August 2010

We can work it out, RIM tells India over access demands

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has offered to set up an industry forum to address the Indian government's concerns about its products' unhackability.  Continue Reading

HP trumps Dell again in bidding war for 3Par

HP has increased its proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of 3Par to $27 per share in cash, valuing the storage virtualisation company at $1.8bn.  Continue Reading

Jumping to conclusions

I've written before about the continuous growth in spin, FUD and disinformation that we can expect to experience in the Information Age. It's a natural and inevitable consequence of networks. ...  Continue Reading

Novell posts fall in sales and profit

Open source and Linux specialist Novell has announced a drop in sales and profits in the third quarter of its fiscal year, ending 31 July.

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Whistleblower costs AutoTrader $400k for unlicensed software

AutoTrader, the online marketplace for motor vehicles, has paid $400,000 to settle claims of using unlicensed copies of Adobe, Autodesk, Corel and Quest software installed on its computers.  Continue Reading

Microsoft Windows Phone 7: Notes from the developer workshop floor

As of September 16, the final version of Windows Phone developer tools will be available for download - we speak to the development team for an insight.  Continue Reading

Server sales rebound after dismal 2009

Server sales in Europe have rebounded after suffering a huge slump at the same time last year.  Continue Reading

CIO interview: Sarah Winmill, IT director, Victoria & Albert Museum

As the coalition government moves to drastically reduce costs, it is not only civil servants who are waiting to find out the impact on spending.  Continue Reading

3Par eBay auction

3Par's acqusition is almost becoming an eBay style bidding war with HP now outbidding Dell again. Storage has never been so exciting. Why is thin provisioning so hot?  Continue Reading

IPO to explore value of knowledge to UK economy

The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is to research the value of intellectual property to the British economy "to ensure policy and decisions are supported by proper evidence", says intellectual property minister Baroness Wilcox.  Continue Reading

Sony Ericsson X10 Mini review - I love this little b*****d!

Let me start by saying that before I received the Sony Ericsson X10 Xperia Mini, I thought I'd hate the diddyness of the phone. I thought about how the keypad would be too small and that I would ...  Continue Reading

Novell sees decline in Q3 results

For its third quarter, Novell reported net revenue of $199 million, compared to net revenue of $216 million in Q3 last year; plus more daily news.  Continue Reading

Zurich Insurance breach payment: Data breach fine highest on record

This week, The Information Commissioner's Office handed down the highest data breach fine on record in the UK, charging Zurich Insurance over £2 million.  Continue Reading

Lack of security advice may aid financial fraud

Manipulation of financial management software is a leading cause of fraud, says accounting firm KPMG. The fact that IT security professionals have hardly any input to how this software is designed or deployed may be one reason, the firm suggests.  Continue Reading

Digital signature implementation secures Corporation Bank online

Corporation Bank goes in for a digital signature implementation using PKI-based authentication to secure its corporate customers’ online transactions.  Continue Reading

How to include data governance in an MDM development process

Learn how to include data policies and data governance in a master data management (MDM) development process even if your company doesn’t want to fund data governance.  Continue Reading

Don't buy cloud computing hype: Business model will evaporate

Cloud computing will not solve the data center industry's problems. Thanks to compliance issues, cloud computing will never get off the ground for commercially viable companies, and cloud providers will evaporate.  Continue Reading