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The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up The Voice Risk Analyser system will be piloted by another 15 councils following its success in seven areas of the country. Benefit fraudsters beware. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities you may find their "liar, liar, pants on...

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment The jurisdiction in the outsource country you choose will have much weaker data protection legislation than the EU. First up this week, readers were engaging in debate over the pros and cons of outsourcing.

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: Signs of terminal decline at T5?

Comment It seemed like a cue for much of the UK to sink into a trough of despondency about the country's ability to finish any project successfully. It's a small claim to fame, I know, but I was one of the passengers who flew from the newly opened Heathrow...

Tags: project, t5, ba

[16 Apr 2008]

Vendors hype up compliance fears

Comment While this US act covers companies listed in that country, it can also affect UK firms that are subsidiaries or partners of US firms. Compliance. The word strikes fear into the heart of even the hardened executive.

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, data protection, compliance

[08 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...

Comment I am sorry, as a country we are led/managed by people who have no realistic understanding of our electronic information and most valuable asset. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week?

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

Why no united front on cyber crime?

Comment This month in the US one hacker pleaded guilty to creating a network of more than 400,000 computers, which included those belonging to the country's Defense Information Systems Agency. Estonian MP Silver Meikar, a member of the country's defence...

Tags: cyber crime, internet, botnets, crime

[27 Feb 2008]

It's time Indian IT took the lead

Comment And is the country restrained by its education and social norms? This provoked a debate about the barriers to change in a country where in a marriage of two professionals, the man does not relocate but the woman always has to.

Tags: india, software, innovation, outsourcing

[20 Feb 2008]

Indian IT outsourcers look ahead

Comment For example voting in elections is fully electronic throughout the country, financial services and capital markets are of a high quality and there is a nationwide railway reservations system in place that works.

Tags: nasscom, india, outsourcing, offshore

[14 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Mobile users break free

Comment To every other country and carrier you can name. Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in London. Suppose for a moment you bought a pen and found it would only write on a particular brand of paper.

Tags: tariff, mobile, contracts, iphone

[05 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: Digital cold turkey, Himalayan style

Comment First to go was the mobile - that didn't work anywhere in the country, let alone in the mountains. I've often talked about going digital cold-turkey, dumping the gadgets, the laptop and the broadband, and finding out how long I could cope before...

Tags: mobile, digital, ipod, mountain

[10 Jan 2008]

The rise of the 'Brics'

Comment What country am I describing if I say that it is the richest in the world, it has the largest military, it is the centre of world business and finance, it has the strongest education system, it has a currency that is the world standard of value...

Tags: bric, india, outsourcing, century

[18 Dec 2007]

Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century

Comment We can imagine improved quality of current services, commodity bandwidth for existing wireless devices, universal communicators for families, cross-country RFID, medical device monitoring and more. This event could turn out to be a defining moment...

Tags: mobile, spectrum, wireless, next generation

[17 Dec 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07

Round-Up Canada: a country roughly 40 times the size of the UK with only half the population. In fact, the only country in the world with higher and more dangerous levels of Facebook addiction than the UK is Canada.

Tags: mobile, dva, facebook, data

[14 Dec 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jammers galore

Comment Could the system be jammed across large swathes of the country as I suggest? Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched from a coffee shop in London over a commercial wi-fi service I have just been challenged about some of the statements...

Tags: gps, peter cochrane, road pricing, wi fi

[12 Dec 2007]

Dear silicon.com... Data breach row, hotel iMac, wi-fi piggybacking: yay or nay?

Comment And when everyone in the country has their ID on the database and the same thing happens? 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...

Tags: mac, data, breach, apple

[22 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 16.11.07

Round-Up So if they're really so nice, why do we feel the need to leave so many of them in airports and exit the country? And it's not just laptops, UK business travellers lose up to 8,500 mobile devices in the country's airports every year.

Tags: microsoft, linux, windows, laptops

[16 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.11.07

Round-Up Of that total, 727 will be located in O2's 450 shops around the country. 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]

The Weekly Round-Up: 12.10.07

Round-Up and claims it will make the company the largest provider of free wireless internet access in the country. McDonald's ongoing quest to improve its brand from beloved-of-chavs fast food chain to slightly less beloved-of-chavs fast food chain took a...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[12 Oct 2007]

Richard Stallman

AS Profile Outspoken as ever, Stallman has also spent considerable time over the past 12 months supporting local efforts in Cuba to bring open source to the country's government. Richard Stallman reappears on the Agenda Setters list after a brief absence in...

[12 Oct 2007]

Nandan Nilekani

AS Profile He is a co-founder of India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) and a member of the country's Knowledge Commission and Advisory Group on e-Governance. Nilekani stood down as CEO and MD of Infosys in June to become co...

[12 Oct 2007]

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