Dec 4th, 2009
How To Grow Your Blog’s Readership
Are you looking to increase your blog readership. This might come as a huge surprise to you. The best way to increase your blog readership is to focus on other bloggers blogs. That’s right, getting involved with other blogs is a sure way to increase your readership. It’s all about being social, about engaging with other [...]
Dec 4th, 2009
Mobile Usability
The business world’s suddenly gone mobile, with workers logging on to enterprise applications through handheld devices. Sounds good, but are mobiles really ready? Increasing hype surrounding cloud computing suggests more and more enterprise apps will be accessed online. Email is already a mobile mainstay, thanks in large part to the speed of BlackBerry Enterprise Server. But [...]
Dec 4th, 2009
PMP – And The Master Data Management Project (Planning)
The Planning process for PMI consists of those processes that need to take place for the project manager to plan how to manage the project. Number one, you must determine how you will do planning. Hmmm, did I do that on my last project? I don’t think we planned how to plan, we jumped in [...]
Dec 4th, 2009
British Police Remove Drop From Ocean
British law enforcement today completed a project dubbed Operation Papworth, aimed at reducing the exposure of the British online shopping public to fraudulent websites in the run up to Christmas. The Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit have been widely reported in the media as “shutting down” or “taking down” more than 1200 websites peddling fraudulent [...]
Dec 4th, 2009
Contact Management For All
The ease of setup and deployment, coupled to low Capex and Opex requirements, that are the stock in trade of the SaaS delivery model, making it possible for many services to be brought before a far wider and deeper marketplace than otherwise possible. A good example of this is contact management where Contactual is using SaaS [...]
Dec 4th, 2009
Adobe And The Enterprise
What do you associate the name Adobe with? Well for me, it says Postscript and PDF and therefore Acrobat; and therefore documents and personal computing. The Enterprise and Adobe, for some of us, don’t, at first glance, fit together. But that is not the case, as I learnt when I attended the first EMEA Analyst [...]
Dec 4th, 2009
Great CIOs Ask Great Questions
It was Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922-1996), one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century, who revolutionized our picture of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in claiming that, according to the Paradigm Concept, a mature science experiences alternating phases of normal science and revolutions: “In normal science the key theories, instruments, values [...]
Dec 4th, 2009
Does IT Pay To Work Hard?
Last month over 1,500 employees of the IT services company Fujitsu voted in favour of taking strike action against the organisation following the revelation of plans to cuts jobs, pay and pensions. All are members of the union Unite, which claims that for some, the proposal could translate to a 20% reduction in pension value. But [...]
Dec 4th, 2009
Download Your Very Own Black Screen Of Death
There has been a right royal ruckus over the so-called Black Screen of Death in the last few days. Security firm Prevx kicked things off by warning that “millions” of Windows users could find themselves in front of a black screen, with fingers being pointed in the direction of Microsoft as possible culprits. The fighting talk [...]
Dec 4th, 2009
Apple Rolls Out Java Security Updates
Apple Mac users are being urged to update their installations of Java with new versions which protect against multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers. Mac OS X Snow Leopard users are advised to download Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1. It includes fixes for a number of security holes that were [...]
Dec 4th, 2009
Adobe Warns Of Critical Flash And Air Vulnerabilities
Adobe has published a security advisory announcing that it will be issuing a critical update to its Flash and Air products next week. Details of the vulnerabilities, which will apply to Adobe Flash Player 10.0.32.18 and earlier, and Adobe AIR 1.5.2 and previous versions, have not yet been made public, but users are being advised to [...]
Dec 4th, 2009
Farmville 3.8 Times More Popular Than Twitter
A Facebook application allowing people to be virtual farmers, similar to SimCity and the like, has more users than the whole of Twitter, according to Facebook. Farmville, which was not developed by Facebook, lists almost 70 million monthly active users while data from research firm Nielsen said traffic fell 27.8% between September and October to 18.9 [...]
