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Plods Plod the Perilous Wikipedia Path
This weeks Police Review, which is essential reading for
those involved in the depressing work of policing this country, carries an
interesting story on page 4 concerning that font of all knowledge...
Nigel Stanley | By: Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 3rd July '09
Fixing the engine of UK, Ltd
We often hear about what is happening with the largest enterprises in the UK—those who are seen as making up the main part of UK, plc. However, there are few organisations with more than 1,000 employees, and even though they do make up...
Quocirca | By: Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 3rd July '09
Wacko Jacko and the Masters of Spam
Security firm Sophos are reporting that spammers are capitalising on the
recent death of Michael Jackson to
harvest active email accounts. The body of the email appears inert, with no
hidden malware. Instead the spammer is
expecting, no...
Nigel Stanley | By: Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 30th June '09
The quantity of quality (management software vendors) is shrinking
As you may (or may not know), in May of this year, Micro Focus announced its intent to acquire two of the remaining enterprise QA / testing software companies. In doing so, it seems to have subsequently begun a somewhat mild bidding war for...
IMHO | By: Michael Warrilow | 29th June '09
CSC - Cloud Strategy Coming
CSC this week hosted their EMEA Industry Analyst summit; Innoventure, in Paris. It was never quite explained what exactly an innoventure was but it sounds like a cross between innovation and adventure so perhaps it is like inventing something...
Quocirca | By: Simon Perry, Quocirca | 26th June '09
Managed hosting in Europe
Many businesses will find that leasing a computing platform is more cost effective than buying one, especially with the current constraints on capital spending. In light of this it is good news that, as reported in Quocirca's free report Managed...
Quocirca | By: Bob Tarzey, Quocirca | 22nd June '09
The opportunities and risks of telehealth in the NHS
Though their lineage dates back to before World War II, ATMs in their modern form appeared widely on the high street in 1973. Since then they have bred like rabbits and spawned numerous cousins in the form of automated ticket dispensing machines...
Quocirca | By: Simon Perry, Quocirca | 18th June '09
Intuit Partner Platform: Changing the Rules of Cloud Platforms with Federated Applications
Cloud platforms, or platforms-as-a-service (PaaS) are quickly becoming a key channel for application developers. By writing and publishing their applications to integrate with those of a major PaaS provider, such as salesforce.com or Microsoft,...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 16th June '09
Stopping search
My main hobby is photography, so I've been interested and dismayed to see how police forces around the country are increasingly bullying amateur and professional snappers in the name of security. It's never happened to me, I'm glad to say, probably...
Office Jotter | By: Roger Whitehead, Office Futures | 15th June '09
What's the future of the virtual conference?
I am in the middle of attending Microsoft's Server Technology Business industry analyst event. I have attended this for many years but this year Microsoft decided that it would be a virtual event. Sessions would be streamed over the web to be...
Judith Hurwitz | By: Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 12th June '09
Premise vs. Premises in the Cloud
With all of the research I've been doing for our latest book: Cloud Computing for Dummies, I've noticed something very disturbing. Maybe it's because I come from a telecommunications background, that this bothers me so much—but has anyone...
Fern Halper | By: Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 12th June '09
Five things I learned at IBM's Rational Conference
I haven't been to IBM's Rational Conference in a couple of years so I was very interested not just to see what IBM had to say about the changing landscape of software development but how the customers attending the conference had changed. I was...
Judith Hurwitz | By: Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 10th June '09
Apple push accessibility to the front
I have written about Apple and accessiblity on many occasions, e.g. here, giving them a red card quite often but praising them when they added features that improved accessiblity of any product. My overall impression was Apple tried but...
Abrahams Accessibility | By: Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 10th June '09
Threats to the American Justice System - Can Enterprise Content Management Help?
I was at the EMC writer's conference this past Friday, speaking on Text Analytics and ECM. The idea behind the conference is very cool. EMC brings together writers and bloggers, from all over the world, to discuss topics relevant to content...
Fern Halper | By: Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 9th June '09
Accessibility Conferences
This blog will be updated each time I become aware of a new conference. If you are running a conference please click on the contact the author button and I will update the blog.
I will be running a session on ‘WCAG 2.0 and new...
Abrahams Accessibility | By: Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 8th June '09
IBM Lotus Foundations: A Real Choice for Small Businesses and Partners
As I mentioned in a blog I posted after Lotusphere 2009, IBM Lotus has been reluctant to go head to head with obvious rivals, particularly Microsoft. At Lotusphere, however, the company came out swinging, declaring intentions to shatter Windows...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 6th June '09
Text Analytics Summit 2009
I just got back from the Text Analytics Summit and it was a very good conference. I've been attending the Summit for the last three years and it has gotten better every year. This year, it seemed like there were a lot more end users and the...
Fern Halper | By: Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 4th June '09
What Will Social Networking Displace?
Just a couple of years ago, many people were still debating whether digital social networking was just a flash in the pan. With social media growth surging, that that debate is over. People have moved on to try and figure out where social...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 4th June '09
Too many chiefs...
Recently, I saw something saying that every organisation should have a head of social media to spearhead its approach to using blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the million or so other social media networks that the Twitterati now say have to...
Quocirca | By: Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 4th June '09
JavaONE: Bright Future or Riding off into the Sunset?
Today, June 2nd, I set my alarm early, 6:00 AM early. The reason was to catch Caltrain #313 @ 6:57 AM so I can make it Moscone Center in time for Sun Microsystems' keynote at JavaONE. As I made my way to the train station, I pondered what I was...
Sageza Says | By: Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc. | 4th June '09