comms in comment and analysis
Switch from oil to silicon
Comment One area that has not increased but has fallen dramatically is the direct cost of IT and comms, at least in terms of processing power, storage capacity or transmission speeds. Smaller firms that still see technology as a cost ripe for pruning are... [31 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is convergence a fiction?
Comment But all I see is a growing divergence - more OSes, apps and media and comms formats. Written on the London Liverpool Street to Stansted Express and dispatched via my home LAN later the same day. For about a decade now the established industry... [02 Jul 2008]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile Comms and mobility is also a big issue and Network Rail recently signed a deal with O2 to provide 23,000 staff with voice, BlackBerry and other mobile data services. As a member of the executive management team at Network Rail, Catherine Doran is... [11 Jun 2008]
Tania Howarth
CIO Profile Starting from scratch in her first year Howarth has led the outsourcing of various tech and comms functions and the rollout of a Europe-wide SAP system across the group. Tania Howarth took over as CIO of Birds Eye Iglo Group in April 2007 with a... [11 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
Comment Part of her role - in addition to the fairly standard set of CIO responsibilities in terms of the IT systems, voice comms and systems development - includes the application of technology into policing, and where better to get that insight than at... [02 Jun 2008]
'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves
Comment In other words, better comms technology does not automatically equal reduced corporate travel. Technology can be many things - often frustrating, frequently ingenious, occasionally revolutionary. But it's certainly not rare to see big claims made... [28 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment I was doing desktop and comms network support for SMEs and the tight so-and-so so's seemed to think that £70 per hour was far too expensive. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the... [20 Mar 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Wednesday
Comment executive VP, Marco Boerries, who shows off a new product called OneConnect - due to launch this spring - which allows users to aggregate all their social networking comms in one place. The sun is blazing on Congress but there's desperation in the... [14 Feb 2008]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis The striking absence of the heads of some of the biggest organisations in comms continues in 2007. Cisco keeps the internet running," said Carolyn Kimber, a panellist from comms user group CMA. In a similar vein to Charles Dunstone at 42 - though... [12 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Burmese days on the internet
Comment When commentators have in the past talked about net censorship in other countries - notably the 'great firewall of China' - the emphasis has been on the control the government can exert and how Western comms equipment-makers appear only too happy... [27 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Nortel's comeback?
Comment You could start a now long list of all the major tech and comms players that have been taken private - and we'll see mixed results from that over coming months and years - but Zafirovski thinks the trend is now mature, a story mainly told. [20 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: 'It was taken out of context... '
Comment Typically it was a corporate comms department that wasn't happy with their inclusion. I was interested earlier this week to read the conclusion of the incident between England cricket captain Michael Vaughan and The Guardian newspaper. [15 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: Define this
Comment That term has many connotations but in the world of operators and comms equipment providers the distinction is normally subtle - does it mean video streamed over 3G or video content broadcast using technologies such as DVB-H, MediaFLO or something... [23 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: Confusing communications?
Comment It's an albeit unusual day but as I was looking down our morning list of news this morning I saw nearly every story had comms at its heart. OK, so it's not comms per se but I felt like it was very much for today's mobile worker. [18 Apr 2007]
Editor's Blog: We've moved
Comment I have to say our comms provider Thus pulled out a few stops and worked with the people over at BT to get our big fat pipe as it should be. As our colleagues over on silicon.com's sister publication ZDNet UK pointed out last week, moving offices is... [11 Apr 2007]
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