information society
Make haste with the analogue-digital switch, urges EC
News Viviane Reding, information society and media commissioner for the EC, said she wants EU countries to have made the move by 2012. The European Commission has called for EU members to speed their... [30 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News Apparently so, according to David Wall, professor of criminal justice and information society at the University of Leeds. In the early days a lot of the scareware was a smokescreen for a lot of phishing... [19 Oct 2009]
Trend Micro Boosts Subscription Renewals 8.4% With Extended Validation SSL Certificates
White Paper With its vision of providing "A world where it is absolutely safe to exchange digital information," Trend Micro provides a range of antivirus and other network security products to protect society from... [19 Sep 2009]
Exploiting Cryptography for Privacy-Enhanced Access Control: A Result of the PRIME Project
White Paper The EC-funded project PRIME (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe) envisions that individuals will be able to interact in this information society in a secure and safe way while retaining control... [16 Sep 2009]
How green credentials are shaping IT contracts
Comment Green IT' is now a recognised aspect of working and buying in the sector, illustrated by the fact the British Computing Society is in the process of launching its Green IT Qualification. However with green issues... [10 Sep 2009]
Douglas Coupland: "To say the machines have won over people, is like saying people won over people..."
Comment Douglas Coupland has been a keen observer of technology's impact on society for almost two decades. Through novels such as Microserfs, which charts the progress of Microsoft employees during the mid-1990s, and JPod,... [08 Sep 2009]
Google seeks to appease Europe with digital books copyright deal
News On the first day of the events, Viviane Reding, the EU's commissioner for information society and media, and Charlie McCreevy, commissioner for the bloc's internal market, said in a joint statement "it... [08 Sep 2009]
Fujitsu Case Study: RED.ES
White Paper The Spanish National Observatory of Telecommunications and the Information Society (ONTSI), part of the public organisation red.es within the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, is responsible... [01 Sep 2009]
Committed to the Climate Change Debate?: In the Turmoil of a Global Financial Crisis, Does Society Still Have the Will - And Does It Still Make Sense - To Keep Steering Towards a Low-Carbon Future?
White Paper The backend requires the simplification.integration, streamlining and automation of complex information workflows - where the heavy lifting of service delivery occurs - which is increasingly difficult with multiple... [30 Aug 2009]
A Visual Data Mining Methodology to Conduct Seismic Facies Analysis: Part 2 - Application to 3D Seismic Data
White Paper The unsupervised clustering analysis is completely data-driven, requiring no external information e.g.well logs to guide the seismic-trace classification. A visual data-mining approach to unsupervised clustering analysis... [29 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.08.09
Round-Up Given the chance they would probably have taken screengrabs of the blue rectangles on their smartphones, uploaded them to the web, blogged about them then spent a few minutes re-tweeting the blog URL on Twitter while IMing their friends... [28 Aug 2009]
Future of the NHS: Medical records online could transform healthcare
News The amount of healthcare information available online will only increase as society becomes tech savvy, according to Frances Blunden, senior policy manager with the NHS Confederation, the membership body... [21 Aug 2009]
The Economic Impact of Broadband in Developing Nations: Best Practices Enable Developing Nations to Reap Economic Benefits of Broadband
White Paper Broadband networks are an increasingly essential part of the global information society, enabling overall economic growth, and creating new jobs, fostering innovation and enhancing national competitiveness. [05 Aug 2009]
eLENS: The Emergent Law Enforcement Network Security Initiative - Bridging the Gaps in eCrime Data Sharing
White Paper As the Internet provides the communication artery for government, commerce, and society, threats and crimes leveraging Internet infrastructure cannot be ignored; the effectiveness of legal proceedings must be increased;... [14 Jul 2009]
Memory Management of Density-Based Spam Detector
White Paper The volume of mass unsolicited electronic mail, often known as spam, has recently increased enormously and has become a serious threat to not only the Internet but also to society. A new spam detection method which uses... [01 Jul 2009]
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