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Leading a horse to water
Comment Much of what he is focused on he considers mundane yet capable of affecting spending on a huge scale. The issues that most concern Suffolk are maintaining the quality of the IT professionals employed by the public sector, encouraging shared... [23 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment Whatever that cost, I'm certain that given the needs of online businesses and with the scale of the information flow there are major gaps in the handling of personal data. The amount of sharing of personal information is at an all-time high. [25 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... this little piggybacker, don't talk trash, analyse this...
Comment I'd want a sliding scale of charges if I was shown to be reducing waste weight. Why should the end user end up paying a third party tax collecting body merely because producers over whom we have no control insist on producing so much packaging? [30 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: Shanghai no surprise
Comment For now I have to get back to what I must say is an HP event that has surprised me for its scale. The boom at the end of the 1980s was abruptly halted in Japan - while still an economic giant, its stock market has never really recovered and the... [09 May 2007]
To outsource or not to outsource?
Comment Outsourcers are able to offer the benefit of scale because they can centralise the key IT and network functions and service multiple accounts at the same time. Outsourcing gives them the flexibility to scale up or down as the business changes and... [16 Apr 2007]
Fair Wi-fi: Are hotels really fleecing guests?
Comment At the other end of the difficulty of implementation scale, hundreds of hotel rooms can be covered by as few as three or four access points - especially if access points can be put outside on facing walls, said Powell. [05 Mar 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Qubits Rule?
Comment Suffice it to say that this might be the beginning of the end for conventional large-scale binary computing. The really big engineering deal here is the insulation of qubits from noise, and the biggest uncertainty is the degree to which the system... [01 Mar 2007]
Q&A: Wipro chairman and managing director Azim Premji
Comment We have learned how to scale resourcing and hiring, and we have learned to scale induction. I think the biggest challenge is to be able to scale the continuity of culture because you are talking about very large year-on-year growth, you are talking... [07 Nov 2006]
Brampton Factor: Fighting e-crime
Comment The scale of these frauds has reached a level where it has become a significant proportion of government finances. Claims that the legal system is too soft and fails to convict criminals seem to be most justified in the case of corporate... [16 May 2006]
Analysis: Who is the new government CIO?
Comment The scale of the CJIT programme - which is on target to achieve £3bn efficiency savings - will equip Suffolk for the task of delivering the 'Transformational Government' agenda and building up a government IT profession. [26 Apr 2006]
Banks aiming to alleviate online banking fears
Comment The technology has its strengths and weaknesses but as it has not yet been tested on a wide scale, it's too soon to tell. This was the latest in a spate of moves from high street banks to tackle fraud. [28 Mar 2006]
Opinion: The importance of failure
Comment Firstly, most innovative large-scale IT projects seek to modify current business context in relation to how the business operates within itself and against its competition. You see in IT we, the collective we, including boards and others who... [01 Feb 2006]
Leader: O2 be in Spain
Leader In theory, greater scale should lead to more efficient procurement, which should enable better value services - but don't go holding your breath for noticeable differences. The price is high - at £17.7bn about the highest in the sector since the... [31 Oct 2005]
Opinion: It's all about 'right-sourcing'
Comment Some have pointed to the demise of several multi-billion-pound 'mega-outsourcing' deals recently as the death knell for large scale outsourcing. Given the recent collapse of some high-profile IT outsourcing deals, Olswang's Simon Briskman outlines... [31 Oct 2005]
Radioactive: What's next for 3G?
Comment Vodafone has now announced that full-scale trails are to begin in Rome in October and in Milan in November ahead of commercial launch in Spring 2006. This summer has seen a rash of announcements by European mobile operators regarding HSDPA (high... [08 Sep 2005]
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