February 2009

'Extremely difficult' NHS IT roll out cost hospital £10m

A London hospital is looking for £10m compensation after an "extremely difficult" implementation of the Care Record System, part of the NHS National programme for IT.  Continue Reading

UK mobile broadband booming

New mobile applications and ‘attractive’ mobile computing platforms driving mobile broadband adoption.  Continue Reading

Assess your software- and hardware-based full disk encryption options

Full disk encryption is expected to be the top security technology to be tested or adopted this year, what are the challenges and benefits likely to be?

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Full disk encryption effective, but lost productivity needs to be addressed

Full disk encryption is expected to be the top security technology to be tested or adopted this year, what are the challenges and benefits likely to be?

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Benefits of full disk encryption lie in avoiding PR and compliance risks of breeching data

Full disk encryption is expected to be the top security technology to be tested or adopted this year, what are the challenges and benefits likely to be?

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Increased mobility makes full disk encryption more important, but so is end-user policy management

Full disk encryption is expected to be the top security technology to be tested or adopted this year, what are the challenges and benefits likely to be?

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Realise the full benefits by encrypting hard drive and storage media

Full disk encryption is expected to be the top security technology to be tested or adopted this year, what are the challenges and benefits likely to be?  Continue Reading

Business case must be well-managed to balance cost and benefits of full disk encryption

Full disk encryption is expected to be the top security technology to be tested or adopted this year, what are the challenges and benefits likely to be?

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Full disk encryption performance faster but easier interfaces still expensive

Full disk encryption is expected to be the top security technology to be tested or adopted this year, what are the challenges and benefits likely to be?

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Business IP phone growth shows strength of convergence

The popularity of converged networks demonstrated by thriving IP phone market  Continue Reading

Compass Group improves procurement in face of recession

Catering firm Compass Group is using software to standardise the whole purchasing process and reduce its own costs by helping suppliers reduce theirs.

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Free mobile computing connectivity with broadband subscription

In a move that is designed to extend the flexibility and adaptability of firms, especially small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), BT has launched a broadband package that also provides a free public Wi-Fi hotspot.  Continue Reading

Government officials well lobbied by the IT industry

IT suppliers and consultants are among the biggest entertainers of senior UK government officials, an official list published by the government reveals.  Continue Reading

Microsoft puts bounty on worm creator

Microsoft is offering a $250,000 bounty on finding the creators of the damaging Downadup/Conficker virus.  Continue Reading

Critical data protection for mobile SMBs

Secure network infrastructure company SonicWALL has launched what it claims will solve small and medium size businesses’ (SMBs’) perennial problems with protecting business critical data, applications and systems made more critical with mobile ...  Continue Reading

Buoyant O2 steams into mobile computing market

Hot on the heels of ranking highest for mobile broadband customer satisfaction in the UK, O2 has announced that it is following its competitors O2 launches into the mobile computing arena.  Continue Reading

Cisco forecasts continued mobile computing boom

The boom in usage of mobile broadband and mobile computing applications will continue for the foreseeable future according to the results of Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI) Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013.  Continue Reading