Information Age (London, UK) articles from July 2005

Information Age (London, UK) archives from July 2005

"We're trying to ensure people have control over the programs that run on their PCs.".(Adware)
July 10, 2005... Adware is a prickly issue: one user's unwanted spyware is another user's useful utility. But now the US courts might be about to provide an authoritative ruling on the legitimacy of such invasive software. Security giant Symantec is...

The unwired island.(contracts of WiMax technology)
July 10, 2005... Mauritius, the small island off the coast of Africa, is planning a world technological first: a completely wireless broadband nation. With a population of just 1.2 million and 2000 square kilometres to cover, ubiquitous high-speed wireless...

Sleep with Information Age.(Byte Night sleep-out )(Brief Article)
July 10, 2005... Editorial staff from Information Age will this year be joining more than 100 senior managers from the IT industry at a mass sponsored sleep-out in London in support of homeless young people - and we are asking some of our readers to join us....

Air your views on BI.
July 10, 2005... For over a decade, business intelligence has provided immeasurable business value. But some products are more powerful, easier to use and have produced more value than others. Information Age, in partnership with Survey.com, invites you to...

Manual quality.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2005... It was supposed to be the future of airport baggage handling systems, but it ended up just being too prone to mangling the suitcases it was supposed to protect. Now the $250 million automated luggage system at Denver International Airport is...

Ajax.(asynchronous JavaScript and XML)(Brief Article)
July 10, 2005... For the hard-pressed CIO, spending time getting to know the latest Internet buzzwords can seem like precious minutes wasted. The Internet is awash with technologies claiming to be the next big thing. Even so, there are developments that cry out...

Standing out from the crowd.
July 10, 2005... Search engine rankings are a vital component of an Internet presence: More than three quarters of hits on Internet home pages are directed there via a search engine; and half of consumers research online prior to making purchases. But many of...

The vocal web.(Wine Warehouse)(Jersey Card)(BarclaySquare)(WorldPay)(Voice Commerce)
July 10, 2005... What is the next big thing in ecommerce? There are probably as many answers to that question as there are commercial web sites. But one man whose opinions and actions have been closely tracked in recent years is Nick Ogden, a Jersey-based...

Sustainable momentum.(climate change)
July 10, 2005... G8 Summits are usually lively affairs - not least because of their ability to attract throngs of protesters. And while Bob Geldof was leading calls for political leaders to address African debt at the recent G8 meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland,...

The art of data.
July 10, 2005... The 530 miles of shelving in Washington's Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, hold the equivalent of 10 terabytes of information in text form. Search engine turned online media giant Yahoo receives the same amount of data...

Experian builds a data centre fortress.
July 10, 2005... As Mel Mason sat down to give a press interview in the conference room of his company's high-security, bomb-proofed, state of the art data centre, he admitted to some misgivings. Mason is the director of technology services for Experian,...

Data loss.
July 10, 2005... Information security issues have been making regular headlines in the business press over the past two years, but when IT security makes it to the front page of The Sun, the UK's most lurid and sensationalist tabloid, then it is clear that...

Distorted markets.
July 10, 2005... Movements in the IT recruitment market act as a bellwether for the overall state of the industry. So the stringent controls that have been placed on IT budgets in recent years suggest that recruitment activity should be down - and it has been....

The business case for ID cards.
July 10, 2005... Trying to work out if someone is who they say they are is a slippery problem. And the consequences are being seen everywhere. According to the Federal Trade Commission, identity theft of all kinds costs US businesses $50 billion to $60 billion...

On target.
July 10, 2005... Times - and priorities - are changing for IT executives. When analyst house Gartner quizzed a group of CIOs in 2005 about the demands being placed on them by their businesses, the results were surprising: the top priority was for IT to enable...

Ecommerce's new dawn.
July 10, 2005... The corporate excitement around ecommerce has calmed dramatically since the heyday of the dot com era when businesses of all shapes and sizes grew drunk on the vision of the web as their primary customer 'touchpoint'. Today, enthusiasm is...

Stats Entertainment: Don't believe TCO 'hype'.(total cost of ownership )(Brief Article)
July 10, 2005... Enterprise applications are, by and large, very expensive. Bad news then that studies which compare enterprise applications on the basis of total cost of ownership (TCO) are deeply flawed, according to a recent report published by Enterprise...