defense in comment and analysis

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. So how big does the problem have to become before governments... [27 Feb 2008]

CollabNet: Bringing open source to the rest of us

Comment This led to the development of CollabNet, whose customers include commercial outfits such as Sun, Hewlett-Packard, Barclays, Motorola and the US Department of Defense as well as open-source players such as OpenOffice.org and the version control... [15 Nov 2004]

Why US presidents can't keep their tech promises

Comment A Clinton administration was going to create a new 'civilian advanced technology agency' modeled on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), double federal spending on research, make the research and development tax credit permanent... [01 Nov 2004]

Leader: 'Quick...stop him... he's going for his iPod!'

Leader The US Department of Defense drills out the cameras from mobile phones in some offices. You attend a trade show and collect a USB memory stick from somebody roaming the floor handing them out. They're a common freebie now at such events and nobody... [13 Jul 2004]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The ever-evolving virus

Comment The fight against viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other digital pests may seem futile. But Peter Cochrane has a plan for eradicating the latest computer security threat. The computer virus is, it seems, as unstoppable as its biological forebears... [20 May 2004]

The Executive Question: The CIO's CFO

Comment He has been CIO at the Xerox Corporation, the US Department of Defense and also at NASA, supervising some of the biggest IS budgets in the world. How to justify an IS function's worth to the wider business? [07 Apr 2004]

Analysis: Approaching RFID with your business head on

Comment Already the US Department of Defense has said it will require suppliers to use RFID. Radio frequency identification has become a hot concept, promising to streamline how businesses track and stock inventory. [20 Feb 2004]

Why power-hungry computers are falling out of favour

Comment And if the US Defense Department realises that, others will too. The development of fast and powerful computers that aren't power-guzzlers is something IBM and HP have started to take very seriously. Large technology users and operators of server... [07 Aug 2002]

IT's slump, the StarOffice challenge and owning the technology vision.

Comment In late June this year, the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) chose to implement 25,000 units of Sun's StarOffice software. The view taken by a few Euro-analysts was that confidence in the IT sector has been low and that this was being... [13 Aug 2001]

The Bloor Perspective: IT's slump, the StarOffice challenge and owning the technology vision.

Comment In late June this year, the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) chose to implement 25,000 units of Sun's StarOffice software. The view taken by a few Euro-analysts was that confidence in the IT sector has been low and that this was being... [13 Aug 2001]

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