Paul Quigley

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Cory Doctorow is God. Well, by rights he should be given his insightful ’seven straw-men of the meta-utopia’ tenet.
By rights also, Doctorow should be up there with flaky luminaries like Tim Berners-Lee or the raft of other Social Media ‘Experts’ and ‘Cloud Consultant’ brigade of poseurs.
Despite the over-arching desire of organisations to mould, to [...]

Insurgent search engine newbie Cuil (www.cuil.com) is making a big splash in the SEO world. In the short time since the former Googlers left the fold to start their own search enterprise, they’ve not only managed to draw interest from users due to their innovative algorithms and content and context results, but also because, unlike the established search giants, Cuil says that they do not keep any of your search terms – as far as they’re concerned, that’s private and they don’t keep them.

So is it totally unreasonable to expect the world to move from a paperless office situation to a paperless world scenario? No more books, libraries, just banks upon banks of monitors and servers to read Beedle the Bard, the Bible or the Best Bits of Brigitte Bardot and Billy Bunter?

You’ve been framed: ID fraud threatens branding, bottom line and business ethics
Paul Quigley,
Editorial Director
The news this week that insurance giant Aviva had been defrauded by corrupt workers at an off-shore Indian call centre throws stark light onto not only the risks involved in outsourcing mission-critical data to third-party entities in foreign jurisdictions, but also the [...]

Next time the auditors come round, or even the nice man from HMRC wanting to check your paperwork, just mention the words ‘routine destruction’ and with a knowing nod and wink, they’ll be gone, no questions asked. No names, no pack drill. Precedence, in law, is a strong basis for many legal decisions, so my [...]

As if taking on the entire publishing establishment weren’t enough, Google has managed to upset the venerable music business too with its unlicensed use and broadcast of music video soundtracks on YouTube and Google Video. PRS for music, formerly the The PRS Alliance (MCPS-PRS) had been in talks with Google to try to establish a license fee royalty payable by the search giant for each broadcast/play of a ‘work’ – as has been the way for decades.