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White Stuff settles on secure EPOS network

News Clothing retailer White Stuff is due to complete the rollout of a secure store communications network, which will save the company about 70 per cent in cost of ownership. According to White Stuff head of IT Venn Luscombe-Mahoney, 75 per cent of the...

Tags: pci, eft, white stuff

[02 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07

Round-Up This has resulted in online advertisers splurging out huge dollops of money trying to get us to buy their stuff. Anyway, the final line from Gartner is: think carefully before committing to expensive "social networking white elephants".

Tags: mobile, dva, facebook, data

[14 Dec 2007]

White paper: IBM Software for SOA and Business Flexibility

whitepaper The future of business is not the stuff of science fiction; it's the extrapolation of shifts that are beginning to take place right now before your eyes. The future of business: it's a dynamic, global, frictionless and innovative place.

Tags: middleware, prevent, science, prepare

[29 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 27.07.07

Round-Up After this milestone, new stuff is against the natural order of things. The OLPC organisation, headed up by Nicholas Negroponte, claims it has already received more than three million orders for the green-and-white machines, which look like the...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[27 Jul 2007]

Sophos Case Study: White Stuff

whitepaper Spam was a real problem for clothes retailer White Stuff, and its existing security product was difficult to manage for both IT staff and users. The company was looking for a cost-effective solution with simple administration requirements that...

Tags: anti-virus, sophos, anti, desktops

[11 Jul 2007]

Speeding up the net - is it possible?

Comment Find out more in Quocirca's freee white paper A Short Guide to a Fast WAN. Other vendors such as Blue Coat provide multiple capabilities - allowing the bad stuff to be stopped and the good stuff sent on its way - in a single appliance.

Tags: public internet, vpn, wan

[09 Jul 2007]

White Stuff Sews Up Spam Problem

whitepaper White Stuff offers quality outdoor clothing for men and women. White Stuff's existing software-based solution, designed to defend its PCs against malware and spam, was proving time consuming to manage.

Tags: anti-virus, anti, spam, mail

[20 Jun 2007]

Freecycle Diaries: Serendipity at last

Comment I assemble the ragbag assortment of items left on the table and compose what sounds like the ingredients for a BBC home makeover show… x TDK FE90 blank cassette tapes (unopened) x clip frames (1 x 6"x4", 2 x 7"x5") x boxes of glass baubles...

[08 May 2007]

Poor data hinders corporate social responsibility drive

News Companies shouldn't have huge corporate social responsibility departments trying to get people to do stuff. Travis White, senior VP of marketing at ERP vendor Lawson, which sponsored the AMR Research report, agreed.

Tags: lawson, csr, corporate social responsibility, amr research

[04 Apr 2007]

Minority Report: The death of the iPod

Comment In fact it's textbook stuff. Despite this, the sales continue to boost Apple's coffers and the white headphones have become ubiquitous. Is the iPod on the decline and soon to become a 'has been'? Seb Janacek examines the fate of Apple's ubiquitous...

Tags: ipod, apple

[03 Nov 2006]

Tesco takes on might of Microsoft

Tesco takes on might of Microsoft

News George O'Reilly, director at Formjet's white-labelling division, told silicon.com office PC software doesn't need to be as expensive as Microsoft's version. We kept out stuff people just don't need like voice recognition.

Tags: tesco, microsoft

[04 Oct 2006]

RFID credit card 'not a skimming risk'

News MasterCard consultant Robert White told a smartcard conference in Sydney this week: "There's been some talk in the market of accidental payment and reading cards in your pocket, and these are perceptions.

Tags: paypass, skimming, mastercard, rfid

[03 Jul 2006]

Opinion: The weak point of wikis

Comment We're talking about a 78-year-old guy who came of age when state-of-the-art was defined by 78 rpm records, tube radios and black-and-white televisions. And with so much stuff out there - and more getting created each day - was the burden on...

Tags: wiki, wikipedia

[05 Dec 2005]

The Weekly Round-Up: 08.04.05

Round-Up You should definitely produce more of this stuff'. Let's face it, nature cracked the cruellest of jokes by making them large, black-and-white and dumping them in the middle of a dark green jungle in a country where their every organ is a delicacy...

Tags: weekly round-up

[08 Apr 2005]

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.03.05

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.03.05

Round-Up Because, let's face it, they love that stuff. Among those taking prizes back to White City were the BBC sport interactive team for their online coverage of England's poor performance at Euro 2004. "And what do you do.

[04 Mar 2005]

Small business IT: Keep it simple

Small business IT: Keep it simple

Comment Paul White, COO for IT services firm Touchstone, says the way for both SMEs and vendors to solve these problems lies in a better understanding of SMEs' needs - and who buys the technology is only one part of the equation.

Tags: sme procurement

[15 Feb 2005]

Leader: Is Tesco off its trolley to compete with iTunes?

Leader: Is Tesco off its trolley to compete with iTunes?

Leader Buying music from Tesco and wearing non-white earphones simply is not. The iPod's models are showing the Apple designers can come up with fun stuff but iTunes has yet to compare in terms of taking the market somewhere no one else has.

[08 Nov 2004]

The Write Stuff: Understanding the Value of Read/Write RFID Functionality

whitepaper This white paper will describe the capabilities of read/write RFID technology and explain how read/write technology overcomes the limitations of read-only systems. Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is attracting considerable...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, rfid, supply, limitations

[17 Jun 2004]

The Silence of the ATM LANs...

whitepaper ATM was to be a universal solution, like the foamy white stuff whimsically advertised in a classic Saturday Night Live commercial as both dessert topping and floor wax. In the early to mid '90s, ATM earned and steadfastly defended the high ground...

Tags: ethernet, atm, lan, wan

[24 Feb 2004]

Leader: Permission the key to Bluespamming and GSM tracking

Leader Only it won't just be geeky strangers having a laugh, we've been told today, but marketing types trying to get us to buy stuff or pay a visit to an establishment we're just passing. Today's white paper on the subject points out the same type of...

[26 Nov 2003]

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