Central Asia and Russian: Today's Telecom Boom Town
Central Asia and Russian: Today's Telecom Boom Town
Zimmermann to Network Associates: Sell PGP back to me, or open-source it
Philip R. Zimmermann, author of encryption program Pretty Good Privacy, is suggesting current owner Network Associates open-source PGP's code as one alternative to the program dying on the vine at the company. "I would strongly prefer PGP be Open Source compared with the current scenario, because right now it's locked in intellectual property prison and no one can get it," he says. "Open Source would be much better."
Hiring a consultancy is likely to be a costly business. So picking the wrong one could finish up as a very expensive mistake. A scan of the article as published in Business Online magazine.
As if teen-aged boys haven't enough to worry about. A men's health article on Gynecomastia (male breasts). A scan of the article as published in Good Health magazine.
Pre-installed Linux sells in Scandinavia
Pre-installation of Linux is hardly ubiquitous in Scandinavia, but a couple of companies are seeing it becoming increasingly popular on servers and in the business sector. And unlike in the United States, where some companies say there isn't a desktop market for Linux, SOT Finnish Software Engineering is shipping its brand of Linux on about half the desktop PCs it sells, and another company is shipping Linux on more than 20%.
The outlook for Linux in Russia
Russia's hot telecoms industry is getting massively hotter as it consolidates its more than 80 telecom companies into seven pan-regional operations. The question, on which almost no one agrees, is is the consolidation such a good thing.
Big increase forecast in Russian Net use
Russia is expected to see a doubling of Internet connections during the next four years.
Iran's telecoms: success amid sanctions
Despite the U.S. sanctions against it, Iran's telecom industry is one of the most important in the Mideast.
Central European Mobile Phone Market
Just as they did in Western Europe, prepaid mobile phone schemes are enabling a rapid take-up of the phones in Central Europe. And, according to a leading analyst, just as in Western Europe, the schemes are not replacing the post-paid contracts.
It's really not the end of the world as we've known it
There are currently 65,000 viruses known to exist worldwide, all devised with the desire to bring down your system. I interviewed Graham Cluley of Sophos Plc to see if there's a solution.
Assessing the risks: A first step in IT Security
In an age of Internet ubiquity, the need for the strongest possible security is of the utmost importance. I outline the whys and wherefores of IT security.
Will 3G hit all the right buttons? "No" says expert
Nay-sayers on any given subject are tuppence a dozen, but when one of them is the former head or research into the subject at hand for one of the world's largest companies, and he says it on the BBC, perhaps it's time to sit up and take notice. I comment on the expert's prognostications.
Defining the Lingua Franca of E-commerce
English is and has been the ubiquitous language of the Net for its entire history. How long can that remain the case. I investigate.
3G: A technology in search of a market?
While visiting Ericsson's HQ I discussed this question with many of the company's top executives.
ISYS: An End to "Creeping Corporate Amnesia
Part 1 of my interview with the developer of Isys Text Retrieval software and founder of the company.
ISYS: KM Eased Getting Our Message Across
Part two of my interview with Ian Davies, developer of Isys TR software.
KM: A Concept as New as the Cave Paintings - Part 1
Many a pundit has said there's nothing new under the sun. That even includes the latest hotbutton business buzzword.
KM: A Concept as New as the Cave Paintings - Part 2
The Lascaux Cave Drawings led the way to Info-Glut, Can KM lead us out from it?
When Cisco and Motorola, industry leaders in Internet and other networking technologies, and in wireless communications respectively, announced a pact to spend a billion dollars over the next four years it was a lead story in all the media from CNN's MoneyLine program to Reuters News Agency. A new wireless Internet. New access technology? This all sounded right up our street, so we decided to investigate. We talked with Jon Shantz, vice president of business development for Cisco.
"Now, what we're seeing is a new technology coming along almost every year." And rather than a good thing, as we're constantly told that choice is, "the problem with this is that as the new technologies appear, the old technologies don't go away. We still have the full gamut of xDSL, cable modems, Wireless Local Loops (WLL) etc. And none of these has been shown not to work or not to be economical."
Although expressing an apparent (albeit obvious) preference for the xDSL-family
of technologies, the second choice of the approximately 50 delegates to the recent Third Annual Access Technologies
conference in London was Wireless Local Loop (WLL) technology. The general consensus among delegates was also that
there will be no winners, although there may be a few losers in the high-speed access sweepstakes. But no matter
which new technology a provider decides to go with, contrary to the conventional wisdom, it's going to be an expensive
venture, according to one of the speakers.
Coombe Abbey:Ghosties and Feasties
of a Mediaeval Sort?
When most people think of Coventry, they think of a beautiful woman
riding bareback on her horse through the town centre, bareback in terms both of her horse having no saddle and
herself having no clothes or the murder of Thomas à Becket by King Henry II's henchmen. However... As published in British Heritage magazine.
WordPerfect ? Word?
Thinking of switching from WordPerfect to Microsoft Word . Not only is such a move not necessarily in the best interests
of any law office (or any other business for that matter), but it could also be a total disaster. Versions of this article were published in Legal
Intelligencer and Legal Times magazines.
Cybermarks - Trademarks on the Information Highway:
There has never been a time when people didn't infringe the Intellectual Properties of others. But the Internet means the problems have reached epidemic proportions, much to the cost of the true owners of those IPs. A Solicitor in Scotland thinks he has a solution. As published in Internet Law magazine.
The Other LinuxWorld Expo: Paris Diary
While many went to the LinuxWorld in New York in early February, others,
myself included were at the Linux expo in Paris. I think I got the better deal. As published in Byte magazine.
Antiques On The Net: Anachronism
-- Or An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
It might seem a complete anachronism for antique dealers to get onto the Net and World Wide Web, but it's happening.
As published in CompuWeb online magazine.
U.K Crypto Bill Could Make
Crypto Users Criminals
A Crypto bill proposed in the United Kingdom requires people with encrypted
data to either provide law-enforcement with the key, or prove they'd either never had it or had it but have lost
or forgotten it. As published in Byte magazine.
Young Musicians get Springboard to International
Career
The opportunities lost, the careers halted before they'd even begun, the
music never enjoyed. Such would be the ramifications if The European Concert Halls Organisation (ECHO) had never
existed. As published in Campus Voice online magazine.
University Student Launches the Most Comprehensive Political Website in the UK
Son of a Conservative mother and a non-political but leftish father, Julian
White is author of the UK Politics Web Page, arguably the most comprehensive political web site in the UK. As published
in Campus
Voice online magazine.
Kiss the Net Goodbye?
So, the dirty deed is done. The US Congress voted overwhelmingly to censor
the Net and the president signed their deed into law. As published in The Web magazine.
And finally, a few commentaries:
Nostalgia: Is it Here to Stay?
Thursday night and I'm vegging out in front of the tube. Suddenly
I'm confronted by something called Fred Dibnah's
Industrial Age on BBC-2 TV. I couldn't stop watching.
The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away
Ready to have your feet amputated? So was I. Till a pig came to
my aid.
Berlin Diary - 27-20-98 -- 30-10-98
So, finally, after 53 years on this planet, the last seven of which
were spent on this Island, I finally get to set foot on the Continent. But...
Berlin?!?!?!?!
Hardly my first choice.
Where's the Beef, Kenny
It's one of the self-righteous right wing's most hypocritical and sanctimonious acts. And one of its most foolish.
More than four years and $40 million squandered and barely a word about the results of the investigations which
Keyhole Ken Starr was hired to conduct.
Everything's Up-To-Date in Kansas City
So wrote Rogers and Hammerstein many years ago. And apparently the big breweries think that has to be the case even with their pubs. But does it?
Rumours were rife that Margaret Beckett MP would be announcing the government's decision to make key escrowed encryption mandatory in the UK. She eventually did.
Interviewing by E-mail: A Viable Option?
Interviewing by E-mail is one of the more controversial issues in journalism
today. It needn't be.
Canadian ISP Threatens to Cut Service to School Boy Political Activist: But Is It Censorship?
The interview referred to in the above article.
Multiple Queries and Submissions, and
Payment on Acceptance: Many Think They are Ideas Whose Time has Come
Writers have always complained about slow payment for their work and wondered
about the ethics of multiple submissions. As recently as two or three years ago, editors routinely paid writers
only on or after publication. And many editors simply refused to consider multiple submissions of articles and
no payment until. Writers had little choice but to comply with these two policies. As published in Editorial Eye magazine.
