library in comment and analysis
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Amazon discovered that a third-party publisher had added the novels to Amazon's library without having secured the necessary licensing rights to sell them. Google Books has also been subject to legal debate, starting in... [27 Oct 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment They can be seen in the office space in market towns standing empty and children travelling miles to the nearest library to complete their homework. So why are rural areas being left behind? UK industry was brought to... [04 Aug 2009]
Minority Report: Will Apple open up to 'iTunes killer' Spotify?
Comment For the uninitiated, Spotify is essentially an online version of iTunes that allows you to listen to any track in its huge library. The free version of Spotify provides access to the entire library of... [29 Jul 2009]
Indian outsourcing trainees feel heat of recession
Comment One of the two Infosys global education centres on campus, the building houses one million square feet of training facilities, including 84 100-seater classrooms, three 200-seaters (named after Silicon Valley luminaries such as Moore,... [23 Jun 2009]
The CIO shopping list
Comment Linking in with the governance theme is IT infrastructure library (Itil), which remains high on the CIO agenda, with 40 per cent of respondents putting it on their 2008 to-do list. Pressure to justify IT budgets and get... [26 Mar 2008]
Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit
Comment I have a media centre sitting in front of me with the television above it and on it I have both the iTunes library and my Zune library. The launch of the iPlayer, however, hasn't been without controversy... [30 Oct 2007]
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment Consider the carbon footprint of burning DVDs and shipping them to an out-of-town video library. Data centres don't have to be power-hungry monsters. Futurity Media's Stewart Baines looks at ways of reducing consumption. [21 Sep 2007]
JP Rangaswami
CIO Profile A self-confessed "child of the Empire" - Rangaswami grew up playing billiards, bridge, golf and doing The Times crossword - he is an avid reader with more than 27,000 books in his home library. What they say about him:... [06 Jun 2007]
India diary, day 4: Hyderabad's tech park
Comment The centre also has the other perks I've come to expect - the pool table and gym, and even a library stacked with textbooks and Dan Brown novels. Indian cities are keen to attract technology and business process... [07 Mar 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Close encounters of the mobile kind
Comment In the lounge are four work desks behind an open screen (where I am sitting) and in the middle a similar section called the library with a door to ensure apparent isolation. A casually dressed young man enters the lounge... [27 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.02.07
Round-Up Also attending the launch were indie-pop band The Feeling who played a few tunes for the thronging crowd within the British Library. Where to begin this week? How about with the biggest launch from Microsoft in five years? [02 Feb 2007]
Leader: The CIO Agenda for 2007
Leader New tech priorities this year include IT infrastructure library for better project management and governance and service-oriented architecture (SOA). The year ahead promises to be another challenging one for CIOs and IT... [17 Jan 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: All about Itil
Comment It stands for IT infrastructure library and is an approach to IT services management. Every once in a while, a new term comes along that sounds like just another acronym but which can actually help organisations get more... [28 Jul 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 20
Comment He shows me a glimpse of the additional services you can add onto your card, such as e-certificates - for safer web surfing, he says - and library cards. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to... [29 Jun 2006]
Beating software piracy is easier than you think
Comment One good starting place for guidance on proper processes to manage software assets is the relevant parts of the IT Infrastructure Library (Itil) documentation. Proper management of software licences can prevent your... [21 Jun 2006]
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