June 2009

Microsoft to sell Razorfish

Microsoft is planing to sell online marketing agency Razorfish, which it acquired as part of a $6bn takeover of aQuantive in 2007.  Continue Reading

Apple bans “pornographic” Hottest Girls iPhone app

Apple bans Hottest Girls iPhone app from the iTunes App Store.  Continue Reading

Hacker fakes Britney Spears’ death

A hacker has broken into Britney Spears' Twitter account and posted a tweet announcing that she is dead.

The hacker posted the message: "Britney has...

Storage Roundup: ThinkGrid launches cloud service; Infortrend offers solid-state option; and more

Storage Roundup: ThinkGrid launches cloud storage service; Infortrend offers solid-state option; eMag Solutions tops 2,000 formats; NetApp achieves Hyper-V partnership status.  Continue Reading

Active-active array vs active-passive array: Storage arrays explained

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EMC extends Data Domain offer

EMC is still trying to acquire Data Domain, but hasn't increased its bid for the company.  Continue Reading

Malicious targeting exposes serious gaps in corporate defences

In the past 15 years, organisations have built up defensive barriers for the servers and databases that house their most sensitive data. But today's threats...

Who "owns" your identity and your personal data?

I find it interesting that so many are happy to talk about the success of that service but not about how little it cost, let alone why it was so cheap.  Continue Reading

Balancing IT costs during a recession

Face facts; business is bad. For most businesses, the sustained growth seen in the past 15 years is history.  Continue Reading

CommunicAsia ends with visitors wanting more

Merri Mack walks us through the major news of those who moved and shook at CommunicAsia.  Continue Reading

IT industry calls for £1bn green stimulus package

The IT industry is calling for £1bn from central government to invest in sustainable IT systems that will save the public sector money and reduce carbon emissions.  Continue Reading

TJX pays US states $9.75m for data breach

TJ Maxx owner TJX has agreed to pay nearly $10m to 41 US states for a data breach that enabled the theft of millions of debit and credit card numbers.  Continue Reading

Sales of PCs will grow by end of year, but no thanks to Windows 7

Analysts at Gartner are now predicting that sales of PCs will grow during Q4, but reckon Windows 7 will only have a "very modest" influence.  Continue Reading

Dump Google? Bing is more user-friendly

Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, has a better design than Google, a usability study from Catalyst Group has found.  Continue Reading

From old boys' club to ladies' room: Contrasting photos from W-Tech

The large Common Room at the IET building in Savoy Place was the venue for the drinks reception for W-Tech's evening networking event. On the wall just above where I sat gulping my mineral water is ...  Continue Reading

Be the boss you wish you had (W-Tech, Suzanne Doyle-Morris)

Speaker: Suzanne Doyle-Morris, 'executive coach with a passion for helping female executives succeed' and author of Beyond the Boys' Club: Strategies for Achieving Career Success as a Woman Working ...  Continue Reading

W-Tech as reported on Computer Weekly: Bringing women in IT together

Computer Weekly's reporter Rebecca Thomson reported on W-Tech - her story 'W-tech starts the drive to bring women in IT together' went online yesterday at 4pm. I was a bit busy in requirements ...  Continue Reading