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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment In practical terms this is currently translates into what is core and what is not for Hamon and her team and managing the "tin and wires" is clearly not core, she says, and Rok has just put out an initial request for proposals for outsourcing data...

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season

Comment In the quest for even greater online ad relevancy, advertisers and search engines are in danger of losing sight of their real core currency: the integrity of the brands themselves. Who is the real loser, asks lawyer Sian Croxon - the trademark...

Tags: keywords, google, search engines, trademarks

[30 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…

Comment I would have chosen a Mac last November but I wanted a quad core computer and to get that from Apple I would have spent $3,000. The topic that got readers turning to their keyboards this week was silicon.com's latest poll: What was your first home...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment The device has managed to invigorate the market with its core value proposition of mail, phone, music player and mobile internet but little else. Last month's launch of iPhone developer software passed unnoticed by the general public.

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

IT must be called to account over emissions

Comment It also showed 61 per cent of respondents do not see a reduction of power consumption as a core directive from the business. Despite their best intentions, many organisations are overlooking the real environmental impact of IT operations.

Tags: power, carbon emissions, data centres, green

[07 Apr 2008]

The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel

Comment Those core services are not core competencies in CIO," he says. Sure, you get access to cutting-edge tech and some of the smartest engineers around but the nature of the business means you're often a beta guinea pig for all those new products and...

Tags: bandrowczak, cio, nortel

[01 Apr 2008]

Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts

Comment Cutts replaced the hardware for existing core systems with a view to throwing that hardware away once the new core system arrived but to stabilise the business at that period of time made it worthwhile.

Tags: customer service, change management, building society, society

[11 Mar 2008]

Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam

Comment But there's nothing wrong with the core technology, says Rob Bamforth - at least nothing a touch of mobile netiquette won't put right. The answer lies not in faults with the core technology or - save the odd system-wide crash - in the implementation.

Tags: blackberry, pdas, email, mobile

[21 Feb 2008]

Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation

Comment Because you're buying IP stream at a very high price it has limited bandwidth but we've actually rolled out our core high bandwidth multicast ADSL2 + enabled network. We've already rolled out a high bandwidth core network.

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, tiscali, talking

[21 Feb 2008]

Offshoring - not just about the costs

Comment To transform the new Steria with a strong client-facing culture in Europe, and a new innovation mindset with India at its core. Offshoring to India is often discussed in terms of staff cost-cutting. But speakers at this year's Nasscom Leadership...

Tags: india, bpo, skills, offshore

[18 Feb 2008]

Why you should be outsourcing your data centres

Comment In the past five years there has been growing recognition across the global financial services markets that they should rid themselves of non-core activities. Multinationals have led the way in outsourcing their data centres to specialised third...

Tags: data centre, outsourcing, green, advances

[04 Feb 2008]

Why outsourcing divorce can end in tears…

Comment Accenture pulled out of the provision of core services on a £12.4bn IT contract, having been unable to stem the flow of huge losses that had arisen from the NHS project. Outsourcing arrangements made in the 1990s are coming to a close.

Tags: outsourcing, tupe, accenture, public sector

[04 Feb 2008]

Bill Gates Q&A: On why 'it's all about software'

Comment I think the core of who we are and what we do [is] believing in a platform. At the core, we are about software and making sure the HD activities get to critical mass. But that all comes off the core of being a company with the best research group...

Tags: bill gates, ces, vista, entertainment

[08 Jan 2008]

Banking can execute change in real-time

Comment They also need to bear in mind current business and technology trends and how these might shape their core banking requirements over the next 20 years. Many who were marked by failed attempts at wholesale change in the late 1980s have until...

Tags: change management, banking, legacy, accuracy

[02 Jan 2008]

Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple

Comment The lack of buttons and reliance on soft interface and gestures are revolutionary, but perhaps more impressive than that is the way the link between core functions - phone, iPod, web browsers - are seamless.

Tags: apple, mac, jobs, iphone

[21 Dec 2007]

European payment issues will top 2008 agenda

Comment Non-traditional payments providers see payments as a method of adding value to their core products and in many cases include services free of charge, making it very difficult for traditional operators to compete.

Tags: sepa, banking, payments, financial services

[20 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. The Itanium version allows up to four two-socket blades to be ganged up with special cables to create a 16-core...

Tags: itanium, servers, chips, named

[13 Dec 2007]

Web 2.0 threat looms

Comment The core of many of these problems is that the user is downloading and executing third-party code from what the application designer or user believes is a trusted source. Now the functionality of dynamic web 2.0 applications is providing new ways...

Tags: malware, social networking, security, web 2.0

[26 Nov 2007]

Editor's Blog: Goodbye silicon.com - and thanks

Comment If I look back at some of our progress in the recent past I'd single out: the rebuilding of the silicon.com editorial team, to the extent that it has won several awards over the past few years.a close focus on core readers, coming up with formats...

Tags: cnet networks, awards, staff, cio

[08 Nov 2007]

Paul Otellini

AS Profile The panel singled him out as the man who oversaw the development and successful launch of the company's innovative and much-lauded Core 2 Duo microprocessor, which was released this year. The battle for supremacy in the microprocessor market...

[12 Oct 2007]

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