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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08

Round-Up Officials believe it was norovirus, a particularly nasty type of virus that spread by touching dirty surfaces. Office workers across the UK were urged to stay at home yesterday. Regrettably it had nothing to do with UK plc urging spontaneous...

Tags: google sky, amd, apple, work wise

[16 May 2008]

What governance can really mean to business

Comment It's just that the goodness was never spread further than was absolutely necessary to meet a given compliance mandate. New research suggests there are signs it is finally taking centre stage in many progressive businesses, says Martin Atherton.

Tags: risk, data management, compliance, governance

[28 Mar 2008]

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

Comment Culture secretary Andy Burnham clearly thinks the spread of online piracy dangerously undermines the entertainment industries and dilutes the value of copyright law. Politicians are threatening ISPs with penalties if illegal downloading doesn't stop.

Tags: law, isps, downloads, piracy

[22 Feb 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?

Comment Microsoft played a significant role in the spread of the PC to the point of near ubiquity. Despite the rhetoric, most large firms are simply poor at innovating. Microsoft is no exception and its bid for Yahoo!

Tags: innovation, yahoo!, mergers, microsoft

[20 Feb 2008]

Systems management hits impasse

Comment Research shows that the legacy of fragmentation at the systems management level is almost universal and consistent, not just for those that spread their investments across numerous different IT vendors.

Tags: management, systems, it services, monitoring

[13 Feb 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday

Comment Alphabet soups of acronyms do nothing to endear the customer to the industry, he tells us, and merely spread confusion's pestilence which is, of course, terrible for business. Long tails. I arrive at the Fira early to struggle through the be-suited...

Tags: mobile world congress, china, john, talk

[13 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... cashless concerns, battle of the OSes, iPhone fans...

Comment The point is that it can be split into smaller denominations and spread around the person. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech...

Tags: os, governement, pm, iphone

[15 Nov 2007]

Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...

Comment So not far from his idea, but could do with being a bit more plug and play and user friendly for the average home user before we see wide spread use. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week?

Tags: skills, vista, mobile

[25 Oct 2007]

Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world

Comment The many schemes pioneered by Western tech powers to spread hardware and software into emerging markets appear to be well-meaning. But what are the deeper motives - and the best approaches? Martin Brampton takes a closer look.

Tags: intel, microsoft, developing countries, olpc

[17 Jul 2007]

IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'

IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'

Comment They can become contradictory, especially when spread across different regions. Handling compliance and risk have become inescapable elements of the modern CIO's role as they strive to ensure the business can forge ahead while not exposing areas of...

Tags: paypal, risk management, risk

[02 Jul 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The power of analogy - or not

Comment But in my search for something more basic I came up with an alternative that I would like to try on you the readership as you represent a very wide spread of capability and understanding. Written on BA217 flying London to Washington and dispatched...

[09 May 2007]

Editor's Blog: Confusing communications?

Comment Now, we could take numerous examples of the above, say Nokia, Orange and Google, and we see companies that have spread themselves far and wide. Years ago, when I used to call someone for the first time from silicon.com and had to explain what we do...

Tags: blackberry, mobiles on planes, business travel

[18 Apr 2007]

Do you know what's happening on your network?

Do you know what's happening on your network?

Comment Day said: "Now it's more about manual infection or self infection and pretty slow spread rates. Corporate networks have become vast and complex beasts on which staff waste time and criminal activity takes place.

Tags: tv piracy, mpaa, data security, piracy

[28 Mar 2007]

Why don't we talk anymore?

Comment So many companies now outsource, or have departments spread all over the world. Sometimes it's hard enough to get small teams working together. How can you encourage communication across a company's business units?

Tags: inter-departmental communication, joined-up enterprise, crm

[06 Mar 2007]

3GSM Diary, day 4: Mobile's future killer apps?

Comment Other health-focused initiatives debuting at the show have included a $10m public private partnership to fight diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis in Africa, with health workers equipped with mobiles to map disease spread.

Tags: 3gsm

[15 Feb 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: My Christmas wish list

Comment So you could help us make it all cheaper, more energy efficient and if you could help spread it around more liberally, who knows. It may have been my proximity to Lapland and the trees and lights around Helsinki but it seems about the right time to...

Tags: mobile phone, battery, battery life, energy crisis

[20 Dec 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: A crack in the wi-fi stupidity dam?

Comment It's starting out with airports, so when you find a good wi-fi hotspot at an airport you can let everyone know about it and we can help spread the thaw! Something magical has started to happen. EU countries seem to have started a wi-fi thaw.

Tags: atlarge.com, wi-fi

[05 Dec 2006]

Can you trust what you read online?

Comment He said: "There is a great danger that it becomes a place where untruths start to spread more than truths, or it becomes a place which becomes increasingly unfair in some way. As the web matures, it is becoming less and less trusted as a source of...

Tags: tim berners-lee, internet security, phishing, blogs

[08 Nov 2006]

Confessions of a CrackBerry addict

Comment So if I'm hooked on the practicalities of the 'BlackBerry lifestyle', what gives me cause for concern is the pervasive spread of such devices among a new generation of young people who are already hooked on other forms of consumer technology, such...

Tags: blackberry

[14 Sep 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Laptop error

Comment The moral of this story is obvious: always spread out your purchases to avoid correlated and concatenated failures in the future. Written in a coffee shop in Seoul and despatched to silicon.com via a really fast, and I mean really fast hotel...

Tags: laptop batteries, laptop

[04 Sep 2006]

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