The great Ernest Hemingway once said: "There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and...
Gartner predicts that advances in networks, mobile hardware capabilities, social computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and unified communication...
I am confronted every day with companies who have suffered some kind of security breach, mostly internal and it often comes down to the mismanagement...
The advertising, e-commerce, legal, retail and even counterfeiting industries looked on in anticipation this week, as the European Court of Justice's Advocate General delivered his opinion in the long running dispute between Google and Louis Vuitton Mallatier, writes Alison Bryce head of the IP & Technology team at Maclay Murray & Spens LLP.
News that eBay is facing a copyright claim from the founders of Skype's innovative peer-to-peer 'Global Index' (GI) technology has left its proposed sale of the internet calling business on decidedly dodgy ground, writes Nick Wallin, patent attorney at Withers & Rogers LLP. But there could still be a way out for eBay and innovation is the key.
If you have as a key goal on your MBOs to achieve a significant reduction in your IT opex costs then listen carefully to the subplot in US president Barack...
The on-premise walls are crumbling. Microsoft's Office Web Apps are now in public technical preview - though currently for US customers only - which means that users can now create, edit and view Office documents using only a web browser.
A storm-front is brewing for cloud computing, writes Paul Zimski, vice-president of market strategy at Lumension. As developers continue to reach towards the sky with insecure infrastructure, the chances for a disastrous squall increase every day.
Difficult economic times are a challenge for everyone, writes Hamish Macarthur, founder of Macarthur Stroud International. IT managers must keep service levels high while reducing costs, get more out of the same or fewer resources and take on environmental issues. Yet this is a scenario for change and virtualisation can have a long-term benefit to the business.
