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Beijing Olympic diary: Closing ceremonies
Comment Follow the link for more on the technology behind the Games. As public attention shifts to London and 2012, Jeremy Hore, chief integrator for Olympic worldwide IT partner Atos Origin, breathes a sigh of relief in his exclusive silicon.com diary. [27 Aug 2008]
Beijing Olympic diary: Producing results
Comment Follow the link for more on the technology behind the Games. Despite the nerves and apprehension, all the hard work seems to be paying off, says Jeremy Hore, chief integrator for Olympic worldwide IT partner Atos Origin, in his exclusive silicon... [19 Aug 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Live coverage
Comment Follow the link for more on the technology behind the games. Given the extensive preparations for the Olympics, what could possibly stop the technology working? Certainly not an unfortunate encounter between a lawn mower and a network cable, says... [12 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Tech's weasel words
Comment Join the debate and post your reader comments on this story by clicking on the link below. And a little more honesty wouldn't go amiss either, says the Naked CIO. As a CIO I probably have as many pet peeves as the next person. [04 Aug 2008]
Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment The $620m airport opened at the end of May, apparently in the middle of nowhere and without a new road link. There were high hopes for Bangalore's multimillion dollar air hub, which opened in May. But locating it in a near wilderness without a... [30 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: The race to get the Olympic tech ready
Comment Follow this link for photos of some of the Beijing venues and the IT infrastructure that will underpin them. I had a fascinating if rather rushed 46 hours in Beijing recently, getting a sneak preview of the 2008 Olympic venues - and meeting the IT... [08 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment But if an employee can link into a business process from outside the office, so too can customers, suppliers and partners. But actually measuring how distributed a business is can be problematic. Bob Tarzey discusses a tool that could help. [24 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment The social websites are the big target now - MySpace, Facebook.People are less careful and more likely to click on a link or download something. Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals... [15 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment A need may now exist for a similar model for individuals, to measure personal reputation and exposure on the internet and also link into credit ratings. Identity theft is rife. Perhaps it's time individuals took a leaf out of business's book and... [08 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment Unfortunately, no matter how good the policy and the technology, the human element will always provide the weak link in the security chain. But organisations would be wrong to pin all their hopes on it, warns lawyer Stewart James. [27 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time for 'listed' computers?
Comment What is junk one day may just a few years later be recognised as a vital link in the evolution of the technology infrastructure that now surrounds us. It's some old news that has me fascinated this week. [20 Mar 2008]
Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple
Comment The lack of buttons and reliance on soft interface and gestures are revolutionary, but perhaps more impressive than that is the way the link between core functions - phone, iPod, web browsers - are seamless. [21 Dec 2007]
Editor's Blog: Missing data, missing brains
Comment A system is only as strong as the weakest link, and boy, were there some weak links here. From my point of view, it's rare indeed that the subject of two silicon.com campaigns - scrutinising the technology behind the controversial ID cards project... [21 Nov 2007]
Getting more out of the net
Comment Whether it is to manage supply chains, customer support networks, financial trading applications or some other business processes, organisations of all sizes are increasingly linked together over the internet, so a weak link or failure can have... [02 Nov 2007]
Tech Visions: TV extends its reach
Comment Now the small rectangular Slingbox allows you to place-shift - to watch your TV, cable, or PVR/TiVo system from anywhere with a broadband link. The power of broadcasters to dictate what you watch and when is waning. [24 Oct 2007]
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