 5 star hotel? Luckily my brother is a pilot with Virgin so he got me a cheap flight from Heathrow to JFK otherwise it would have been an...

Tags: business travel, consultant, cio

[20 Mar 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 1.12.06

Round-Up Well a classics teacher from the stuffy Stowe school in Buckinghamshire felt a bit poorly recently and the upper-class finger of blame has been pointed at the school's wi-fi network, possibly to shouts of "Well I was feeling a bally sight better...

[01 Dec 2006]

Oracle - how to make friends and influence people

Comment During the company's most recent profits call, Ellison said: "We're trying to be best in class - open and hot-pluggable with competing components. Oracle may still be digesting a raft of big-name acquisitions - from PeopleSoft to Siebel - but...

Tags: oracle

[25 Oct 2006]

Leader: Videoconferencing stepping up a gear

Leader Fortunately, this particular class of product lives up to the hype - even with a hefty price tag. This publication writes 'class of product' rather than talking about TelePresence in isolation because it will inevitably always be compared with HP's...

Tags: telepresence, halo, cisco, hp

[24 Oct 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport security frustrations

Comment So far I have been lucky in that my checked baggage has not gone astray and at my distant destination the unloading has been well-ordered with first class and business travellers' luggage arriving first, which is in complete contrast to the...

Tags: business travel, biometrics

[25 Sep 2006]

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