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Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Zahl Limbuwala, chair of the British Computer Society datacentre specialist group says some of the coolness towards virtualisation is down to the economic downturn making any new IT projects harder to execute. [20 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Linking up with Barack Obama?
Comment We have seen industry and society transformed by technology with government generally out on a limb at the back of the pack. If politicians start to use online social networking in the same way as the rest of... [05 Oct 2009]
Duncan Watts
AS Profile As both pioneer and evangelist for network theory, Watts has helped to change our conceptions of society, according to one panellist. Columbia University sociology professor Duncan Watts is also principal research... [29 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile Yet another dubbed it "a truly disruptive technology", adding it "could impact and change many areas of business, society, politics, economics etc". It's been a spectacular year for Twitter, the microblogging site that... [29 Sep 2009]
Minority Report: The Snow Leopard Appreciation Society
Comment Apple's latest OS doesn't aim to wow with a host of new features: it's the little things that count, says Seb Janacek A lot has been written about Snow Leopard since its release two weeks ago: but maybe the best way of describing Apple's... [16 Sep 2009]
How green credentials are shaping IT contracts
Comment Green IT' is now a recognised aspect of working and buying in the sector, illustrated by the fact the British Computing Society is in the process of launching its Green IT Qualification. However with green issues... [10 Sep 2009]
Douglas Coupland: "To say the machines have won over people, is like saying people won over people..."
Comment Through novels such as Microserfs, which charts the progress of Microsoft employees during the mid-1990s, and JPod, which tells a parallel tale of computer game developers in thrall to Google a decade later, he has consistently... [08 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.08.09
Round-Up Given the chance they would probably have taken screengrabs of the blue rectangles on their smartphones, uploaded them to the web, blogged about them then spent a few minutes re-tweeting the blog URL on Twitter while IMing their friends... [28 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Who accepts my social networking invites?
Comment The implications for industry and society, however, aren't obvious, and I have no demographic relating to age, occupation or other factors. Compiled at my home early one morning when I just couldn't sleep, and dispatched... [05 Aug 2009]
Inspire creativity at the office - here's how
Comment Random Walk theory is a funny little idea drawn from the study of complex systems like flocks of birds, politics, even society itself. The 21st century office needs to inspire creativity more than mere productivity. [28 Jul 2009]
On a new Voyager, tackling fraud and the intellectual challenge
Comment Stafford said resourcing is another concern specific to the recession: "To ensure we maintain the Society's position within the market, we've had to scale up quickly to deliver more projects. The financial sector is... [06 Jul 2009]
Why Carter's putting business on the back burner
Comment And government should concern itself with ensuring transformational change does not exclude society's margins. Natasha Lomas asks: so what about businesses? During a half-hour question and answer session at the launch of... [19 Jun 2009]
Real-world business intelligence
Comment Like so many financial services companies, UK building society Bradford & Bingley has been making headlines recently. How can business intelligence help your organisation? Andrew Donoghue speaks to three very different... [05 Jun 2009]
Steve Palmer
CIO Profile Palmer is the 2009/10 president of Socitm, as well as a Chartered Information Technology Practitioner and fellow of the British Computer Society. Steve Palmer was named in the CIO50 in its inaugural year in 2007 for his... [03 Jun 2009]
Peter Birley
CIO Profile He is a fellow of the Institution of Analyst and Programmers, and a fellow and Chartered IT Professional with the British Computer Society. Peter Birley has been director of IT and business operations for law firm Browne... [03 Jun 2009]
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