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Carbon management strategies and offsetting – are you on trend?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:15:00 GMT

Lisa Ashford, BusinessGreen, Friday 6 November 2009 at 00:15:00

Lisa Ashford of EcoSecurities takes the temperature of the carbon offsetting sector and finds it in remarkably rude health despite the recession

Despite the somewhat doom-and-gloom outlook for the world's economy in 2009, EcoSecurities' recent Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey showed that green issues have remained high on the agenda for...

Making a killing on the markets

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:33:00 GMT

Mark Freebairn, Accountancy Age, Thursday 5 November 2009 at 10:33:00

AS other funding options fall by the wayside, IPOs are coming back in fashion

Virginia Bottomley chairs our board practice. I mention this not because I'm showing off the circles in which I move, but because she is well known and is therefore asked...

Leader: The Power to make an early call

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:24:00 GMT

Accountancy Age, Accountancy Age, Thursday 5 November 2009 at 10:24:00

Accountancy Age Leader

The institutes are content to allow the AADB to investigate cases they believe are of public interest, but they don't trust it enough to make its own judgments about possible...

Leader: A hiding to nothing and a VAT ruling

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:21:00 GMT

Accountancy Age, Accountancy Age, Thursday 5 November 2009 at 10:21:00

Accountancy Age Leader

And so the taxman faces yet another attack on its attempts to protect the Treasury's coffers. Ironically, it's companies near to collapse that are looking to claim back VAT on...

IT should not bend to the prevailing winds of fashion

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Chris Barling, Computing, Thursday 5 November 2009 at 08:00:00

Technologies should be assessed on their business merits, not their trendiness, says Chris Barling

In IT we may sneer at the fashion industry where experts pontificate about what’s in and what’s out. But should we be so smug? The IT industry is guilty of...

How to fashion a winning IT team

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Graham Benson, Computing, Thursday 5 November 2009 at 08:00:00

M&M Direct’s Graham Benson discusses what it takes to become a successful IT leader in the fast-moving world of online commerce

During the first incarnation of the internet and up to the 2001 dotbomb, the media depicted a certain type of dot commer, illustrated best by programmes such as the BBC’s Attachments....

How to use IT to enable innovation

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Colin Ashurst, Computing, Thursday 5 November 2009 at 08:00:00

IT must thrust itself into the spotlight to prove it can drive profitable business change

IT as an enabler of business innovation? The chief information officer (CIO) as entrepreneur? Is it aspiration or reality? If you approach the world positively, a downturn is a good...

Get ready for the next 40 years

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Computing, Computing, Thursday 5 November 2009 at 08:00:00

IT leaders would do well to reflect on the innovations that they, as the corporate enablers of internet business, must adopt

When it comes to birthdays, the internet is a bit like the Queen – it is fortunate enough to have two....

The sun has not yet set on this debate

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Dave Bailey, Computing, Thursday 5 November 2009 at 07:00:00

It is clear why Oracle is keen to retain MySQL - and why the EU seems just as keen on quashing the deal for the sake of competitiveness

Anybody who sat through the 86-minute YouTube video of Sun Microsystems’ former president, Ed Zander, grilling Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison at the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley, will be...

Pirate Bay shutdown could be inspiring online militancy

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:54:00 GMT

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 5 November 2009 at 06:54:00

Recent Swedish attacks raise worrying possibility

The Swedish police network was taken down last week in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Today it was the turn of the Swedish Signals Intelligence agency (Försvarets Radioanstalt...

What is a green job anyway?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:15:00 GMT

Trewin Restorick, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 4 November 2009 at 00:15:00

Chief executive of Global Action Plan, Trewin Restorick, talks green jobs, environmentally friendly brothels, and Chinese authoritarianism

The environmental movement has always struggled to make the language it uses clear and compelling. For instance, a good half of my grey hair has been caused by sitting through...

New challenges, new opportunities for collaboration

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:32:00 GMT

Caroline Hodson, CRN, Wednesday 4 November 2009 at 16:32:00

A new era of security could be dawning, according to Caroline Hodson

The changing face of security threats creates fresh challenges for security vendors and for resellers when advising their customers on what measures to take....

Hot Seat: Andy Burton

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:02:00 GMT

Andy Burton, Computing, Wednesday 4 November 2009 at 15:02:00

Andy Burton took over as head of technology at Sky Betting and Gaming three months ago. He manages a team of 80 people

What was your first job and how did you get into IT? I was an application developer writing stock market settlement systems in Cobol on an ICL mainframe more than...

Sun to shine on if Oracle deal is sealed

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:21:00 GMT

John Taylor, CRN, Tuesday 3 November 2009 at 16:21:00

Reseller interest in Sun could be revived post-acquisition, predicts John Taylor

When Oracle announced plans to acquire Sun Microsystems back in April, Sun resellers could have been forgiven for getting a case of the jitters....

SMEs need help on back-up and disaster recovery

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:38:00 GMT

Michelle McMurray, CRN, Tuesday 3 November 2009 at 15:38:00

Resellers should be working more closely with vendors on back-up and disaster recovery issues in SMEs, claims Michelle McMurray

We recently commissioned Insight UK to look at technology issues that small firms in the UK are facing in this economic climate....

Where are all the women?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:11:00 GMT

Margaret Ewing, Accountancy Age, Tuesday 3 November 2009 at 11:11:00

The lack of female FDs is an indictment of those in charge, not women's skills and experience

As Accountancy Age’s editor recently commented, the addition of Burberry to the FTSE 100 has elevated its FD, Stacey Cartwright, to an exclusive minority group....

Auditors must heed the demand for transparency

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:08:00 GMT

Accountancy Age, Accountancy Age, Tuesday 3 November 2009 at 11:08:00

Shareholders want more than just the boiler-plate report

The issue of what goes into an auditors’ report is a perennial question for accountants. And it’s one that is never very far from controversy....

What future for the hybrid?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:45:00 GMT

Sara Yirrell , CRN, Monday 2 November 2009 at 14:45:00

Ingram Micro’s acquisition of CCD is probably the biggest acquisition of the year in the channel and it is a very interesting move.

It is widely known that Ingram has wanted to get into the enterprise space for some time, and acquisition was the best way forward....

SaaS as a security investment

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:37:00 GMT

Ed Callacher, CRN, Monday 2 November 2009 at 14:37:00

Failure to invest can be a false economy when it comes to security

SMEs may not be spending so much on security, and some are turning to open source to reduce capex. Security may be seen as just another tick and open-source...

The naughty step

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:53:00 GMT

Chris Laughton, Accountancy Age, Monday 2 November 2009 at 11:53:00

Do parents make better negotiators? Experience of dealing with children may give them the edge in any discussion

Nanny knows best, but how well does she negotiate? Natural ability is a gift possessed by some deal-doers, but for most it is a skill honed through practice and experience....

What future lies in the cloud?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:43:00 GMT

David Pratt, CRN, Friday 30 October 2009 at 17:43:00

Resellers can defend their ground with cloud computing, claims David Pratt

Cloud computing may threaten many resellers, particularly those targeting the SME market. Not only are traditional vendors looking at cloud models as a way of cutting out the middleman, but...

Into the Ethernet for wide-area networks

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:33:00 GMT

Andy Horn, CRN, Thursday 29 October 2009 at 17:33:00

Ethernet is a reseller opportunity in 2009 and beyond, says Andy Horn

At a recent training day in London, we asked our reseller partners what they think about Ethernet as a data network solution for the WAN....

Considering the IP surveillance opportunity

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:31:00 GMT

Chris Davies, CRN, Thursday 29 October 2009 at 17:31:00

Chris Davies explains why he believes 2010 will be the year the IP surveillance market opens up for resellers

There has never been a better time to start thinking about selling IP surveillance. According to iSuppli, global revenue from video surveillance systems may grow 13.2 per cent a year...

Get ready for the web of linked data

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:45:00 GMT

Wendy Hall & Nigel Shadbolt, Computing, Thursday 29 October 2009 at 06:45:00

The next stage of the web’s evolution presents huge business opportunities

The web has been a transformational technology and an incredibly powerful tool, today largely made up of linked documents. But as it continues to evolve and to achieve its full...

A careless approach is the biggest threat to security

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:45:00 GMT

John Walker, Computing, Thursday 29 October 2009 at 06:45:00

The latest security technology is worth very little if users fail to maintain best practice at all times, says John Walker

As a security professional, the essential disciplines associated with operating in cyberspace, such as using the right security tools, installing the latest updates and encrypting data, come pretty naturally to...