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Company laptops being stolen

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:12:56 +0000

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Nice piece by Lucy Kellaway (Financial Times) syndicated by the Irish Times – on the subject of company laptops being stolen. Perhaps she is being a little provocative – but much of Lucy’s angle on security of the company laptop is ‘on the money’.

You want to promote an understanding with company employees of the risks associated with downloading confidential data (including any details of how to access confidential systems) to laptops and/or other devices. It is one of may risks. I would tend to agree with Ms. Kellaway – the security cable around the leg of the piano is not much of a deterrent.

Curt But Right Steve Jobs by Lucy Kellaway (chrisabraham.com)

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Ireland serious about research

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:52:00 +0000

Dr Diarmuid O’Brien, executive director of the SFI-funded Crann CSET, makes the case in The Irish Times for the continued ongoing investment in R&D, coordinated between Irish Universities and Irish and multinational industry.

Dr O’Brien rightly distinguishes between the concrete benefits in terms of successful projects and the benefit of encouraging the more generic culture of research and entrepreneurship.

Article includes several interesting examples of recent initiatives.

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Irish firm delivering cloud based accounting solutions

Fri, 22 May 2009 09:56:59 +0000

Great report in the Irish Times today of Tony Connolly’s success in Australia in conjunction with Deloittes. This is the type of entrepreneur activity which can get this country back on its feet. Well done Tony!

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Guide to some of the top financial blogs

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:24:36 +0000

Great piece in the Irish Times introducing a number of the top financial blogs – for those interested. Ironically another example of a challenge to the newspapers – provided by a combination of economists and journalists.

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Copyright developments

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:53:08 +0000

The Irish Times reports on 29^th January agreement being reached between Eircom and four records companies re illegal downloads of music – implementation of the ‘three strikes and you’re out’ approach by Eircom (and, presumably, other ISPs at a future date). Writing in the GigaOM blog, 31 January 2009, Janko Roettgers, under the heading ,’BitTorrent Researcher: Copy will be dead by 2010′ references research conducted by Johan Pouwelse. Pouwelse would argue that we need to look at all of the social networking activity and how it is evolving – he references FaceBook and YouTube as two good examples. Pouwelse bundles these with some of the more traditional P2P platforms. He argues that this is a run away – in terms of popularity. He does not see any future for traditional thinking re copyright.