data networks in comment and analysis
Beyond CRM: How to improve customer interactions
Comment Customers, faced with a dizzying array of products and services, expect customised offerings and personalisation from their suppliers across all channels whether email, websites, SMS, social networks, traditional mail... [25 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G Reality bytes
Comment Around 20 years ago I was lambasted by industry, politicians and commentators alike for declaring that 3G was likely to be a commercial failure and unlikely to meet published projections on data transmission. [14 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up Given how convergence has freed data from the corporate networks and into our pockets it may mean that people aren't taking work with them and instead are keeping smartphones and their office email out... [31 Jul 2009]
Cloud computing: Is it worth the legal risks?
Comment While the cloud exists because of a complex scheme of interconnected networks, these complexities are hidden from the end user. From their perspective, the applications and data are stored in servers on... [22 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment The Home Office CIO speaks to silicon.com's Nick Heath on ID cards, protecting data, and how tech can make a difference I'm starting on the bottom three layers which are the networks, the desktop and the... [10 Jul 2009]
NHS network: Time to get secure
Comment While the NHS has made some attempts to secure its networks, the onus now falls on health trusts to make sure patient data is safe, says Alan Hunt. Now that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is... [07 Jul 2009]
Seeking memorable mobile apps
Comment The applications themselves also have the potential of becoming more and more interesting, thanks in part to widespread, fast mobile networks and affordable flat-rate data tariffs. Different device... [02 Jul 2009]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile Tech will play a major role in the group transformation programme led by Doran - with plans for a new integrated traffic management platform, which will bring together information management and signaling control systems, and... [02 Jun 2009]
'IT is the central nervous system of the company'
Comment His team is responsible for developing enterprise applications used across all of Intel's departments as well as running the company's data and voice networks and datacentre operations.silicon.com caught... [26 May 2009]
Five ways to tempt and tame Gen Y
Comment They love their smartphones and other mobile devices, yet these can be toxic for corporate networks. Inappropriate use of online resources could have an adverse effect on your organisation, by damaging its reputation or... [05 May 2009]
Is offshoring to blame for job losses?
Comment Consumers are well-organised and social networks allow single-issue campaigns against individual companies to be championed in a way that could never have happened in a pre-Twitter era. New systems can be swapped in as... [02 Apr 2009]
Inbox: Underground safe from mobile chatter
Comment The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has attacked deep packet inspection (DPI), a technique used to monitor traffic on the internet and other communications networks. If DPI does indeed start to be... [23 Mar 2009]
The dawn of unified communications
Comment The idea of converging voice and data communications has been around for years and some businesses are well down the road to adopting it. It will run over its data network, make use of the processing... [19 Mar 2009]
"I'm not an out and out technology person"
Comment To that end, a year ago, the Commission saw the completion of a project to integrate its telephone, data and video networks. Audit Commission CIO Jeremy Boss hasn't always been a techie. Before taking up... [09 Mar 2009]
Legal Eye: Social networkers get smart about privacy rights
Comment Since their introduction, social networks have always had to walk a fine line regarding the usage of user data, particularly because of the personal information shared by people on these platforms. At... [05 Mar 2009]
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