signature in comment and analysis
Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment Last month, mobile operator 3 won a four-year battle with rival O2 over the use of O2's signature bubbles trademark in an advertising campaign. Owning a trademark no longer means you're the only one who can use it. [16 Jul 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment Security experts are having to admit that traditional antivirus scanning approaches are no longer able to keep pace with the growth in malware products, increasingly purpose-designed by sophisticated criminal gangs, with product packers to defeat... [29 Apr 2008]
ID cards are dead
Comment S is for Signature verification If you wondered what the loud screeching of brakes was in Whitehall this week it was the sound of the government attempting to halt the ID cards juggernaut and execute an almighty handbrake u-turn as the wheels... [07 Mar 2008]
Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam
Comment The only mitigation is the sender's explanatory signature line of "sent from my BlackBerry". Addicts may take their CrackBerrys on holiday and even up to bed. But there's nothing wrong with the core technology, says Rob Bamforth - at least nothing... [21 Feb 2008]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment S is for Signature verification With the furore over 25 million missing child benefit records, the public sector's use of personal data has never been under greater scrutiny. Addleshaw Goddard's Paul Bentham says biometrics may be hailed as the... [23 Nov 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Robots with guns
Comment In the extreme these can be designed to roam through buildings and search caves and battlefields for anything giving a healthy infrared signature. Written at a quiet café on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK and dispatched to silicon.com via a... [07 Aug 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The web at work
Comment And the IT department no longer has to worry about keeping signature files and other filters up to date nor about scalability. Worried about whether your staff are doing too much personal web surfing and email sending at work? [18 Dec 2006]
Leader: Apple off the DRM hook?
Leader Though the French bill only awaits the signature of President Jacques Chirac before it officially becomes law, it has set off a debate across Europe on the role of government in regulating the sharing of digital materials on the internet. [03 Jul 2006]
Leader: Should we now doubt chip and PIN?
Leader But the stats suggest over-the-counter payments are more robustly protected by chip and PIN than by a signature, and typically present a more profitable target for fraudsters than cash point fraud. This week we've heard that chip and PIN payments... [09 May 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Customer service - an oxymoron?
Comment So finally the accounts people working for the supermarket were obliged to refund the payment in full, based on the company's own denial that we had placed an internet order and the complete absence of a genuine signature on a till receipt. [31 Jan 2006]
Simon Norbury
Q&A Opening 100-seat contact centre (CSi) in less than three months after contract signature. Name: Simon Norbury. Employer and official job title: City of Westminster - CSi Project Director and Head of ICT. [28 Jun 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: My run-in with the IT 'SS'
Comment It all culminated in a lot of gum sucking by them and the decision that I needed the head of the department's signature. The Institute of Directors, London, UK Like many parents of 18-year-olds living in the UK, I have spent the last few months... [09 Jun 2005]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: This is the way Nortel returns to the grand campaign
Comment Whether on TV, billboards, magazines, the web or even every employee's email signature, the telecoms equipment vendor employs the first four words. Many of you will have felt Nortel's current marketing push. [15 Dec 2004]
Minority Report: Apple, Google - and the power of rumour
Comment It is, as the signature of one poster states rather neatly, about "providing grist for the rumour mill". silicon.com is pleased to introduce Minority Report, a new column focused on Apple and other minority voices in IT by Seb Janacek. [03 Dec 2004]
silicon.com gets a UK biometric ID card
Comment For good measure there is a screen to sign an electronic signature on. After giving an electronic signature, volunteers will then be given a few minutes to fill out a questionnaire asking them about how they comfortable they felt using each of the... [12 Aug 2004]
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