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11 May 2012: The end of April was a busy time for IT security analysts. April 24 to 26 was Infosecurity Europe (InfoSec) at Earl’s Court,...
09 May 2012: What’s covered by your disaster recovery strategy? Lightning strike? Check. Flood? Check. Seagull crap? Hactivist squirrel...
09 May 2012: Martyn Hart, chair of the National Outsourcing Association (NOA), must rue the day he added his voice to the shouting match...
09 May 2012: We have had cause in the past at Backbytes to make fun of Mensa, not least because it’s easy to do. But the organisation...
09 May 2012: We’re not anti-intellectual here, but sometimes we wonder why the world’s cleverest people don’t just ask the rest...
09 May 2012: One person unlikely to be welcome at a Mensa meeting in the near future is Jovan Cummings, who celebrated robbing a Dollar...
09 May 2012: In India a 25-year-software engineer has won himself a place on an MBA valued at $36,400 by entering a competition to apply...
09 May 2012: We treat our bodies like temples, so we’re onside with software developer Bruce W Perry’s Fitness for Geeks. “Sprinkled...
08 May 2012: As predicted and wished for by many, work is becoming something done, rather than a place to go. The once solid delineation...
02 May 2012: I've witnessed the marked decline in data quality over the years (Poor data quality eats into IT budgets). Unfortunately,...
02 May 2012: In his opinion piece, Dell’s Alan Mac Neela writes: “At a strategic level, public bodies need to develop the awareness...
02 May 2012: On the very same morning I read your article “Gartner: Customer ‘experience’ now a top-10 CIO priority” I received...
02 May 2012: I have a supplier in common with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), and the precautions they take with data security are pretty...
02 May 2012: How many companies can afford to put £100m into the pot (Cambridgeshire County Council issues £100m tender for next-gen...
02 May 2012: These kinds of IT disasters are often the result of IT-illiterate politicians changing requirements, which leads to project...
02 May 2012: In your interview with Shaygan Kheradpir, COO of Barclays Retail (Barclays banks on innovation), he utters the memorable...
02 May 2012: The few kids with aptitude for computer science will learn it eventually anyway, on specialist BTEC or degree courses (Skills...
18 Apr 2012: In one of the rare examples of an urban myth coming to life, a 17-year-old boy, identified only by his surname Wang, is suffering...
18 Apr 2012: In more evidence that Apple technology will shortly turn the entire planet into drooling cretins, a Los Angeles animal shelter...
18 Apr 2012: Researchers at US recruiter CareerCast have used scores based on categories like Stress and Hiring Outlook to rate 200 jobs...
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