documents in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment At the front of the pack, the best autosync function applications have now spread across email, address books, diaries, photos, music, movies, documents and more. Written while flying from London to Rome and dispatched on arrival at my hotel via a... [22 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up The survey also found two-thirds of people have eavesdropped on someone else's confidential business conversation, and more than a third have caught sight of sensitive documents or information on laptops in public places. [20 Jun 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment Uncontrolled printing also raises security issues - through the printed documents themselves but also through the data stored in device memory or hard drives. Despite the growth in digital communications and promises of the paperless office... [22 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Failing to act with reasonable care includes not keeping antivirus software up to date, divulging PINs and failing to dispose of account documents securely. What the code has to say about online customers paying for fraudulent transactions on their... [15 Apr 2008]
The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML
Comment The most obvious one is that a perfectly good ISO standard for storing office type documents in XML format already exists in ODF (OpenDocument Format). OOXML is thus a natural vehicle for organisations to look to as they drive more towards XML... [04 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense
Comment In the Macrossan case, the Court of Appeal refused a patent for a program that simply allowed users to produce documents via an interactive site. Should software be patentable? A key court ruling has cranked up the debate. [13 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.11.07
Round-Up Basically system hacks to change the colours of menus and the Dock - a strip for launching applications and documents in OS X. There were banners fluttering in the breeze, high above the concourse of the San Francisco conference hall hosting the... [02 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...
Comment If they're strictly for reading documents, then it should suffice to have the documents decrypted with witnesses signing to prove authenticity? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on... [11 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.09.07
Round-Up Well we've identified the clerk drafting the legal documents for the Grand Chamber and we're 'messing' with him. Steve Ballmer is a troubled man. The Microsoft CEO has one eye on an internal memo about 'the EU' and it's bothering him. [14 Sep 2007]
The tech requirements of private equity funds
Comment Historically, all physical documents associated with a private equity deal or acquisitions were placed in a conference room at law firms for viewing at set times by the teams of dealmakers. VDRs are a place to collaborate and share information... [20 Aug 2007]
Leader: Google walks the enterprise walk
Leader Previously it launched a Documents and Spreadsheets service, billed by optimists as an Office-killer. Google, not content with owning the search market or with its grander plans for the consumer space, has recently talked up its intentions to crack... [10 Jul 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Scan my books
Comment During the ditching and destruction process my mind strayed to Gordon Bell's My Life Bits Project at Microsoft and the Google Books project - both are scanning all available documents and manuscripts into digital formats. [02 Jul 2007]
Minority Report: Steve Jobs fails to wow
Comment The Leopard features announced this week were mostly solid additions to the product: the revised Finder (which now has a very 'iTunes' look and feel), Quick Look (for previewing documents without opening them) and Stacks (a way of arranging... [15 Jun 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: How my iPod ate the weekend
Comment A friend of mine - who perhaps understandably wishes to remain nameless - recently spend a weekend organising his vast collection of USB memory sticks, clearing off old documents and such like. Technology is supposed to save time and make us more... [05 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.05.07
Round-Up It would of course be replaced by the unnerving sight of people on treadmills trying to type and sweat-soaked documents landing on your desk with a faint 'splosh'. "You're the one for me, fatty," sang Morrissey all the way back in 1992, yet not... [18 May 2007]
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