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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08

Round-Up Office workers across the UK were urged to stay at home yesterday. And the rest of them got a bit lonely and were grateful to return to the warm embrace of silicon.com towers this morning, vowing never to leave the office again, or at least not...

Tags: google sky, amd, apple, work wise

[16 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom

Comment Between 10 and 20 years ago designers and architects made assumptions about the use of office space and people's working practices. Written during an intensely boring conference session and dispatched via a free wi-fi node outside Liverpool St...

Tags: data centres, green, energy, power

[16 May 2008]

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment On route to the top of her profession she has successfully tackled some massive IT-based change management programmes in both the private and public sector but out of the office she can also be found charging towards the try line or making...

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08

Round-Up The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with the Information Commissioner's Office since April 2005, has stopped data transfers unless there is a business critical need, and now demands adequate security...

Tags: iplayer, iphone, blackberry, vista

[02 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Unequal opportunities

Comment Office insights… ¦ Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch ¦ Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT ¦ Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts? From the inside, we know that to be true.

Tags: discrimination, careers, women in it

[28 Apr 2008]

'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves

Comment Speaking at Gartner's Enterprise Networking & Communications Summit, London-based media company Pearson - which has been using a telepresence system since 2001 - explained that, yes, videoconferencing has allowed its senior execs to reduce trips...

Tags: climate change, technology, videoconferencing

[28 Apr 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?

Comment And for those with the highest DBI, network downtime has much more impact on external and mobile workers than it does on office-bound ones. The need for enriched communications extends to those workers who spend some or all their time outside the...

Tags: distributed working, networks

[24 Apr 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white

Comment Despite the growth in digital communications and promises of the paperless office, printed documents remain critical to most enterprises. Who controls printing and imaging? Responsibility is often scattered - so control and costs go out the window.

Tags: managed services, outsourcing, printers

[22 Apr 2008]

Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities

Comment Office insights…   Flexibility the key for women in IT   Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend   Wanted: Women must save IT industry   Long-hours tech culture hits morale  ...

Tags: cio agenda

[18 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

Comment This week, readers had a thing or two to say about the Home Office consultancy bill and were not best pleased by the mounting cost of ID cards. I suspect that, once more, the only thing this highlights is total incompetence at the Home Office.

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?

Comment This can apply across business lines or a market group, ensuring that all exceptions are monitored and reported correctly, allowing operations management to push back information to the middle or front office if any controls are breached.

Tags: fraud, societe generale, rogue trader

[15 Apr 2008]

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

Comment Four to five years ago there were several offices that may have had one or two agents tied to a white collar crime squad working cyber crime, now every field office has at least one dedicated cyber squad.

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML

Comment The most obvious one is that a perfectly good ISO standard for storing office type documents in XML format already exists in ODF (OpenDocument Format). This argument portrays ODF as clean, well structured and designed for extensibility, while OOXML...

Tags: xml, office, microsoft, standards

[04 Apr 2008]

SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...

Comment Manocha joined SAS to run the Manchester sales office in 1996 before becoming UK sales director and then MD of SAS Austria in 2007. Ian Manocha took over as managing director of SAS in the UK three months ago and has been busy putting his stamp on...

Tags: saas, consolidation, uk, sas

[02 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Travellers on UK airlines who simply can't go a couple of hours without calling the office or loved ones, or possibly loved ones in the office, will be able to take advantage of the aircraft's network services and be routed via satellite to ground...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?

Comment The success of data encryption in preserving the confidentiality of information was demonstrated recently by the discovery of a confidential Home Office disc found hidden in a laptop sold via online auction site eBay.

Tags: data protection, companies act, encryption, security

[27 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...

Comment Because of the government 'Degrees for All' policy, even the dumbest, most unpromising students get rubbish degrees, which they then believe entitles them to a cushy job in a nice warm office. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are...

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

ID tech tightens up compliance

Comment For example, a user logging in from a remote location using a VPN tunnel could be allowed to access office productivity tools but denied access to the customer relationship management system or financial records when they are not at the office.

Tags: identity management, data protection, compliance, printers

[18 Mar 2008]

Retail leaders will open up in tough times

Retail leaders will open up in tough times

Comment His premise is that retailers can no longer keep all that messy back-office stuff behind closed doors. An icy wind is blowing through the high street. The danger is that a downturn will bite into IT spending even though technology could be...

Tags: recession, john lewis partnership, carphone warehouse, supplier

[13 Mar 2008]

LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking

Comment Online business network, LinkedIn has almost 20 million members worldwide and recently opened its European office in London. During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in...

Tags: linkedin, network, online, facebook

[28 Feb 2008]

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