July 2006

• July 24, 2006 24 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

• July 24, 2006 24 Jul'06

  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

• July 24, 2006 24 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

• July 24, 2006 24 Jul'06

  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

• July 24, 2006 24 Jul'06

  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

• July 24, 2006 24 Jul'06

  How Computer Weekly stamped out stiffing

  A look back at the original Computer Weekly Stamp Out Stiffing campaign.  Continue Reading

• July 24, 2006 24 Jul'06

  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

• July 24, 2006 24 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

• July 23, 2006 23 Jul'06

  News in brief

  Short takes on this week's news  Continue Reading

• July 23, 2006 23 Jul'06

  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

• July 21, 2006 21 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

• July 21, 2006 21 Jul'06

  World Community Grid takes on cancer

  Medical researchers are using IBM’s World Community Grid to help tackle cancer.  Continue Reading

• July 21, 2006 21 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

• July 21, 2006 21 Jul'06

  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

• July 21, 2006 21 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

• July 21, 2006 21 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

• July 21, 2006 21 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

• July 21, 2006 21 Jul'06

  Sales and operating profit jump at Microsoft

  Microsoft has announced an 11% increase in sales and a 13% increase in operating profit for the year.  Continue Reading

• July 21, 2006 21 Jul'06

  Brocade's ex-CEO charged with stock fraud

  The former chief executive officer of Brocade Communications Systems, along with other former senior executives, has been charged with financial fraud over the backdating of stock options.  Continue Reading

• July 21, 2006 21 Jul'06

  IBM to put AMD chips in mainstream servers

  IBM and AMD are set to expand their relationship, with Big Blue expected to launch a new range of mainstream business servers driven by AMD chips.  Continue Reading