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All Legislation and Regulation News - August 2006

Brocade to acquire SAN specialist McDATA

News
Date: 14 August 2006

In a bid to boost its standing as a strategic provider of enterprise data storage and management systems, Brocade Communications has entered into an agreement to buy McDATA in a deal rumoured to be worth around $100m.

Police to develop mobile text forensics solution

News
Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 11 August 2006

The individual styles of people's text messages are to be analysed to help the police in criminal investigations.

Communications market transformed says regulator

News
Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 11 August 2006

Telecoms regulator Ofcom has published its annual Communications Market Report, which reveals new industry trends and changes in consumer behaviour.

Google expands book digitisation service with Californian universities deal

News
Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 09 August 2006

Google has signed up the University of California for its Google Book Search service, which sees Google digitising the content of millions of books to be accessed through its web portal.

Users cautious about Brocade-McData merger

News analysis
Author: Beth Pariseau, News Writer
Date: 09 August 2006

Customers are worried about McData switches interoperating with other products and how Brocade will handle product overlap.

Toolkit for a common approach

Case Study
Author: Helen Beckett
Date: 08 August 2006

To achieve joined-up IT, Unilever decided on the challenging solution of implementing ITIL across the global business. Helen Beckett discovers the secrets of Unilever’s successful integration

Campaigning your way onto the board

Opinion
Author: Brinley Platts
Date: 08 August 2006

Here’s a conundrum: I have never met a CIO on the board of any company who believes they are there because they are the functional head of IT. But I have met many who are not on the board and believe they should be because they are the functional head of IT.

ID cards scheme feasible but challenging, suppliers warn

News
Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 07 August 2006

Potential suppliers for the national ID card scheme believe it is feasible and are interested in bidding for the work, according to a summary of survey responses released by the Home Office.

Government fails to stop arms sold over the internet

News
Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 03 August 2006

The government has admitted it deploys no dedicated customs officials to try and prevent the sale of illegal arms over the internet.

Image-based spam on the rise

News analysis
Author: Shamus McGillicuddy, News Writer
Date: 03 August 2006

By using images instead of text, spammers are invading mail inboxes with a lot more than offensive language

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