July 2010

Sneaking a smart phone into the enterprise

Are smart phones connected to the corporate network a good idea?  Continue Reading

AT&T Williams connects engineers to race with telepresence and real time network

For the past six years Chris Taylor has been IT manager for the AT&T Williams Formula One team.  Continue Reading

Interview: Simon Post, chief technology officer, Carphone Warehouse

The retailer's IT chief talks to Angelica Mari about his extended role, outsourcing plans and the BestBuy integration  Continue Reading

Chinese factory supplying HP, IBM and Cisco has 'cruel and inhuman' conditions

The National Labor Committee (NLC) has found what it calls "illegal and sweatshop conditions" at a Chinese...  Continue Reading

Apple gets its formula totally wrong

Well not its marketing formula anyway. I know this is not an outsourcing story but I couldn't resist putting it on the blog. I am sure a few of you are thinking about getting an iPhone 4 so this ...  Continue Reading

Taking a peek inside Adobe's open source portal

Adobe's open source portal lists the projects that the company is currently supporting with software code contributions.  Continue Reading

New York Stock Exchange puts a datacentre in Essex

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE...  Continue Reading

'Death by a thousand cuts' continues at Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group's Halifax business is cutting its workforce by 650, with back-office jobs in the firing line again.

The bank is closing an insurance...

Could informal talks save BT from "commercial suicide"

The result of the ballot of over 50,000 BT workers, over whether they want to strike or not, will be known on Monday (05 July). A source told me that only informal talks have occured during the ...  Continue Reading

Deutsche Bank boosts UK senior IT team

Former head of strategy for global technology and operations at Standard Chartered Bank, Natasha Davydova, has been appointed managing director of group...

Kaspersky Lab technology predicts malware epidemics

Kaspersky Lab has patented technology in the US which it claims allows the potential scale of malware epidemics to be predicted accurately to stop them spreading.

The...

Computing museum starts tours after first long-term sponsor

Oracle and JD Edwards optimisation specialist InsightSoftware.com has become the first foundation sponsor of the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, allowing the museum to stay open longer and run guided tours.  Continue Reading

Google to acquire flight data firm to support innovation

Google has announced an agreement to acquire airline data firm ITA for $700m.  Continue Reading

Is BPO rise innevitable as businessess reshape post recession?

BPO deals have been won this week by Accenture and HP Enterprise Services. Could the number and size of BPO deals be on the up? Businesses will be looking long and hard at BPO following the ...  Continue Reading

Intel denies WiMax retreat

Chipmaker Intel has denied it is scaling back its commitment to the WiMax wireless standard.  Continue Reading

The Art of Cyberwar

The latest edition of the Economist has a major feature on Cyberwar, complete with a sensational image of an explosion in a civilian area, as well as a fascinating tale of a logic bomb. ...  Continue Reading

The power of a good spoof: "Dear Minister, I am in the process of renewing my passport"

.I have ... 50,000 copies and variations ... it is good to think that it may have been "When IT meets politics" that helped spread a good spoof around the world.  Continue Reading