file documents in comment and analysis
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]
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]
Outsourcing - life after the contract
Comment This evidence may take the form of hard copies, electronic documents, handwritten notes, videos and software. These should be kept in both a physical file and a computer file for electronic evidence. UK public sector outsourcing has overrun by... [12 Mar 2008]
Unwired: The office of the future
Comment This low-cost tracking technology will be used to locate and monitor people, documents and assets, creating a truly connected building. Metadata is identification information tagged to electronic documents such as appointments, spreadsheets, web... [15 Nov 2006]
Criminal IT: Unlocking the power of computer crime evidence
Comment This contrasts dramatically with the situation in civil law, where a person served with a requirement to produce documents for the courts has to produce them in a form such that they are intelligible. [19 Oct 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Back me up
Comment What I need is a disk cloner that works and not a simple file and documents back-up system but so far I have failed to find one. Because of the life I lead, the nature of my business and an extensive travel schedule, all my equipment takes quite a... [01 Sep 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The way to mobile security
Comment My laptop has, unsurprisingly, a 40Gb hard disk drive, on which I carry around a lot of corporate presentations, documents, contact details and the like. This has 128Mb of memory (not even enough for a single PowerPoint file); a flash memory slot... [15 Jul 2005]
Criminal IT: What you can do to help the fight against cybercrime
Comment The data needs to be copied, it needs to be interpreted and it needs to be translated so the jury can see the pictures, read the documents or understand the log files. It records the time at which the picture has been completely copied down from... [23 Feb 2005]
Analysis: Google goes for desktop search
Comment According to a report in The New York Times, Google will try to fulfill an unmet need among PC users for tools to easily find information across multiple applications on the hard drive - searching through email, text documents in various formats... [24 May 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Freeing up software
Comment Sufficiently so that Open Office can read most Word documents and is able to write .doc files to suit software of various vintages. He further proposes that information such as file formats be made public, citing Microsoft Word as an example. [12 Jan 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Voice over Palm, outsourcing in finance and DRM trailblazers
Comment It maintains the end-user roles and rights that the Unsealer uses to grant or deny access to sealed documents. SealedMedia enables organisations to digitally secure commercially confidential or valuable content by persistently protecting... [09 Jun 2003]
Through the fog... Corporate content management
Comment Content management is about more than workflow or managing documents. This raises different security concerns than for internal documents but should be able to be managed against the same database(s) that the internal system works against. [06 Mar 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Save everything - but don't be tidy!
Comment I average 1,000+ documents a year for filing and I don't have time to be a librarian, to studiously catalogue and file away all this material. Extract any illustrations and tables of interest and file. [23 Jan 2003]
What's the fuss about... content management?
Comment XML is the ideal packaging mechanism for all these 'documents'. Put it this way: every form of data - from an email or a spreadsheet to an audio file or a banking transaction - can be considered a document. [29 Nov 2002]
A digital brain courtesy of Microsoft, post-Napster music and guess who can't get broadband...
Comment Ever had problems remembering things or locating important documents? From photos of the kids and videos of family holidays, to important work documents and private email conversations, you will be able to save everything onto your PC (see http... [21 Nov 2002]
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