e-services in comment and analysis
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment DLA Piper is the world's largest global legal services organisation with more than 3,700 lawyers across 64 offices and 25 countries. E-fencing has reached new levels in the UK. E-fencing E-fencing and grey market trading are common ploys used by... [22 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. E is for Email What's the tech behind that change and just how welcome is it, asks Anthony Plewes. [26 Jun 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment The ubiquitous wi-fi hotspot, present in hotels, airports and coffee shops the world over, has now been complemented by another array of mobile services. These include AT&T's Global Network Client, iPass' Mobile Office and Orange Business Services... [12 Jun 2008]
Female CIOs break through glass ceiling
Comment Ailsa Beaton, director of information services at the Metropolitan Police Service, sits on the management board reporting to the Commissioner and is responsible for an IT budget of £300m per year. Figures from the UK's tech industry skills body e... [11 Jun 2008]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile Some of this will be achieved through outsourcing and Unilever recently signed a $675m services deal with HP for the next seven years - something Cameron says will provide "world class technology at substantially lower costs". [11 Jun 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment But the rapid rollout of broadband services across the country has meant that most parts of the UK now have access to this service and today's report marks the end of the so-called divide. And with many government and financial services... [23 May 2008]
Tech Futures: The talkification of the web
Comment For years, Skype and other VoIP services have been providing an internet alternative to traditional phone service. The new platform has generated e-commerce and social media applications. The internet is set to get louder with the talkification of... [01 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Now the internet is a primary tool for accessing services and buying goods, will the new Banking Code put consumers off the internet and dampen the growth of online trading? DLA Piper is the world's largest global legal services organisation with... [15 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment Large businesses use services to monitor corporate reputation. At last month's e-Crime Congress in London we heard how criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated in targeting individuals in the lucrative game of identity theft. [08 Apr 2008]
The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment But not surprisingly, given the products and services Nortel sells, all things networking and mobile are also high on Bandrowczak's list of priorities. Those core services are not core competencies in CIO," he says. [01 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment David Cole, academy team leader and senior consultant at risk management consultancy DNV IT Global Services, thinks he has the answer. At the heart of the debate lies the disparity between the box-tickers, who do just enough to satisfy the... [28 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment UK businesses and individuals pay among the highest rates of tax in the world, but many public services have been cut to be replaced by costly private services. With most e-crime targeting UK business coming from servers in foreign countries, how... [20 Mar 2008]
ID cards are dead
Comment The tactic there will be to try and force adoption by making various student and youth-related public services and benefits dependant on having an ID card. E is for Ear Of course the government is bravely attempting to position this revised... [07 Mar 2008]
LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking
Comment Dan Nye: LinkedIn and Facebook are very different services. E is for Education E is for Education During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in October, making Blighty... [28 Feb 2008]
Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment Her background is in retail and Turner originally trained as an accountant, but she has more than a decade's experience in the technology industry, becoming general manager UK and VP marketing Europe for AOL Bertelsmann/Compuserve Information... [21 Feb 2008]
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