Previous DayRE:Cisco's rare move to embrace interoperability
Blog Comment It's a move that customers would appreciate; now they can have a top end system at HQ and a mid-range system in other areas of the business. As for the cost; i wonder what features it has to make...
I don't see the advert
Talkback Where's the advertising? Where's google's money maker? I can see no way for google to tie users into using google's pieces considering every service can be replaced by third party apps. Microsoft...
I'll wait till it's finished
Talkback Apparently the figures suggest that the overall cost of the iPhone is lower in the UK than in the other countries! The iPhone isn't just a fashion phone or a replacement iPod, it's actually a very...
Correction to the Comparison
Blog Sigh. I told you that I would get something wrong, and that someone would correct me. I did, and they did, and it wasn't a small thing, either. I wrote: "you can't do multi-party audio calls...
Win a Brother colour laser printer
Competition Here's a chance to win Brother's MFC-9440CN mulifunction colour laser printer or a standalone stablemate in Day 4 of our Christmas competition.
Dialogue Box 2.9: Here is the wireless weather forecast
Video Dialogue Box gets the lowdown on 802.11n Wi-Fi in a London hotel, and brings you the nationwide outlook for 3G coverage
Cisco's rare move to embrace interoperability
Blog My colleague David Meyer reported today on Cisco's move to create interoperability between its high-end video conferencing systems, called TelePresence, and video conferencing systems from other...
Oracle users want improved support
News The UK Oracle User Group has called for better product support through improved call centres and more service information
Newsagents to scan discount vouchers by mobile
News Retailers in the north-west of England will use the standalone Instant Voucher System to scan discount coupons
Ofcom: Well done BT, but...
Blog According to Ofcom's latest annual report on BT Openreach, the split-off bit of the former incumbent is running according to plan. So well done. However, the regulator seems to think that...
ID Cards are used to control people
Talkback Who benefits? Follow the money. ID cards are as they always have been used to control the population. If you think it will prevent terrorist attacks you only need to check out history, and many...
RE:Are we running before we can walk?
Blog Comment It is an interesting topic and one that is moving steps closer all the time I feel. I think that "traditional" office/business solutions like intranets have contributed to unstructured data....
Google recognised for promoting women in IT
Blog Google has been recognised as the employer who has done the most to promote the careers of women in IT. The recognition was made last Thursday by the British Computer Society at its annual...
Microsoft releases Windows update blocker
News The software giant has issued a blocking toolkit for users of XP, Vista and Server 2003 who want to avoid automatic service pack updates until they choose to install them
Brown alerted to HMRC data risk in 2004
News Gordon Brown was informed three years ago of the flaws in HMRC's working practices which recently led to the UK's largest-ever data loss, it has been revealed
Laptop stolen from Citizens Advice
News The computer contains data relating to people from the Belfast area who have sought advice from an office within the city
got rid of the breadboard
Blog So I finally got fed up with the switcher part of the device sprawling across my bench in prototype form, although the wife was happy to use it that way (I had concerns over the saftey of the thing...
Are we running before we can walk?
Blog Following on from my blog yesterday about unstructured data, I have been trying to drill slightly deeper into related subject areas. You might, I hazard a guess, be tempted to think that I would...
Skipping Vista
Talkback I work, part time, for the largest home improvement center in the U.S. and one of our vendors just sent out an email that they are scrapping VISTA and installing Ubuntu Linux on all levels. A...
It is not the cards but the central database which is the is...
Talkback Surely the statement that 'there needs to be more open consideration of what kind of information the cards would hold' is missing the whole point. We need to quetion why there should be a central...
KMail
Talkback I've been aware of this problem for some time, but since I send few HTML messages I have ignored the problem. KMail is my choice because of all it does. I trust the security, and love the...
Very real and very scarey
Talkback I recently read the transcript of the Estonian Defense Ministers talk at the Center for Strategic and International Studies website....
great article - when is the book coming out ?
Talkback Really good lunchtime read Colin, thanks a lot. I can see you authoring a sucessful book of the top hundred, I don't mean one of those cheap bookclub jobs but one containing your in-depth analysis...
Cisco opens up TelePresence to rivals
News The company is to let users of its high-end videoconferencing suite interface with users of other systems that conform to the same standards
Burglars plunder Verizon's London data centre
News Disguised as policemen, criminals conned their way into a Verizon Business data centre last week and stole IT equipment, say the police
Cyberterrorism: Myth or reality?
Roundup The threat of cyberterrorism receives plenty of attention, yet experts are divided on how real the danger is
need for a deeper look
Talkback I think the themes highlighted in this article illustrate that people need to look at their approach and strategy from a deeper perspective. First and foremost, I think the biggest benefits can be...
Verizon sued over GPL breach
News The Software Freedom Law Center alleges that the telco has violated the terms of the open-source General Public License
Win a Navman S70 sat-nav
Competition Day 3 of our Christmas competition gives you the chance to drive off with a Navman S70 sat-nav, which comes with UK and European maps plus nifty NavPix technology.
Nokia E51
Review If the Nokia E51 had a front-facing camera for video calling we'd be hard pressed to find fault with it. Even so, it's an excellent pocket-friendly Symbian smartphone that's packed with an...
CIOs: Encryption only part of data-security solution
News Together with robust policies and processes, encryption needs to be part of a holistic approach to the protection of data, a CIO panel has said
Thinktank: Debate ID cards or drop them
News Influential thinktank Demos says serious engagement with the public on how ID cards will work must be a priority if the scheme is to go ahead
EMC upgrades Invista for virtualisation
News Invista 2.0 is the storage company's first virtualisation product for use with storage area networks
RE:Unstructured, untapped, & undervalued data
Blog Comment Its not too hard to see why corporates have this problem; even on a personal computer, you sometimes find that your unable to locate a document you created a while back, although now-a-days desktop...
