The more grey-haired among us grew up in an era before the personal computer, when our first experience of computing was often a teletype linked at just a few hundred bits/sec to a timeshared mainframe, writes Jim Norton. The dream in those days was to have dedicated computing resources under your own control. Now the wheel in computing may be turning back to a similar model, but this time for all the right reasons.
Plans to create a national police unit to fight high-tech crime were delt a blow this week after the Home Office said it was unable to find £1.3m to fund the unit.
The police are developing a national database of mugshots that can be matched with CCTV images to enable police to easily pick out potential offenders.
Once the focus of IT security was the network and its perimeter: stop hackers and viruses getting onto your network and you will secure your business. But over the last couple of years, businesses have begun to realise they left the back door open.
UK Websphere and Net Commerce users have been warned to check that IBM will protect them from patent lawsuits brought by third-party software developers.
Nationwide Building Society has chosen the latest version of SAP's banking platform as the technology core of its £300m business transformation project.