November 2002

November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
HBOS signs Cap Gemini for £25m platform project

HBOS has signed a £25m contract with consultancy Cap Gemini Ernst & Young to develop a common technology platform to support it... Continue Reading
November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
HP wins six European government contracts

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has secured six government IT contracts across Europe with a total value of over $500m (£321.8m). Continue Reading
November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
Trade group warns US government against open source

A trade association, the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC), has urged the US Defense Department (DoD) to rethink its use and... Continue Reading

November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
New system promises disaster proof e-mail

E-mail systems have increasingly proved themselves vulnerable to incapacitation by viruses and destruction by natural or man-made... Continue Reading
November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
Amnesty details 33 Chinese arrests over Internet use

In the same week that a Chinese government official acclaimed the growing level of Internet use in his country, human rights... Continue Reading
November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
FedEx courier system could save $20m a year

FedEx is to deploy handheld devices to its 40,000 FedEx Express couriers next year in a $150m (£96.6m) project that could save... Continue Reading
November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
Oracle raising its game says user group

Customer satisfaction with Oracle products and services has increased significantly during the past year and the recession may be... Continue Reading
November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
Roxio snaps up Napster for £3m

Roxio has acquired the remaining assets of song-swap pioneer Napster, the software vendor announced. Continue Reading
November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
Fujitsu and IBM to link telecommunication servers

Fujitsu and IBM will link their telecommunication server software so that business users can extend certain enterprise services... Continue Reading
November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
Sun to release Java toolkit for StarOffice

Sun Microsystems is to release a software development kit next year that will allow businesses to customise applications in its... Continue Reading

November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
DaimlerChrysler's 'digital factory' gets motoring

DaimlerChrysler is in the early stages of digitising its end-to-end manufacturing operations in an "eight to nine-figure... Continue Reading
November 29, 2002 29 Nov'02
MobilCom writes down 3G investment

MobilCom has taken a massive third-quarter write-down on its mobile broadband licence and infrastructure after abandoning plans... Continue Reading
November 28, 2002 28 Nov'02
Thought for the day:The serious business of hi-tech crime

Too many companies are letting hi-tech criminals get away with it, says Simon Moores after meeting the head of Britain's war on... Continue Reading
November 28, 2002 28 Nov'02
Vivendi makes €1.2bn quarterly loss but cuts debt

Despite a third-quarter loss, Vivendi Universal claims to be making progress in reducing its massive debt and is finalising its... Continue Reading
November 28, 2002 28 Nov'02
Microsoft hires top European Commission insider

A senior official, who has played a key role in developing the European Commission's information society policy, will soon begin... Continue Reading
November 28, 2002 28 Nov'02
Countrywide signs BPO deal

Residential conveyancing firm Countrywide Property Lawyers has extended its relationship with IT services firm Logica in a... Continue Reading
November 28, 2002 28 Nov'02
H3G boasts first UMTS phone call

H3G, the Italian third-generation (3G) mobile operator controlled by Hutchison Whampoa, has demonstrated what it claims to be the... Continue Reading
November 28, 2002 28 Nov'02
US authorities probe deals by AOL executives

US investigators are looking into whether former executives of America Online's (AOL) business affairs unit purposely misled... Continue Reading
November 28, 2002 28 Nov'02
Newham's intelligent approach to data

Newham Borough Council is realising the advantages of BI software - from benefits claims to heating. Continue Reading
November 28, 2002 28 Nov'02
UPS tracking system speeds international shipments

The automated package tracking system used at United Parcel Service's Kentucky headquarters, is speeding up the delivery of... Continue Reading

Succeed at implementing RPA: Top tips from execs at IBM Think

Implementing RPA requires planning and coordination between multiple parts of the business to be effective. Execs at IBM Think ...

AI bots: How GE is adapting traditional management to AI

To get a handle on its AI strategy, GE is making AI more human: It's creating AI bots and assigning them to managers. Challenges ...

Should your company hire a chief AI officer?

Aramark's newly appointed chief AI officer, along with senior IT leaders from Kohl's, eBay and Square, make the case for an AI ...

SearchSecurity

Google Play security improved by targeting repeat offenders

Google this week attributed security improvements in Google Play to both automated processes and human reviewers. The ...

Astaroth Trojan returns, abuses antivirus software

Cybereason's Nocturnus Research team has discovered a new strain of the Astaroth Trojan that attacks antivirus software to steal ...

Ponemon study: Poor password practices remain rampant

More than two-thirds of employees share passwords with colleagues, research reveals. Experts sound off on what's fueling poor ...

SearchNetworking

Cisco earnings, revenue show strength of product roadmap

Cisco earnings and revenue show customers are putting aside global uncertainties and buying into the company's shift toward a ...

How to improve network latency in 3 steps

High latency can snarl network traffic and disrupt communications, resulting in unhappy end users. Check out these three steps to...

The pros and cons of network slicing in 5G

Although network slicing is useful for certain applications, like IoT and mobile networks, it might not be necessary at this ...

SearchDataCenter

How to prepare your data center for an HCI appliance

Vendors tout hyper-converged infrastructure as a plug-and-play offering, but before you install anything in your data center, be ...

Hone these top 5 data center skills in 2019

As data centers become more software-based, admins should prepare themselves by learning about the cloud, containers, DevOps and ...

Carbon Relay debuts AI-based software for data center cooling

Newcomer Carbon Relay has introduced two products that use artificial intelligence to help IT pros manage data center efficiency.

SearchDataManagement

Originators form group to boost Presto SQL query engine

The Presto engine arose as an alternative to Hive for big data queries. Now, the Presto Software Foundation has formed to promote...

5 best practices for managing real-time data integration

Real-time data integration isn't like traditional data integration -- "it's moving, it's dirty and it's temporal," cautions one ...

Web integration platform eases way to machine learning models

StoryFit data scientists employ machine learning algorithms to gauge film script scenarios' prospects. They use Import.io tools ...