February 2009

Nokia may enter laptop market

Mobile phone maker Nokia may get into the laptop business.

CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday that the firm...

More than half of staff steal information when they leave the company

More than half of people take company information with them when they leave an employer, the US-based Ponemon Institute has found.

The institute interviewed...

Google gives 15-day service credits following Gmail outage

Google is giving 15 days of free service access to subscribers who were affected by its Gmail outage this week.  Continue Reading

Time Management - the modern land enclosure

Home Working is on the agenda again. While telecommuting, ticks all the right boxes re: cost saving and green practice etc., it remains controversial. Employers concerns include worrying if the ...  Continue Reading

Exemplar NPfIT site in US "endangers patients"

Reports in the US say that software glitches have endangered patients at the Veterans' Association. The reports illustrate why e-record systems should be categorised, like some medical equipment, ...  Continue Reading

Debunking a myth: If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear

The idea that an individual can live in a surveillance society with nothing to fear so long as they have nothing to hide may, on the face of it, appear attractive. For those of us who think of ...  Continue Reading

Biometrics and Privacy

I spoke today at a Social Market Foundation event on biometrics. The keynote was Prof James Wayman, who was exceptionally fluent and interesting on the topic, and I was pleasantly surprised to see ...  Continue Reading

City job opportunities increase despite downturn

Job opportunities in the London financial services sector increased in January as usual, but there were less than during the same period last year.  Continue Reading

ID Cards insider: scheme is "largest , most complex and sensitive undertaking in Government"

When they were planning for ID Cards, executives at the Identity and Passport Service thought it a good idea to use the DWP's Oracle-based Customer Information System to store the biometrics part ...  Continue Reading

Recession could produce the new Google, says Microsoft MD

Microsoft's UK managing director, Gordon Frazer, has said the recession could produce the next Google as the lack of jobs forces IT workers to rely on innovation.

"Recessions...

Publication of ID cards reviews would jeopardise support for the scheme, claims government

Publication of internal reports into the feasibility of the government's ID cards programme would have jeopardised support from government agencies.  Continue Reading

Virgin migrates customers to minimum 10mbps broadband

Virgin Media is upgrading millions of its 2mbps broadband customers to a faster 10mbps (megabits per second) service.

The firm recently increased the...

UK's poor record on prosecuting hackers revealed

Experts have called for more police resources to fight computer crime, after it emerged that only 299 hackershave been charged under the UK's computer crime law over the past four years.  Continue Reading

Top tips for project managers?

Below is a compilation of project management truisms. Some have been around years; a few are my own concoctions - the result of researching and reporting on countless IT projects and programmes. 1. ...  Continue Reading

Google joins EC war on Microsoft's browser dominance

Google has backed the European Commission's investigation into Microsoft's dominance of the web browser market.  Continue Reading

Microsoft builds atomic cloud

Microsoft Research has started a programme called Cloud Computing Futures, which aims to improve the efficiency of cloud computing.  Continue Reading

John Lewis tops website accessibility league

John Lewis' website offers its customers the best levels of accessibility out of the top UK high street retailers, according to a study released today.

The...