August 2010

Consumer panel calls on Vaizey to act on broadband speeds

Independent watchdog the Communications Consumer Panel has called on broadband minister Ed Vaizey to tackle the discrepancy between advertised and actual broadband speeds.  Continue Reading

Buyers guide to IT infrastructure

Best practice in datacentre design dictates that as much IT infrastructure as possible should be virtualised. Doing so improves agility, allowing the IT department to flex resources up and down to meet the demands of the business.  Continue Reading

School’s out for an IT career

As the number of students passing A-levels and GCSEs in IT continues to fall, is the education system failing to train young people for a career in IT?  Continue Reading

CSC extends cloud partnership with VMware, EMC and Cisco

IT services provider CSC has joined forces with Cisco, EMC and VMware to introduce a technology stack for cloud computing.  Continue Reading

Bad network configurations a top data breach threat, survey reveals

Badly configured networks are one of the biggest causes of data breaches according to a majority of IT security professionals.

Some 76%...

Intel pays £905m to buy Infineon’s wireless chip business

Intel is planning to buy the wireless division of German company Infineon Technologies for $1.4bn (£905m).  Continue Reading

Analysts predict HP victory in 3Par bidding war

Analysts and investors expect Dell to bow out of a bidding war with HP for data storage company 3Par.  Continue Reading

Podcast interview: Google priority inbox to rank e-mail

Google has announced an experimental way of reducing information overload by automatically ranking messages in Gmail.  Continue Reading

Review: Acer Liquid E - A bit wet.

The Liquid E is an updated version of the Liquid that didn't do very well. This version sports Android 2.1and a lovely, large screen.  Continue Reading

CRC: Complicated Really Complicated - but here's some useful advice from Carbon Guerilla

Carbon Guerilla has come up with 5 top tips on beating the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme deadline  Continue Reading

OpenOffice 3.3 moves closer to Microsoft Office look & feel

OpenOffice 3.3 will feature more features than ever to make it look and feel closer to other boxed charged-for productivity application suites  Continue Reading

India delays Blackberry ban after forum announcement

India has delayed a threatened ban on Blackberry services for 60 days to extend talks on giving security services access to users' e-mails and instant messages.  Continue Reading

HP pays $55m to settle US overcharging and bribery claims

HP has agreed to pay $55m to settle a US Department of Justice (DoJ) investigation into claims the supplier overcharged the government on multiple federal...  Continue Reading

Colt offers VMware's vCloud service in Europe

UK telecoms firm Colt will be the first European operator to offer VMware's vCloud datacentre services. The deal will allow organisations to extend...  Continue Reading

Quiz: Virtualisation security for enterprise servers

How much have you learned about securing virtualised servers? Find out in this short quiz.  Continue Reading

Third party assurance: Steps to ensure effective controls

Creating multiple reports for third party assurance like SAS 70 and ISO 27001 pose major issues for Indian BPOs. Here are a few best practices.  Continue Reading

Open source: Eliminating suspicion and scepticism

As the value of open source becomes clear, a UK VAR discusses misinformation being distributed about open source-based software and services.  Continue Reading