November 2007

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Microsoft yet to patch XP security flaw

  Microsoft has yet to release a work-around or patch to fix a serious problem in Windows XP affecting any Web applications running on a PC with Internet Explorer 7.0 installed.  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Virtual worlds are 2008’s ‘breakthrough technology’

  BP, ABN Amro and Diageo have revealed details of the ways they are working in virtual worlds.  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Dr Who and the fable of the exploding door

  What the timelord can teach us about IT security  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Law firm implements online e-mail archiving

  Law firm Taylor Wessing has replaced its e-mail archival server with a web-based service from Mimecast.  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Carbon cap to cover IT by 2012, says MP

  Carbon emissions capping legislation will target the IT sector after 2012, and businesses should prepare by developing green technology plans, a Labour MP has advised.  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Next move: how do I become a mobile phone programmer?

  Java skills are in demand for mobile phone coding  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Second Life jobs fair pays off for KPMG

  Professional services firm KPMG has succeeded in attracting potential recruits through a jobs fair on the Second Life virtual world.  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Hiroshima University and The Nippon Kayaku develop organic semiconductor material

  A research team from Hiroshima University and The Nippon Kayaku company has developed a new kind of organic semiconductor material that allows for high electron mobility yet remains stable even when exposed to air.  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Reed targets power savings with thin clients in for PCs

  High-street recruitment agency Reed is to complete the replacement of 4,500 Hewlett-Packard desktop PCs with thin clients by the first quarter of 2008, in a move that will save the company £200,000 per year in reduced energy costs.  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  European workers spend 3.5 years of their lives dealing with irrelevant e-mails

  A survey of over 180 senior managers, conducted by the Henley Management College, found that three and a half years of our working lives are spent on pointless e-mailing, since 32% of messages read and sent are considered irrelevant.  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Is Whitehall discouraging broadcasters from criticising the NPfIT?

  NHS Connecting for Health, which runs part of the National Programme for IT [NPfIT], is to write to the BBC about parts of its documentary “Wiring the NHS”. The Radio 4 documentary on the NPfIT ...  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  In Search of the Holy Grail of Security Risk Management

  IBM’s latest press release caught my eye. It sounds great, announcing a major investment in new security services, products and research breakthroughs to help business effectively manage ...  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Rightmove speeds searches with Exalead system

  Online estate agent Rightmove, one of the UK's 10 most-visited websites, has moved to speed up searches as traffic on the site reached 120 queries per second.  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  IBM adopts risk e-strategy

  Businesses leave far too much to chance and need to be more proactive in managing operational and IT risk, IBM has announced, as it launched its "Enterprise to the Edge" scheme to manage risk.  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Online gambling site claims remote web-security win

  Online gambling site Victor Chandler claimed today that it can ensure instant web security in remote offices where it has little or no IT infrastructure. If true, this could lead the way to similar breakthroughs in banking and public sector ...  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Infosec Europe Hall of Fame

  Infosecurity Europe are compiling a list of who they "consider to be the brilliant minds in the history of the information security industry. " Read the details online here: ...  Continue Reading

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Your shout: Mifid, the UK's education system, IT estate measurement, political representation of IT

  Mifid, the UK's education system, IT estate measurement, political representation of IT, NHS data sharing  Continue Reading

• November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07

  IBM refreshes storage arrays, adds file virtualisation

  IBM bolsters DS8000 high-end systems and Nas management application, but it leaves out Maid, data deduplication, thin provisioning and 1Tbyte Sata drives.  Continue Reading

• November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07

  ISCSI storage gets performance makeover

  Suppliers, including Ibrix, Mellanox, Alacritech and EqualLogic, are offering juiced-up new iSCSI configurations, while 3PAR, CipherMax and NeoScale boost data security products.  Continue Reading

• November 01, 2007 01 Nov'07

  Riverbed adds disaster recovery features to WAFS

  A new version of Riverbed's software will sense when users are doing massive restores over the Wan and optimise traffic accordingly, the company says.  Continue Reading