Category: Internet

Mar 03 2006

Building blogs

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Internet
3 March 2006

Building magazine, the glossy weekly bible for the UK construction industry, has a feature this week on blogging (I would link to the feature but it doesn’t currently appear on Building‘s website and you’d probably have to register to see it any way). In addition to Building’s own bloggers, it includes links to what it …

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Mar 03 2006

SaaS “not Sassy”

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, SaaS
3 March 2006

"The Internet-hosted software model has arrived, but hasn’t matured" is the message from a US conference on Software as a Service (SaaS), according to SaaS is OK, but Not Yet Sassy, an article on Red Herring. Adoption issues included integration with older packaged software systems and many SaaS vendors’ lack of a track record. However, …

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Mar 03 2006

Search: it’s all about beating Google

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Future, Internet
3 March 2006

Despite Google’s wobble in the stock markets earlier this week, it remains the company other software developers want to beat when it comes to search. Today’s Silicon.com newsletter has two stories: Microsoft talks up ‘Google-beating’ search engine (promised in six months) and Oracle unveils ‘Google trouncing’ business search (targeting a loop-hole in Google’s array of …

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Mar 01 2006

State of the (digital) nation revealed by Ofcom

By Paul Wilkinson in Books, Internet, Telecoms
1 March 2006

When I was writing the connectivity section of my book and needing official statistics on the pace of UK broadband adoption, I used Ofcom’s site regularly. Drawing on Ofcom’s Communications Market interim report, today’s Silicon.com article paints a picture of an increasingly internet-savvy UK population embracing broadband (10 million connections!), mobile telephony (though not VOIP …

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Feb 28 2006

WiMax: “too slow, expensive and unregulated”

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, Telecoms
28 February 2006

Silicon.com reports that traditional broadband and mobile operators will be avoiding WiMax – according to research by Capgemini. The consultancy predicts that the millions of pounds spent on 3G licences, alongside the increased number of base stations needed to run a network, will deter mobile operators from investing in the long range wireless broadband technology. …

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Feb 27 2006

ISO27001 certification (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
27 February 2006

Last week, following BIW’s hosting infrastructure achieving BSI certification, I discussed ISO/IEC27001 and Cadweb’s claims regarding compliance. Someone at Cadweb either read the BIW news release or this blog, for this evening I notice that Cadweb’s page on legal admissability has been updated to refer throughout to "BS 7799 / ISO 27001" (a format used …

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Feb 23 2006

The email argument (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Legal, People issues
23 February 2006

Further to my discussion of the email challenge in Monday’s post, I read Silicon.com’s leader, Living with info overload, yesterday with interest. It says: "the issue is not only how to monitor digital communications … but also how to search and archive the millions of emails we send and documents we create each day," before …

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Feb 23 2006

Collaboration consolidation (3): Citadon targets Constructware users

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
23 February 2006

It’s taken just over a week, but at least one US competitor to the combined Autodesk/Constructware offering (see previous posts) is trying to tempt any disaffected customers away. Citadon is offering a "Special Migration Program for Constructware Customers and Partners". Citadon aims to help firms "respond to business challenges" resulting from Autodesk’s recently announced plan …

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Feb 20 2006

ISO27001 certification

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Legal, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
20 February 2006

Soon after my earlier post "The perils of vendor questionnaires", I started updating BIW’s website in connection with the issue of compliance with international standards (I link the two items as standards compliance frequently features in vendor questionnaires). Updates were necessary as British Standard BS7799 Part 2 was superceded last October by a new global …

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Feb 20 2006

The perils of vendor questionnaires

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
20 February 2006

The NCCTP recently considered a questionnaire produced by the DTI-funded Avanti project (the questionnaire itself was apparently based on similar ones issued by a couple of major UK contractors as invitations to tender, ITTs) to get basic information about UK extranet vendors, their hosting, and system functionality. One outcome would be the publication of this …