work force in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up According to reports, such a law would force ISPs to warn, then disconnect, those customers they think have been sharing copyrighted material online. And yet for those working in the glass citadels in the City it might prove a bit stressful - it... [11 Jul 2008]
The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
Comment The Met spends around £300m per year on IT - most of it outsourced through a seven-year deal with Capgemini - and the force's technology supports just over 50,000 Met employees and includes just under 30,000 desktops, which are in the process of... [02 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: The skills drain needs fixing
Comment Lloyds TSB is depreciating the value of its people and I have serious doubts about how its strategy could possibly lead to the organisation becoming a leading-edge technical force in its field. Shipping IT work overseas is not just bad for those... [27 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up Regrettably it had nothing to do with UK plc urging spontaneous holidays for the entire work force but everything to do with National Work from Home day swinging around again, much to the chagrin of public transport companies. [16 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment New UK Banking Code is now in force. Defining reasonable care and allowing for genuine technical failures or inadvertent security breaches - particularly if the customer is banking on a work or public PC - will certainly test its application. [15 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up The poster says: "Smith & Brown intend acquiring by force the fingerprints of innocent people. Work in IT? Wanted: fingerprints of one unkempt, jowly, harassed-looking Scottish gentleman. Reward: £1,000. [11 Apr 2008]
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment From studying several leading-edge companies and helping dozens of others improve their IT organisations, the answer is a structure that captures the benefits of both centralisation and decentralisation but does not force management to choose one... [09 Apr 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Open source 'brotherhood' closed to co-operation
Comment Open source has become a powerful force. These factors are different from the motivators for people who work on open information projects, such as Wikipedia, whose primary driver appears to be altruism. [03 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment Look at the UK work force for further proof! Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.e-cops Businesses may be forced to pay for e-crime police [20 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
Comment Cutts is certainly no wallflower - it's obvious that his force of character has helped to drive fundamental changes through an organisation that is used to doing things the traditional way. As a result the company found it needed to do a... [11 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up The government said it was still planning to force foreign nationals living in Britain to register their biometric details on the National Identity Register and carry an ID card by the end of the year. [07 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment Had I filed early I would not have been able to take advantage of a court ruling that came into force on the 12 December one year. I have to work for the tax money the government wrestles off me. So people want a solution for their existing... [07 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.12.07
Round-Up Actually, Newton's third law states: "For every force acting on an object, the object will exert an equal, yet opposite, force on its cause", proving that while he might have been a whiz with physics, he was a bit rubbish with sound bytes. [07 Dec 2007]
Leader: UK should make hay while MiFID sun shines
Leader The European investment banking regulation that came into force today is aimed at making financial trading across borders easier and fairer by, among other things, promoting best execution for trades and improved record keeping. [01 Nov 2007]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile And in the past month or so, salesforce.com launched a new SaaS CRM platform called Force.com, which makes it easier for businesses to develop their own apps, including the ability to create customer user interfaces for any device with web access. [12 Oct 2007]
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