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FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

Comment The growth of international cyber crime and terrorism over the past five years has spurred the FBI to establish dedicated cyber squads at each of its 56 field offices across the US and support 70 cyber task forces nationwide, backed up by global...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Geography lessons for online retailers

Comment Quova's Internet Location Intelligence platform uses real-time, permission-based techniques to locate web visitors regardless of their network connection or internet access device. But for firms to exploit geolocation technology to the full they...

Tags: geolocation, sales, customer loyalty, online retail

[09 Jan 2008]

IT at your service

Comment Charging them access to CPU time spent crunching numbers for business intelligence might, too. The IT department becomes a crucial part of a supply chain - the primary contractor that aggregates underlying technical services and adds the...

Tags: service culture, service quality, management, itil

[09 Jan 2008]

Whose data is it anyway?

Whose data is it anyway?

Comment I had originally intended to look at public sector opportunities for the greater use of business intelligence and other information management and analysis tools. However, there is another aspect to the issue of data privacy that goes to the heart...

Tags: hmrc, data security, id cards, campaign

[17 Dec 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: When will the net become intelligent?

Comment Unfortunately intelligence is one of those words for which we can assign no description, definition, quantification or indeed any degree of real understanding. So when will the internet become intelligent and when will intelligence, and even life...

Tags: pcs, artificial intelligence, internet

[22 May 2007]

Do you know what's happening on your <strong>network</strong>?

Do you know what's happening on your network?

Comment According to recent Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research, security is seen as the most critical element of network performance - cited as 'critical' by 65 per cent of respondents. As such businesses must get a lot smarter about looking for...

Tags: tv piracy, mpaa, data security, piracy

[28 Mar 2007]

The killer app for M2M

Comment The dashboard could become their default screen saver, replacing the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence or pictures of favourite football teams with something socially conscious. Next, M2M puts many functions usually controlled by facilities...

Tags: office of the future, green it, m2m, zigbee

[22 Feb 2007]

Oracle - how to make friends and influence people

Comment Oracle is likely to have more acquisitions ahead of it - with people speculating it could buy business intelligence or open source companies - but analysts expect the deals to be smaller than the blockbuster PeopleSoft and Siebel deals.

Tags: oracle

[25 Oct 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Man vs machine - who's smarter?

Comment The reality is we cannot define, describe, quantify or measure intelligence or creativity in any meaningful way. Whist we are still evolving (very slowly) we have most likely reached an intelligence peak due to various physical factors.

Tags: artificial intelligence, peter cochrane, machine, cochrane

[19 Jun 2006]

Devil's Advocate: Buying secrets on eBay

Devil's Advocate: Buying secrets on eBay

Comment Recently one has been given the impression that the intelligence services are rather less informed than the average broadsheet reader and rather more gullible. It makes rather a mockery of expensive firewalls and intruder detection systems when the...

Tags: computer security, ebay

[22 Feb 2005]

Will's Web Watch: How to attack spammers in your sleep

Will's Web Watch: How to attack spammers in your sleep

Comment Similar to the SETI screensaver which powers the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, it will combine the processing power of thousands of computers while they sit idle to power the attacks. Often such a network, which can be leased out by the...

[30 Nov 2004]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Pick a killer mobile app

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Pick a killer mobile app

Comment This includes enhanced quality of service, security features such as virtual private networks, business intelligence detailing how the network is being used and customer care or support. Network value-added services: The operator simply adds basic...

Tags: mobile devices, mobile data, mobile services, quocirca

[29 Oct 2004]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The ever-evolving virus

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The ever-evolving virus

Comment In an interesting twist, the latest evidence suggests that these new systems are gaining in intelligence and sophistication, and becoming evermore lifelike. Rather than waiting for trial and error to show the route to even greater success or...

Tags: spam, security, worm, computer virus

[20 May 2004]

IP equals new alliances - get used to it

Comment A recent AT&T and Economist Intelligence Unit survey of 237 executives worldwide found that companies admit that their networks are not equipped to meet the challenges they expect to face in the next two years.

Tags: infonet, c&w, ip outsourcing, at&t

[20 Aug 2003]

US hotspots outwit file-sharing purge

Comment About 28,000 publicly accessible hotspots exist around the world today, according to research firm Allied Business Intelligence. Early last spring, NYCWireless co-founder Anthony Townsend got a note in the mail saying that someone on his network...

Tags: file-swapping, hotspots, wi-fi

[16 Jul 2003]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The invisible revolution

Comment Solutions to many complex problems - including those that will probably always defy conventional mathematics - have emerged from the most unlikely combination of artificial life and intelligence through emergent behaviour.

Tags: wasp, ant, kursk, petrol

[05 Mar 2003]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Cochrane's Law

Comment However, it is clear that similar laws apply to the overall intelligence of organisations in general. As work becomes more complex, more networked and faster, the communication overhead required in a strictly human-to-human network grows rapidly...

[21 Nov 2002]

Start-up of the month: "We're building a brain!"

Comment Lobal is working on an artificial intelligence system so intelligent its staff hate it being called 'artificial intelligence'. The system is based on a model of the human brain, with emulators for the five brain areas that are most important for...

[21 Mar 2002]

The Ovum View: Who's the boss? The network versus the device

Comment Or was the network the seat of intelligence and the home of content, to which the device merely provided access? In the world of mobile, the balance has long been firmly tilted in the direction of the network.

[05 Dec 2001]

Cutting the terrorists' money supply: The role of IT

Comment According to the National Criminal Intelligence Service there was a 27 per cent rise in the number of suspicious financial transactions in the UK last year. But it's a reactive system that relies on intelligence which is notoriously difficult to...

[15 Oct 2001]

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