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Watching the Web

‘Twitter revolution’ beats old-style media

Recent events in Iran have provided a fascinating example of how the internet is so much part of our lives that any large-scale attempts to control it can threaten a country’s economy.
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Inside Watching the Web

Belfast has chance to be the master of its own domain

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

The web has been buzzing this week with discussion of what will happen when the organisation that controls the internet’s address system, ICANN, throws the system open to big changes.
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Automation for the people is key to managing IT processes

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

There are two things about people’s attitudes to technology that have always puzzled me.
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Seek and you might find there’s more to the internet than Google

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

I’m willing to bet a pound to a penny that if I mention the names Jookster, Swiki, Rollyo and Clusty, most people won’t have a clue what I’m talking about. Yet all of them are innovative players in the multi-billion dollar search industry.
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Protecting data is key to company’s survival

Tuesday, 2 June 2009

Mention data loss, and most of us will think of the 2007 incident in which HM Revenue and Customs (www.hmrc.gov.uk) misplaced the child benefit records of 25 million people.
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Cutting out all the red tape can be the icing on the cake

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

When the state of New York recently established a hotline for citizens concerned about swine flu, it caused a furore.
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Cyber terrorism: fact or fiction?

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland’s character in the TV series 24, has been battling it for most of the current series.
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Time of the essence on the web

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

There’s a well-known maxim in the world of online retailing which states that if your site takes more than four seconds to load in a visitor’s browser, you’ll lose the custom.
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Time to grab your security blanket

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

A recent survey by Deloitte (www.deloitte.com.uk/itcr ) has shown that 73% of large corporations and government departments are planning to cut their IT spending. Luckily, the majority are not willing to compromise on security.
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