Stories by Thomas Hoffman

Article | 30/12/2009 Riding the curve
Technologies that might seem passé at some organizations are considered quite cutting-edge at others. Here's a look at a pest control company and a lo...
Article | 20/10/2009 BT's Web 2.0 security strategy
In 2006, just as the first tweet was being Twittered, BT Global Services launched an effort to keep its customers and 112,000 employees safe in a new ...
Article | 14/11/2008 Q&A: Nicholas Carr on 'the big switch' to cloud computing
During his keynote speech at the Society for Information Management's SIMposium 08 conference in the US, author Nicholas Carr drew an analogy between ...
Article | 1/04/2008 Getting employees clued in to disaster recovery plans
Last November, a fire broke out in one of the buildings on ISTA Pharmaceuticals' main campus, forcing about 50 employees to move to another location o...
Article | 20/11/2007 Eyeing IT spin-offs through an R&D lens
Venture capitalists hail from all different backgrounds. Many are investment bankers or entrepreneurs; some are even former journalists. David Tennenh...
Article | 5/11/2007 Advice on protecting kids from online predators
The numbers are downright frightening: One in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log onto the Internet say they have received unwanted sexual solicitat...
Article | 11/09/2007 IBM executive explains company's buying spree
IBM has been on an acquisition spree, having recently snapped up DataMirror, a data management vendor in Markam, Ontario; Princeton Softech, a data ar...
Article | 4/03/2005 EDS pushing massive IT retraining effort
Electronic Data Systems has embarked on a mammoth retraining program aimed at providing 20,000 of its 87,000 technical workers with updated business a...
Article | 27/09/2004 Users moan software price increases for dual-core CPUs
The advent of dual-core processors with two CPUs on a single chip is causing many IT managers to wring their hands over the hefty increases in licensi...
Article | 9/09/2002 Utility-based deal cuts tennis group's IT costs
At this year's U.S. Open tennis tournament here, the organization that governs the sport in the U.S. tried to ace out high IT costs by joining the bur...
Article | 15/09/1999 UK warns travellers of Y2K woes abroad
The British government has released a report warning travellers about potential year 2000 problems in 48 countries, including the US.

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