July 2006
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July 24, 2006
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Police swoop on speaker at hackers’ conference
The owner and chief executive of an online investigation company has been arrested at a hackers’ conference. Continue Reading
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July 24, 2006
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Microsoft puts price tag on Vista delay
A further delay in the launch of Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system could cost the software giant hundreds of millions of pounds, its chief finance officer has admitted. Continue Reading
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July 24, 2006
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Trojan spoofs Google Toolbar
A Trojan disguised as a link to the Google Toolbar search engine has been detected by security experts. Continue Reading
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July 24, 2006
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Jul'06
Philips picks BT for five-year comms deal
Electronics giant Philips has signed a five year contract with BT to provide communication services across Europe, the Middle-East and Africa along with a global data infrastructure and access services. Continue Reading
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July 24, 2006
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Watchdog slams US government IT management
Government agencies must strengthen the management of high-risk IT projects because more than a third are falling short on performance, the US Government Accountability Office has warned. Continue Reading
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July 24, 2006
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Jul'06
Google wins support over click fraud
An independent expert has backed Google’s efforts to combat “click fraud” in a report commissioned as part of a $90m (£48.5m) settlement of a lawsuit filed against the search engine giant by advertiser Lane's Gifts. Continue Reading
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July 24, 2006
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Child Support Agency: a history of IT failure
The crisis-ridden Child Support Agency (CSA) has a history of IT failure. It was not just the technology that caused difficulty but the management of its introduction. Find out what went wrong and what lessons can be learnt from one of the most ... Continue Reading
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July 24, 2006
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IT failures help speed demise of Child Support Agency
The crisis-ridden Child Support Agency (CSA) will be axed, work and pensions secretary John Hutton will tell the House of Commons today. Continue Reading
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July 24, 2006
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Jul'06
How Computer Weekly stamped out stiffing
A look back at the original Computer Weekly Stamp Out Stiffing campaign. Continue Reading
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July 24, 2006
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Jul'06
Disaster recovery report card: Measuring your company's disaster recovery profile
Disaster recovery planning is challenging because you don't know what you're planning for or how well your disaster recovery plan will hold up in the face of an emergency. Use this report card to measure your disaster recovery plan and identify ... Continue Reading
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July 24, 2006
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Resellers come around to storage virtualization
Storage virtualisation has been around as a concept for years, but value added resellers are finally finding ways to sell it. Continue Reading
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July 23, 2006
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News in brief
Short takes on this week's news Continue Reading
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July 23, 2006
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Testing iSCSI SAN performance with Iometer
Iometer, a performance test tool for tuning Windows environments, can also be used to tune performance in iSCSI SANs. The tool lets you simulate the SAN's performance by setting many of the parameters and running tests. Repeated runs with different ... Continue Reading
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July 21, 2006
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Jul'06
Network optimization: BT's solution for end-user performance hurdles -- and other network news brief
Short takes from this week's network news Continue Reading
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July 21, 2006
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World Community Grid takes on cancer
Medical researchers are using IBM’s World Community Grid to help tackle cancer. Continue Reading
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July 21, 2006
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Jul'06
World Cup drags back PC shipments
European PC shipments saw modest 6.4% growth in the second quarter, held back by the World Cup and stock in the channel, says analyst IDC. Continue Reading
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July 21, 2006
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Voca's big BACS switch
The ups and downs of Voca's massive IT programme, which began in 2002 with the switch-over to an IP network. Continue Reading
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July 21, 2006
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Jul'06
IBM offers continuous data back-up to SMEs and home users
IBM is to offer its enterprise-grade Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files to SMEs and home users. Continue Reading
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July 21, 2006
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Jul'06
Adware Trojan infects a million MySpace visitors
More than a million users of social networking site MySpace.com and other websites may have been infected with adware spread by an internet banner advert. Continue Reading
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July 21, 2006
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Jul'06
VMware slams open source sell-out
VMware has criticised virtualisation developer XenSource’s tie-up with Microsoft, accusing the open source company of selling out. Continue Reading