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Digital Britain- Danger Alerts-One Mitigating factor is...
Blog The 'Digital Britain' cannot afford to be so technology focussed as to ignore the need for public enlightenment through awareness training on electronic law and ecommerce issues, this is also crucial to Britain's place in Global Digital Economy.
[June 17, 2009, 12:33]
An interesting sales tactic
Blog As a committed, engaged and interested member of the digital community, you'll know all about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), one of the more exquisitely foolish bits of madness ever to issue from our American cousins.
[May 11, 2007, 9:43]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog An acceptable signature key is one provided by a State-licenced digital signature company. One of the things the MBECB sets out is the way digital signatures will be accepted by the courts as proof of a document's trustworthiness.
[October 24, 1998, 12:31]
Privacy activists first to criticise Carter
Blog One by one digital music providers like iTunes and Amazon are moving away from DRM, and trusting their customers. The first reactions to Lord Carter's interim Digital Britain report have been flooding in, and almost all have been packed with as...
[January 29, 2009, 16:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So sang 80s cult band Kissing The Pink on one of their many forgotten masterpieces of synth kitsch, eerily presaging the digital picture revolution. The chain says that 93 percent of its customers can't tell the difference between film and digital...
[August 12, 2005, 18:40]
Digital personality types - what's yours?
Blog The most recent example comes from BT, which has used one of their number to identify ‘digital personality types’. Are we really so basic that we all fit into one of five digital personality boxes? Have a tendency to misinterpret digital...
[March 17, 2009, 7:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's a downside to digital, and news from the US is making it plain -- if the computers are turned off, the bits disappear. Over here, ITV Digital is the latest high-technology venture to join the ranks of that most modern of concepts, the...
[April 27, 2002, 0:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I've got cable (which is going digital sometime before the heat death of the universe), which gives me twice as many channels for the same monthly charge. Or I could get digital satellite, which gives me ten times as many.
[May 28, 1999, 18:18]
The battle for digital mapping starts
Blog The company is one of the leaders in digital mapping. It has been involved in digital mapping for the past 20 years and in that time has built considerable intellectual property in the maps themselves which it makes a specialty of chronicling...
[November 6, 2007, 22:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog More to the point, how many people are going to take one look at the bright and shiny world of next-generation digital entertainment, ask "will I be able to play what I like, when I like, how I like? Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD...
[October 7, 2005, 19:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That used to be shortwave, but now the city is so full of digital devices that the ionosphere is drowned beneath crackles, buzzes and bleeps from leaking processors. In this case, DAB digital radio means that I can listen to Radio 5 Live without...
[January 21, 2005, 15:45]
Compliance - 2b Forensic readiness planning, really, you need to do this.
Blog The Information Assurance Advisory Coucil’s Directors’ and Corporate Advisors’ Guide to Digital Investigations and Evidence Written as it is by Prof. Common to all of them is the need for evidence, usually in digital form, to support the...
[December 14, 2008, 19:14]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog All the best bits of digital telly, all the best bits of mobile tech, all wrapped up in one irresistible package? It has to, though, because the TV pictures are all locked down with Windows Digital Rights Management.
[September 8, 2006, 18:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One might consider that encouraging awareness of HD TV would help the move towards the digital switchover. Earlier, it granted the terrestrial TV companies an experimental broadcast licence to send out digital HD TV on an unused London TV channel.
[June 23, 2006, 18:45]
Bluefi? Witooth? WiFi and Bluetooth are getting together
Blog Perhaps most interesting is the way that these are almost purely digital now: the radio signal gets digitised as quickly as possible, with digital signal processing emulating most (in the case of the stereo FM component, all) of the normal radio...
[December 6, 2007, 13:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A digital outreach programme needs to be instigated immediately, but one fine-tuned to the specific needs and expectations of this dysfunctional family. What can be done to bridge this digital divide, and help these intellectually underprivileged...
[April 15, 2005, 19:30]
IT @ Heart Of Next Industrial Revolution
Blog In 10 years’ time we will be able to put an entire year’s worth of our waking experience - in digital quality - on a laptop. Or, to fully utilise the digital economy to help the UK’s competitiveness in the face of powerful economies around the globe.
[March 13, 2009, 8:32]
Bare Metal VM Farms
Blog A big advantage is that ONE installation of some sort of anti-malware is used to clean up the ENTIRE data-store for the entire digital facility. Truthfully I do not know exactly how that can be done in total but it is the absolute best possible...
[August 31, 2009, 8:31]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Rahul Sukthankar from Intel's Pittsburgh lab had got a neat bit of software that could look at thousands of digital snaps and search by content. Could it be that the digital home was signalling a move to more casual wear?
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Looking for True Permanence in File Storage
Blog My son's computer boot drive running Windows XP Pro cratered and totally trashed all of his digital pictures he's taken in the last year or so. There are others looking into Digital Permanence and the big bugaboo is how long a time is defined as...
[May 9, 2008, 11:47]
