July 2004 News
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Liberty Alliance has yet to prove business need, warn analysts
Although security group Liberty Alliance got the backing of a raft of major suppliers last month, the federated identity standard...30 Jul 2004
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MPs attack secretive ID card scheme
The government’s programme for a national biometric ID card lacks clarity and is poorly thought out, a cross party group of MPs...30 Jul 2004
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MySAP service plan extended to full range
SAP has extended the maintenance programme it introduced earlier this year for MySAP ERP. The programme will now cover all...30 Jul 2004
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Insurance giant Zurich strikes a £700m outsourcing deal with CSC
Zurich Financial Services has signed an IT outsourcing deal with Computer Sciences Corporation worth an estimated £700m.30 Jul 2004
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Look at the redundancy alternatives
Value-driven IT Management, by Iain Aitkin30 Jul 2004
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Cics transforms to fit the future
IBM's transaction processing system is still going strong30 Jul 2004
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DES encryption is 'inadequate', says NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a popular...30 Jul 2004
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SCO applies for 'Unix System Laboratories' trademark
The SCO Group is trying to revive the name of the AT&T subsidiary that once owned the rights to the Unix operating system and, in...30 Jul 2004
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MCI offers cash back for poor internet service
MCI has announced new service-level agreements (SLAs) for internet service performance that offer increased service thresholds...30 Jul 2004
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Canadian banks hit by processing glitches
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and TD Bank Financial Group have been hit with unidentified computer glitches, causing...30 Jul 2004
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Siemens to merge its communications units
Siemens will merge its mobile and fixed communications businesses into a single group called Siemens Communications.30 Jul 2004
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Presidential candidate Kerry promises tax breaks to stop offshoring
The US should close tax loopholes that provide incentives to companies that want to ship jobs to other countries, provide its...30 Jul 2004
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IBM buys Cyanea to boost app management line
IBM has agreed to buy a small, privately-held application management software maker called Cyanea Systems for an undisclosed sum.30 Jul 2004
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Red Hat set to launch Java app server
Red Hat will release its first Java application server at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday (2 August),...30 Jul 2004
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Demand for Alcatel's telecom equipment grows 7.2%
Alcatel sees demand for its telecommunications equipment returning, with second-quarter sales from continuing operations growing...30 Jul 2004
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EDS triples second quarter income
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) has tripled its net income and exceeded revenue expectations in its second quarter of 2004.30 Jul 2004
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Microsoft alpha-tests anti-virus product
Microsoft is currently alpha-testing its upcoming anti-virus product, according to industry sources.30 Jul 2004
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CheckPoints warns of critical flaw in VPN products
CheckPoint Software Technologies has issued fixes for a critical flaw in its popular virtual private networking (VPN) products...30 Jul 2004
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Japan first with optical data transfer over 100km
Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and Oki Electric have claimed a first with the carriage...30 Jul 2004
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Intel pushes back 4GHz Pentium 4 launch date
Intel has decided to push back the launch date for its 4GHz Pentium 4 desktop processor to the first quarter of 2005, after...30 Jul 2004
