society in comment and analysis
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment The Nationwide Building Society reported that UK house prices have recorded their largest monthly fall since 1991 and have fallen by 2.5 per cent during May. Borrowers have moved from a mortgage feast to a famine so bad that the government has... [03 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk Readers were also busy commenting on the "ring of steel" automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera rollout in Manchester, while ID cards were a hot topic once again… [12 Jun 2008]
Ailsa Beaton
CIO Profile Away from work, she is heavily involved in developing professionalism benchmarks within the British Computer Society and is renovating a house in France, deep in the Pyrenees. Ailsa Beaton's career path to becoming IT chief at the Metropolitan... [11 Jun 2008]
Who sat in judgement...
Comment He is the National Outsourcing Association's offshoring director and a founding member of the British Computer Society's working party on offshoring, as well as a visiting lecturer at London's South Bank University and a business mentor for The... [03 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment But we don't seem to employ any significant resources when allocating national budgets to society's serious problems. Our only solution is to use our technology to gather accurate information and model the impact on society relative to all other... [28 May 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment In other words this is about society, not mere geography. Simply put the poorest members of society can't afford broadband because it is still a luxury. When broadband was first introduced in the UK in 2000, households in urban areas were the first... [23 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs
Comment That clearly has a price (in pounds) but the alternative price - a society in which we are all monitored, measured and checked by technological tools, is even less desirable. This is yet another step towards the "trust free, surveillance society". [15 May 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment The broadband society, botnets and the Russian Business Network were, as yet, largely unimagined dangers. Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware. What can be done to turn the tide, asks Simon... [29 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Unequal opportunities
Comment A few years ago the British Computer Society introduced an award for the woman IT leader of the year. From the outside, IT looks like an occupation for white males. From the inside, we know that to be true. [28 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment But it will take a lot more than a little facial hair, a baseball cap or a hoodie to conceal one's identity from today's intrusive society. Identity theft is rife. Perhaps it's time individuals took a leaf out of business's book and adopted a... [08 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment Changes in society brought about by technology always invoke challenges. The trick is to make change work for society and not against it. Radio was strictly LW, MW and SW. My oldest children can remember black-and-white TV but there were no colour... [26 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
Comment It has to be, as he has been charged with a root-and-branch rip-and-replace project for the building society. Subsequently, he has had extensive experience with multi-channel retailing at Argos, Boots and travel company Gold Medal Travel, before... [11 Mar 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Monday
Comment This was an event being held by the mobile operator body the GSM Association (GSMA), who may not be the Mighty Finn but they had promised to rustle up Viviane Reding - European Union commissioner for information society and media and witchfinder... [12 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Sunday
Comment In all, there are some 250+ conference speakers - from top-line CEOs on the keynote circuit, to celebs, to beardy analysts chairing worthy roundtables discussing mobile society. No, nothing to do with Valentine's Day but rather the date that ends... [10 Feb 2008]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment Ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable to have a society where bank cards had been replaced by iris identification, where passports were a thing of the past and school dinners were paid for using vein recognition. [23 Nov 2007]
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