Touchpaper Helps Staffordshire County Council Realise New Vision for IT
White Papers Staffordshire County Council serves a local population of 800,000 people, employing more than 30,000 staff. The council's overall aim is to make Staffordshire an even better place to live, work, visit and invest and is responsible for all the major...
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
Where the iPhone doesn't work
Blog But I now realise why not everyone is bouncing off the ceiling about Apple's latest mobile wonder. Now I realise how pampered I have been by taking access to 3G and wi-fi for granted, as I have just spent my second week of iPhone custodianship in...
[August 11, 2008, 9:31]
UK file-swappers could face jail under new law
Talkback I think its time for the music industry to realise, the public aren't going to pay their BS prices anymore. Free downloads of music is the way forward, with the public donating what they see as fair to the quality of music provided, and in other...
[March 16, 2004, 13:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Yet it is disturbing to realise that while the whole affair is festooned with satellite guidance, precision radar, navigation computers and stupendous layers of safety systems, it relies in the end on the exact analogue of CB radio.
[September 23, 2005, 18:50]
Former employees: A security menace?
News What many companies don't realise is that when employees leave the business, they often take with them the firm's most precious assets -- the mission-critical data that runs the business -- everything from customer account data to sales and...
[March 6, 2002, 11:47]
Not Such A Vine Idea
Blog Comment What Microsoft has to realise, though, is that people are far more free to choose which service they use, and unless there's a compelling reason to use MS's version of Twitter, people will stick with what they're already using.
[April 29, 2009, 11:25]
SMEs 'blind' to illegal software risks
News According to a survey of 1,800 businesses across Europe, which was commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), 85 percent of SMEs do not realise they are at risk from viruses and nearly half, 41 percent, "mistakenly believe" there is no...
[April 20, 2007, 12:24]
Is beta the best route?
News But this hard line stance on the use and deployment of prerelease software may cost your company more than you realise. Companies that choose to beta test must realise that dealing with sparse documentation and spotty support after major release...
[September 5, 2002, 15:56]
Firms fail to recognise Web 2.0 cost-saving potential
News Agreeing, Shivanu Shukla, industry manager at Frost & Sullivan, said that while many enterprises realise what Web 2.0 can potentially do for them, a lack of successful enterprise deployments has discouraged businesses to look more seriously at Web...
[May 1, 2009, 9:53]
Transport for London seeks £400m IT savings
News The IT systems restructuring will realise improvements to a range of tech infrastructure, including end-user computing datacentres and application hosting management, networks, email archiving and security.
[December 18, 2008, 15:53]
Welcome to the first of ZDNet.co.uk's group blogs
Blog We also realise that many people will always remain happy to get without giving, and that's ok; that's also an established truism of the Internet. When we added the community features to ZDNet.co.uk, we did so with those people in mind who realise...
[April 24, 2007, 10:09]
Web 2.0, SaaS & Communication
Talkback When web and software developers realise the power of some of the mash-up possibilities sites like The Web Service (http://www.thewebservice.com/) are offering, it will become the industry standard. I think people will realise how it's just as...
[September 18, 2008, 17:48]
Microsoft Killing XP so that Vista Can Live
Blog Odd until you realise that lots of people are still ordering new kit with XP on it instead of Vista and also that many people who ordered Vista are taking it back and asking for XP instead. When is Microsoft going to realise that customers want to...
[September 24, 2007, 19:01]
Small companies ignorant of security warns expert
News SMEs have to realise that just because they are small, it doesn't mean they won't be targeted. Individuals working on peer-to-peer networks often don't realise they're sharing the whole contents of their drive.
[November 20, 2006, 16:47]
Lambeth sleepwalks into danger
Leader Lambeth and their contractor Capita show little sign that they realise the significance of their actions. In this case, either nobody ran a functional test after the upgrade or they did but didn't realise the significance of what they saw.
[August 31, 2005, 13:30]
UK VoIP market hots up
Talkback To an extent, the business market wants the same, until decision-makers realise (maybe too late) that they are putting their business at risk if communicating with their customers consistently is important to them.
[June 2, 2004, 11:00]
Recycle your old PCs
News But plenty of people still don't realise how to properly dispose of their electronics. The PC industry has come to realise that recycling isn't just good for the environment. Computer-related waste remains a local and global problem, despite the...
[April 24, 2006, 12:05]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog It's one of those moments where you realise that what you thought were really nifty graphics in your computer games were in fact miles behind what you want -- and you want this. I realise with something of a lurch that I've been there for all of...
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
FBI: Help us fight hackers
News But I realise that you all are really important. We realise that we need to give back information," Larkin said. The FBI needs help from hackers to fight cybercrime, an agency official said on Wednesday.
[August 3, 2006, 9:10]
RIM has only won the battle
Leader But there are other threats on the horizon which RIM cannot afford to ignore because its customers — who must no doubt be slightly fazed to realise how close their addiction came to being cut off — will not ignore those threats; to customers...
[March 6, 2006, 14:15]



