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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...