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Schneier warns of marketers and dancing pigs
Insight newsmaker Security guru Bruce Schneier pokes fun at U.S. National Cyber Security Month and says when it comes to privacy, marketers are scarier than governments or criminals.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Facebook, Computer, Security, NSA, Schneier, Hard Drive Encryption, Information Broker, Security Consideration
There's no credit crunch in Second Life
Insight newsmaker Businesses are moving beyond using the virtual world to attract eyeballs and instead major on collaboration, says Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon.
Tags: Business applications, Digital media, Web 2.0, Web sites, Linden Lab, British Telecommunications, Training, Business, movie, Apple iPod
Why your business should use Twitter
Insight perspective Twitter's not just about what you ate for breakfast. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary explains how businesses can take advantage of it and other social networks.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Twitter, British Telecommunications, social networking, Facebook, network, LinkedIn, advisory board
BT to resell Microsoft's business cloud suite
News Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite, including applications such as Exchange Online and Office Live Meeting, will be integrated with BT's 21CN network.
Tags: Mobile applications, Business applications, British Telecommunications, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, business productivity, legacy system, software upgrade, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Live, Mobile applications
Jobs of the future: No office, no paycheck
Insight perspective As technology changes how we do business, the way we work is morphing as well. The U.K.’s National Outsourcing Association Mark Kobayashi-Hillary offers a glimpse into the future.
Tags: Outsourcing, Human resources, Outsourcing, India, British Telecommunications, Evalueserve, job, Poland, information technology, agency
Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
News EC2 is the only strong contender to eventually emerge as the leading cloud platform because it has open-source implementations, according to the Canonical chief.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web 2.0, Open Source, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Web 2.0, Amazon EC2, British Telecommunications, Savvis Communications
Opposition mounts against P2P disconnection plan
News Proposals in the United Kingdom to disconnect the broadband service of suspected illegal file-sharers have come under fresh attack from ISPs, rights groups, and creative artists' groups.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Proposal, Consultation, Signatory, P2P, British Telecommunications, file-sharing, Internet Service Provider, lobbyist
Phorm serves up 'recommendation engine'
News The behavioral ad-serving technology company has announced a content-serving product
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Technology, Web Page, British Telecommunications, Tim Berners-Lee, Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., network, Internet Service Provider
Amazon refuses to be tracked by Phorm
News The Web giant has attracted praise from digital-rights campaigners for opting out of having its domains tracked by the targeted-advertising firm.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, LiveJournal, British Telecommunications, European Union, Bebo, Amazon.com Inc., Facebook, blogging, U.K.
EC acts against UK over data protection
News Following complaints over BT's trials of technology from behavioral advertising company Phorm, the European Commission launches data-protection infringement proceedings against the United Kingdom.
Tags: Privacy, British Telecommunications, European Court, European Union, Advertisement, U.K., data protection, European Commission, Internet, spokesman
Google to base ads on surfing behavior
News The beta test of "interest-based" advertising will take the user's surfing habits to target served ads even more accurately.
Tags: Internet advertising, Cookie, British Telecommunications, Google AdSense, Google Inc., Web Browser, Susan Wojcicki, Advertisement, YouTube Inc., DoubleClick Inc.
UK Wikipedia censorship 'easy to evade'
News Cambridge University security expert describes the blocking mechanism used to censor Wikipedia in the United Kingdom as "fragile".
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web browsers, British Telecommunications, IP, Wikipedia, Internet Service, U.K., Internet Service Provider, Internet
BT to begin third Phorm trial
News After a delay of more than half a year, BT on Tuesday will begin another trial of the ad-serving tech that has been opposed by peers, privacy groups, and think tanks.
Tags: Advertising, Marketing, Legal, Trial, Google Inc., British Telecommunications, Advertisement, network, data protection, European Commission
Business still experimenting in Second Life
News Businesses are unsure and confuse over measuring the success of virtual shop in the virtual world of Second Life.
Tags: Virtualization, Internet advertising, Unilever PLC, British Telecommunications, Silicon.com, virtual world, marketing, founder, Second Life, consultant
Schneier: Security neglected in economic gloom
News While it may seem logical to downgrade security, Bruce Schneier argues that security should be maintained or boosted, as systems become more business critical in a recession.
Tags: Security Management, Network security, Data security, PC security, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Security, British Telecommunications, IT Security, Information Security
