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How to design and test for usability (Post)

Published: 16th October 2008 | Author: Peter Abrahams

TechSmith are sponsoring a series of roundtables on the subject of usability. The first roundtable took a high level view of the area and investigated the importance of usability, what barriers...

PowerDesigner 15 Launch Seminar (Event)

Published: 15th October 2008 | Author: David Norfolk

Event Agenda 09:00 – 09:30 – Registration & Coffee 09:30 – 10:15 – Modeling, Where It’s Going and Why It Matters David Norfolk, Development Practice Leader, Bloor Research David Norfolk looks at why modeling is increasing in importance outside of…

The latest Assistive Technology: Skype (Post)

Published: 15th October 2008 | Author: Peter Abrahams

If you are a keen solo yachtsman and you go blind how do you carry on with your passion? The answer is to hook up a video link using Skype. Ed Gallagher has slowly lost his sight over the last...

Everything accessible anywhere (Post)

Published: 14th October 2008 | Author: Peter Abrahams

Getting the work-life balance right is a challenge for most people. One small aid to this is having a single diary which includes all work and all personnel events. This has not been easy up to now...

Symantec Move up The Scale, but can they Ring the Bell? (Post)

Published: 14th October 2008 | Author: Nigel Stanley

It is always interesting to spend quality time with a vendor, especially when they put up their entire executive team for interviews and discussions. It makes you feel that they are on the verge...

IBM does Security rather well (Post)

Published: 10th October 2008 | Author: Nigel Stanley

IBM may be big, and in some people's eye beautiful, but what are they doing to prove that their offerings are as safe and secure as any other vendor? Running a business the size and...

EU Compliance and Regulations for the IT Professional (Research)

Published: 9th October 2008 | Author: Nigel Stanley

Data loss is now a significant legal and regulatory issue. IT professionals need to be aware of their responsibilities.

The Information Agenda (Post)

Published: 8th October 2008 | Author: Philip Howard

There is an interesting analogy to be made between the delivery of information and motor manufacturing. In the case of that latter you start with raw materials. Those raw materials are processed,...

Bellweather SAP shares hit by preliminary Q3 results. How will other software vendors fare? (Post)

Published: 7th October 2008 | Author: Gerry Brown

On Monday 6th October 2008 both SAP and Double-Take announced their preliminary Q3 trading results. SAP's revenues were up 13–14% on the previous year but a little lower than the 16–17%...

Using scripting to improve accessibility (Post)

Published: 7th October 2008 | Author: Peter Abrahams

I recently went to the first day of the first Scripting Enabled Conference. To quote from the website The aim of the conference is to break down the barriers between disabled users and the...