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RIM co-CEO: Qwerty is the next big thing

Comment So everything from printers, fax machines, telephones, typewriters - you name it, it all started in the enterprise. BlackBerry-maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Tags: mike lazaridis, touchscreen, blackberry, rim

[16 May 2008]

Cloud computing: Silver lining…

Comment A big name might claim a slick-sounding service but closer investigation may reveal it's still at the pilot stage. Since so many people are talking about cloud computing, it really wouldn't hurt to know what it is.

Tags: saas, data centres, cloud computing

[09 May 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security

Comment Spam has been with us, in name at least, for some 15 years. With the problem of spam in check rather than cured, focus has shifted to data leaks. But before splashing out on content security, CIOs should take a good look at what they already have...

Tags: filtering, spam, content

[02 May 2008]

Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season

Comment When you take into account that navigational search - where users search for a specific brand name - is on the up and up, the potential impact on trademark owners could be significant. This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search...

Tags: keywords, google, search engines, trademarks

[30 Apr 2008]

Why IT must escape the belt-tightening

Comment Perhaps we need a new name for the IT budget, because it's almost impossible to believe so many organisations can have such a dislocated view of the business and IT that they believe stopping spending money on it will somehow help.

Tags: value, recession, budgets

[18 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays

Comment You name it, I've installed it. Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a free wi-fi service in Athens. Just over a year ago I undertook the complete renovation of an old house.

Tags: operating systems, software, design

[16 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08

Round-Up And what in the name of all that is good and holy is cloud computing? Wanted: fingerprints of one unkempt, jowly, harassed-looking Scottish gentleman. Reward: £1,000. An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy...

Tags: windows, yahoo, gordon brown, microsoft

[11 Apr 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

Comment If you have ever attempted to report an internet-related crime at your local police station, you can imagine how the civilian assistant - it's unlikely you'll see a police officer - will react to your claiming from behind a reinforced window that...

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: My Freecycle identity crisis

Comment And so it was someone with a normal name who won out. Facebook works because you have to use your own identity with a real name and real photos. Now of course there're plenty of valid reasons why people don't appear online by the name on their...

Tags: email, avatar, identity, freecycle

[01 Apr 2008]

You won't get promoted looking like that

Comment He had just won a substantial contract with a household name company and had to start being the managing director. Technology specialists are unlikely to be promoted into the senior hierarchy based solely on their technical skills.

Tags: image, skills, careers, personal brand

[20 Mar 2008]

ID tech tightens up compliance

Comment Because a user now has, theoretically, just the one user name and password combination for accessing all the resources to which they are entitled, the onus is on organisations to ensure that the initial authentication event is genuine and that it...

Tags: identity management, data protection, compliance, printers

[18 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment It was not the best technology but it came with a few more bells and whistles - and its name rolled off the tongue more easily than Betamax. Written on flight VS003 from London to New York and dispatched via a free JetBlue wi-fi service at JFK...

Tags: formats, blu-ray, dvd, storage

[17 Mar 2008]

Editor's Blog: An everyday tale of e-crime

Comment Except that - while it had his address on it - it was in someone else's name. All different numbers and networks, all for the same name. A little while ago a friend of mine got a mobile phone bill. Nothing odd in that.

Tags: crime, police, identity fraud, hacking

[13 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts

Comment Jack Cutts is a name to conjure with. Reminiscent of a buccaneer perhaps? Possibly one of the legendary accounting pirates from Monty Python's Crimson Permanent Assurance short film. Like the finance privateers in the film, Jack Cutts, head of IT...

Tags: customer service, change management, building society, society

[11 Mar 2008]

How fans can grab a slice of the music pie

Comment Users are presented with a music player that randomly streams them tracks from the 1,000 artists - without disclosing the artist name or the name of the track - after which they submit a review and score for the track.

Tags: music, web 2.0, industry, web

[18 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday

Comment I arrive at the Fira early to struggle through the be-suited throng and get my seat at the big name keynotes. It's day one proper of the Congress and the queues just got tails. Long tails. Not early enough, however, to claim a space on the main floor.

Tags: mobile world congress, china, john, talk

[13 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Mobile users break free

Comment To every other country and carrier you can name. Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in London. Suppose for a moment you bought a pen and found it would only write on a particular brand of paper.

Tags: tariff, mobile, contracts, iphone

[05 Feb 2008]

The truth about software as a service

Comment If a supplier is lagging behind competitors in a particular area, one way for it to regain lost ground is to redefine that area to suit its strengths, give it a new name and then claim a lead. An even bigger name, Google, has also admitted to the...

Tags: hosted, applications, saas, browser

[23 Jan 2008]

Geography lessons for online retailers

Comment This approach can provide such information as longitude, latitude, connection type and speed, ISP, company name and domain name. 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]

Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple

Comment This change of name had already happened in its marketing years ago but Apple was underlining its rise as a major player in markets other than computing: personal technology, media distribution and telecoms.

Tags: apple, mac, jobs, iphone

[21 Dec 2007]

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