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Your data in their hands - DoH!
Comment For followers of New Labour, today's revelation that the Department of Health is set on grabbing patient information comes as no surprise. Next to the RIP bill, and the news before Christmas that the National Criminal Intelligence Service wants to... [25 Jan 2001]
Web caching and the law: defending the EC legislators
Comment Silicon.com's recent articles on Web caching expose the conflict between copyright protection on the one hand, and liability for illegal material on the other. There are, in fact, two pieces of draft legislation before the European Parliament: one... [25 Feb 1999]
A little give and take: the troubled marriages of VC and entrepreneurs
Comment In June, dot-com incubator eSouk became one of the latest web-related ventures to admit things aren't entirely rosy on the investment front. The first signs of trouble appeared when one of its flagship investments, news website Netimperative, threw... [12 Sep 2000]
Model Management: trouble at the top
Comment Warren Bennis and James O'Toole, based at the University of Southern California, point out that the turnover of CEOs is accelerating. A new term has entered the business lexicon. CEO churning" refers to the unseemly speed with which many chief... [11 Dec 2000]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Branching out
Comment The computing devices used in branches are often very specialised - point of sales (POS) terminals in stores or cashpoints (ATMs to some readers) in banks and so on. Branch offices of large organisations - whether retail chains, banks or government... [30 Jun 2005]
Leader: Microsoft too popular for our own good
Leader It's a good - if highly contentious - point. Symantec's CEO offered an interesting defence of Microsoft this week.and even managed to sound like he was putting the boot in while he did it. John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, likened virus writers to... [02 Jun 2004]
Devil's Advocate: "I can't believe these 3G apologists..."
Comment Are you allowed to go back a few years later, point out that the housing market has fallen, your finances have worsened, and ask for some of the money back? The 3G licence auctions have been blamed for many telcos' woes, the general tech downturn... [25 Jun 2002]
Giving gadget thieves the finger - biometric security moves on
Comment This means that no provider of credit cards, point-of-sale equipment, phones or computers is likely to commit to integrating a certain type of biometric technology in millions of devices until there are assurances that there won't be a general... [09 Jul 2003]
FriendsReunited and the free speech debate
Comment People will, rightly, point to instances of lynch mob style reactions to rumours and hearsay, especially where child abuse is concerned - that suggest FriendsReunited.co.uk did the right thing in removing the controversial message boards. [14 Nov 2001]
Editor's blog: What your identity is worth
Comment Write to your MP and demand changes to the law - point them at the information we've collected about US laws which could help in these situations. I always thought the cliche 'like looking for a needle in a haystack' was in need of a 21st century... [05 Dec 2007]
At sea over convergence?
Comment Point solutions that address specific cost pain-points will always be a win with the finance department but can make life more complicated for the individual user if they have to pick and choose the right or cheapest solution for each situation. [21 Sep 2007]
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