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Preparing for Tomorrow's Threat Today: What We Can Learn from the History of Malware and Defenses
White Paper This white paper provides a history of earlier attacks and defenses, and points out the directions security professionals need to look to tomorrow. There is one given in the IT security realm and that is change. [03 Nov 2009]
Business in the 21st century: Stay tuned for brave new world
Comment Business thinkers have been telling us this for years but history shows us real change only comes when there is a clamour from the bottom up as well as leadership from the top down. It's easy to greet talk of change in... [11 Aug 2009]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment So why the extended history lesson, you might be asking. We've abseiled down buildings, walked the tracks of the London underground at 2am and this week headed into London's Victorian sewers, all to make sure you are... [24 Jul 2008]
Hillary Clinton talks tech
News No other communications medium in recent history has had such a profound impact as the internet on free expression, education, the proliferation of commerce and the exchange of political ideas. Iraq, immigration, taxes... [03 Jan 2008]
The rise of the 'Brics'
Comment This century really will be an era in which formerly developing nations become wealthy and dominant - and if you go back in history far enough then people such as the Chinese might argue they are just returning to their... [18 Dec 2007]
Intel tailors tablets for hospitals
News But they have to manually transfer the data to one of several rolling laptop PCs - referred to as COWs, or computers on wheels - so it can be captured in a patient's medical history file and made available to other doctors. [21 Feb 2007]
Brampton Factor: Don't get your hopes up for BT's 21CN
Comment The history of British Telecom (latterly BT) is an illustration of the discontents of contemporary society. What can we expect from BT's next-generation network? New IP services for cheap? Not so fast, says Martin Brampton. [17 Oct 2006]
The Evolution of RFID Networks: The Potential for Disruptive Innovation
White Paper This paper examines several key trends in the latest phase in RFID's history. RFID technology has generated much hype in the last few years. The major driver for its development has been the tagging of physical objects -... [19 May 2006]
Steve Jobs bans books in biography 'revenge'
News According to reports, the book that has Jobs up in arms is a biography called iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business, published by John Wiley and Sons, the firm behind the popular For Dummies... [27 Apr 2005]
Devil's Advocate: BT strikes out with 21CN
Comment Standards are never static, as the history of the internet shows. BT says it is going to build a 21st Century Network (21CN). Not before time, you might say. Still, the direction the company is taking is... [01 Mar 2005]
Telcos plan to run VoIP out of town
News There is a long and undistinguished history of powerful incumbents across business attempting to block disruptive technologies that threaten them. The traditional phone companies are trying to stifle innovation in... [08 Oct 2004]
AC Milan: The high-tech giants of European football
Comment So using its Brightstor, CleverPath and eTrust software CA set about designing the project which analyses almost any conceivable piece of player data - from injury and recovery history, through diet, performance and even... [27 Jan 2004]
Peter Cochrane’s Uncommon Sense: Medical records
Comment But looking back at the history of healthcare we can see that the biggest gains have actually arisen from the simplest of revolutions. Why is it that health services the world over seem incapable of digitally recording... [24 Jul 2003]
Microsoft Verdict: Can it really be over?
News Microsoft's five-year antitrust case may finally have reached its anticlimactic end, but not before it carved out its unique place in legal history and led many to believe it may never see a resolution. [04 Nov 2002]
Nasa joins 21st century
News US space agency Nasa is using IBM technology to bring its scientists into the 21st century and banish the marker pen and flip chart to the annals of history. IBM has developed extra large touch-screen... [05 Jun 2002]