dna in comment and analysis
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Power efficiency is simply a subset of a much more important target: the blending of sustainability into the DNA of a business. With their piecemeal approaches, most organisations are merely dabbling with green technology. [17 Jul 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment In reality, security must be part of the company's DNA at an operational level. Life would be simple if curing security headaches were just a matter of buying some new technology. In reality, good security requires fundamental organisational change... [28 Mar 2008]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment These traits are used to identify people by certain characteristics that are either physiological - such as faces, fingerprints, irises, veins and DNA - or behavioural - such as voices, signatures and keystrokes.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics [23 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...
Comment DNA in the UK Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database After every police officer in the UK has volunteered to have their DNA on the database, we'll talk about the rest of us. I don't think anybody would disagree with Lord Justice Ledley's... [07 Sep 2007]
CRM: Do you really know what it is?
Comment Firstly, it is born out of the same DNA as business intelligence and data warehousing in that it exists simply because core business systems are ineffective at storing, delivering and utilising information. [30 May 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Remember when flying was fun?
Comment More than 10 years ago I was involved in the development of iris scanning and was very impressed by the fact that it was about six orders of magnitude more accurate that taking a human DNA sample. Written in Washington Dulles Airport after a heavy... [27 Mar 2006]
Leader: Gordon Brown joins the IT crowd
Leader The Tories have begun to take pot shots at the government on tech-related issues as wide-ranging as DNA databases, chip and PIN and digital mapping, while the Lib Dems have been solid in their opposition to ID cards. [14 Feb 2006]
Opinion: ID cards - a fiasco waiting to happen
Comment Even the best type - DNA testing - can only go as far as saying the chances of this individual not being the right person are statistically remote. A national ID card may not be bad in theory, says Brian White but there are a number of... [16 Jan 2006]
Jonathan Steel's Blog: Is Microsoft growing up?
Comment But they've struggled for more than a decade to make equivalent inroads outside the PC market, largely because they have never really understood the corporate world - it's not in their DNA (which is exactly the same reason that most of the other... [09 Aug 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: Making your spike spikier
Comment In short, modularity became part of Nokia's DNA. Like modularity for Nokia, the daily morning meeting for RBS is hard-wired in, part of its DNA. Is it being fully harnessed? René Carayol asks you to ask whether your board is missing a trick. [13 Jul 2005]
SME Philes: Fool's gold rush for vendors?
Comment Big corporate is in their DNA. Small businesses make up a large proportion of UK spend on IT but have long been hard for all but a few vendors to target. Jonathan Steel asks what small businesses really want and, come to think of it, what does the... [25 Nov 2004]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: BT's DNE and DNA
Comment But DNE does say a lot about the telco's current DNA. Has BT's DNA been scrambled? Tony Hallett looks at how one the UK's largest companies - and advertisers - is repositioning. The ads, whether TV, billboard or online, look impressive. [13 Sep 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Aren't we more than just a number?
Comment There are all sorts of good reasons for CCTV, mobile phone tracking and a national database of citizens and their DNA, the government tells us. Meanwhile, the police think it would be useful to have a sample of DNA from every person in the country. [30 Sep 2003]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 30.05.03
Comment For the benefit of those readers living in small huts in Siberia who may be unaware of the film, a daffy billionaire (played by venerable luvvie Richard Attenborough) recreates dinosaurs from DNA trapped in amber on a remote island, to create a... [30 May 2003]
Julie Meyer's Philosophy - Build counter-cyclically
Comment Sure, it was essential we were properly capitalised, with the right DNA and leadership. Julie Meyer is a well-known figure in VC circles, for her ongoing work at Ariadne Capital with dozens of start-ups, and from her time in the late 1990s as one... [31 Jul 2002]
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