'Shared risk' approach under consideration by BT services group
News BT is bullish about the future of its IT business and claims to be "looking very carefully" at a shared risk model of providing organisations' communications and IT needs. However, Green told silicon.com that BT Global Services is now "looking very...
[June 18, 2004, 15:55]
Downturn could lead to single next-gen network
News Shared ownership may reduce fibre's cost and risk, but may also require a new, unfamiliar approach to competition. But Deloitte says operators should tread with care if they are considering reducing handset subsidies to improve margins as they risk...
[January 22, 2009, 8:36]
Achieving compliance with GSi Code Of Connection (CoCo)
White Papers To develop the necessary trust and confidence within the Public Sector communities and between Government and the citizens, a common approach to risk management and the implementation of an Information Assurance framework becomes increasingly...
[November 16, 2009, 11:25]
Decoding Microsoft's open source argument
News As the US Department of Commerce stated in a report titled "International Science and Technology": "Innovation relies on a partnership between the public and private sectors in which the government invests in long-range science and technology and...
[May 22, 2001, 12:11]
Document management to the rescue
News Forced to re-create all of its documentation, Frenkel management abandoned its controlled pilot and implemented a strategy most companies would never risk taking: wholesale deployment of a document imaging package to replace manual processes.
[May 29, 2002, 9:46]
BlackBerry Outage - You Say System Upgrade, I Say Achilles Heel…
Blog As users (and hackers alike) have drawn from this instance, the central management approach of RIM puts BlackBerry users at an extreme risk. Though RIM is continuing to investigate their issue, this outage stands as a beacon of vulnerability that...
[February 14, 2008, 16:18]
Everyone's liable to make mistakes
Leader In the end, responsibility works through partnership and shared risk. Yet personal liability, again like being hanged in a fortnight, is the wrong approach. The only result of such an approach would be to kill system design stone dead.
[October 12, 2005, 15:10]
Opera Unite turns browser into door to PC
News However, there are two ways to do this, and one method has been criticised by analysts as potentially posing a security risk. Components of the browser-based service include file-sharing, photo sharing, a shared media player, a chat lounge and the...
[June 16, 2009, 14:06]
Privacy watchdog fears government super-database
News As more and more information is passed from one database to another there is a greater risk to individuals from inaccurate or insecure information and mistaken identity," the ICO said in a statement. The privacy watchdog said that "a cautious...
[January 15, 2007, 16:15]
IT group pushes for results-based contracts
News The NHS's arrangement with BT is one example of a 'shared-risk' contract. In 2004, BT said it was considering a wider use of this approach, but by January of this year, BT said it was taking a more "cautious" view of such contracts.
[May 13, 2009, 14:42]
eBay makes bid for revolution in B2B
Leader Nor is it eBay's provision of a low-risk, low-cost entrance into international retailing with a shop window and payment mechanism. Development costs and risks are shared, individual competitive differentiation maintained and the market expanded...
[June 21, 2005, 11:45]
Seeking your techno guru
Blog Though criminal acts are rare, by far the greater risk is hiring a well meaning under-skilled expert who will sell you kit you don’t need. a) File sharing preferences.b) Connect to shared c) Map network drive d) Share to drive letter
[November 30, 2008, 17:03]
IT revamp saves council £5m
News Unsworth said there was a risk that push emails could reduce productivity by encouraging staff to respond immediately and interrupting their daily tasks, but insisted that in local government the point of diminishing returns "had not yet been...
[September 3, 2007, 13:44]
Palm gets open-source browser
News But its open-source licence allows users to run their own gateway, eliminating the risk of the gateway provider going out of business. Palm has been criticised for shipping its wireless devices without an HTML browser, relying instead on its pared...
[April 9, 2002, 14:30]
Whitehall warms to benefits of offshoring
News The matter is important now because of increasing concerns over information assurance, risk, business continuity and data-security management," said Creese, who is head of IT for Hampshire County Council.
[August 4, 2009, 13:25]
Gartner: Developers must be responsible for security
News Any system that ignores those basic rules is a system at risk. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo last week, Andrew Walls, a security analyst at the company, shared his thoughts on how Web 2.0 affects application security.
[November 30, 2007, 11:43]
