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Two questions to improve software implementations

Large enterprise software implementations are frequently complex, expensive, and risky undertakings. If you are prospective enterprise software buyer, ask your software and consulting vendors the following two questions: 1. Has your company developed an implementation toolkit? 2. Do you offer packaged, or productized, implementation...

Tags: Software, Cognos Inc., Enterprise Software, Consulting, Implementation Toolkit, Implementation Service, British Computer Society, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-10-01

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British police can now hack citizens' PCs

British police can now hack citizens' PCsDifferences...The only difference between Britain and the US... Britian is public with its plans and has government approval. The US has faced scrutiny of Congress but intelligence agencies pressed ahead anyway and already data mine all of your communications.Say hi to your Uncle...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Desktops, Spyware, British Police, PC, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-01-04

British police can now hack citizens' PCs

Seems like Britain's Home Office is channeling Dick Cheney. Last week I wrote that the U.K. is going forward with a plan to build a massive database of every phone call, email and chat conversation in the country. Supposedly they're going to datamine this stuff to find terrorists. ...

Tags: PC, Britain, Biometric Identification, Computer, E-mail, Productivity, Biometrics, Online Communications, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-04

British watchdog backs down over Wikipedia image of nude girl

British watchdog backs down over Wikipedia image of nude girlUhh, that is child pornold or new album art, that's still child pornOther countries are affected tooNot only UK is affected. Many countries use the blacklist supplied by IWF.See a sales presentation about CleanFeed/NetClean:http://www.slideshare.net/flyingpotato/netclean-whitebox-by-practeo-presentationMake all children wear bhurka's until the age...

Tags: Wiki, Other Countries, British watchdog, child pornography, watchdog, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

MI6 searching for the next generation

Whilst walking the streets of London, with half a baguette in one hand and a coffee in the other, I am no more than 10 feet away from someone who tells people you're no more than 10 feet away from a rat. I call them civil servants personally, wandering around...

Tags: Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Social Networking, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-11-05

British MP risks arrest for Segway use

British MP risks arrest for Segway useSegway UseHow can he risk arrest? Sutton Police use them.http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/1877474.sutton_police_stand_up_to_crime_in_the_12_5mph_squad_car/RE: British MP risks arrest for Segway useHave you never heard of a push bike? Just as fast as a Segway, its £4200.00 cheaper even MORE enviromentally friendly and has a range as far as...

Tags: Segway, British MP, bicycle, environmentally, more-expensive

Discussion threads 2008-09-10

Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisoners

Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisonersCriminals protected?Names, birthdays, and criminal histories of criminals in England are not public information??RE: Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisonersGood, just what we need: A society where everyone is required to 'think again' based on a sense...

Tags: English prisoner, prisoner, worker

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer

Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer"American Physical Society had recently stated that this is NOT the case"You claim that the American Physical Society APS recently stated that "there is still a lot of SCIENTIFIC debate going on" regarding the causes of global warming. That is an inaccurate...

Tags: Wiki, Christopher Monckton, American Physical Society, Google Knol, Google Inc., Wikipedia-killer

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

15 non-technical reasons IT projects fail

A study of IT "abandonment" reported by the British Computer Society BCS reinforces the notion that IT projects fail primarily for non-technical causes. Such quantitative research is important in helping managers understand the business, organizational, political, and cultural dimensions of IT failure. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-18

How evil is China?

How evil is China?I would not call China Evil....So much as America is being very stupid.1) No one is in a uproar about their kids having lead in their toys. 2) Sending our computer components to be built in China and wonder why they have spyware on...

Tags: Chinese product

Discussion threads 2008-04-21

NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'

The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the brief excerpts below. JP Rangaswami is Managing Director of Service Design at  BT Design, which has total responsibility for designing, building and...

Tags: Podcast, Information Technology, British Telecommunications, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Should net neutrality come to UK?

The president of the British Computer Society called on the UK to join the movement for Net neutrality, ZDNet UK reports. Professor Nigel Shadbolt said, "We might feel that we're happy with the degree of market force and flexibility in the U.K., but...what is clear is that...

Tags: U.K., Net Neutrality, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-17

Captain Cyborg and the Problem of Evil

(This is a re-run, from Dec 16/05.)While looking at a problem related to archiving thousands of project proposals and reports for a large IT consulting firm I was struck by the ease with which these could be classified into two strongly differentiated groups: those based on clerical or other worker...

Tags: Unanswered questions, Government, General

Blog posts 2007-07-04

UK Archives, Microsoft tackle format obsolescence

Can your office run Windows 3.1 or open documents written in Word 5? The fact that most people can't is of grave concern to the UK National Archives, the BBC reports.Archives chief Natalie Ceeney said society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical knowledge" because modern PCs could not...

Tags: Open source, International

Blog posts 2007-07-03

Laptop thief may go to prison for life

Laptop thief may go to prison for lifeRoutine crime. Nothing special.This kind of stuff happens every day all across the country. It's not limited to on-line. The same happens to people who meet in bars, etc.There's also nothing unusual about the "three strikes" law. Most, probably all, states have them....

Tags: laptop computer

Discussion threads 2007-06-29

Open source is the software you own

Chris Tomlinson, a British computer consultant, offers a Lakoff-like re-framing of the open source issue in his latest column for the Birmingham Post. Open source is the software you own.Lakoff, a linguistics professor at the University of California in Berkeley, famously told Democrats a few years ago they had to...

Tags: Government, marketing, Software Licensing, Strategy, General

Blog posts 2007-02-28

U.S. 'threatened' alleged NASA hacker, defense says

U.S. 'threatened' alleged NASA hacker, defense saysWhat a wimp...Commit the crime, do the time. Time to man up and pay for his misdeeds.I call BSI don't think that he'll avoid extradition simply because the prosecutor threatened him with the maximum sentence of a crime he allegedly committed.This crime isn't...

Tags: Hacking, troop, Super Max, hacker, NASA

Discussion threads 2007-02-16

ISP offers students cash for open source code

As an incentive to get students to push the code boundaries of open source software, a British software network is offering cash for fresh code, reports Welsh IT News Online. The UK Free Software Network UKFSN, a small Hertfordshire-based Internet service provider, concieved the idea to...

Tags: Education Technology, Open Source, software, UKFSN

Blog posts 2007-01-17

Scary IT: Ministry of suspicious walks

Ever walked down a deserted street at night and had that eery feeling you're being watched? If you live in London, there's every chance you are. The UK has more CCTV cameras (5 million) per head of population (60 million) than any other nation. It's estimated that a Londoner going...

Tags: camera, CCTV Cameras

Blog posts 2006-11-02

RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast

RFID passports and VeriChip security podcasta practical addition George.."But we want to avoid bad RFID implementations like the Dutch passport which according to Mahaffey was extremely simple to break because it had an effective entropy of 30 bits in the encryption key."That was already known about 15 months ago here......

Tags: Government, Palestine, Roma, Bible, RFID Passport, RFID, Babylon, VeriChip, liberty, passport, security, podcast

Discussion threads 2006-08-22