October 2007
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October 19, 2007
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Councils ‘are not doing enough on emissions’
Local government IT managers are not doing enough to cut carbon emissions, delegates at the Socitm conference were told last week. Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
Second Life goes to Newcastle to get global customer service
Virtual world Second Life has gone to Newcastle to get 24-hour customer support services for its residents. Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
The business case for green storage
Green is possibly the most over-used word of 2007, but the energy efficient message seems to have had little impact on UK businesses. According to research by advisory organisation the Green Technology Initiative, 70% of UK firms have no plans to ... Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
Will politics hamper objectivity reviews of NHS IT?
Health minister Lord Darzi opens his interim review of the NHS - a report that is likely to have significant ramifications for the NHS's IT investment programme - by saying he is a doctor, not a politician. Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
Data warehouses go for operational business intelligence
Even though many organisations have an established data warehouse, the demand for operational business intelligence is increasing Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
Harnessing generation Y
Cynics might see Second Life as just an opportunity for cross-dressing in cyberspace. But the parallel world of which it is both exemplar and metaphor is being harnessed by serious businesses. Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
Crisis management requires pragmatism
Over the past two years I have facilitated more than 100 exercises for incident management teams from a range of organisations. These have varied in scope from straightforward desktop scenarios to complex multi-level simulations. Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
How to implement role-based access control
Counsellors do it, actors do it, and people advertising on handwritten cards in telephone boxes do it. Although role playing is not common in IT departments, if they were to do more of it, it might prevent the kind of situation that analyst Rob ... Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
Employers could lose £260m a week from online Christmas shopping
UK employers stand to lose £260m a week in lost productivity from office online Christmas shopping. Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
Microsoft to vie with Cisco and IBM for unified communications market
The release of Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 last week is expected to bring the firm into direct competition with Cisco and IBM to supply businesses with unified communications systems. Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
Will you climb the peaks for charity?
Overseas development agency CARE International and Computer Weekly are launching the CARE Three Peaks Challenge 2008, an outdoor mountain teambuilding challenge aimed at raising more than £120,000 for the charity's overseas work. Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
IT must do more to become a profession, says BCS
The IT industry needs to work together more if it is to be recognised as an established profession, according to the British Computer Society (BCS). Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
Collaboration is the Key to Tackling Cybercrime
Yesterday I attended a Parliament and the Internet Conference at the House of Commons. It’s a great forum which brings together many leading UK stakeholders from Government, Parliament, Academia ... Continue Reading
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October 19, 2007
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Oct'07
Hot skills : Rise of Ajax drives demand for Javascript developers
Scripting language enables rich internet applications Continue Reading
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October 18, 2007
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Oct'07
Keep friends close and your enemies on Hatebook
You could bury IT managers under the mountain of surveys that say that Facebook is the fourth horseman of the employee productivity apocalypse. But this is not a one-horse race to consume network bandwidth, as horseman number five enters the race in... Continue Reading
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October 18, 2007
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Oct'07
Spying is now a game the whole family can play
Downtime was amused to learn this week that GCHQ, Britain's home for eavesdropping spies, is placing recruitment ads in computer games such as Splinter Cell, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Rainbow Six: Vegas. Talk about life imitating art, and ... Continue Reading
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October 18, 2007
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Oct'07
Are Lufthansa recruits heading for a boob?
Jobs in IT are not what they once were. Long gone are the dotcom days when a Java developer could be seen cruising around Canary Wharf while chucking empty bottles of Cristal though his side window. These days, you take jobs where you can get them ... Continue Reading
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October 18, 2007
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Oct'07
Mobilising air-rage
Airline passengers could soon be annoyed by something more than a lack of legroom and mewling infants, if European regulators are to have their way. Continue Reading
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October 18, 2007
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Oct'07
Patent pants
The IP Innovation patent appears incredibly far-reaching. It’s not only Red Hat and Novell that are affected. Continue Reading
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October 18, 2007
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Oct'07
Managing Windows networks using scripts Part 3: Understanding WMI
Learn how Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) works and how it can be scripted using VBScript. Continue Reading