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Outsourcing - how to make sure it's reliable
Comment It's not just air traffic control, intelligence or banking where reliability of IT systems is of such vital importance. Outsourced IT is of little value if it's not reliable. William Benn offers advice on how to make... [19 Oct 2009]
Chris Hyman
AS Profile The scale of Serco's expertise is reflected in the broad mix of services it provides, ranging from secure computer and software support to all 66 UK law enforcement agencies to traffic management systems covering more... [29 Sep 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment The Home Office's role in safeguarding national security means Vernon has oversight of the most high profile and controversial IT projects in the UK, ranging from organising IT security at the London 2012 Olympic Games to the Impact... [10 Jul 2009]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile Tech will play a major role in the group transformation programme led by Doran - with plans for a new integrated traffic management platform, which will bring together information management and signaling control... [02 Jun 2009]
Bangalore bashing: Recession gets nasty
Comment The buildings are ultra-modern but the roads leading to them are still filled with potholes and clogged with traffic. The latest symptom of the worldwide recession? The West becoming hostile towards Indian outsourcing... [28 May 2009]
Inbox: Underground safe from mobile chatter
Comment The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has attacked deep packet inspection (DPI), a technique used to monitor traffic on the internet and other communications networks. The weekly Inbox column collects... [23 Mar 2009]
The dawn of unified communications
Comment Cisco, ever keen to drive more traffic across the IP networks it has had so much success in selling, has also created its own UC division. Microsoft has been making inroads into the UC market with its Office... [19 Mar 2009]
Bangalore's brain gain
Comment The numbing noise, traffic and pollution have made Bangalore less liveable than when he left in the 1980s. In mid 2007, 20 years after he went to the US to work, Madan Moudgal made the journey back to Bangalore. [17 Mar 2009]
Mobile working needs a security rethink
Comment Traffic passing between the two zones is scanned to see if it is a threat - and blocked if it is. With employees working away from the office, at home, at client sites or simply on the road, Anthony Plewes wonders if... [16 Mar 2009]
Inbox: Let's plug the UK's notspots
Comment ISPs will have to provide greater transparency of service parameters and we users will need to prioritise our traffic for congestion management at peak periods. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most... [30 Jan 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.01.09
Round-Up After a day of feigned delight at yet another novelty jumper from Aunt Aggie, by Boxing Day most people had decided it was time to hit eBay: the most visited retail site on Boxing Day, with a 10.5 per cent share of UK... [09 Jan 2009]
Richard Thomas
AS Profile When he has not been demanding a shake-up of the way government handles public information, he's been speaking out against proposals to store all calls, internet and email traffic for 12 months - warning the government... [07 Oct 2008]
O2 on the rebirth of data, roaming and milking ADSL2+
Comment Our voice traffic grows something like 20 per cent per annum compound, year after year after year. silicon.com's Natasha Lomas visited O2's Slough HQ recently to catch up with the UK head of the operator, Ronan Dunne. [17 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment Conceived in a traffic jam on Interstate 80, written the next day in a coffee shop at Lake Tahoe CA and sent via a free wi-fi service. I can't remember the moment or place when my interest in science fiction was first... [28 Aug 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.08.08
Round-Up Either way, the video has gone viral and apparently attracted more than 20 times as much traffic as other video items on the site, which is a rather handy way of publicising it given it only launched last week, isn't it? [22 Aug 2008]
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