Social networking, in whatever form it finally decides to adopt, is here to stay. Whether you believe in the blog as a means for an individual to publish their undiluted thoughts on a subject or see the blog morphing to becoming something that is more formally reviewed and published, the idea has stuck with us. The idea of a Wiki has also stuck with us - not as another attempt to top Wikipedia, but as a means of bringing together thoughts from a disparate group of people in a meaningful way. Instant messaging has been around for a while now and is the preferred means of communication for many younger workers in companies. VoIP has taken up a noticeable degree of many organisations' data bandwidth, both at the LAN and WAN levels. Then, we have the external networking sites - the likes of LinkedIn and Plaxo, being replaced in the individual's favorites by FaceBook and MySpace, which in turn address new entrants on a daily basis. ...
03/04/2008 | Social Democracy With a Guiding Hand.pdf | VIEW
Big news, a state of the art, high tech system aimed at saving time and improving efficiency is launched fully live into a critical environment to a waiting public with instant worldwide media audience in attendance, and fails. ...
02/04/2008 | Terminal Decline at Heathrow - failing IT or management failing.pdf | VIEW
Calendaring and scheduling - hardly a topic to get the blood racing, but, nevertheless, a cause of stress for many - if not most - people. ...
31/03/2008 | Taking the Time Wasting out of Scheduling.pdf | VIEW
With businesses striving to find ways to increase efficiencies, lower costs and improve productivity, many are looking towards leveraging their investments in digital multifunction peripherals (MFPs) to merge their paper and digital workflows. ...
19/03/2008 | Paper to digital workflow - eCopy broadens accessibility of document.pdf | VIEW
If data security is a problem, what happens when companies adopt an application that provides high integration? ...
18/03/2008 | Avoid data leakage in a Web 2.0 world.pdf | VIEW
Organisations are using identity management systems to cut the risk of data security breaches. That's a step in the right direction but they still need a number of other measures. ...
18/03/2008 | ID tech tightens up compliance.pdf | VIEW
Banks and other financial institutions tend to be slightly ahead of their counterparts in their use of advanced network technologies and network security. This is not surprising given the sensitivity of the data they deal with and the degree to which they have to share their data with external organisations. ...
15/03/2008 | Security relies on new technologies (banks and data leak prevention).pdf | VIEW
Company security is an absolute. Whether it's data or the physical IT infrastructure, if there is a single weak link the company is not secure. ...
26/02/2008 | Single security strategy writes physical and logical assets.pdf | VIEW
The old joke about the office worker who says to their partner when they get home at the end of the day - "the computers went down and we all had to think for ourselves" is getting too close for comfort. As the mobile industry started its grand annual event in Barcelona - Mobile World Congress - a breakdown in the BlackBerry email service meant that many thumb weary executives had a break from their mobile email habit. ...
22/02/2008 | The spread of email reliance and BlackBerry Jam.pdf | VIEW
Over a year on, and Vista is still being regarded with deep suspicion in the market. Apart from the worries about how many existing PCs can actually run a stack of not only Vista itself, but the applications on top, the main worry is still the lack of application compatibility with the operating system (OS) - even using the many options for previous OS compatibility supplied by Microsoft. ...
20/02/2008 | The Road to Vista - Continued.pdf | VIEW
