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Strange Attractor: Raising journalists’ expectations only to crush them

Saturday, 23 May 2009, 16:19

Kevin Anderson on the University of Missouri Journalism School's iPhone requirement: "It’s actually more than moving journalism students from a world of shiny Apple engineering to a world of outdated, coffee-encrusted computers. It’s moving them from a world where they can install and run what they want to a world of locked-down, corporate machines. … When I was with the BBC, I traveled with two computers. My work computer, which I had to have to access certain work systems, and the computer that I actually got work done on."

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CNET.com Webware: What browser wars? The enterprise still loves

Saturday, 2 May 2009, 09:39

"Welcome to the wonderful world of enterprise browser adoption. While the tech press spends a lot of time talking about Web 2.0 and even 3.0, Corporate America is on Web 0.5."

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 Friday, 7 September 2007, 17:59 0

Chris Anderson has a bloody good idea: Two ethernet cables on his work computer. One to the restrictive office network, one to a DSL line. "These two cables are a handy metaphor for the two worlds of corporate computing: end users and the IT department."

 Monday, 30 July 2007, 15:44 0

"Some 70% of central government departments do not check that data has been wiped from IT equipment they are disposing of, exposing them to potential security breaches, a ­report released yesterday by the National Audit Office has found."