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JJ Robinson

Italian smugglers recommend Skype


JJ Robinson 16 February 2009

The popular VoIP provider's ironclad encryption is proving a headache for law enforcement across the world.

JJ Robinson

How does BT spend £67 million on software? A month?


JJ Robinson 13 February 2009

BT's dire financial results reveal that the troubled telco spends more on software than networking, computers and exchange equipment combined

Pete Swabey

Don Tapscott on ‘open source’ risk management


Pete Swabey 12 February 2009

Financial services regulation needs to be more like Linux. That, in a nutshell, is the argument that author, thinker and social media / collaboration guru Don Tapscott describes as ‘risk management 2.0’.

JJ Robinson

Green IT is dead


JJ Robinson 09 February 2009

The credit-crunch, in the data centre, with the lead piping.

Pete Swabey

Europe's law courts round on Google


Pete Swabey 03 February 2009

Can Google acquire the world's information without breaking its laws?

Pete Swabey

Centralised IT may be the solution to government data loss shame


Pete Swabey 02 February 2009

Is locking down data and applications the only way to save more red faces?

Pete Swabey

Vladimir Putin and Michael Dell lock horns at Davos


Pete Swabey 29 January 2009

A choice insight into the interaction between the world leaders and tech moguls came from the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland yesterday.

Pete Swabey

Monster hack attack makes for timely Data Protection Day


Pete Swabey 28 January 2009

Did you know that today, Wednesday 28th January, is the EU’s Data Protection Day? Probably not – it was one piece of information the government has failed to leak.

Pete Swabey

Wikipedia to rein in the 'wisdom' of the crowd


Pete Swabey 26 January 2009

The online encyclopedia that 'anyone can edit' is considering a policy whereby new posts would be edited by an established user before going live

Pete Swabey

A little bird told me Twitter is ready for business


Pete Swabey 23 January 2009

The hills are alive with the sound of Twitter, the social messaging service and last year’s next big thing on the web.

Pete Swabey

What's been chopped from the Effective IT Survey 2009?


Pete Swabey 09 December 2008

It’s that time of year again, when Information Age asks its readers to tell us what IT strategies they have been deploying this year and, more importantly, whether those strategies are any good.

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