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

Comment Often organisations initially assess their print environment themselves to save money. An unmanaged print environment also reduces productivity and creates support headaches and problems with supplies.

Tags: managed services, outsourcing, printers

[22 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time to fight the flab in the IT department

Comment Or print on both sides of a piece of paper? By now you've probably pretty much given up on all your New Year resolutions. Your trainers are gathering dust, the biscuit jar has been raided, the ashtray is full and the wine bottles empty.

Tags: storage, data, health, green

[30 Jan 2008]

Paul Coby

AS Profile New innovations include a completely revamped and more user-friendly BA.com website and self-service - for both staff and passengers - with online check-in and an employee portal that allows staff to check rosters and print their own payslips.

[12 Oct 2007]

CIO power

AS Analysis Coby has driven down IT costs by almost half at BA over the past five years, as well as driving new innovations such as online check-in, print-your-own boarding passes and a new ba.com website. In the past, few figures from user organisations have...

[12 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...

Comment For the few times you go somewhere different - print the instructions from Google for free. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech...

Tags: sat-nav, lie detector, dna

[07 Sep 2007]

The greening of IT: Why less is more

Comment Don't print so much. Futurity Media's Stewart Baines explains what they're missing - and what more they could do. A day doesn't go by without another software, hardware or electronics firms professing its newly found green credentials.

Tags: pc makers, greenpeace, data centres, green it

[13 Aug 2007]

Editor's Blog: Tech improves... but we don't?

Comment It had regular economy check-in (a nightmare of a snaking queue), online check-in (for those who checked in over the web and were arriving for 'bag drop') and DIY check-in, whereby passengers use a kiosk to get checked in, print up a boarding pass...

Tags: airline websites, westminster, mobile payments, m-commerce

[28 Jun 2007]

Paul Coby

CIO Profile Tech running costs have been cut by 43 per cent; the BA.com website has been overhauled and made more user-friendly, and is now a huge growth channel; and self-service - for both staff and passengers - has been a key theme, with online and fast...

[06 Jun 2007]

Ian Cohen

CIO Profile As CIO, Cohen is responsible for all the technology, operations and production activities that support Associated Newspapers' print and online businesses. He is currently leading a number of big transformation programmes ranging from wholesale...

[06 Jun 2007]

Editor's Blog: Media merger mania

Comment Globally, print is a growth industry. The unravelling this week of the merger between Daimler-Benz and Chrysler - the US company was bought for $36bn in 1998 and finally sold for $7.4bn today, ouch - actually looks straightforward in the context of...

Tags: google, yahoo, microsoft, merger

[15 May 2007]

Editor's Blog: Grey areas, honesty and naivety

Comment Without touching a colleague's PC and doing nothing more pernicious than apparently asking the colleague to print a file from the key, Andre Muscat from security vendor GFI Software was able to steal all manner of data and passwords.

Tags: security, infosec

[26 Apr 2007]

Freecycle Diaries: Am I falling out of love?

Comment In an attempt to take the measure of the Freecycle community, I compose a rather unusual offering: "Large collection of colour print-outs of matchbox labels". Yet I'm reluctant to cart them off to the recycling bank since they are good quality...

Tags: freecycle

[23 Apr 2007]

Editor's Blog: Moving bits

Comment So now there's an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website asking the PM "to insist that Ofcom and the ASA [Advertising Standards Authority] stop broadband providers advertising 'unlimited' services that are in fact limited in the small print...

Tags: toucan, asa, ofcom, dsl

[05 Apr 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: We need multiple biometrics

Comment Why should we think that a hand or thumb, lip or ear, face or body, voice or other biometric print will suffice as part of a complete electronic recognition system? Written on the A1M and dispatched to silicon.com via a free LAN connection provided...

Tags: iris scans, fingerprint reader, facial recognition, biometrics

[12 Mar 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.02.07

Round-Up We are not making any predictions," he added, before predicting: "It would be utterly fantastic if we could at the end create a print remix. There are no plans as yet to offer deals to any contributors or to publish (in print) the completed work...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[09 Feb 2007]

So what is convergence anyway?

Comment Founding the MIT Media Lab in the late 1970s he foresaw the coming together of the worlds of IT, television and movies, and print and publishing. Devices, networks, services, voice, data, media, entertainment - convergence can refer to any one of...

Tags: convergence, fimed mobile convergence

[07 Dec 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 10.11.06

Round-Up Well research out this week suggests jobs in IT are pretty much a licence to print money these days. The UK is suffering a fraud epidemic it would seem. Now that's got your Friday afternoon off to a cheery start hasn't it?

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[10 Nov 2006]

Bob Young

AS Profile After just squeaking onto the Agenda Setters list last year, Bob Young has jumped up the rankings on the success of his innovative publishing service Lulu.com, which allows writers to bypass the traditional world of publishers and print books on...

[25 Sep 2006]

Leader: Don't judge a Google book by its cover

Leader It sounds like an over-cautious, penny-pinching concern but Gartner reports that around three per cent of a company's total revenue is currently spent on print costs. A responsible Chas Moloney, marketing director at Ricoh, was today warning his...

Tags: google, books

[31 Aug 2006]

Why does Sharon Stone use Mitel?

Comment Tech brand owners are like many others in seeing the demise of traditional TV and print advertising. But, says Jo Best, they have some magic dust when it comes to product placement. Kiefer Sutherland uses a Cisco phone.

Tags: mitel, product placement, nokia, cisco

[01 Aug 2006]

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