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Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Video: How to manage tech complexity ¦ Photos: Beijing Olympics 2008 - tech keeping the games on track ¦ Video: Tackling security threats ...

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Tech Futures: The talkification of the web

Comment One-touch calling from your MySpace page is already available, and Facebook developers have integrated voice application features for community users that want to post calls for friends to track. Now it's the turn of telecoms, argues Howard...

Tags: internet, comms, voice

[01 May 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment As the mobile phone continues on its evolutionary path away from humble communications unit to converged device and emerging platform, the companies best suited to take it forward may well be those with a track record in developing applications...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

Centralised or decentralised IT?

Comment They help the business prioritise IT investments and track their progress. That's the stark choice CIOs have struggled with for years. But McKinsey's Diogo Rau has an alternative approach. IT departments have struggled for decades with the...

Tags: centralisation, software, development

[09 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08

Round-Up The Seattle company was particularly keen to underline its commitment to reliability and security after taking a hammering from users and the industry for its track record in both areas. Trustworthy computing.

Tags: facebook, ebay, sp1, vista

[22 Feb 2008]

Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation

Comment If you track back two or three years ago and the whole of the UK was on half meg [Mb] I would say that's not sufficient. Mary Turner heads up the operations of ISP Tiscali UK, occupying the CEO's chair since September 2003.

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, tiscali, talking

[21 Feb 2008]

How fans can grab a slice of the music pie

Comment Artists walk away [from the scout room] with typically around 150 reviews from music fans per track. We can mathematically demonstrate from real data from our scout rooms that if you have 40 reviews per track in a scout room, the score that every...

Tags: music, web 2.0, industry, web

[18 Feb 2008]

Indian IT outsourcers look ahead

Comment Ahead of the Leadership Forum, Nasscom released figures showing an expected 33 per cent growth in IT sector sales for the Indian industry to the end of March, to a total of $52bn - $40bn from exports of software and outsourcing services - and...

Tags: nasscom, india, outsourcing, offshore

[14 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com...Naked CIO, silver skills and ID card anger…

Comment However, my biggest issue is that given its appalling IT track record, I have no confidence this government can implement such a scheme on time and/or budget. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech...

Tags: id cards, recruitment, jobs, views

[14 Feb 2008]

Systems management hits impasse

Comment Most organisations can track the health and performance of components at granular levels. Systems management is at a dead end. Organisations need a more coherent view - and one that has business meaning, says Martin Atherton of Freeform Dynamics.

Tags: management, systems, it services, monitoring

[13 Feb 2008]

The Naked CIO: Recruitment nightmares

Comment If that weren't bad enough, measured against some fairly basic requirements their track-records generally rank as dismal. Lying on CVs, exaggerated skills and inflated egos are the petty recruitment problems facing our embattled CIO, newly arrived...

Tags: recruitment, candidates, interviews, skills

[11 Feb 2008]

Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple

Comment Not bad going for a company with no track record in mobile phone devices. Few would dispute that Apple has had a remarkable year. But Seb Janacek goes further. He predicts that in 10 years people will look back at 2007 as a seminal year in the...

Tags: apple, mac, jobs, iphone

[21 Dec 2007]

Niklas Zennström

AS Profile Before Skype, Zennström founded P2P software firm Joltid, and file-sharing software company Kazaa - which means he's got a track record that should have competitors quivering in their boots. Niklas Zennström may have sold Skype to eBay in 2005 but...

[12 Oct 2007]

Open season

AS Analysis Coming in at number 39 on this year's list Perens has spent the past year keeping the Open Source Initiative on track and pulling together everyone else's work, according to the panel. Figures from the open source community have commanded regular...

[12 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com news editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: High-tech London St Pancras on track ¦ UK passports face massive price hike ¦ Location, location, location.¦ Can retail old dog...

Tags: bt, wi-fi, fon

[11 Oct 2007]

Location, location, location...

Comment This, combined with the growing use of RFID tagging and GPS technologies to track business assets and events in real time, means that understanding the value and impact of location on business performance has never been more important.

Tags: gps, mapping, lbs, rfid

[09 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...

Comment As we saw with yesterday's announcments on phone records, this government wants to track and record every aspect of our lives, and hand it out to almost anyone who asks, all in the name of anti-terrorism and anti-crime.

[04 Oct 2007]

Bigger is not always better

Comment Banks have always preferred large vendors, those with significant balance sheets and long track records serving the financial services industry. Ralph Silva explains how this could be stifling the innovation they need to stay competitive.

Tags: mifid, basel ii, sepa, banks

[02 Oct 2007]

Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Comment In this exclusive interview with silicon.com, Tesco group IT director Colin Cobain - just crowned CIO of the year at the CNET Networks UK Business Technology Awards 2007 - talks about the supermarket giant's move to standard global systems, green...

Tags: colin cobain, tesco

[25 Sep 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Don't mess with mobile users

Comment But its sales figures, the unseemly scramble by every other mobile device producer to copy the concepts, and the amount of ballyhoo and criticism it has generated clearly show it is on the right track.

Tags: mobile, iphone

[07 Sep 2007]

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