BackBytes

An irreverent and offbeat look at the lighter side of technology

It's a jungle out there

07 Oct 2008We have been covering radical career moves into and out of IT and are delighted to include John Wyatt, now head of...

Talking outsourcing

Comment and opinion on the latest in outsourcing and offshoring by Mark Kobayashi-Hillary

Where to offshore (and why not here?)

07 Oct 2008Tholons, the research firm founded by well-known offshoring guru Avinash Vashistha , has just published some new research in Global Services magazine...

The Week in Green: Poisoned chalice or keys to the kingdom?

03 Oct 2008"Hallelujah", was one response. "Fantastic," another. "It makes perfect sense," added a third. At a time when many within the green business...

The big picture

Business and IT insights from research and analyst firm Quocirca

PUE, DCiE and TCE – and what’s still missing…

03 Oct 2008Back from another Indian trip, and interesting discussions around how organisations can measure their datacentre’s “effectiveness” when it comes to carbon footprint....

The industry view

IT industry issues from Intellect, the UK's technology trade association

Why the ‘e’ in e-Crime?

02 Oct 2008This week the Home Office announced the creation of the new Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU). The PCeU promises to tackle cyber...

Hack cartoons

A light-hearted look at the latest IT news, by Computing cartoonist Matt Buck

Government unveils the first identity card

02 Oct 2008The Home Office has unveiled the first prototype ID card, as it tries to build momentum towards the beginning of the scheme...

Leaders and opinion

Our weekly editorial leader article is published here - what do you think of our views on the latest news?

Innovation will help broadband prosper

02 Oct 2008It is good to see so many vested interests discussing the prospects for next-generation broadband in the UK....

From the newsdesk

The newsdesk's views on the latest in business IT, by our reporting staff

A whole new form of tablet computing - just add chalk

01 Oct 2008Clearly, Microsoft hasn't been getting its message across to everyone that mobile working is the way forward. Turning up to an event...

Letters to the editor

Your opinions on the latest IT stories in Computing, the IT newspaper

True cost of school IT spree

01 Oct 2008Your recent article on the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme ( BSF schools to spend £1.29bn on IT by 2012,...

The Editor's diary

Computing editor Bryan Glick on the issues facing UK IT leaders and the latest in internet and business technology

The buzzword battleground

29 Sep 2008If ever you have wondered what the latest industry buzzword means, here’s Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison to “We’ve redefined ‘cloud computing’...

Get the inside track

IT management insights from Sandra Smith, head of informations systems at Toshiba UK

How a changing working climate can help us enjoy the sunshine – maybe next summer

26 Sep 2008Well, it wasn’t much of a summer in the end - it seems hard to believe that the nights are already drawing...

The analyst view

Forrester Research experts discuss the latest trends

Paying by results can reduce costs

25 Sep 2008Many enterprises turn to external service providers for application-related services. Forrester Research surveys show that between one- fifth and one-third of large...

Mainstream matters

Insights and intelligence from analyst Freeform Dynamics on the here and now of IT

Prudent planning is key to harnessing the cloud

25 Sep 2008IT and the business of IT is changing. It is likely to be changing for a long time to come....

Security Watchdog

Sniffing out IT security issues

Where's my phone?

16 Sep 2008You won't believe what people leave on the back seat of black cabs! What's that? Oh. You would believe it? Because you...

Business alignment

CIO Alastair Behenna charts his experiences of bridging the IT-business divide

A load of IT Jabberwocky

16 Sep 2008There may be a quasi-scientific explanation behind a key handicap to successful IT/business integration. I, along with many of my compatriots in...

Employment matters

IT skills and employment issues from Peter Skyte, national officer of the trade union Amicus

Long working hours and unpaid overtime - check your contract

29 Aug 2008Earlier this year I wrote about the five million people doing an average of more than seven hours overtime every week for...

Innovation in IT

Innovation and entrepreneurialism in IT, from investment advisor Ariadne Capital

Entrepreneur country - a manifesto

14 Aug 2008We That Leaders are those people who create trust in society and their businesses, and that trust is efficient....

IT Week Labs

BlackBerry Bold - iPhone killer?

07 Aug 2008Research in Motion (RIM) came into the IT Week offices today to show off its latest model, the BlackBerry Bold....

Information security

Independent analysis from Richard Hackworth, KPMG consultant and former IT security chief

Errors not acceptable if government databases take off

30 May 2008A few years ago I made a flight from London City airport to Geneva. We were all sitting on the plane waiting...

Technology leadership

Comment and opinion from user group CIO Connect

It's good to talk

27 May 2008As the imperative for business and IT to effectively merge under the same banner becomes ever more pressing, so does the need...

Body Shop rolls out PCI system

Retailer hopes to benefit from improved customer data analysis 07 Oct 2008

Where to offshore (and why not here?)

Tholons, the research firm founded by well-known offshoring guru Avinash Vashistha , has just published some new research in Global Services magazine... 07 Oct 2008

The future of Ethernet

Where is Ethernet going? We look at the future of the widely-used networking technology. 07 Oct 2008

The pIT stop Q&A: How can I measure the business success of IT applications?

Ou expert panel answers readers' real-life IT questions 07 Oct 2008

National Identity Fraud Prevention Week

Every Monday seems to mark the beginning of a new awareness drive and this week’s theme has particular importance to small businesses... 06 Oct 2008