Information Age (London, UK) articles from September 2005

Information Age (London, UK) archives from September 2005

Extreme IT: Any old tape.
September 10, 2005... Preserving digital information can be a tricky business - indeed the problem is so complex, scientists at US space agency NASA implemented a data retention policy that fixes deletion dates for different classes of data. Like many IT...

Digital payment.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2005... In recent months shoppers in parts of the US have been walking up to check outs, waving their hands at the shop assistant, and walking out of the store with armfuls of groceries. But this is not part of some shoplifting craze: it is the testing...

News round-up: July 2005.
September 10, 2005... Hewlett-Packard (HP) will cut 14,500 jobs from its global workforce. The move is expected to yield $1.9 billion in annual savings, but will cost the company $1.1 billion every quarter for the next six quarters. The cuts - nearly 10% of the...

Barclays Bank.
September 10, 2005... Project: International DNA Business goal: To provide Barclays Bank's international sales staff with faster access to better information in order to identify sales. Award sponsor: Savvis For the sales team at Barclays International...

Sutton Manor Surgery.
September 10, 2005... Project: Pocket Vision Business goal: To develop a mobile system that enables GPs to access and update patient records when on call, thereby improving patient care and eliminating cost and duplication of effort. Project partners: In...

BAA.(British Airports Authority contract for WebTop project)
September 10, 2005... Project: WebTop Business goal: To reduce the cost and complexity associated with a vast applications portfolio through the introduction of a new thin client infrastructure. Project partner: C&C Technology Overall award sponsor:...

Medway Council.(e-forms project for Adobe inc.)
September 10, 2005... Project: e-forms Business goal: To make the council more responsive to people's needs and requests through an e-enabled strategy. Project partner: Adobe Award sponsor: Vodafone Councils are often stereotyped as slow,...

British Airways.(Integrated Applications Infrastructure contract with BEA Systems )
September 10, 2005... Project: Integrated Applications Infrastructure Business goal: To reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction by driving interaction through a set of integrated online applications. Project partner: BEA Systems Award sponsor:...

GovNet Communications.
September 10, 2005... Project: SearchThePublicSector.co.uk Business goal: To provide the public with easy access to information made available under the Freedom of Information Act. Project partner: Autonomy The Freedom of Information Act, which came...

Assessing the risks of memory sticks.(Brief Article)
September 10, 2005... The IT profession is turning a blind eye to the threats imposed by removable media, according to research from mobile security company Pointsec. By ignoring the very real danger of removable devices, such as media players and USB flash memory...

Getting the most out of outsourcing.
September 10, 2005... CIOs are in need of 'relationship counselling' to help them get the most from their outsourcing contracts, according to a nationwide survey conducted by PMP Research on behalf of IT services company Computacenter. Almost three quarters of the...

Financial results - July 2005.(Oracle Corp., SAP AG and PeopleSoft Inc.)
September 10, 2005... Since Oracle finalised the acquisition of PeopleSoft in January, its rivalry with its German counterpart in enterprise applications, SAP, has boiled over. As Oracle was announcing its annual results to Wall Street in late June, SAP was busy...

M&As in July 2005.
September 10, 2005... Following intensive consolidation in the enterprise applications sector, the market leaders have switched tack and are now cherry-picking smaller, little-known players. To complement its push into retail software with its acquisition of...

Infoconomy Index for July 2005: A slow slide.
September 10, 2005... The IT sector is gradually losing pace. The last quarterly performances by the world's largest IT companies shaved a percentage point off the Infoconomy Index, the gauge of revenue growth at 200 vendors. The global index, which is dominated by...

Arup.(forcasting fully the firm)
September 10, 2005... Project: Storage consolidation Business goal: To develop a system that would slash the amount of time and money it would take to recover the company's 32 exchange servers. Project partner: Network Appliance Award sponsor: The IT...

Cresta Group.
September 10, 2005... Project: TestStrategist Project Business goal: To develop a software project management tool that would reduce costs and speed time-to-market. Award sponsor: Oki Cresta's business is software quality. as a software testing...

Lane Group.(contract for Enhanced supply chain project)
September 10, 2005... Project: Enhanced supply chain Business goal: To use IT to improve service levels and reduce costs. Project partner: PA Consulting Group Award sponsor: Vodafone Today, most highly mobile workforces are likely to be issued with...

LogicaCMG.
September 10, 2005... Project: Corporate Vision Business goal: To create a dynamic and collaborative environment for planning, resourcing and tracking the status and costs of IT projects. Project partner: Atlantic Global Award Sponsor: BMC Software ...

Rapid rise for enterprise content management.
September 10, 2005... By 2008, organisations worldwide will be spending more than $7 billion annually on document and content management software. According to IT market research firm InfoTrends/CAP Ventures, growth in the sector over the next three years will run...

Demand for web site analysis tools surges.
September 10, 2005... Demand for web analytics technologies in the UK is showing 'stellar growth'. Recent research by online forum E-consultancy concludes that the UK market is set to grow by 25% to [pounds sterling]46 million in 2005, as web analytics becomes an...

India's top ten offshore outsourcing partners.
September 10, 2005... Nasscom, the body that represents the lucrative technology industry in India, has unveiled its rankings of the top IT software and services exporters in India. Topping the list was Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), part of one of Asia's...

Outdoor Group.
September 10, 2005... Project:Supply chain Business goal: To use technology to improve a well-established supply chain strategy and overhaul its physical logistics in the process. Project partner: SSA Global Award sponsor: Conchango Like all...

City of Edinburgh Council.(deals with BT Consulting and Systems Integration )
September 10, 2005... Project: Planning and Building Standards Business goal: To streamline planning application processing by automating paper-centric processes and turning many public-facing functions into web-based services. Project partner: BT...

Readers' letters.(Letter to the Editor)
September 10, 2005... Problem solving Your article on IT disasters ('When IT all goes wrong', Information Age May 2005) highlights a major cause for concern among IT directors. In this day and age, whether you are monitoring financial data, keeping track of...

A very different angle...
September 10, 2005... Ten years ago, when tackling stories on IT, journalists would almost invariably see the task as 'getting to the bottom of the technology' - the bits and bytes, the features and functions, and the personalities and companies that developed them....

The comeback kid.
September 10, 2005... iCon was making the headlines even before a single reviewer had opened its covers. Incensed that Wiley, the renowned technology book publisher, had supported an unauthorised biography of him, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs demanded that all...

Pass IT on.(information technology)(british airways marketing trends)(Brief Article)
September 10, 2005... For the IT executive that feels his teams' achievements deserve publicity, there is an obvious solution: pay someone to talk about it. Take the case of British Airways: in recent months it has been pushing the benefits of its website...

The CIOs' CIO.
September 10, 2005... Chief information officers often get blamed when things go wrong, but they rarely get much recognition when IT does work well. That is beginning to change. IT leaders such as Colin Cobain, the CIO at supermarket chain Tesco, are beginning...

"Software should cost more when run on multi-core chips.".
September 10, 2005... When software maker Oracle decided to revisit its licensing policy for the latest multi-core dual processor chips in June, many analysts were not surprised. The latest processors, from Intel, AMD and others, are powerful and consume less heat,...

Ten-year top tens.
September 10, 2005... Netscape The browser that started it all. Launched in 1994, Netscape became a household name as it kicked off the dot com boom with its initial public offering in August 1995. Essbase The multi-dimensional database technology that put...

1995-2005: The making of the information age.
September 10, 2005... Information Age was in good company in 1995 at its launch. In August of that watershed year Netscape, which started 1995 with a staff of 15 and a version 1.0 browser, floated on Nasdaq and saw its market cap rise to $1.96 billion in a day,...

Microsoft poised to shatter the calm.
September 10, 2005... Thirty years after Microsoft was founded, most of the world's software companies have learned to live with the industry's gorilla: even its biggest and most direct competitors rarely go head to head with Microsoft these days. But this period of...

Nokia sets sights on enterprise target.
September 10, 2005... Only rarely does an enterprise view mobile phones as a strategic purchase. For most business users, phones are treated, if not as disposable, then as equipment with a short working life. This is especially true in markets such as the UK, where...

Fools rush in.
September 10, 2005... Rushed law is bad law - or so the saying goes. The principle, while certainly not universally true, has been demonstrated with enough regularity over the years for policy makers to have become more cautious, though not necessarily less...

A productive experience.
September 10, 2005... Whisper it quietly: the reputation of IT as an engine of organisational productivity is being called into question. Some are even suggesting that far from making workers more productive, technology is dampening their intelligence. Clinical...

Just too cute.
September 10, 2005... Microsoft's executives will candidly admit that the company's past attempts to help customers make better use of its Office product family were "a fiasco". "Bob and Clippy [the animated pop-up help characters] were too damn cute," says Bob...

Simplifying ERP.
September 10, 2005... When companies began implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in the latter half of the 1990s, the vision was to reach a single ERP instance. Yet bandwidth availability, telecom costs and enterprise database costs proved to be...

Re-inventing HP the Hurd way.
September 10, 2005... Since taking charge at technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) in April 2005, new CEO Mark Hurd has only made minor changes to the running of the company: changing a few sales teams here, hiring some new staff there. But in July, Hurd unveiled...

IBM fills out its e-forms line.
September 10, 2005... In recent times, IBM has made something of a habit of buying up key software partners, a tactic that has given it control of technologies as their popularity soars. In March it picked up Ascential for $1.1 billion to give it a leadership...

Data centre evolution.
September 10, 2005... Historically, data centre costs have been closely linked to demand: the more computing power needed by the business, the higher the investment in servers and the higher the investment in specialist real-estate for housing those servers. While...

Power surge.
September 10, 2005... The Internet service provider (ISP) market is already fiercely competitive with telcos, cable TV suppliers and pure ISPs slugging it out. But now electricity companies want to join the fray by developing broadband over power lines (BPL). ...

A fluid outlook.
September 10, 2005... When application development systems company BEA proclaimed in June that "the future is liquid", it meant to convey a vision of agility, and almost infinite possibility. Its new 'AquaLogic' products, for building and managing a service-oriented...

The CIO's decade.
September 10, 2005... Over the last decade the position at the head of IT has changed dramatically. Firstly, it was rare 10 years ago for the job title CIO to grace anyone's business card in the UK - now the US import has joined IT director, IS director and head of...

Adding high value.(celebrating for achievement )(Brief Article)
September 10, 2005... 'Demonstrate indisputable business value' has become the charter of IT organisations. It is also the framework for Information Age's Effective IT Programme. The Effective IT Report, published annually, identifies the set of technologies...