Blog Entries tagged 'Web 2.0'

Is Your IT Lean and Nimble?

epearlma@yahoo.com — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:00:00 +0100

IT management models have come and gone as IT's role in the enterprise has moved from mostly support to being a critical partner with business in increasing productivity and innovation. Three McKinsey & Company thinkers-Roger Roberts, Hugo Sarrazin and Johnson Sikes-have laid out their view of a new management model for IT that requires broader leadership, governance and organizational changes, as well as different management skills. This model incorporates two facets the authors call F [...]

Google Wave Is A Platform, Not A Tool

michael.hickins@gmail.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Google Wave is about more than just a fancy new collaboration tool.

Yes, it's got people excited because of its groundbreaking ability to let users pull in all sorts of data, files, and email and chat clients onto a single surface that can be shared in real time. And since it's not even in beta, it's raising all kinds of questions ranging from scalability to security, all of which should be answered in good time.

But that's not why it's su [...]

Social Networking Can Be Infectious

caragarretson@gmail.com — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:00:00 +0100

According to a recent report from security vendor Websense, 95 percent of comments that purport to come from readers of blogs, chat rooms, and message boards are actually auto-generated messages containing spam or malware, showing just how infected social networking has become.

Social networking sites are a prime target for spreading spam and malware because they offer this ability for just about anyone to post comments, presenting hackers with a back door via which they can easi [...]