August 2010

Much Ado About Business

At what point will modern business begin to move away from a technology as cost model to technology as an investment discipline. ?  Continue Reading

Sustainability -- The Next Driver For Innovation And Growth

Forrester has set up some new categories of sustainability solutions, creating three new sectors: Green IT, IT for green, and green business, which incorporates corporate sustainability planning ...  Continue Reading

Don't tell the spooks

In the quantum world all roads lead to Rome  Continue Reading

Online film competition with the BCS

I've mentioned viral video recently on the blog, especially in terms of how the corporate world has attempted to make viral video work as a new form of advertising. One of my favourite examples ...  Continue Reading

Computer super-material could stop your shoes smelling

Graphene has been heralded as the new super-material. It possesses incredible strength and elasticity, while its exceptionally high conductivity and use in flexible semiconductors could soup up ...  Continue Reading

Court rejects Accenture’s appeal in British Gas case

An appeal by Accenture against a claim from British Gas over the implementation of a billing system has been rejected by the Court of Appeal.  Continue Reading

Corporations gear up to move into the cloud

Around 78% of corporates said they have had internal discussions about using cloud computing, according to a survey from business advisory firm TPI.  Continue Reading

The UK government should rent out spare datacentre capacity

The government has about 130 datacentres and 9,000 server rooms. Add the police to that and you have another 80-plus datacentres. Suppliers could virtualise government datacentres. This could lead ...  Continue Reading

Wipro to take over Citibank’s German datacentre

Wipro has signed an agreement with Citibank to take over the management of its datacentre in Germany, establishing the Indian IT service provider's first...  Continue Reading

Google-backed IP satellite operator to compete with fibre networks

A Google-backed satellite network operator, O3b, has signed a long-term agreement with Europe Media Port to provide gigabit IP network connectivity and bandwidth services to clients located in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.  Continue Reading

Virgin tells banks to ‘stop talking, start tweeting’

Banks are failing to engage with customers online: Lloyds TSB is the only bank on the high street to provide customer service on Twitter.  Continue Reading

SNORT uses 'many eyeballs' for free network intrusion detection

The Snort open source network intrusion detection and prevention system is now boosted with Intel's QuickAssist Pattern Matching Technology.  Continue Reading

Adobe to release emergency security patches for Reader and Acrobat

Adobe plans to release out-of-band security updates for its Reader and Acrobat products for the third time in the past year.  Continue Reading

TPI is now dedicated to cloud computing

Sourcing consultancy TPI has launched a dedicated cloud computing advisory service. The TPI Cloud Computing Business Solutions Unit, as it is known, will help customers navigate the choppy cloud ...  Continue Reading

Contactpoint to be disconnected today and deleted in eight weeks

The Contactpoint database of UK children is being turned off today, 10 years after the idea was introduced by the Labour government.

The database was...

Small businesses use virtualisation to support growth

Small and medium enterprises are emulating larger firms in adopting virtualisation to aid growth.  Continue Reading

UK mobile users targeted by phishing e-mails

Mobile phone users in the UK are being targeted by phishing e-mails that appear to come from mobile service providers.  Continue Reading