October 2007

October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Why cybercrime is bad for the movie business

News of criminals beating the law by using Skype to plot their dastardly deeds got Downtime a bit concerned about the prevalence of high-tech crime. Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Hitachi quadruples hard drive capacity

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has developed the world's smallest read-head technology for hard disc drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four Tbytes on a desktop hard drive and one Tbytes on a notebook hard... Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Canon finds solution to problem of its own naming

Canon has interviewed 3,000 workers across Europe to find out what frustrates them most about office life. Curiously, paper jams and epic warm up times on printers did not top the list. Instead, the chart-topper was long and pointless meetings. Continue Reading

October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Now you can take your avatar to a third life

Linden Lab - creators of global hit Second Life - and IBM - creator of, well, the very interesting mainframe - are working on a joint project to allow a single character created in a virtual world to travel to different ones. Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Small firms suffer from "silo working", survey says

New technology is creating a worrying form of "silo working" at small firms, where information is not freely available to the whole organisation. Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Oracle issues 51 security fixes tomorrow

Oracle is issuing 51 security fixes for its product range tomorrow (Tuesday 16 October), as part of its quarterly patching cycle. Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
International Securities Exchange forced to suspend trading after power outage

The International Securities Exchange (ISE) had to suspend trading last Friday (12 October 2007) following a power outage. Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Video conferencing can play a part in conflict resolution

Video conferencing could be used to help resolve conflicts and arguments, researchers from University of Bath have found. Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Microsoft investigates Automatic Update user complaints over unauthorised updates

Microsoft is investigating complaints from Windows users that patches have been installed without their consent as a result of the Automatic Update (AU) application being turned on without their knowledge. Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Novell and Red Hat sued over alleged patent violation in Linux products

Patent house IP Innovation and Technology Licensing is suing both Novell and Red Hat in the US over the alleged violation of one of its patents used in their Linux desktop and server products. Continue Reading

October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Tiscali opens the broadband door to larger SMEs

New broadband product claimed as first to offer guaranteed voice quality over broadband with enhanced care and SLAs to support carrier class voice services Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Guaranteed response times biggest plus for SMEs’ outsourcing

Nearly half of UK SMEs believe that guaranteed response times is the most important benefit to outsourcing IT Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Revenue gears up for court battle with EDS

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is threatening to sue services supplier EDS unless it steps up compensation payments for failures in its IT support for the tax credits scheme, which led to tens of millions of pounds in overpayments. Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Image database is latest technology added to border control platform

Immigration minister Liam Byrne last week unveiled a £50,000 image-based database system that associates fingerprints, a visa and a unique passport number with an individual. The system is the latest plank in the government's £400m e-Borders border ... Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Converged networks ‘need rethink’, Quocirca says

Spending on converged voice, video and data networks could be wasted if businesses fail to audit how information travels between departments before installation, analyst firm Quocirca has warned. Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Employees now primary technology risk for SMEs

Broadband explosion is having a major effect on the behaviour of UK SMEs but large numbers failing to manage the risks Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Tax credits: HMRC threatens new legal action against EDS

HM Revenue and Customs [HMRC] says it will sue US-based services supplier EDS unless the supplier steps up compensation payments for failures in its IT support for tax credits, which led to tens of ... Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Healthcare ICT Champions - the shortlist

E-health Insider has organised an excellent awards scheme for the brightest and best in healthcare IT. Voting finishes on 22 October 2007. There are several categores. This is the "Healthcare ICT ... Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Business analysis suite spot enhanced

New automation and scheduling features to streamline processing and analysis and help improve operational efficiency. Continue Reading
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Enterprises reject ripping out data warehouses

Clear majority of enterprises favour incremental augmentation over rip and replace solutions for data warehouse platforms Continue Reading