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The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects

Comment CIOs need to be more focused on ensuring the message is not lost in the chaos of a specific deadline that draws everyone's attention away from IT's ongoing value. The message is simple: we need to be aware of the cost of deploying something we know...

Tags: testing, measuring value, failure, projects

[14 Apr 2008]

Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam

Comment One can only imagine the flood of pent-up message-reply demand after the service outage was fixed. Addicts may take their CrackBerrys on holiday and even up to bed. But there's nothing wrong with the core technology, says Rob Bamforth - at least...

Tags: blackberry, pdas, email, mobile

[21 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Wednesday

Comment Did we get the message out? The sun is blazing on Congress but there's desperation in the air as exhibiting companies everywhere pray the air conditioning in their hospitality suites holds up for two more days.

Tags: mobile, google, iphone, blackberry

[14 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday

Comment His message: move along commissioner, government intervention is not welcome. I imagine Ms Reding got that message pretty loud and clear yesterday. The message is about sustainability, social responsibility and combating climate change.

Tags: mobile world congress, china, john, talk

[13 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Sunday

Comment With the inevitable tsunami of marketing, companies are clearly pushing the boat out to get their message across. If handset convergence is elementary surely PR agencies shouldn't need to try that hard to get the message across.

Tags: mobile world congress, mobile, 3gsm, mwc

[10 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08

Round-Up A reasonably tech-savvy friend of the Round-Up this week managed to send a meaningless chain wall posting to 33 people and then had to send them all a message apologising. All of which require the downloading of the app before the message can be...

Tags: iphone, mac, apple, macworld

[18 Jan 2008]

The rise of the 'Brics'

Comment This YouTube video should bring the message home. Bric - another acronym every silicon.com reader should be aware of and, no, it's nothing to do with Microsoft or operating systems. It actually stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China and was...

Tags: bric, india, outsourcing, century

[18 Dec 2007]

Whose data is it anyway?

Whose data is it anyway?

Comment As would be expected, the clear and common-sense message is that we need to design our systems from the beginning so that they address privacy and data security concerns adequately. The loss of two CDs containing the data of 25 million people by...

Tags: hmrc, data security, id cards, campaign

[17 Dec 2007]

Editor's Blog: Goodbye silicon.com - and thanks

Comment So that's all the on-message stuff. I'm just finishing up my time as editor and site director for silicon.com, ending a direct relationship that goes back over nine years, to the conception as well as birth of this publication in 1998.

Tags: cnet networks, awards, staff, cio

[08 Nov 2007]

How to build an IT department

Comment It's key to send the right message about what sort of behaviour will be acceptable in the future. Unilever CIO Neil Cameron is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry, and joined the company in 2003 from Diageo where he was also CIO.

Tags: redundancy, recruitment, graduate, unilever

[17 Oct 2007]

The Round-Up: 05.10.07

Round-Up If you click the help icon again, you get the message: "No really. Radiohead assumes that you've got the message by now and doesn't give you any further help icons. When you click on the help icon next to the blank price field, you are presented...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[05 Oct 2007]

Leader: Where was Northern Rock's technology?

Leader Northern Rock appears not to have done this, preferring instead to shout the message out of the branch doors at queues in the street. The crisis at Northern Rock looks like an example of bad planning on many levels.

Tags: northern rock, banks, online banking

[19 Sep 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.09.07

Round-Up His monitor spits out an error message and the PC instantly reboots itself. Steve Ballmer is a troubled man. The Microsoft CEO has one eye on an internal memo about 'the EU' and it's bothering him. The other eye is watching his specially customised...

Tags: round-up

[14 Sep 2007]

Far from quiet on the virtual front

Comment Building on its message of simplicity of use, Vizioncore has established a presence in the small business sector as well as in the enterprise. Quocirca's Dennis Szubert picks out the main developments.

Tags: viridian, xen, vmware, virtualisation

[05 Sep 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Media wars

Comment While gurus and pundits were trying to get over the simple message that everything was going to change entire sectors went into denial. Written at the Institute of Directors in London and dispatched via free-to-air wi-fi at Liverpool Street Station

Tags: tv, broadcasters, on-demand, media

[31 Aug 2007]

BI for all

Comment Probably the most decisive mover in the market has been Microsoft, with its message of 'BI for the masses'. Quocirca's Louella Fernandes explains. Various research projects have shown that business intelligence (BI) continues to be one of the top...

Tags: sas, business objects, cognos, microsoft

[18 Jul 2007]

CIOs must not fend off risk alone

Comment If nothing else, the introduction of tighter regulations and custodial sentences for senior executives at transgressing companies should have helped get that message up the food chain. Should IT risk management be the responsibility of the CIO or...

Tags: cio, security, risk

[10 Jul 2007]

Steve Ranger's Notebook: How my iPod ate the weekend

Comment Which means that every time someone zings a message at you to 'make the tea' or 'checkout what Smith is wearing today' or something similar, you lose track of what you're doing and have to start again - which then means everything takes twice as...

Tags: podcast, social networking, digital music, im

[05 Jun 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 25.05.07

Round-Up The real icing on the cake was provided by the sending of the world's highest text message, which was sent to its original author, Motorola staffer John Barlow, who had won an internal competition. The text message (grab the sick bucket), written...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[25 May 2007]

How tech can make us greener

Comment A quick straw poll of technology vendors suggests well over half are considering how to promote a greener message in their marketing. Though IT is often blamed for not being 'green' enough, there are plenty of ways technology can improve an...

Tags: hardware management, collaboration software, videoconferencing, environment

[24 May 2007]

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