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Vendors hype up compliance fears

Comment Vendors coming from that culture are bound to develop marketing messages that support it. Compliance. The word strikes fear into the heart of even the hardened executive. We're warned of dire consequences if we get it wrong - especially in data...

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, data protection, compliance

[08 Apr 2008]

You won't get promoted looking like that

Comment If the wrong messages are being received through something as simple as your overall appearance or attitude, then you won't be bought, you will not be in the loop, and your chances of being noticed and promoted will be strongly reduced.

Tags: image, skills, careers, personal brand

[20 Mar 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?

Comment Text messages were a hugely successful, if largely accidental, innovation. Despite the rhetoric, most large firms are simply poor at innovating. Microsoft is no exception and its bid for Yahoo! just emphasises its route to success, argues Martin...

Tags: innovation, yahoo!, mergers, microsoft

[20 Feb 2008]

Offshoring - not just about the costs

Comment But more interesting messages, paralleling those in the RIM debate, came from the panel discussion, which emphasised the need not only to benefit from labour arbitrage but also to find ways of industrialising processes.

Tags: india, bpo, skills, offshore

[18 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08

Round-Up If the messages are ignored, users can have their accounts suspended or closed altogether and hunted down with terribly fierce dogs (or something). One suggestion from the music industry is to adopt the French model, where warning messages are sent...

Tags: microsoft, mobile, green, mobile world congress

[15 Feb 2008]

Geography lessons for online retailers

Comment But in a world awash with thousands of marketing messages, consumers are becoming increasingly discerning. Despite the broad reach of the internet, successful online traders need to focus tightly on individual customers.

Tags: geolocation, sales, customer loyalty, online retail

[09 Jan 2008]

Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam

Comment As outlined in the first article of this special report there are millions of infected computers forming botnets, whose primary purpose is to spew out countless messages urging us to buy Viagra, or providing the latest 'hot tip' in shares.

Tags: spam, filtering, botnets, security

[10 Dec 2007]

Malware: From bedroom to boardroom

Comment Storm also caught people off-guard with sophisticated social engineering attacks, such as 4 July or Valentine's Day-related messages," she says. They sell encryption keys that give other spammers access to discrete chunks of their botnet that can...

Tags: security, botnets, trojans, viruses

[19 Nov 2007]

Web 2.0 and the public sector

Web 2.0 and the public sector

Comment The ethos of open, frank and robust dialogue that characterises the best of the social networking world can sit at odds with the tendency of politicians to want to control the context of communication and tailor the spin around their messages.

[11 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...

Comment The promotional messages also encourage recipients to go inside the branch for more information.personally after I'd received a few of these unsolicited spam messages I'd be more tempted to throw a brick through the window and tell them where to go

[04 Oct 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 07.09.07

Round-Up Does a dog allow you to send picture messages? The messages from Redmond about the Zune phone have been mixed, with the device's marketing division bigging up the idea from day one and CEO Steve Ballmer denying it's a concept the company would ever...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[07 Sep 2007]

Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook

Comment Youngsters may be "tech savvy" but sending text messages doesn't come into most job descriptions and having a MySpace page or Facebook entry won't qualify you as a web designer either. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards...

Tags: facebook, cyber crime, kids, ageism

[23 Aug 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 17.08.07

Round-Up As if we didn't already know, email is a double-edged sword of productivity. On the one hand it allows us to keep in touch with friends and colleagues all over the world with a single mouse-click and on the other hand it allows us to keep in touch...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[17 Aug 2007]

It's not easy being green

Comment Rationalising hardware and consolidating data centres are definitely ways of lowering power utilisation, to a small extent, but the messages have been played many times over with a different slant - whether for the rising cost of real estate, the...

Tags: alternative energy, energy crisis, green it

[25 Jul 2007]

Freecycle Diaries: Serendipity at last

Comment Much better, in my opinion, is to opt out of emails altogether and instead just check your group's messages as and when. In the final instalment of the Freecycle Diaries, Natasha Lomas clears a ragbag assortment of items from her flat - and pairs...

[08 May 2007]

Editor's Blog: Live from InfoSec

Comment Warning messages are not much use to anybody. silicon.com editor-at-large Will Sturgeon is blogging from the InfoSecurity show at London Olympia. The InfoSec show has come around again so quickly. I last attended in 2005 and yet it still seems no...

Tags: security, infosec

[24 Apr 2007]

Freecycle Diaries: Want my tatty sofa?

Comment Once approved as a member, you can start posting messages offering or asking for items, and reading what others have posted. Welcome to the Freecycle Diaries, in which Natasha Lomas puts the web giveaway service to the test - and shares her...

Tags: charity, online community, ebay, freecycle

[10 Apr 2007]

Will's Web Watch: Glastonbury and lessons in uptime

Comment Why in this day and age does buying tickets online mean staring at error messages on overloaded websites? For an hour and a half I saw nothing but error messages and heard nothing but engaged tones. However, having come so close to missing out I...

Tags: website, tickets, glastonbury

[02 Apr 2007]

Is Skype secure enough for businesses?

Comment If unsolicited voice communications (or recorded messages) become a problem in their volume and potentially illicit enticements, content filters will be of little use as they will not be able to break the encryption.

Tags: social engineering, spoofing, spit, vishing

[02 Apr 2007]

Stop communications overload before it starts

Comment In addition to voice calls, mobile phones provide the alert of incoming text messages, for some mobile instant messaging services and, for an increasing number, mobile access to email. This is particularly apparent with communications, where with...

Tags: information overload, inter-departmental communication, mobile phone, communication

[26 Mar 2007]

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