August 2005

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  Make marketing more relevant

  Responsys, a premier global provider of on-demand email and lifecycle marketing solutions, has announced Interact 5, the latest version of the company's email marketing automation software.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  Distiller saves £40,000 a year with customs document management

  William Grant & Sons, the distiller of Glenfiddich whisky, has migrated to the Covus document processing system to save up to £40,000 a year.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  Network Appliance completes acquisition of data security specialist

  Network Appliance has completed its $260m (£153m) acquisition of storage security company Decru.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  DefCon and Black Hat wireless hackers foiled

  Hackers at the recently held DefCon and Black Hat security conferences in Las Vegas failed to hack the wireless networks set up for the events, despite challenges from the organisers.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  Opera celebrates tenth anniversary with free code

  Opera is celebrating its tenth anniversary as a browser software provider by giving away complimentary registration codes for its software.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  SMEs offered new data management suite

  Ipswitch, the network management, messaging and file transfer solutions provider, has released the Ipswitch WS_FTP Data Management Suite for SMEs.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  IT recruiters urged to aid staff diversity

  IT recruitment firms are being encouraged to tackle discrimination by considering a wider range of potential employees.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  Canary Wharf to offer full Wi-Fi coverage

  London business district Canary Wharf will go live with one of Europe's largest Wi-Fi zones, spanning a 97 acre site, at the end of September.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  C&W's IP ring offers fast access for London

  Cable & Wireless has switched on the London ring of its IP-based Next Generation Network (NGN).  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  EMC acquisition boost to customer support

  EMC is to acquire network virtualisation company Rainfinity.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  Hitachi researchers make quantum leap

  A team of researchers at Hitachi-Cambridge has developed a silicon device to facilitate quantum computing.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2005 31 Aug'05

  Shipbuilder VT upgrades to solve NT4 support headaches

  Shipbuilder VT Group is updating its server infrastructure to use Microsoft's Active Directory, as it replaces its Windows NT 4.0 servers.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05

  Myfip's Titan Rain connection

  LURHQ researchers say the Myfip worm is a good example of the malcode Chinese hackers are using in the so-called Titan Rain attacks against U.S. government networks.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05

  Antivirus can introduce dangerous network security holes into any OS

  AV software is one of the most basic security steps available. It's also yet another gateway for security breaches.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05

  Passive fingerprinting: Applications and prevention

  In this excerpt from the book Silence on the Wire, author Michal Zalewski discusses both malicious and beneficial uses for passive fingerprinting, and how to prevent successful passive fingerprinting on your network.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05

  Pensions department cuts deal for £900m saving

  The Department for Work and Pensions and its main technology supplier EDS have struck a deal to revise and standardise 150 separate contracts, cutting the department's IT spend by £900m over five years.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05

  Sainsbury's vets suppliers over IT continuity plans

  Sainsbury's has begun a drive to ensure its key suppliers have business continuity plans in place to deal with disruptions such as the loss of IT systems or key sites becoming inaccessible.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05

  Intel promises to ease spiralling datacentre power consumption

  Intel is promising to ease the problem of spiralling power consumption in datacentres.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05

  BAA cuts its desktop costs with thin clients

  Airports operator BAA has cut 28% off the installation, management and maintenance cost of 8,500 desktops by replacing PCs with thin client terminals.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2005 30 Aug'05

  Online services deadline will be met but will public be won over?

  Councils may fail to attract people to access services electronically despite meeting the government's end-of year deadline to get services online, public sector IT managers group Socitm has warned.  Continue Reading