digital in comment and analysis
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Secure remote access closes in
Comment A key development is the management console through which software configurations, digital certificates, policies and software updates can be created and pushed to personal firewalls for each device. Virtual private networks that use internet... [25 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Large mission-critical systems are, I'm sure, very reliable but the interface at the consumer level has become visibly onerous, unreliable and complex with intrusive and quirky digital rights management being one of the worst culprits. [17 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up The Round-Up would wager that, in the digital arms race which enables people to download music there would be some innovation to make it very hard for ISPs to spot exactly what was being downloaded - which rather puts everyone back at square one. [11 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment Digital Blunders silicon.com is 10 this week. That's a grand old age for a publication launched at the height of the dot-com madness, says Julian Goldsmith. The 1998 launch party for silicon.com was held at the dinosaur hall of the Natural History... [07 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up But amazingly - considering the mud - it seems the festival goers are a pretty tech-savvy bunch, with insurance company Swinton estimating the average festival goer takes more than £500 of clobber with them including "state of the art digital... [04 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Europe's copyright controversy
Comment In an age of digital distribution, a new type of flexible framework needs to be found that adequately recompenses artists but which does not impose an unreasonable financial burden on companies such as Apple, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. [18 Jun 2008]
Andrew Clarke
CIO Profile At HMV he oversaw formulation and the delivery of the group's multi-channel IT strategy covering physical, mail order, internet and digital channels for its UK and worldwide operations of the HMV and Waterstone's brands. [11 Jun 2008]
Graham Knight
CIO Profile There is also work to implement digital radiology across the group along with a Pacs system, which allows for the digital distribution of X-rays and scans. As CIO of General Healthcare Group - the largest independent owner of private hospitals in... [11 Jun 2008]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile However, for the last three years he has worked as CTO at DMGT Teletext, focusing on digital media and the digital television/video revolution. His duties include sitting on the board of DigitalUK, for digital switchover. [11 Jun 2008]
Mike Wright
CIO Profile He also founded and ran a software products company for four years, and was also a non-executive director of another software start up specialising in digital rights management. Mike Wright is head of technology at global investment provider Man... [11 Jun 2008]
Gareth Lewis
CIO Profile In the early 1980s Lewis created a voice messaging system before moving on to various development and management roles at Cable & Wireless, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Unisys. Gareth Lewis was appointed group CIO at energy company... [11 Jun 2008]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile In 1996 he became group CIO at EMI, where he took the music company through the Y2K project and led early forays into the internet and digital downloads. Martin Taylor took on the group CIO role at clearing-house LCH.Clearnet at the start of last... [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Cohen
CIO Profile The group also includes Northcliffe Newspapers, one of the UK's largest regional newspaper publishers and Associated Northcliffe Digital. In addition to his technology and operations responsibilities, he is also a member of Daily Mail Group Trust's... [11 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.08
Round-Up This week's thorny bone of contention, to mix a metaphor or two, is a report by UK fat pipe watcher and advice website thinkbroadband, which says the countryside still lags some way behind urban areas - contrary to last week's Ofcom report hailing... [06 Jun 2008]
Where will the Silicon Dragon swoop next?
Comment There's lots surrounding wireless communications and some digital TV standards and a new phone standard - China has its own phone standard for 3G. China has already made its presence felt on the world technology stage. [03 Jun 2008]
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