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Job interviews: So you think you've got them sussed?

Comment They could be standing between you and success, says Cathy Holley of headhunters Boyden UK Global Executive Search. However good you think you are at job interviews, it doesn't hurt to go over the basics.

Tags: promotion, interviews, careers

[15 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?

Comment But that's not how it looks from my position as a relatively new CIO of a global and complex business environment. But at least as a niche technology, businesses can take it seriously, says the Naked CIO.

Tags: applications, open source

[06 May 2008]

Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season

Comment DLA Piper is the world's largest global legal services organisation with more than 3,600 lawyers across 64 offices and 25 countries. Who is the real loser, asks lawyer Sian Croxon - the trademark holder, the consumer or the law itself?

Tags: keywords, google, search engines, trademarks

[30 Apr 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment But an observer from another planet might be forgiven for asking why, after all this time, the security industry and world governments between them have failed to deliver any sure-fire solutions for dealing with a global problem - beyond throwing...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment While smart phones only represent around 10 per cent of the global handset market, the sector is growing fast. Last month's launch of iPhone developer software passed unnoticed by the general public. Yet it was an event that could make 2008 a...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

Comment The growth of international cyber crime and terrorism over the past five years has spurred the FBI to establish dedicated cyber squads at each of its 56 field offices across the US and support 70 cyber task forces nationwide, backed up by global...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel

Comment Steven Bandrowczak has spent time in both camps and is now CIO at global networking supplier Nortel. One of the biggest IT projects on Bandrowczak's plate is a global implementation of SAP for HR and finance.

Tags: bandrowczak, cio, nortel

[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. Life would be simple if curing security headaches were just a matter of buying some new technology.

Tags: risk, data leaks, security, compliance

[28 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …

Comment Our politicians' measured and considered response to this possible global extinction event was to create a market allowing people who produce lots of CO2 to offset this and "sell" some of these emissions to people who don't produce quite so much...

Tags: green it, flight, mobile, open source

[27 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment There are many theories about how one technology or brand wins the global market over another. Written on flight VS003 from London to New York and dispatched via a free JetBlue wi-fi service at JFK airport.

Tags: formats, blu-ray, dvd, storage

[17 Mar 2008]

LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking

Comment What it's doing its allowing knowledge workers around the world to find and work with each other in this global economy in which we all live. So it's in many ways fulfilling the promise of the internet by creating efficiency and allowing anybody to...

Tags: linkedin, network, online, facebook

[28 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?

Comment Simon Levine is joint global head of the Technology, Media and Commercial Group at DLA Piper. DLA Piper is the world's largest global legal services organisation with more than 3,600 lawyers across 64 offices and 25 countries.

Tags: law, isps, downloads, piracy

[22 Feb 2008]

It's time Indian IT took the lead

Comment Some panellists suggested an open global and innovative mindset is not really deeply embedded yet. Nasscom's Leadership Forum closed with a session called 'Taking India to the next level of global leadership', designed to spark debate ahead of the...

Tags: india, software, innovation, outsourcing

[20 Feb 2008]

Offshoring - not just about the costs

Comment This was all about a determined corporate vision, global in its reach - certainly not about a simple offshore code sweatshop rooted in labour arbitrage. Offshoring to India is often discussed in terms of staff cost-cutting.

Tags: india, bpo, skills, offshore

[18 Feb 2008]

Indian IT outsourcers look ahead

Comment The young turks whose vision created Nasscom two decades ago are now the leaders of the businesses they built, including Infosys, TCS and HCL - all now global majors. And APJ Abdul Kalam, the former president of India, set a vision of India's...

Tags: nasscom, india, outsourcing, offshore

[14 Feb 2008]

Can the government offshore with confidence?

Comment On the supply side it is becoming harder to distinguish between onshore and offshore providers as both sets of players look to operate a global delivery model. So what's stopping it, asks Georgina O'Toole of analyst Ovum.

Tags: offshoring, dwp, john suffolk, departments

[14 Feb 2008]

How to give tech to those on less than $1 a day

Comment According to some, the use of open source software in global education is the key to many problems because it removes the issue of cost. How do you give underprivileged children around the world access to technology?

Tags: education, skills, microsoft, third world

[07 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Locked in at the bank

Comment To be blunt, more global internet banking entities are required to invoke significant change in the old institutions and bring them into line with the rest of 21st century humanity. Written in a coffee shop at Wickham Market, Suffolk, and...

Tags: mobile, banks, wi-fi, bank

[07 Feb 2008]

Why you should be outsourcing your data centres

Comment Outsourcing these functions and responsibilities to a global technology specialist means the outsource supplier carries the risks and not the client - giving financial services companies the support they need to focus on the important activities...

Tags: data centre, outsourcing, green, advances

[04 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble

Comment Simon Levine is joint global head of the Technology, Media and Commercial Group at DLA Piper. DLA Piper is the world's largest global legal services organisation with more than 3,600 lawyers across 64 offices and 25 countries.

Tags: facebook, social networks, law, digital rights

[29 Jan 2008]

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