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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment The key to this, she says, is enabling more sharing and better use of information - an asset as valuable as a tangible, physical building. Whether at work or play Claire Hamon, CIO of construction company Rok Group, isn't one to shy away from or...

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

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

Comment This ranges from individuals managing banks accounts online and tracking the progress of goods ordered online, to whole groups of businesses sharing centralised supply-chain management systems. But actually measuring how distributed a business is...

Tags: distributed working, networks

[24 Apr 2008]

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

Comment The open source brotherhood prides itself on its collaboration and community spirit. The reality is sadly very different, says Martin Brampton. Open source has become a powerful force. The internet depends on it, as do many commercial operations.

Tags: standards, development, open source

[03 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up In other non-travel news - illegal music downloads are being fuelled by file-sharing applications that allow people to share tunes online. The BPI's improbably named internet investigations executive Jollyon Benn said increasing numbers of people...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…

Comment ¦ The Naked CIO: Identity crisis ¦ Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach ¦ Open source gains business credibility ¦ Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing? Illegal file-sharing: Gov't says enough is enough

Tags: biometrics, id cards, file sharing, gains

[28 Feb 2008]

The Naked CIO: Identity crisis

Comment Sharing this information is important, especially online, to confirm personal identity. Yet sharing it so frequently must also contribute to the problem of identity theft - the very thing it is designed to prevent.

Tags: identity, security, data theft, ecommerce

[25 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?

Comment Not all aspects of file-sharing are illegal and distinguishing the legitimate from the malicious will not be easy. Politicians are threatening ISPs with penalties if illegal downloading doesn't stop. But legal liability cannot rest solely on ISPs...

Tags: law, isps, downloads, piracy

[22 Feb 2008]

What is the future for Lotus?

Comment Facebook for networking, Flickr for image sharing, YouTube for video sharing, and a whole raft of various instant messaging and VoIP platforms. Its product suite facilitates blogging, podcasts, document sharing, collaborative team environments and...

Tags: lotus, web 2.0, microsoft, sharing

[24 Jan 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Trying to explain

Comment From now on when my silver surfer friends ask me what a wiki is or about photos online, file sharing and more, I'm just going to point them at this website. Written at my home in Suffolk UK and dispatched to silicon.com from the Wild Strawberry...

Tags: video, www, wi fi, talk

[14 Jan 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment

Comment In short, the likelihood is that we will require at least two or three simultaneously operational wireless systems that may preclude antenna sharing. The competition for antenna space on our laptops and mobile devices is getting critical.

Tags: wireless, wi-fi, mobility, antenna

[07 Jan 2008]

Whose data is it anyway?

Whose data is it anyway?

Comment However, there is another aspect to the issue of data privacy that goes to the heart of how government has to change if it is to realise the potential for data sharing and customer service in the network age.

Tags: hmrc, data security, id cards, campaign

[17 Dec 2007]

Just why is Domino's alone in delivering online?

Comment Whatever secret recipe Domino's has for online pizza ordering, it's not sharing it with the other chains. Last week, fast-food chain Domino's Pizza made £1m from online sales in one week alone. The thinking behind the service is that when people...

Tags: sales, domino's, online, street

[10 Dec 2007]

Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier

Comment Technical fire walling for media sharing, blogs, instant messaging, social networks and syndication feeds. Experts argue new media will spell the demise of the IT professional. Not true, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield.

Tags: new media, convergence, video, internet

[29 Nov 2007]

Can biometrics secure the public's data?

Comment There have also been reports of doctors sharing smart cards, to save logging on and off each time. Addleshaw Goddard's Paul Bentham says biometrics may be hailed as the ultimate security measure - but the technology is not without hazards.

Tags: law, biometrics, fingerprint reader, facial recognition

[23 Nov 2007]

Malware: From bedroom to boardroom

Comment The first computer viruses infected the boot sector of floppy disks, which were the main way of sharing files between computers. Once the preserve of bedroom-bound teenagers, malware is now big business and aimed at financial gain rather than peer...

Tags: security, botnets, trojans, viruses

[19 Nov 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X

Comment They start with computer games, problem solving and strategic thinking reinforced by social networking and sharing on a scale never witnessed before. Written in a Florida hotel and dispatched via a free but shaky wi-fi service

Tags: social networking, management, skills, discover

[29 Oct 2007]

Where's the real web 2.0?

Comment We can go further, sharing experiences, images and videos with everyone, or just our friends via social networking sites. Web 2.0 is a description that's slapped onto just about everything these days.

Tags: user generated content, content, web 2.0

[18 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... MS vs open source, wi-fi risks, being green...

Comment Sharing fat pipes Poll: Wi-fi sharing not for everybody If someone downloads 1GB a day via my connection, I'll take the performance hit, but I'm not going to pay extra (in fact I want a discount if I'm sharing), and I'm not going to bow down to a...

Tags: wi-fi, open source, microsoft

[18 Oct 2007]

JP Rangaswami

AS Profile Regarded as something of a maverick and an innovator, JP Rangaswami is an outspoken advocate of open source and using emerging and disruptive technologies to improve information sharing, education and collaboration.

[12 Oct 2007]

Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt

AS Profile Acquisitions has been the big theme, with the $1.65bn deal to buy video-sharing website YouTube, a proposed $3.1bn purchase of web advertising supplier DoubleClick and the $625m acquisition of web security company Postini.

[12 Oct 2007]

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