At times, it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of the technology de jour-areas such as SOA, Blogs and RFID-forgetting that a) there's not that many real-world practitioners out there yet, and b) there's one hell of a lot more pressing issues for companies based on dealing with the "boring stuff". ...
10/05/2006 | Dealing with the Boring Stuff.pdf | VIEW
The fact that most businesses value IT, as shown in a recent Quocirca survey, will not come as a surprise to many. For many it is considered an integral part of their operations. So, neither is it surprising that businesses take major IT investment decisions pretty seriously as well. ...
08/05/2006 | Finance Directors are Real Deal Killers.pdf | VIEW
There's been a great deal of interest in the use of offshoring. Last year, the main focus was on labour arbitrage, ensuring that the same business functions could be done for lower prices in a different geography. ...
04/05/2006 | The Pro 's & Con 's of Offshoring.pdf | VIEW
We seem to be going through the form factor wars again - not only do we have desktop-replacement laptops, laptop-replacement tablets and tablet-replacement PDAs, but we have the phone handset trying to take the multi-media market by storm, and Microsoft's Origami machine trying to be all things to all people. ...
02/05/2006 | It's not Size that Matters.pdf | VIEW
IPTV (internet protocol television) is all the rage in the quadruple-play markets where telecommunications companies hope to sell landline, mobile, internet access and video services. At the same time, the likes of Google and Yahoo! are looking at how they can make money by providing similar services such as streaming video. ...
27/04/2006 | The New Age of Web Ads.pdf | VIEW
As employees of companies become more dispersed and more mobile, one of the issues that organisations are struggling with is providing adequate speed of response for those accessing centralised applications and services over the wide area network (Wan). ...
19/04/2006 | The need for WAN Acceleration.pdf | VIEW
'Finders keepers, losers weepers' - not only an old schoolyard chant and the lyrics of an Elvis Presley song but also a reasonable summary of the market for services delivered to smart mobile phones ...
13/04/2006 | Searching for Mobile Search.pdf | VIEW
In the dark ages of five years ago, we had suppliers selling us standalone security systems based on securing this platform, this data, this application, these PCs and so on. ...
04/04/2006 | Building IT Security for Flexible Working.pdf | VIEW
First we had the big move by consumers to the use of mobile phones only, and then we had the massive disruptor of Voice over IP. VoIP offers minimally priced (or free) calls worldwide and it's easy to set up, so only a fool will have stayed away from the use of VoIP, right? ...
27/03/2006 | Beware the Siren Cry of VoIP.pdf | VIEW
As we all know, RFID has been widely adopted by the retail community, who have been looking at how single item tagging can improve inventory turns, speed up trolley pass-throughs at the check-out and give massive savings on the supply chain and better visibility of customer buying habits. ...
17/03/2006 | RFID - It is Coming, Again.pdf | VIEW
