Short takes on this week's technology news
Low use of collaboration development
technology
The use of collaboration technology to speed up product
development is still very low, analyst firm AMR Research has found.
In a survey of 45 companies conducted with the National Retail
Federation, only 7% of respondents used technology to aid
collaborative product development.
'Highly dangerous' Sober worm variant
identified
A highly dangerous virus has been identified by security firm
CyberDefender. The virus smss.exe is difficult to contain or
remove, said the firm. The executable is a component of a Sober
e-mail worm variant that is installed under the Windows folder.
IBM launches initiative to help cancer
research
An initiative from IBM will allow users to aid cancer research
by donating their idle computer time to a public grid project. Help
Defeat Cancer is the third project to use the World Community Grid,
the world's largest humanitarian grid.
Business intelligence retention is a low
priority
Little importance is placed on safeguarding business
intelligence, a survey by Vanson Bourne, commissioned by Microsoft,
has found. The survey of 200 UK firms found that although 66% use
business intelligence tools, most intelligence resides with
employees.
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