The collected thoughts of Mark Hurd
Blog He must be doing something right so here are some collected thoughts of the great man taken from two sessions held this week at HP's gathering in Las Vegas (see story). Mark Hurd went from running NCR to running what is now, arguably, the largest...
[June 20, 2007, 18:33]
Aussie ICT researchers open up
Blog NICTA, Australia's ICT research organisation, has released a bunch of projects as open source and collected them in one portal called OpenNICTA. The projects collected on OpenNICTA are quite varied, but all lower level frameworks and libraries...
[July 16, 2009, 13:03]
xG: deal or no deal?
Blog Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, diligently collected. So: I'm ill. I should be in bed. Annoyingly, I remember that xG's deal with National Grid Wireless, which was never entirely described but appeared to be a territorial...
[April 7, 2008, 12:35]
Vista downgraded to XP on third of machines...?
Blog The stats were collected by a company called Devil Mountain Software, which is running a project to collect web metrics. According to various reports, Vista has been downgraded to XP on a third of machines globally.
[August 20, 2008, 12:39]
Lord criticises proposed data-sharing law
Blog The Coroners and Justice Bill will enable government departments to share information, and use data for purposes that were not intended when the information was collected. A proposed law that would overturn one of the principles of the Data...
[February 17, 2009, 16:24]
Glorious, Glorious Spam
Blog The labs collected a suite of 200 malware samples and moved the samples to an isolated network designed to simulate the Internet. Sniffing around for a topic of interest this weekend I came upon an e-mail informing me that Network Testing Labs...
[September 30, 2007, 16:08]
Application architecture data published from 2,500 open source projects
Blog Department of Homeland Security with a company called Coverity that says it collected this data using its own analysis tools. Having just finished working on a 10-page tutorial detailing the inner workings of the tabular data stream protocol in...
[February 18, 2009, 7:26]
Can we rely on guys who have used Linux for years?
Blog There is also a chart reportedly based on data collected by Net Applications showing Linux share of visits to monitored websites hovering around 1%. I spotted this article recently: The market has rejected Linux desktops.
[November 24, 2009, 13:03]
Using mHealth to Promote Development in Africa
Blog When data is collected on paper, it takes a very long time and it also produces a lot of errors. My name is Awa Dieng, and I work for DataDyne.org, a public health and technology organization that has created software called EpiSurveyor for health...
[September 12, 2008, 17:29]
PNR data not reduced, just squashed
Blog The new PNR deal lists 19 data fields which will be collected on every passenger. The reduction of the number of data fields handed to US security services announced by the European Union was achieved by squeezing almost the same amount of data on...
[July 31, 2007, 16:50]
xG update - money, mystery and more
Blog And it's collected $6 million since that period for base stations. Today was going to be my lunch appointment with xG, but we've had to cancel due to creative differences - the company wanted it off the record, I wanted to be able to write about...
[October 6, 2008, 17:36]
Brits Are Broadband Speed Junkies
Blog According to the data collected, the average speed of UK broadband connections is just 3.18Mbps, despite this fact most ISPs advertise speeds of up to 8Mbps and beyond. Back in February I blogged that UK-based broadband users are being fobbed off...
[April 28, 2008, 12:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It must be the work of conspiracy theorists, as must the enormous list of related documents collected at http://jya.com/crypto.htm. (Please note: for the first three days of this week I was laid low with a virulent and explosive form of what my...
[June 6, 1998, 8:03]
Two takes on reality
Blog One of today's highlights was a quote collected during the construction of the story about the European Commission's ongoing programme of injecting a bit of sanity into mobile phone roaming charges. Today was my first one on the job, and enormous fun.
[July 16, 2008, 1:47]
IT company implodes - trial by blog
Blog The staff were excellent and great fun, but senior management made headless chickens look calm and collected. Web 2.0 technologies hold both great promise and great danger for companies. On the one hand, their efficient use can encourage customer...
[February 7, 2008, 16:27]
The way forward: Mobile health in Kenya
Blog My colleagues and I then synchronized the data that we had collected on our PDAs, and were able to analyze all of that data right there on our laptops while still in the field. My name is Titus Kolongei, and I work as a health information officer...
[September 10, 2008, 8:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And I feel I have a right to know what statistics are being collected about my own usage. Tuesday 23/11/2004 Peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa announces that it's including peer-to-peer voice-over-IP software Skype with its next release.
[November 26, 2004, 17:00]
Online Training Needs Assessment: Measure Learning Performance Effortlessly
Blog In order to evaluate the whole learning process and know the exact data, all assessment results must be properly collected and processed in the learning system. Nowadays, most online training instructors like to evaluate what learners learnt during...
[July 23, 2008, 10:03]
Rwanda: On the leading edge of the mHealth frontier
Blog Using TRACnet, he reported, data entry that used to take months to record and aggregate now can be collected in just 5 minutes. 'Country looking and moving forward, not back' by Claire Thwaites Kigali, Rwanda -- With limited knowledge of the...
[May 13, 2009, 18:01]
Tech Up Your Sales Presentation With New Blood
Blog By effectively utilizing new Web and software technologies in every aspect of your sales presentation, you will not only overcome the challenges presented by modern demands, but also reap other advantages, such as being able to track your...
[April 3, 2008, 12:03]
