And all it took was just eight days and a challenge on an Internet forum for two hackers to do just that. I wonder what’s next. Are we likely to witness the rise of mainstream hacking contests, perhaps a “Hack Idol” type reality show hosted by...
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What’s unified about Unified Communications?
By Jude Umeh
4CommentsOn paper it sounds like a great idea, and vendors have been keeling over themselves to sell products and services that promise to deliver an idealised Unified Communications concept, but in reality one can’t help but wonder if it actually delivers...
Read moreDragons and Gurus Talk Innovation and Entrepreneurship
What does a BBC Dragon, a Lateral Thinking Guru and our UK CTO & Innovations Czar have in common? Well, a British Computer Society event on Entrepreneurship and Innovation for one thing, and who better to talk about said topics than real...
Read moreThe Death of Windows – Coming soon to a screen near you!
By Jude Umeh
No. Not that “Windows”, (just couldn’t resist the sensationalist headline). Instead this refers to ongoing debate about the questionable relevance of release windows in the context of digital entertainment. Basically, does it still make sense...
Read moreDoes eDisclosure / eDiscovery really equate to eDisaster?
According to the British Computer Society’s Information Security Magazine, eDisclosure is a time bomb waiting to happen, and the key question for many organisations should be: "how ready are we for any potential fall-out?" This excellent article...
Read moreICANN (But U Can’t, Yet)
By Jude Umeh
Starting spring of 2010, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will begin taking applications for additional generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) that could see an expansion of up to 500 new domain suffixes (such as: .food,...
Read moreCopyright, Digital Content, and the Internet
The second World Copyright Summit, which took place last week, at the Ronald Reagan Conference Centre in Washington DC, was a well attended and successful event that drew great interest from all key stakeholders in the 21st Century’s fast-evolving,...
Read moreTOGAF, TOGAF, TOGAF
The 9th version of The Open Group’s Architecture Framework (aka TOGAF 9) was launched in February, after a lengthy 6 year gestation period, to an eagerly waiting audience of architects and wannabes of every description. So I jumped at the...
Read moreHow about a World Copyright Summit?
By Jude Umeh
Judging from the recent brouhaha around piracy, (no - not the real kind), e.g. the Pirate Bay Trial / Verdict, anyone would be forgiven for thinking that copyright lawyers are probably the only ones making a killing out of this particular global...
Read moreCrunch IT – The Role of IT in a Recession
This was the title of an event that I helped organize for my British Computer Society (BCS) branch last week in Central London, and which, as perhaps might be expected given the current economic climate, generated a fair amount of interest and...
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