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Job interviews: So you think you've got them sussed?

Comment At least convey a desire to explore this opportunity thoroughly so that you can decide whether it is for you or not - you may well still have doubts at this point and that's fine. However good you think you are at job interviews, it doesn't hurt to...

Tags: promotion, interviews, careers

[15 May 2008]

Will consumers always want free banking?

Comment The court case merely created the tipping point for a process that demands greater transparency, with the result that banks will be less able to rely on what are seen as penalty charges, as a source of revenue in the future.

Tags: oft, free banking

[12 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up CEO Jerry Yang, the sticking point came over the valuation of the internet giant. Benefit fraudsters beware. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities you may find their "liar, liar, pants on fire" accusations hold water after a...

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: The race to get the Olympic tech ready

Comment Even though it is still months to the games, the IT team is in the process of freezing the software - getting to the point at which no more changes to the code will be allowed so that they aren't derailed by unexpected, last-minute problems.

Tags: infrastructure, server, t5, olympic

[08 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?

Comment Arriving at this point allows for effective planning and the true development of standards and best practice. But at least as a niche technology, businesses can take it seriously, says the Naked CIO. Is the debate about open source finally over?

Tags: applications, open source

[06 May 2008]

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

Comment Independent specialists are worth considering, although some manufacturers such as HP and Xerox also offer multivendor support and a single point of contact and accountability for negotiation, procurement and management of multiple service contracts.

Tags: managed services, outsourcing, printers

[22 Apr 2008]

Why IT must escape the belt-tightening

Comment Organisations that cut IT budgets as a knee-jerk reaction to the tightening economy are missing the point. That last point is critical. As the economy wobbles, the bean-counters instinctively reach for the IT budget.

Tags: value, recession, budgets

[18 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user

Comment Partly because it seems to be a shortcut to a proper criticism of Apple products but mostly because it ignores the obvious point that form and function needn't be mutually exclusive. On the 10th anniversary of his Damascene conversion from the PC...

Tags: leopard, iphone, mac, apple

[17 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects

Comment There are times in every project when you reach the point of no return. So knowing when to delay or cancel a project is just as important as giving it the green light, says the Naked CIO. Do large projects make or break a CIO?

Tags: testing, measuring value, failure, projects

[14 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment And suppose luggage designers had to travel a whole year non-stop with their own luggage, and ditto for the designers of electronic point of sale systems, mobile phones and security systems. Written at London's Heathrow airport after a confused...

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Open source 'brotherhood' closed to co-operation

Comment Thus it seems average open source developers are at a point in their life where they are driven towards achievement and the hope of recognition. To clarify this point, a brief digression is needed. The open source brotherhood prides itself on its...

Tags: standards, development, open source

[03 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: My Freecycle identity crisis

Comment And it's here it gets interesting because it's the point at which online identity suddenly intersects with the real world. Recently I had a bed I wanted to get rid of - one that was, I felt, too good to spend the next 1,000 years rotting in landfill.

Tags: email, avatar, identity, freecycle

[01 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth

Comment A quick visit to Urban Legends and other debunking sites such as Snopes.com and Truthorfiction.com reveal a wealth of riches and illustrates my point about validity and truth. The general irrelevance of these search returns offers me little...

Tags: artificial intelligence, search, web 2.0

[31 Mar 2008]

What governance can really mean to business

Comment As a pivot point between causes of problems and a source of relief from them, it could almost be the poster child for a campaign to remind organisations of the critical nature of getting to grips with their information: if you don't even know what...

Tags: risk, data management, compliance, governance

[28 Mar 2008]

BlackBerry exec on women in tech, iPhones, Facebook - and finding the off switch

Comment The point about this is half the working population is female. Charmaine Eggberry is vice president and managing director of EMEA at RIM - a position that gives her responsibility for the company's growth targets in the region, expansion into new...

Tags: women, rim, blackberry, population

[18 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts

Comment From a technology point of view, the core systems were being upgraded but Cutt's first priority was stabilisation of what was already in place. We designed an architecture around no one single point of failure.

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

[11 Mar 2008]

The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe

Comment Correct me if I am wrong but isn't the whole point of equal opportunity to exclude decisions based on exactly this premise? With spring and recession in the air, a CEO's fancy turns to pruning costs - and for the Naked CIO's department that means...

Tags: management, resources, job cuts, recession

[03 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech history repeats itself

Comment I had to concede that they might just have a point. Written in the bar of a hotel in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia and despatched via a free wi-fi service in the lobby. This morning I was talking to an industry leader in the USA about recruiting young...

Tags: social networking, recruitment, skills, email

[25 Feb 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?

Comment Microsoft played a significant role in the spread of the PC to the point of near ubiquity. From the investors' point of view that is not necessarily a bad thing. There is no point owning Microsoft shares for the dividends alone, since they are...

Tags: innovation, yahoo!, mergers, microsoft

[20 Feb 2008]

The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story

Comment Isn't that exactly the point? Moronic end users are putting paid to any hope of introducing innovation at Naked CIO's new company. Their resistance to change is also taking a heavy toll on his sanity.

Tags: company culture, innovation, change management, cio

[18 Feb 2008]

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