When IT Meets Politics
February 2010
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Envisioning the future versus Digital Myopia
- Winsafe Ltd 25 Feb 2010 -
More bottlenecks than a brewery: the UK Broadband Network
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Feb 2010 -
The Fog over Grimpen Mire: Cloud Computing revisited
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Feb 2010
Most of the current generation of UK regulators ... think they are leading the world. And in a sense they are. For nearly a decade the rest of the world has indeed seen the UK as a case study to ...
The business case for further infrastructure investment, even before business rates, is therefore suspect - except for those who make their money from Internet Advertising. Hence Google's plan in ...
I will not comment on the legal Grimpen Mire described by Miranda. Follow the link above to her paper and consider the issues that need to be addressed for the Cloud suppliers and their customers ...
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Drowning in Data Leaks v. Death by Data Protection
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Feb 2010 -
Does Cloud Computing need Superfast Broadband?
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Feb 2010 -
Industry calls for user choice over pay per click advertising
- Winsafe Ltd 09 Feb 2010 -
Yes to the cut-price passport - alias young persons ID card
- Winsafe Ltd 08 Feb 2010 -
Information Security Breaches Survey - who tells the truth?
- Winsafe Ltd 05 Feb 2010 -
Cloud computing is a nebulous concept
- Winsafe Ltd 04 Feb 2010 -
Is poor service forcing consumers off-line?
- Winsafe Ltd 02 Feb 2010
The intention is send links to the winning entry to all candidates after an awards ceremony in Parliament on 22nd March and to make all entries available to the newly elected MPs after the general ...
nterestingly even London does not make the OECD top 20 Cities for either download or upload speeds: unlike its competitors like Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Hamburg, Lyon, New York, Paris, Rotterdam, ...
The suggestion that industry should take a lead before regulation is forced on them is eminently sensible. Especially since regulators rarely allow consumers a choice. They prefer to take it for ...
A light has switched on in the Home Office. The IPS press release for the availablity of the Young Persons ID Card in London points out that it can be used as a passport across Europe. At £30 ...
The most impressive security "policy" that I have came across was printed on one side of a postcard - which all staff (and contractors) had to read and sign before they got their password.
What is clear is that if customers have to do this themselves, it can wipe out the benefits on offer. There is a need for credible, shared, evalutions services. More-over these will need to cross ...
Unless and until they do, we will continue to see a situation where high-value customers browse on-line but buy off-line and the corner shop will inherit the cash handling business that used to be ...
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Miss Marple monitoring the St Mary Mead CCTV
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2010
I suspect the time has come to stop worrying about 1984 and BIg Brother and start worrying about the voyeur next door. Or should that mean looking forward to a new on-line "community spirit".