September 2009
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September 07, 2009
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Sep'09
The cybercrime arms race: cyber security back on the political agenda
A costly and newsworthy breach at one of the US's leading payment transaction processors, a new US president calling for a cybercrime review as one of...
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September 07, 2009
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Sep'09
Engage, don't enrage: how to connect with customers on Twitter
Twitter is rapidly becoming one of the most popular social networking sites, with more than 44 million users, according to market research firm comScore....
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September 07, 2009
07
Sep'09
How to prevent data leaking in transit
The number of incidents involving data intentionally or unintentionally leaving corporate networks is on the rise, writes Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology...
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September 07, 2009
07
Sep'09
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
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September 07, 2009
07
Sep'09
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
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September 07, 2009
07
Sep'09
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
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September 06, 2009
06
Sep'09
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
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September 06, 2009
06
Sep'09
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
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September 06, 2009
06
Sep'09
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
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September 05, 2009
05
Sep'09
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
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September 05, 2009
05
Sep'09
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
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September 05, 2009
05
Sep'09
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
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September 05, 2009
05
Sep'09
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
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September 04, 2009
04
Sep'09
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
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September 04, 2009
04
Sep'09
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.
Reuben...
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September 04, 2009
04
Sep'09
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
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September 04, 2009
04
Sep'09
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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September 04, 2009
04
Sep'09
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.
The value of the...
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September 04, 2009
04
Sep'09
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,...
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September 04, 2009
04
Sep'09
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