Our very own Alan Hamilton has been invited along to IBM’s Leadership Alliance Conference in Cambridge, MA in October to participate in round table discussions to shape the development of IBM’s market leading software products.  We’re all proud of some of the great work Alan has been doing recently to develop our Software Business and [...]

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My last three laptops have spent most of their working life in a dream state.  Booted fully only for security updates and otherwise in and out of hibernation but when I get my next one I’m hoping it will be one of these new Rapid Boot Lenovo’s.  Video a little knarly/cheesy but makes the point [...]

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Our man in Florida is Alan Hamilton at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference 2011.   Seric were invited to be one of IBM’s 20 key partners worldwide in this area, assisting IBM in developing and shaping the technology to come.  Alan is out making Connections and extolling the virtues of employing particular technologies to help [...]

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Remember when the internet was about sharing knowledge? Remember when you could type a question into a search engine and find some meaningful information, as opposed to someone trying to sell you something? It really annoys me that the top results you get back from search engines are from those paying the most money and [...]

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Little bit late on this post but a recent trip down to Bedfont with IBM has given a clear statement of where IBM is going with its partner community.   IBM it seems is changing much of its business partner model to more industry focused solutions.  Personally I see this as a great move as [...]

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Increasingly more we are hearing the words cyber crime in the news but what are cyber crimes? The easiest way to describe cyber crimes is a crime committed over the internet, please see link below for more details and types of cyber crimes. We have all heard about someone we know bank account being emptied [...]

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Just picked this out on over ComputerWeekly.com Wow – If that isn't a sore enough one for everyone involved in it…  read down to see MS still able to recoup £50m from unlicensed software proliferation, and that is before they have been upset by an early contract cancellation. Those EA true-ups don't half cost. Project [...]

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Well more like… the trouble many businesses have with their IT departments generally…  This is a pitch I've given to quite a number of clients.  Why?  Not because they don't know but to help them understand the issues IT can present to a business and to make sure they are avoiding falling into those common [...]

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Hi, I mentioned earlier that some fines were likely to come in to law – well they just have.  So if you haven't got your house in order you probably should be thinking about it. Whether you are governed by PCI, FSA or anything else this is the catchall – so make sure you are [...]

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Looks like the date is in for our next IPCCTV Event -Thursday May 06, 2010, 09:30-12:30 We've been working with Guys at King Communications to get the tweak the agenda for the intended audience.  We've listened to the feedback from the last three events and think this one will be even better than the last. [...]

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