February 2006

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Universities offered cheaper data back-up services

  Universities are being encouraged to back-up their data with a system introduced by the United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association (UKERNA).  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Staff ignoring acceptable use policies

  There is widespread ignorance of corporate internet acceptable usage policies (AUPs) in UK businesses, according to a survey of 300 business internet users by internet security appliance company SmoothWall.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Cable & Wireless to cut 3,000 jobs

  Cable & Wireless is to cut up to 3,000 jobs in the UK over the next five years, as it seeks to concentrate on larger business customers.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  News in brief

  Short takes from this week's news  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Vodafone issues sales warning and admits £28bn assets hole

  Vodafone has written off up to £28bn from its balance sheet and warned that it faces a slowdown in sales growth as a result of increased competition.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Lack of RFID skills will stall roll-outs

  Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology adoption rates will suffer because of a lack of skills in the field.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Google adds e-commerce to Google Base

  Google is adding e-commerce transaction capabilities to its Google Base consolidated web content platform.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Cost biggest factor in Wan outsourcing

  Cost is the biggest concern for companies when considering whether to outsource their wide area network.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Hot skills: Aqualogic calls for expertise in service-oriented architecture

  Best known for its Weblogic application server, BEA also owns the Tuxedo middleware suite. Last year it got into the burgeoning service-oriented architecture business with Aqualogic.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Sun claims US government stalled its Grid over state security

  Sun has claimed that the US government has held back its plans to launch its Sun Grid supercomputing project to customers.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Yahoo sues over mobile trade secrets

  Yahoo is suing wireless content company MForma and a group of its former employees now working at the company for allegedly stealing its trade secrets.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Oracle issues critical out-of-cycle security patch

  Oracle has released a critical security patch to fix a number of vulnerabilities in its E-Business Suite software.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  IBM and Novell plan rival to Microsoft identity management platform

  IBM and Novell are joining forces to launch an open-source identity management system to rival Microsoft’s forthcoming InfoCard identity management technology.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Cambridge course promises to hone your business skills in a week

  IT directors and managers who want to sharpen their entrepreneurial skills could benefit from the one-week summer school at the University of Cambridge.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Isle of Wight Council deploys e-mail search programme to meet FoI requests

  Smart projects: Applications under the Freedom of Information Act accelerated by product that searches e-mail threads  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Security chiefs declare war on cyber criminals

  What can SMBs take from the RSA 2006 IT security show?  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Majority of UK SMBs vulnerable to security attacks

  Despite the inherent risks, 59% of SMBs don't deploy new application software patches as soon as they are released.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  IT security suite for SMBs

  Steganos releases a cut-down version of its full Security Suite for SMBs.  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  Should SMBs voice concerns on Skype security?

  Skype has been very attractive to SMBs but its popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by the hacker community  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2006 28 Feb'06

  SMBs get Orange tools on the move

  Mobile operators gives SMBs productivity portal  Continue Reading