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Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies.
May 2007
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Lock-down madness
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Will the web bubble burst again?
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Dare we look into Microsoft's colourful past?
- Managing Editor 29 May 2007
Unless IT changes its attitude and evolves to support what end users want to do - and that means allowing, rather than preventing such downloads - what hope is there that businesses will be able to ...
Sites that try to sell products or push out thinly veiled marketing messages are not going to cut it. Even sites that are considered to offer the very best web experience today, will inevitably ...
Microsoft and its new best friend, Novell, are clearly looking to question the underlying principals of open source software. Who's to say that some unforeseen skeleton in a cupboard won't come ...
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Microsoft shows its true Linux strategy
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The next generation IT conference
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Business on Web 2.0
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Wi-Fi madness 2
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Wi-Fi madness
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There's more to green IT than energy efficiency
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A bad phone day
- Managing Editor 17 May 2007
MS and Novell are happy to form an alliance to distribute Linux, but are not prepared to abide by GPL 3.0 which governs the licensing rules of open source software
Gartner has been talking about how IT can drive green initatives in business - like cutting down travel by using video conferencing. Yet, several hundred people flew over to hear this. Perhaps it ...
Web 2.0 efforts like Wikipedia have demonstrated how mass collaboration can create arguably superior products to those developed entirely by in-house skills, at no cost. Companies can share ...
HSUPA, offers 2 Mbps broadband connectivty on a wireless network. With this level of bandwidth, users can begin to treat mobile data in the same way as the corporate local area network (LAN).
The radiation emitted from Wi-Fi networks is well below that of mobile phones. Perhaps we should first ban all cell phones from schools, before deciding that Wi-Fi represents a health risk to children
The biggest environmental cost of desktop IT is not energy inefficient desktops and printers, but the inefficient supply chain.
I'm all for progress, and convergence in mobile devices is certainly a good thing. But these devices must allow users to make and receive phone calls reliably, otherwise they are useless.
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Storage must go online
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Can close links with the IT industry work?
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Open Source is 2.0
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No such thing as a virus-free operating system
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Which operating system?
- Managing Editor 08 May 2007
Today on the consumer-facing Web, there are many ways to share information and there is hardly any need to delete correspondence, unlike corporate email, which is crippled by wholly impractical ...
What struck me about the Maltese was the extent the government has gone to attract IT investment.
Linux is user generated. The open source community really is Web 2.0.
Any OS that comes under the same scrutiny as Windows XP is sure to reveal its shortcomings. The only reason the Mac, or Linux doesn't have viruses is that they don't get much exposure.
Businesses do not really care what operating system they run, so long as it supports the applications they require. Most appreciate that Windows comes from Microsoft; Unix from one of the server ...