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How One.tel UK refused to die
Comment Within 48 hours of the Australian company going into administration, the UK subsidiary's chief executive, Chris Weston, took charge of the situation. It was a month after its Australian parent had been sentenced to death... [10 Jul 2001]
The Ovum View: Colt bondholders bite back
Comment The recent announcement by Colt's bondholder, Highberry Limited, to apply to have telco Colt put into administration came as a shock to many. Well this means it would be at the head of the queue for payment if Colt were... [20 Nov 2002]
Transatlantic Cable : Could the Cult of the Dead Cow be your friends?
Comment In case you aren't familiar with it, Back Orifice is a program that allows a computer to be controlled over the Internet.cDc describes it as a "remote administration system", but that's only the tip of the iceberg. [14 Jul 1999]
Analysis: Why the EC stayed its Microsoft ruling
Comment A Commission spokesperson later said that the unusual gesture was intended to facilitate the "proper administration of justice". This is not exactly in the interests of the "proper administration of... [09 Jul 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Company plagues
Comment Soon the original vision, mission and purpose of the company, as defined by the founders, are lost and subsumed into a sea of administration. Everyone is there to support an administration that has... [03 Jun 2004]
Why Tony Blair must catch the bug
Comment For whatever reason, the Tory administration decided that Taskforce 2000 had outlived its usefulness. The tide of time may be unstoppable, but the Blair administration should never want to stand accused... [12 Nov 1998]
Devil's Advocate: It's simple innit?
Comment There may well be situations when the bearer of access rights is another website, or a centralised administration server. The data needed to define access permissions that can easily be stored in a couple of database... [10 Jan 2006]
The Bloor Perspective: Cyber warfare, call centre futures and M&A today
Comment Though busy with preparation for other forms of warfare, President Bush appears to have found time to ask officials and members of his administration to draw up 'rules of engagement' to govern cyber warfare. [17 Feb 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Open source for government
Comment The government regularly claims it will reduce the cost of administration through the use of IT. Despite the UK government's reluctance to embrace open source, Martin Brampton points out the many ways they're suited to... [21 Feb 2006]
Leader: The beginning of the end for 419 scams?
Leader There can't be an internet user out there who hasn't been contacted by Lady Mariam Abacha offering a share of the secret fortune of her late husband, General Sani Abacha, in return for helping to launder the money and an upfront... [14 Oct 2005]
Why US presidents can't keep their tech promises
Comment A Clinton administration was going to create a new 'civilian advanced technology agency' modeled on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), double federal spending on research, make the research and... [01 Nov 2004]
Europe eyes up open source
Comment Citizens] should not be forced to buy specific commercial software to be able to have electronic exchanges with this administration," Liikanen said. Brussels is flirting with open source - it's official. [21 Jul 2000]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services and the Firecrest project to upgrade the FCO's entire IT infrastructure, Mather runs the... [11 Jun 2008]
View from Stanford: 'Offshoring works for us'
Comment It has outsourced a wide range of work for its internal administration systems to Indian IT services company Infosys - including maintenance and support of Oracle and PeopleSoft applications and databases - in a deal... [21 Nov 2006]
Banking can execute change in real-time
Comment Any delay in systems administration can have serious consequences. The financial sector is 10 years behind the times in its approach to management - partly because banking systems are supposed to be too complicated to... [02 Jan 2008]
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