October 2007

October 19, 2007 19 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
October 19, 2007 19 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
October 19, 2007 19 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

October 19, 2007 19 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
October 19, 2007 19 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
October 19, 2007 19 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
October 19, 2007 19 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
October 19, 2007 19 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
October 19, 2007 19 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
October 19, 2007 19 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

October 19, 2007 19 Oct'07
Hot skills : Rise of Ajax drives demand for Javascript developers

Scripting language enables rich internet applications Continue Reading
October 18, 2007 18 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
October 18, 2007 18 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
October 18, 2007 18 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
October 18, 2007 18 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
October 18, 2007 18 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
October 18, 2007 18 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
October 18, 2007 18 Oct'07
SAP donates Netweaver tool to open source Eclipse project

SAP is to contribute its memory testing tool from Netweaver to the Eclipse open source project. Continue Reading
October 18, 2007 18 Oct'07
Frank Abignale Interview

There's an interesting interview with ex-fraudster Frank Abignale online here. Frank's message is that it's far easier today to commit the sort of crimes that he became famous for.A world of too ... Continue Reading
October 18, 2007 18 Oct'07
Microsoft technology helps create 42% of the world’s IT jobs

Microsoft says its global business ecosystem has created 14.7 million jobs, and that firms that use its technology make more than £3.50 for every 50p that Microsoft earns from it. Continue Reading