September 2003

September 04, 2003 04 Sep'03
Bush appoints e-government tsar

President George W Bush is to appoint Karen Evans, chief information officer at the US Department of Energy and an experienced... Continue Reading
September 04, 2003 04 Sep'03
Online retailers and Microsoft tackle ID fraud

Online retailers and technology companies, including Microsoft, eBay and Amazon.com, are teaming up to fight online identity... Continue Reading
September 04, 2003 04 Sep'03
Notebook PCs drive overall PC sales

Notebook PCs continue to drive most of the growth in the overall PC market, as commercial customers finally start replacing... Continue Reading

September 04, 2003 04 Sep'03
Borland adds 'track and trace' to apps testing tool

Borland Software is upgrading its Optimizeit Java application testing tool, adding "track and trace" functions for distributed... Continue Reading
September 04, 2003 04 Sep'03
Cost pressures force Gateway to cut jobs

Gateway is to outsource a number of PC assembly and manufacturing jobs as part of its continued effort to slash costs. Continue Reading
September 04, 2003 04 Sep'03
Romanian arrested for launching Blaster-F

A 24-year-old Romanian student has been arrested for authoring a variant of the Blaster internet worm. Continue Reading
September 04, 2003 04 Sep'03
Microsoft launches black leather mouse

Microsoft refreshed its mice and keyboard line-up on Wednesday, introducing three mice with a tilting wheel for horizontal... Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Thought for the day: Look after your network

Setting up security guidelines alone will not ensure your company is secure. The key to implementing them successfully is to test... Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
IT directors must be prepared to change if they want to survive in the business

IT chiefs will hear this week how they have two years to gain new skills and change the way they are perceived by others. Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
DHL confirms datacentre move to Prague

DHL, the express delivery giant, has officially announced its decision to close its existing UK-based datacentre and move to a... Continue Reading

September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Hitachi establishes Chinese e-govt venture

Hitachi is to establish a joint venture with the Beijing University of Technology next month, which will focus on the electronic... Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
PeopleSoft reinstates customer programme

PeopleSoft has decided to offer a customer assurance programme which would guarantee a refund of up to five times the purchase... Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Sars outbreak fails to dent second-quarter mobile phone sales

Changing fashions and maturing markets continued to drive mobile phone sales in the second quarter of the year, pushing worldwide... Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Business Objects-MicroStrategy suit dismissed

A Californian court has dismissed a lawsuit by Business Objects which alleged that MicroStrategy infringed its patent on a... Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
AT&T files racketeering suit

AT&T has filed a lawsuit against MCI and Onvoy, alleging the two companies have cost AT&T tens of millions of dollars by... Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
MCI appoints five new board members

Telecommunications company MCI has named five new members to its board of directors. The appointments will bring the number of... Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Sun and Siebel strengthen ties

Siebel Systems and Sun Microsystems are forging a software development partnership to boost the performance of Siebel CRM... Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
IBM pushes data centre provisioning

IBM is to roll out a set of intelligent system-provisioning tools next month, which can track the use of mainframes, servers and... Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Power cut highlights need for IT disaster planning

Thursday's power cut, which crippled London's transport network and hit homes and businesses, has highlighted for detailed... Continue Reading
September 03, 2003 03 Sep'03
Forrester cautions against BPO hype

Forrester Research has warned IT managers and chief information officers that companies are exaggerating their capacity to offer... Continue Reading

How to deal with the lack of chatbot standards

A lack of standards around chatbot development has created a situation in which enterprises are building and rebuilding bots. But...

RPA journey: Schneider Electric's global plan taps Blue Prism, UiPath

Schneider Electric, a multinational energy management company, has embarked on a robotic process automation journey, establishing...

Blurring the lines between RPA platforms and APIs

RPA is quickly making itself known in the automation market, but the real game changer is utilizing the technology in an API-rich...

SearchSecurity

2020 election security to face same vulnerabilities as in 2016

Confidence in the security of the 2020 election spanned the gamut, depending on who you asked at DEF CON's Voting Village, with ...

DevOps security checklist requires proper integration

There are a lot of moving parts to adding security into a DevOps environment. Using application testing DevOps security tools are...

How to identify and evaluate cybersecurity frameworks

Not all frameworks for cybersecurity are equal. ESG's Jon Oltsik explains what attributes make a cybersecurity framework and how ...

SearchNetworking

Cloud-native deployment isn't for every application

In this roundup of networking blogs, analysts evaluate cloud-native deployments, the increasing value of Wi-Fi and the emergence ...

IT favors open source networking over Cisco ACI, VMware NSX

Companies are turning to open source network automation tools as less expensive, good-enough alternatives to Cisco ACI and VMware...

What are network firewalls? Test your network security IQ

Network firewalls have been an essential part of network security since the internet began. This quiz covers what network ...

SearchDataCenter

How to get out of a bad colocation contract

Renegotiation, legal action and cancellation are all options if your colocation service agreement isn't up to par. But each ...

5 steps to include on your software update checklist

Training, testing and automation are all essential components to software updates. Implementing these concepts makes version ...

Cray exascale computer to modernize aging nuclear weapon stockpile

The U.S. is buying an exascale system from Cray Inc., its third from the company which is now being acquired by HPE. The $600 ...

SearchDataManagement

AWS Lake Formation goes GA, as cloud data lake market grows

First released in late 2018, AWS Lake Formation is now generally available and it could be the force that helps to accelerate ...

Apollo data graph brings managed federation to enterprises

The new Apollo update is intended to enable organizations to federate multiple enterprise data sets more easily and use APIs to ...

Data management roles: Data architect vs. data engineer, others

Veteran data professional Michael Bowers differentiates between key data management positions, including their salaries and which...