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Peter Cochrane's Blog: New niche for 3G?
Comment Written poolside at my hotel in Rome and dispatched via a 3G HSDPA data service. The only potential threat on the horizon appears to be WiMax because ADSL services have now more or less maxed out, and generally have contention ratios in excess of... [05 Aug 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment Pavitt presented the plan last September to the TfL board to provide the most state-of-the-art, cutting edge technology in a single two-year programme covering desktop, applications, networks, data centres, hosting, data management, projects and... [29 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment My company uses professional services to clean and enhance customer data, identifying attributes such as income, propensity to purchase certain products, specific spending habits and even personal demographics. [21 Jul 2008]
We are now roaming at 30,000 feet...
Comment The first phase provided simple data services such as email and SMS to passengers on their mobile phones. Cabin crew are able to turn the picocells on and off at the appropriate time and only activate voice or data as the airline demands. [26 Jun 2008]
Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment That's quite high for data services. Fisher goes on: "Carriers just don't make that much money out of data services. Those are the things that will really drive data services onto the mobile device.the future of music in a digital age [12 Jun 2008]
Andrew Clarke
CIO Profile He looks after IT services across the seven high street trading brands of Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Topman, Topshop and Wallis, as well as its out-of-town offering Outfit. Clarke also has experience working in a variety of... [11 Jun 2008]
Trevor Hanna
CIO Profile In addition to that role he is currently leading a project across six divisions of Associated British Foods to create a UK IT Shared service to combine the organisation's UK data centres and deliver common infrastructure services. [11 Jun 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]
The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
Comment Information is another big part of Beaton's role at the Met and she has responsibility for managing the Met's work with the Information Commissioner, the Freedom of Information Act, Data Protection Act and information security. [02 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group
Comment In practical terms this 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... [13 May 2008]
Cloud computing: Silver lining…
Comment But, when your precious data and applications are spread around goodness knows where, you need to know, not only that your staff can reach the services they need but also that the interconnections between the elements of your cloud system are... [09 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment Nearly all the products from content-filtering companies deal with data moving across networks - apart from some email archiving services. With the problem of spam in check rather than cured, focus has shifted to data leaks. [02 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment One answer is managed print services, argues Louella Fernandes. Uncontrolled printing also raises security issues - through the printed documents themselves but also through the data stored in device memory or hard drives. [22 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment Large businesses use services to monitor corporate reputation. Identity theft is rife. Perhaps it's time individuals took a leaf out of business's book and adopted a personal information policy that will make life harder for criminals, says Simon... [08 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…
Comment It would have made more sense to transfer over one group of services first. When the terminal was proved to be okay with that then the other services could have been moved over in stages. One bright spot - the data commissioner told BAA exactly... [03 Apr 2008]
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