November 2010

IT standards author mobbed by autograph hunters

Watch out Dan Brown you have a rival. Bill Curtis, is of course, the best selling author of the Capability Maturity Model, which will be well know to anyone who has outsourced their software ...  Continue Reading

Fabric of the HTML universe

the HTML Patchwork Quilt will be on display at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park for the rest of the year  Continue Reading

How to cut software defects to 0.012 per thousand lines of code with software Big Brother

I was with Chinese offshore software company Bleum last week. The company was updating me on its recent entry into the UK. We talked about China's advantages. I thought price would be the main draw ...  Continue Reading

How to achieve a gold medal career

Women in Technology recently held an event 'How to achieve a gold medal career' with BP. Maggie Berry shares career advice from Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Athletics Champion, Sally ...  Continue Reading

McKinnon: Blunkett repents over UK-US extradition treaty

With the hindsight of the past seven years, former home secretary David Blunkett admitted to a parliamentary select committee he would examine "very carefully" the implications of the 2003 extradition treaty he signed with the US.  Continue Reading

EC to investigate Google over antitrust allegations

The European Commission (EC) is to investigate allegations Google abused a dominant position in online search.  Continue Reading

HP Software Chief: We don't have a concept of "over the wall", ALM goes on...

HP Software chief makes some broad comments in terms of where his company's software unit and technology is positioned  Continue Reading

Employees bring their own IT to work

Employees are bypassing IT departments and implementing their own software solutions, a study from data company Informatica Corporation has found.

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EC pushes for uniform data protection legislation across Europe

Europe has the best data protection laws in the world, but the rapid pace of technology change has prompted new questions and challenges, according to Viviane...  Continue Reading

Iran confirms Stuxnet hit uranium enrichment centrifuges

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has confirmed that the Stuxnet computer worm affected centrifuges in the country's uranium enrichment programme.  Continue Reading

EU launches probe into Google’s online search rankings

The European Union has launched an investigation into Google's business practices.  Continue Reading

China and Sri-Lanka try and get one over India in software testing

Testing software is critical because the cost of fixing bugs once the software is up and running is extremely high. As a result software testing is in demand and is a growing market. I recently ...  Continue Reading

Wikileaks turns to cloud computing to fend off DDoS attack

Whistleblowing site Wikileaks turned to cloud computing services to help defend against a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack ...  Continue Reading

Wikileaks show US snubbed Brown over hacker McKinnon extradition

The US government rejected former prime minister Gordon Brown's request for self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon to serve a sentence in the UK, according to cables revealed by Wikileaks.  Continue Reading

Communications costs comprise 12% of UK household spending

UK consumers spent more on communications than on alcohol and tobacco as a result of more homes having computers and internet connections, the Office for National Statistics revealed on Tuesday.  Continue Reading

Capgemini public-sector drive gathers pace

Capgemini continues to add public sector expertise to its management team with a former deputy Chief Constable appointed CIO of its Criminal Justice Sector...

Comcast sparks US net neutrality row

US internet network operator Level 3 has accused cable firm Comcast of introducing charges for carrying internet movies and other traffic.

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