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Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…

Comment I just remember having to get the volume absolutely right for the games to load! Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the winner, while some were a little miffed their favourite didn't feature on the poll… And from old computers to...

Tags: mac, zx spectrum, rfid

[24 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays

Comment Never before in the history of mankind has so much processing been deployed to do such simple jobs as switching on a light, changing channels, increasing volume, adjusting temperature or opening a car door.

Tags: operating systems, software, design

[16 Apr 2008]

FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

Comment That of course is related to the nature of the cyber threat, the volume and the intensity is relatively new to us and everybody else. By volume and the economic impact they are right up there. The cyber division is one of the faster growing...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …

Comment A bit like the captain of a sinking ship who, instead of doing something that might stop the ship sinking, sets up a system whereby the people who don't have so much water in their cabins can sell the empty volume to those that do, while giving...

Tags: green it, flight, mobile, open source

[27 Mar 2008]

How to detect data leaks

Comment Ever-increasing email attachment file sizes and multi-gigabyte removable storage is driving an alarming increase in the volume of data leaking from companies. Data leaks are a growing problem. Yet most firms don't know how sensitive data is getting...

Tags: security, data protection, data leaks, comply

[19 Mar 2008]

Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation

Comment But I think the next phase of internet is the volume - i.e.the bandwidth. Mary Turner heads up the operations of ISP Tiscali UK, occupying the CEO's chair since September 2003. Her background is in retail and Turner originally trained as an...

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, tiscali, talking

[21 Feb 2008]

Q&A: Pen Hadow, explorer

Comment There's phenomenal volume - essentially between 10 and 20 million [ice] cross profiles. A three-strong team of explorers will set out early next year to spend several months trekking across the Arctic ice, gathering data they hope will enable...

Tags: arctic, pen hadow, vanco, climate change

[21 Jan 2008]

Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam

Comment The modern spammer is either a member of an organised criminal gang or works for one, and he relies on the gullibility of consumers and sheer volume to sell his wares. For a three-month period in 2007, according to filtering company Ironport, the...

Tags: spam, filtering, botnets, security

[10 Dec 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 07.12.07

Round-Up Well, the removal of volume licence keys - which allow business to activate an unlimited amount of machines - is one reason, apparently. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction," quipped Sir Isaac Newton in a quiet moment while...

Tags: hmrc, sp3, security, vista

[07 Dec 2007]

Dear silicon.com... Vista uptake… HMRC blunder… iPhone too cool or too costly?

Comment Just because Microsoft says that Vista purchases are increasing, companies like ourselves with volume licencing agreements are buying Vista OEM licences with new machines, but are downgrading these to XP - so these figures don't mean that much.

Tags: vista, iphone, hmrc, microsoft

[29 Nov 2007]

Malware: From bedroom to boardroom

Comment Unsurprisingly, they had an immediate and devastating impact on spam levels and in 2003 the volume of spam surpassed legitimate email for the first time, according to anti-spam company Brightmail. Botnets represent the volume business in the world...

Tags: security, botnets, trojans, viruses

[19 Nov 2007]

Hot issue for green IT

Comment This approach reduces the volume of air needing to be cooled and maximises its cooling effect. Additional fans can spot-cool high-temperature components but this is very wasteful because it means most of the air is only cooling the volume of the...

Tags: green, energy, cooling, data centre

[14 Nov 2007]

Dear silicon.com... in defence of Leopard, trash talk, iWant iPhone, lost data...

Comment It is light but high volume. 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 news and views on the site.

Tags: iphone, leopard, lost data, apple

[08 Nov 2007]

Tech Visions: TV extends its reach

Comment But also consider traffic cameras, typically very expensive, but in limited volume, requiring expensive T1 lines going to the camera. The power of broadcasters to dictate what you watch and when is waning.

Tags: digital media, mobile tv, slingbox, internet video

[24 Oct 2007]

Escape the data management minefield

Comment This increased volume of data coupled with a growing pressure to share services is simply part of the joined-up government ethos. The public sector's data management is looking increasingly like Swiss cheese - full of holes.

[13 Sep 2007]

The CIO revolution in public sector IT: The next phase

Comment Trust in that leadership is based on their ability to deliver the 'daily miracle', as one public sector CIO calls it, of mission-critical, high-reliability, large-volume and very visible IT services to the public sector.

Tags: varney, transformation, public sector, cio

[31 Aug 2007]

Minority Report: Macs gaining enterprise cred

Comment The key question is whether Apple is interested in competing in the high-volume, low-margin enterprise market. Two years is a long time in the tech world. Back in 2005 silicon.com asked its CIO Jury, a group of senior technology and business...

Tags: cios, windows vista, mac os x, apple

[19 Jul 2007]

BI for all

Comment Not only is the volume of data growing at an exponential rate but the diversity of data is also increasing. Changes are afoot in the business intelligence market as vendors aim to accommodate all types of users and companies.

Tags: sas, business objects, cognos, microsoft

[18 Jul 2007]

Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world

Comment Of course, reducing piracy might actually produce a negligible volume of additional sales. But what are the deeper motives - and the best approaches? Martin Brampton takes a closer look. Suddenly activity is heating up to provide low-cost computing...

Tags: intel, microsoft, developing countries, olpc

[17 Jul 2007]

Speeding up the net - is it possible?

Comment This could provide seemingly unlimited bandwidth for your employees to use the applications they like and not have to think twice about the volume of content they send around the network. At some point all organisations need to send and receive...

Tags: public internet, vpn, wan

[09 Jul 2007]

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