This week the IT Week Insider was expecting to be bought by Google, but oddly it didn’t happen. We know the search megamoth is looking around for things to buy, so it stands to reason that it would at least consider a purchase. If YouTube, why not us?
Still waiting for Google’s moolah, so we were forced to smash open the copper jar in order to buy enough bananas to keep the monkeys off our backs while we wrote this, the pick of the IT news that happened this week.
News:
Privacy concerns dog RFID use
Those gravy-train-riding, paper-pushing, rule-making, white-haired bureaucrats
from Brussels have stuck more oars into things than cantankerous boatmen. This
week it is the turn of RFID which they think is too complicated for people to
get to grips with. Are you ready for this? The EC thinks that it can
uncomplicate things. Yeah. Right.
More News:
Video conferencing wins support of
“stressed out travellers”
According to a firm that supplies video conferencing technology, about 25
percent of all face-to-face meetings could have taken place online. We think
that’s a conservative estimate. Since the majority of internal meetings are
about as valid and useful as sturdy boots for octopi we think they might as well
take place while the participants are blasted out of a cannon into the face of
the moon.
Oracle plans Linux stack move?
Oracle may be about to possibly, potentially, if it kinda feels like it, maybe
add a branded version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution under its back-end stack
of database, app server and tools. It might not of course, but really, would we
bother writing about it if it were not very likely indeed? Don’t answer that.
Comment:
Enterprise 2.0 to boldly revolutionise IT
Far be it for us to reference Star Trek - we are a magazine staffed mainly by
thirty-something males after all. But. Star Trek references aside we. Tell you
that Enterprise 2.0 and software. As a service will. Change. IT. For. Ev. Er.
And yes, that is supposed to be a representation of how William Shatner delivers
his lines.
Analysis:
Users fear venturing too far
online
We wanted to speak to Bruce Schneier about the long tail theory, but we thought
that since he has one of the strangest long-ponytail barnets we’ve ever seen
we’d best talk about something less likely to cause offence. So Phil Muncaster
chatted to him about what can be done to boost online banking and shopping
usage, and remove consumer security fears. Now we’ve got that out of the way,
Bruce, about the combover...
IT Week Podcast
This week David Neal and Madeline Bennett discuss why there should be more women
working in IT. Fortunately David only poses the questions.
IT Week Labs blog
IT Week’s wood-burning paper-eaters reckon that Vista still looks like it has a
few loose ends that need tying up. Kinda like an old fishing net that’s been
used to catch a lot of sharks, been dragged across the rocks, and then entrusted
to the care of Edward Scissorhands.
Green Business News
This week the Patchouli oil smelling, joss stick burning, sandal wearers are
talking about storage. Man.
IT Sneak blog
This week Sneak thinks that Cisco has gone a bit Tesco, and then suggests that
we mount piezoelectrics. Easier said than done. Have you ever tried catching a
piezoelectric, Sneak? Never mind wooing one.
Phil Muncaster blog
This week Phil Muncaster tells us that National Identity Fraud Prevention
Week has started. Well, at least we think it was Phil.
David Neal blog
This week David Neal continues to demonstrate his woeful photoshopping
skills. Still, at least he manages to avoid going on about Dan Brown.
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