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‘Microsoft launches OneDrive globally, with some freebies’. More on the freebie ‘Microsoft to give 100GB free OneDrive storage to early birds’. So it’s out with a big fanfare and more obfuscation for the humble consumer and business user alike as they get their heads around a name change and a few new bells and whistles […]
January 31, 2014
My desk had the mornings pile of junk mail on it, opened by my PA, which off the back of a late Burns night entertaining customers got short shrift as I cascaded them into the waste paper recycling bin by my desk. My mind still working at getting itself clear of the nights excesses, grateful I […]
January 11, 2014
SharePoint 2013 Apps, what’s new, we had them in SharePoint 2010 didn’t we? Yes, and a lot has changed, but then again for those with a significant investment in SharePoint 2010 nothing you should have to worry about. Let me explain… Your investment in SharePoint 2010’s full or partial trust sandbox app models will still […]
January 5, 2014
2013 was a year that resounded with harbingers postulating the demise of tech (the PC being the whipping boy) and the rise of tech (fondle’slabs with Apple iPad leading the charge predictably) as never before in a totally compromised digital ecosystem, the latter point coming as no surprise to those in the security industry and […]
November 28, 2013
‘Is obesity contagious?‘ I will leave you to ponder that one. My Segway being, whatever the reality in the human realm, clearly something has contaminated our attitude to keeping our data trim. Just as airlines are now catering and considering charging for ‘large seats’ so will the Internet’s aspirations of ‘Net Neutrality’ (the principle that […]
October 23, 2013
October 22nd will go down as Tablet Tuesday, as the big players in this space Microsoft, Apple, Nokia converged on this date to officially launched new product. Instead of a big bang it was more of a one horse show with most attention captured by Apple, being the only one of the bunch to have maintain any […]
October 6, 2013
Future … that is being a little futuristic, looking forward, a new set of ideals that will take the greatest software company into a completely new trajectory. Not just a mid-course correction in a safe pair of ‘familiar’ hands ‘Who Will Be the Next Microsoft CEO?‘ or to address a hit list of pundit desirables ‘Microsoft’s […]
September 29, 2013
Apple’s achievements in establishing design benchmarks have not always ended up with mainstream practicality despite the adoption rate. Even the brainwashing by the dogmatic postulating fanatical ‘fruity’ followers cannot hide the iPad baked in redundancy that has now contaminated much of the Laptop and desktop Apple products. This redundancy is epitomised in the headlines in […]
September 13, 2013
Those of you who have heard me speak and read my earlier articles on the subject of Data Security ‘Data Security – It’s in the Name!‘ will know my advocacy of encryption as the realistic future for data protection. But following the recent Cryptolocker outbreak of Ransomeware I feel it prudent to highlight the challenge […]
August 20, 2013
To offer a commercial service and fail to invest in current vendor support so that you can ensure the timely security patching of software is one of the greatest cardinal sins in modern business. This is followed closely by those organisations that do maintain current vendor supported software but fail to apply security patches. The […]
March 18, 2013
Most of you reading this will no doubt at some point have tried a ‘Free’ service or online product offering from a vendor website. Free in most cases means ‘Freemium‘ = a limited service offering designed as a ‘Hook’ to get users to consume a service or product. The ‘Free’ service or product offering just enough […]
February 11, 2013
Last Thursday the European Commission of the European Union (EU) released their much leaked and awaited Cybersecurity plan to protect open internet and online freedom and opportunity – ‘Cyber Security strategy and Proposal for a Directive’ The challenge that faces all Nations and individuals alike is the increased impact of Cyber Thread. This is fundamentally […]
January 28, 2013
Windows RT officially launched alongside Windows 8 on October 26, 2012 with the Microsoft Surface device leading the pack of several Windows RT-powered devices from OEM partners. Despite the lack of clarity around the Windows RT v. Windows 8 versions, Windows RT has established a solid user base. It delivers to the mobile demands of […]
January 14, 2013
Recently there have been multiple very severe security problems found in Oracle Java. For additional background there are a range of posts online addressing specific details of the exploits and vulnerabilities: US Government Recommends users Disable JAVA What you need to know about the JAVA Exploits Despite Oracle patches JAVA still compromised JAVA fails to […]
December 20, 2012
I have just come out of my last meeting before Christmas in which security has been forefront (again) on both business and IT principles minds, and tongues… The bizarre thing is that despite the obvious, the prevalence of IT security systems protect the ‘Environment Boundary’ in which data resides or is transmitted, whilst understandable form […]
February 19, 2014
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