Information Age (London, UK) articles from May 2005

Information Age (London, UK) archives from May 2005

Backwoods vigilante.(Vigilante)
May 10, 2005... The notion of Microsoft's chief architect Bill Gates locking himself in a secluded woodland cottage to think about worms sounds frankly a little bizarre. But Gates' latest hiatus from the coalface at Microsoft has excited him immensely. Forest...

Moore and more.(semiconductor industry)(Industry Overview)
May 10, 2005... In April 2005, the chip industry celebrated the fortieth anniversary of Moore's Law. Ever since Gordon Moore, co-founder of microprocessor giant Intel, first relayed his theory in the April 1965 edition of Electronics magazine, the industry has...

A hot calculation...(Gordon E Moore)
May 10, 2005... Forty years ago, almost to the day, an article appeared in Electronics magazine that made an incredible prediction. In an era when commercial mainframes were just appearing, the author, Gordon E Moore, wrote: "Integrated circuits will lead...

Autonomic for the people.
May 10, 2005... The data centre is fast becoming a black hole for IT resources. The sheer number of applications, their supporting infrastructure and the tools to manage it all is manpower intensive. The well-paid staff that oversee the running of the data...

Static solutions.(content-addressed storage technique)
May 10, 2005... The amount of electronic data in the world is growing at an unprecedented rate as email becomes a prime method of communication, and data previously stored on paper, tape or film is digitised. Recent changes in legislation have meant that...

Associated Newspapers.(Business Activity Monitoring )
May 10, 2005... Integrating disparate IT systems has long been a cause of heartache for CIOs. And while there is an established corporate acceptance that there are benefits to integrating systems, it still a subject that CIOs are rightly fearful of bringing up...

Icelandair.(computerized reservation systems)
May 10, 2005... The emergence of low-cost airlines has intensified competition throughout the industry. But as well as forcing airlines to cut costs and streamline processes the low-cost carriers have also changed customers' expectations of the range of...

Destination: SOA.(service oriented architecture)
May 10, 2005... For once there is no dissent: market analysts say it is the next big thing; vendors say their products already support it; and some users say they thought of it first. Everyone seems to agree that the service oriented architecture (SOA) is the...

Software at your service.
May 10, 2005... Modern businesses are built on software. The processes they use to receive and fulfil orders, measure financial performance and pay their staff are all defined by applications, linked together by middleware and accessed via interfaces that are...

Fidelity Investments.(interview)(Interview)
May 10, 2005... Information Age (IA): As IT is increasingly delivered as a service to different business units, IT departments have tried different charge-back models. Fidelity has moved to a usage-based model, but how were business units charged for network...

Policing IT.
May 10, 2005... As computing has worked its way into the fabric of the modern organisation, the threat from outsiders - as well as internal staff - has grown exponentially. Malevolent code is now threatening almost every facet of the organisation. New...

The collaborator.
May 10, 2005... Ray Ozzie belongs to a coterie of technology superstars that are credited with creating some of the watershed developments in software - a group that includes James Gosling (the Java programming language), Marc Andreessen (the web browser) and...

The omnipresent network.
May 10, 2005... When the semiconductor giant Intel installed a WiMax wireless network at the UK's Science Museum's airfield campus in the Wiltshire countryside, Sally Pettipher, the organisation's head of development, was so delighted that she felt like...

Towards policy-based computing.(Interview)
May 10, 2005... Information Age (IA): You believe that data centre technology is about to change radically. Can you explain why? Bill McColl (BM): We're at a rare point in time when we universally agree we're in transition from using proprietary,...

Spam assault.
May 10, 2005... The prospect of a world without email is something that most of us would prefer not to think about. For millions of staff at tens of thousands of companies, the working day begins and ends with email, and occupies a significant portion of...

HVB Americas.(HypoVereinsbank)
May 10, 2005... One conundrum has long puzzled software makers: how to build software with enough mass-market appeal to make development cost-effective, while also aligning it to specific business processes. The latest solution is the development of composite...

In the vernacular.(International Mathematics Society)(Brief Article)
May 10, 2005... Every industry has its own particular jargon that quickly renders any language incomprehensible gobbledegook. The technology industry is particularly adept at this form of linguistic assault, as vendors desperately dress up their latest...

Technoslacking.(Munich University )(Brief Article)
May 10, 2005... Desktop PCs: corporate productivity engine or source of company slacking? It is an uncomfortable question, the PC may be earning a reputation as an inhibitor of work. Academics from Munich University recently used a survey of 100,000...

Shrinking systems.(Brief Article)
May 10, 2005... Weighing in at 18 grams and smaller than a box of cigarettes, the Picotux 100 is being touted as the world's smallest Linux device. In principle, the Picotux offers the ultimate in remote lifestyle working. Picotux can turn any electrical...

"Analysts should be more transparent.".
May 10, 2005... John Katsaros, principal of the Internet Research Group, says analysts should explain how they reach their conclusions. "It is important that we have healthy analysts - it's good for the industry. The more companies respect the opinions of...