September 2009

Developing flexible instant messaging guidelines

From its beginnings in the early 1990s, instant messaging (IM) has developed into a powerful business tool, giving internet users access to a simple presence facility, as well as acting as a linchpin for online conferencing, whiteboarding and other ...  Continue Reading

EMC, Cisco, accused of FUDfest, Apple hammered, NetApp accused of “PR BS” as IBM and HDS fight

The storage blogosphere embraced has devoted itself to VMworld … and the usual bickering as Pillar labels V-Max a “clunker” and EMC, Cisco, HDS, IBM and NetApp all swipe at one another.  Continue Reading

Email archiving primer: Benefits and implementation tips

Learn about the benefits and potential pitfalls of email archiving technology, best practices for selecting an email archiving product and user implementation tips.  Continue Reading

When IT Meets politics at the Party Conferences

The Dragons' Den events at the Party Conferences are the lead in to a very ambitious programme. Will it peter out in good intentions? Will it go up like rocket and come down like a stick?. Or will ...  Continue Reading

Nanoboxes could be the future of drug delivery

Do you remember when you were a child producing paper cubes by folding up a flat cross shape? Now two researchers have applied the same technique at nanoscale, creating the first nanoparticles with precisely patterned surfaces. These patterns could ...  Continue Reading

SMI-S storage standard breaks supplier lock-in

There is work to be done, but the Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SMI-S) standard promises best-of-breed storage systems, easily provisioned by informed users.  Continue Reading

Indian lunar probe: broken in under a year

India's first lunar probe has lost contact with Earth, and the mission has been declared over more than a year earlier than intended. It is not yet clear what caused the communications failure, but mission members suspect it was exacerbated by the ...  Continue Reading

Little brother of the LHC could come up with the answers first

With the Large Hadron Collider still in the repair shop, the race to find the Higgs boson particle has become a lot tighter, thanks to the older and less powerful - but nonetheless working - Tevatron collider near Chicago.  Continue Reading

AI is a dream we shouldn't be having

Robotics expert Noel Sharkey used to be a believer in artificial intelligence, but now thinks AI is a dangerous myth that could lead to a dystopian future of unintelligent, unfeeling robot carers and soldiers.  Continue Reading

Vendor selection criteria for a mobile application rollout

Mobile devices are the lifeblood of most shipping companies. Shirish Gariba, CIO of Mumbai-based distributor Elbee Express Pvt Ltd., shares his experiences on rolling out a mobile application in India and offers advice on choosing a platform, a ...  Continue Reading

Video: Donate old PCs to developing world

The government should step in to give businesses incentives to re-deploy their old IT equipment, a charity said this week.  Continue Reading

Skype Trojan targets Windows; Linux and Apple unaffected

A programmer who wrote a Trojan that allows third parties to listen to Skype calls has released the code so that computer security firms can develop countermeasures.

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Virus attack costs Ealing Council £500,000

A council is facing costs of over £500,000 after an employee released a Conficker D virus on to its network.  Continue Reading

September Patch Tuesday could disrupt business

Microsoft's September security update is likely to cause some disruption in businesses with five critical patches for core Windows operating systems.

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Server market has reached bottom - IDC

IDC reckons the UK server market may have hit rock bottom in the second quarter as the rate of sequential revenue declines slowed.

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Storage hit by recession as IT projects put on hold

Sales of external controller-based (ECB) disk storage plummeted by almost 16% in the second quarter of 2009 due to the downturn impacting enterprise IT projects,...

Empower the business with Unified Communications

Today’s increasing business pressures are obliging organisations to deal with changes in economic circumstances, changes in business methodologies and changes in the places in which they do business.  Continue Reading