February 2009

IBM offers redundant staff jobs overseas

IBM workers in the US and Canada who have recently been made redundant are being offered jobs in lower-wage locations such as India, China, Brazil and Eastern...

Pay rates for interim managers soar despite market decline

Pay rates were still rising in December for IT staff in interim management positions, despite the market shrinking 11%.

IT interim managers can now...

SAP boosts ERP with Business Suite 7

SAP has unveiled a major update to its flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) software with the release of the SAP Business Suite 7 in New York today.  Continue Reading

Mobile computing users willing to pay for acceptable Wi-Fi

Mobile computing expect widely available Wi-Fi services and express a keen willingness to pay for them  Continue Reading

Mobile computing manufacturers need to add Wan

Embedding wan into ultra portables may addresses the frustration of spotty coverage of Wi-Fi  Continue Reading

Netbooks and MIDs ‘secondary’ mobile computing devices

Ultra portable devices gaining popularity if not yet credibility from businesses  Continue Reading

Office 2007 Deployment: The Main Script Part 3

We return to the KIX logon script for the Office 2007 rollout to explain more on what we are doing...  Continue Reading

Garbage protection, muck spreading or data governance?

Whatever the underlying reality, the current mistrust of public sector data governance makes it highly likely that these clauses will fail in the Lords and set back the cause of secure sharing ...  Continue Reading

Third of senior staff at top firms fall for game honey trap

Senior staff at a third of top UK companies have fallen for an online game honey trap to test their security awareness.

In a campaign targeting 14,000...

Mozilla updates Firefox as it gains ground

Mozilla has released an update of Firefox that fixes six bugs as it continues to gain share of the internet browser market.  Continue Reading

(ISC)2 publishes security resource guide online

Information security certification body (ISC)2 has published an onlineresource guide for security professionals.  Continue Reading

Competition Commission blocks Project Kangaroo

The Competition Commission has blocked the online joint TV venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4.  Continue Reading

Kaspersky files image-based spam busting patent

Kaspersky Lab has patented a statistics-based method for detecting image-based spam that is used to bypass traditional text-based filters  Continue Reading

Average UK data breach costs firms £1.7m

The average UK data breach in business costs £1.7m, according to privacy and information management research firm Ponemon Institute.

In an annual report...

Legal firm reduces risk with enterprise search

UK legal firm Mills & Reeve is reducing risk by equipping more than 800 users in six offices with an enterprise search to ensure quick access to the information they need.  Continue Reading

Satyam could be auctioned off electronically

Satyam could bring all of its potential buyers together electronically using video conferencing to ensure the most visible process possible as the...

Facebook celebrates fifth birthday

Facebook is today celebrating it fifth birthday, but the more hard nosed may be asking where the money is.

The social networking site now has 150 million...