paul coby british airways

BlackBerry PDF flaw puts business networks at risk

News Paul Coby British Airways RIM is warning businesses to disable the function that allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until an update can be issued, after a security flaw was found in the company's software. [17 Jul 2008]

UK failing to respect computing heritage

News Paul Coby British Airways IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing heritage following the mothballing of the Museum of Computing in Swindon.silicon.com asked a number of CIOs whether the UK made the... [15 Jul 2008]

BA launches iPhone app for frequent flyers

News Paul Coby, CIO British Airways, BA said in a statement: "The iPhone is revolutionising mobile communications and allows us to provide instant access to arrivals and departures information which will enhance the experience of travelling with BA. [11 Jul 2008]

Microsoft readies online apps for business

News Paul Coby British Airways Microsoft announced its road map and pricing for web-based software suites built for big companies and growing businesses. Enabling telecommuting, which many employers and workers increasingly favour, is likely to be a... [09 Jul 2008]

Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash

Comment Paul Coby British Airways Borrowers have moved from a mortgage feast to a famine so bad that the government has stepped in with a £50bn support package. But there's a better way to ease the situation, argues Steve Boyle. [03 Jul 2008]

Hardware defies economic gloom

News Paul Coby British Airways Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for... [02 Jul 2008]

The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader?

Comment Paul Coby British Airways Climbing the greasy pole as a CIO depends on certain key factors. These are important for reaching the very top and indispensable for avoiding a rapid return to earth, says the Naked CIO. [30 Jun 2008]

Nationwide hands network reins to BT

News Paul Coby British Airways Nationwide Building Society has signed a seven-year £160m deal with BT to outsource the management of its networked IT services. The contract will see Nationwide's voice and data network infrastructure and existing third... [30 Jun 2008]

Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices

News Paul Coby British Airways The ability of virtualisation technology to free software from the underlying hardware could give more companies the option to allow employees to choose and run their own devices at work, according to analysts. [30 Jun 2008]

Yahoo! has a reshuffle at the top

News Paul Coby British Airways Yahoo! under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management yesterday in a plan designed to improve its products, underlying technology and operational execution, the company said. [27 Jun 2008]

Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules

News Paul Coby British Airways Paul Twomey, the chief executive of Icann, told the BBC earlier this week that allowing the new naming conventions would create new "real estate" on the internet. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers... [27 Jun 2008]

Need for "radical change" in gov't data handling

News Paul Coby British Airways Justice minister Michael Wills has called for a root-and-branch change in how the government handles citizen data. Wills told the House of Lords Constitution Committee on Wednesday that government should treat data... [26 Jun 2008]

Oracle pumps up prices, BEA takes the hit

News Paul Coby British Airways Oracle's latest price list for its growing portfolio of applications software contains significant increases across the range, and a particularly large price rise for its BEA software. [24 Jun 2008]

MI5 seeking changeable techies

News Paul Coby British Airways Psst! MI5 is on the hunt for techies with killer design skills. The UK's security intelligence agency is looking to recruit enthusiastic IT architects to work in Central London with experience in "IT solutions design" for... [23 Jun 2008]

Revealed: What students think of tech work

News Paul Coby British Airways Mike Rodd, director of industry body the British Computer Society (BCS) Learned Society, which is driving an outreach campaign to schools to improve IT's image, said in a statement: "Greater exposure of young people to the... [23 Jun 2008]

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