September 2007

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  BT buys services firm INS Group to extend international reach

  BT is continuing its spending spree and acquiring Belgian network and systems integrator INS Group.  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Improve reliability before adding features, Lords urge software firms

  House of Lords Science and Technology Committee calls for legislation to encourage software suppliers to improve the quality of their products  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Lloyds TSB to issue text warnings on overdrafts

  Lloyds TSB is introducing a new mobile text service which will alert current account customers if they are nearly reaching or going over their overdraft limit.  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Nortel targets virtualisation

  Nortel plans to push deeper into the datacentre market next year with a new product strategy that stresses virtualisation and reliability.  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Hot skills: C# coders are in demand as version 3.0 release nears

  Your at-a-glance guide to Microsoft's C# object oriented programming language  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Analyst paper: IT business alignment

  Latest research paper from Cutter Consortium's senior consultant Steve Andriole on IT business alignment  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Wanless Report calls for audit of NHS Connecting for Health

  Derek Wanless, a founding father of the world's largest civil IT-based programme, the NHS Programme for IT, has questioned whether it should continue without an audit of finances, benefits. and technical aspects of the programme.  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Cisco improves datacentre virtualisation offering with VMWare integration

  Cisco has integrated its VFrame Data Center system with VMware Virtual Infrastructure to improve its server virtualisation offering to firms.  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  BT to serve network needs of LogicaCMG customers

  BT has started work on a network services contract with LogicaCMG, that will serve both the outsourcer's internal and customer networks.  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Private Mobile Networks joins COMIT

  Low-power local area mobile phone network supplier, Private Mobile Networks (PMN), has joined a construction industry grouping aimed at promoting the use of mobile technology.  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Russian US Consulate hacked

  IT security and control firm Sophos has reported on its blog that webpages of the US Consulate General in St.Petersburg, Russia, were attacked by hackers earlier this week. The infected pages have since been cleaned up.  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Survey shows SOA still not widely understood

  Most business managers have little or no understanding of service oriented architecture (SOA) and the benefits it can bring, according to a survey over 100 UK companies by PMP Research.  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Standardise IT compliance systems to ease burden, urge BCS delegates

  Stronger IT governance is needed across the industry, a BCS conference has been told. Although IT has never before had such an important role in business, there is less control over it now than there once was, attendees said.  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  The colour of efficient IT

  Green IT may be going the way of green politics. Once the passion and preserve of fringe political parties, ecology has gone mainstream.  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  How to eliminate duplicated data

  Master data management packages promise to ease the problem of having inconsistent and duplicated data stored across multiple enterprise systems  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Your shout! Postgraduate study is another route to IT career

  Readers have their say  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  CISSP - is it worth it?

  There is still plenty of debate on the airwaves about the value of the CISSP certification. Martin McKeay on his Network Security blog states "it's not meant to measure someone's networking ...  Continue Reading

• September 12, 2007 12 Sep'07

  Microsoft expands 64-bit computing reach with Sun server alliance

  Microsoft is expanding its 64-bit computing reach to Sun server platforms, and Sun is to become a Windows Server OEM, as the firms expand their strategic alliance.  Continue Reading

• September 12, 2007 12 Sep'07

  Chorley boosts service with online planning application viewing tool

  Chorley Borough Council has improved customer service with a system that allows local residents to view and comment on planning applications online.  Continue Reading

• September 12, 2007 12 Sep'07

  Attacks rise as e-tailers lag finance sector on security

  Big brand online retailers are increasingly targets for internet attacks, but they lag behind the finance sector in addressing vulnerabilities, according to Symantec's latest security threat report.  Continue Reading