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Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…

Comment This week readers are getting riled up by 'rip off' government outsourcing deals (with one reader demanding prison for the culpable scoundrel…), the latest in the BBC iPlayer vs ISP spat, and social networks clamping down on sex offenders.

Tags: isp, bbc, government, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

IT must be called to account over emissions

Comment More than a quarter (28 per cent) admit they do not know the exact number of servers they have, and a similar number are not aware of all devices connected to their networks. A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data...

Tags: power, carbon emissions, data centres, green

[07 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Travellers on UK airlines who simply can't go a couple of hours without calling the office or loved ones, or possibly loved ones in the office, will be able to take advantage of the aircraft's network services and be routed via satellite to ground...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

Why no united front on cyber crime?

Comment Compromised bot networks of personal computers continue to make headlines in greater numbers and with increasing sophistication and effectiveness. In April 2007 Estonia, the former Soviet Baltic republic was paralysed by an unprecedented online...

Tags: cyber crime, internet, botnets, crime

[27 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?

Comment It may lead, for example, to more unsuspecting surfers having their unsecured networks infiltrated by enterprising wi-fi piggy-backers. Quite apart from posing a potential contradiction to wider privacy and data protection law, these proposals will...

Tags: law, isps, downloads, piracy

[22 Feb 2008]

Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks

Comment Experts are forecasting an important role in the enterprise for new media data applications. P&G's Heltsley thinks good things will emerge from the present confusing picture surrounding new media data applications.

Tags: social networking, new media, ipods, tv

[19 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Trying to explain

Comment Email, social networks and the sheer wealth of data available online have changed everything. Written at my home in Suffolk UK and dispatched to silicon.com from the Wild Strawberry Café in Woodbridge which combines great coffee and cookies with...

Tags: video, www, wi fi, talk

[14 Jan 2008]

Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC

Comment The simple solution would be not to copy huge reams of information to a disc at all, but to transfer them directly to the receiver in an encrypted form over either internal or external networks. The issue of data encryption has been brought into...

Tags: hmrc, fraud, encryption, admitted

[21 Dec 2007]

How closely are you monitoring?

Comment Management and control sessions can be easily analysed to look for after-hours access that doesn't match normal usage patterns," Potter says, adding administrators might be surprised to find out how much peer-to-peer and instant messaging traffic...

Tags: monitoring, management, efficiency, performance

[10 Dec 2007]

Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier

Comment Technical fire walling for media sharing, blogs, instant messaging, social networks and syndication feeds. And you're seeing video just take off at tremendous speeds around the world, not at 50 to 100 per cent growth of networks per year but 200 to...

Tags: new media, convergence, video, internet

[29 Nov 2007]

Web 2.0 threat looms

Comment The analyst firm warns web 2.0 applications could herald widespread identity theft and transaction fraud, give malware a new infection super highway, erode social networks and eventually create a total consumer loss of confidence in the web platform.

Tags: malware, social networking, security, web 2.0

[26 Nov 2007]

Getting more out of the net

Comment Whether it is to manage supply chains, customer support networks, financial trading applications or some other business processes, organisations of all sizes are increasingly linked together over the internet, so a weak link or failure can have...

Tags: internet, saas, hosting, networks

[02 Nov 2007]

Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...

Comment What about hash generating private keys, which would allow forgery and threaten the security infranstructure (especially trust networks)? Whilst there may be a few situations where encrypted data need to be accessed, it will be very rare.

Tags: bt, wi-fi, fon

[11 Oct 2007]

Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Comment In this exclusive interview with silicon.com, Tesco group IT director Colin Cobain - just crowned CIO of the year at the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2007 - talks about the supermarket giant's move to standard global systems, green...

Tags: colin cobain, tesco

[25 Sep 2007]

The greening of IT: Cooling costs

Comment The power consumption of data centres already poses severe problems for the UK's local distribution networks. Data centres don't have to be power-hungry monsters. Despite these warning signs, 29 per cent of companies had no plans to green the data...

Tags: green, data centre, virtualisation, energy

[21 Sep 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Social networks

Comment Right now the media seems to have a downer on social networking because of its implications for data privacy. Written at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK, and dispatched via a free wi-fi service One of the great features of the internet is the...

Tags: myspace, facebook, social networking

[18 Sep 2007]

Far from quiet on the virtual front

Comment Next, XenSource teams up with Symantec over storage virtualisation, F5 acquires Acopia Networks, and XenSource brings out XenEnterprise 4.0. This summer's intense activity in virtualisation could shape the options for smaller businesses as well as...

Tags: viridian, xen, vmware, virtualisation

[05 Sep 2007]

Leader: In or out of house?

Leader It used to be that we couldn't trust networks to be up enough to allow meaningful use of applications such as CRM. Surely Google is better at securely holding and transmitting data than the average user-organisation?

Tags: blackberry

[19 Apr 2007]

Brampton Factor: Network convergence is no simple task

Comment As businesses rush to roll out converged networks, few are taking the time to consider whether it's really the right move for them. The same kind of stress can arise in corporate networks when senior executives demand online access to training...

Tags: voip, skype, network management, convergence

[17 Apr 2007]

Network horror stories expose need for understanding

Comment As a number of horror stories reveal, corporate networks aren't the safe and tightly controlled entities they should be. If this paints the picture that networks are in chaos then in many instances that's not far from the truth.

Tags: bandwidth, network management, network security, network

[12 Apr 2007]

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