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Is BlackBerry taking a leaf out of Apple's book?
Comment Though it has never been entirely clear whether the Storm moniker is merely an alternative nickname for the BlackBerry Bold - a bona fide, true blue BlackBerry - or whether it refers to an altogether new type of RIM smart phone: a touchscreen device. [14 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Why boards get IT spend so wrong
Comment Nevertheless, infrastructure projects represent wasted spending in the eyes of a boardroom where most do not understand the impact of this type of initiative. But come up with a hare-brained scheme and boards fall over themselves, says the Naked CIO. [11 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Service level disagreements
Comment The difficulty with this type of agreement is getting external vendors to agree to risk elements that are hardly ever covered by their business model and the complexity of identifying multiple degrees and indicators of service that is often... [07 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment They have all expressed the opinion that they will happily move to any other type of company as long as the pay cut isn't too severe. The games industry is the latest to suffer the dreaded skills gap - but who's to blame? [27 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Business misintelligence
Comment Business rules define how data should relate and what type of analysis should be driven by any business intelligence system. I have just been asked to talk at a conference about what not to do when implementing a business intelligence platform. [16 Jun 2008]
Where will the Silicon Dragon swoop next?
Comment One of the things is that the Chinese government is going to have a Nasdaq-type exchange for listings, so that will help propel things quite a lot. But how much further can the country go? Sino-tech expert Rebecca Fannin gives Steve Ranger the... [03 Jun 2008]
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... [16 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...
Comment And Moore-type laws seem to apply to data storage and everything else, and always the time to double gets shorter year on year. Written in a coffee shop in Ipswich UK and dispatched via a company wi-fi service. [14 May 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill
Comment Now Microsoft prints the code in rather small type, and insists that it be stuck on the machine. Software piracy may well be a very bad thing. But does it justify inflicting misery on legitimate software buyers, asks Martin Brampton. [07 May 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment Today, I look at my slide deck from Milan and see that we have entire internet relay chat networks controlled by the criminal underground economy, that cyber crime could be almost as big as the value of the global illegal drug trade - no one... [29 Apr 2008]
Naked CIO: The true cost of IT
Comment Cost-based models drive a wedge between business and IT and this type of services-based arrangement makes business alignment more difficult. It's all very well trying to put price tags on everything the IT department does. [21 Apr 2008]
The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML
Comment The most obvious one is that a perfectly good ISO standard for storing office type documents in XML format already exists in ODF (OpenDocument Format). Cooler heads have wisely prevailed, argues Dale Vile of Freeform Dynamics. [04 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Offshore - or off their trolley?
Comment I just believe it to be true and view a move towards any type of managed service to be against the best interests of my company. Is our embattled hero right to take a stand on the issue or should he meekly submit? [10 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up The Round-Up, being the impressionable type, believes anything published on the internet. Are you worried that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will render your precious applications unusable? Well you shouldn't be. [07 Mar 2008]
LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking
Comment The type of thing I'm describing to you, you can't do it on Facebook. Online business network, LinkedIn has almost 20 million members worldwide and recently opened its European office in London. During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its... [28 Feb 2008]
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