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July 04, 2007 04 Jul'07
Dell unveils Linux discounts on PCs in US

Dell is offering Linux-based PCs for $50 (£26) below the price of equivalent Windows machines.
July 04, 2007 04 Jul'07
Hackers attempt to crack iPhone restrictions

Hackers are trying to break the code that ties Apple’s iPhone to the only network it supports from network operator AT&T.
July 04, 2007 04 Jul'07
Trojan strikes on the Fourth of July

Trojan attacks are trying to take advantage of the US Fourth of July celebrations.
July 04, 2007 04 Jul'07
Moss Bros to save through communications and transactions system

Moss Bros expects to save thousands of pounds a year with a new communications and transactions system.

July 04, 2007 04 Jul'07
Enterprise search provider buys storage co Zantaz

Autonomy, an enterprise search software company, has acquired Zantaz for $375M in cash, signaling more consolidation in records management and e-discovery.
July 04, 2007 04 Jul'07
Cisco users upbeat about security direction

Cisco customers say the vendor's security strategy is headed in the right direction, which is why they believe the networking giant's IronPort integration will be smooth sailing.
July 04, 2007 04 Jul'07
Nanoforum reports on security for nanotechnology

Nanoforum, the European information exchange for nanotechnology matters, has reported on security applications for tiny tech.
July 04, 2007 04 Jul'07
PC can recognise facial expressions

Researchers have developed a PC-based system that can recognise facial expressions in real time and deduce the person’s mood.
July 04, 2007 04 Jul'07
Premier League saves cash with electronic document management

The football Premier League is saving cash with a new electronic system to improve document management.
July 03, 2007 03 Jul'07
Maritime and Coastguard Agency employs remote management

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is improving support efforts on its disparate server systems and infrastructure by employing remote management software from Nimsoft.

July 03, 2007 03 Jul'07
London Olympics IT firm completes Beijing system on schedule

The IT architecture for the 2008 Beijing Olympics is already completed, according to the main IT firm for the London Olympics.
July 03, 2007 03 Jul'07
Gartner urges businesses to put pressure on Microsoft over virtualisation

Gartner is urging businesses to put pressure on Microsoft to provide “commercially reasonable” support for all enterprise licensees running virtual machines (VMs), not just Premier subscribers.
July 03, 2007 03 Jul'07
Senior managers targeted by hackers, according to MessageLabs

Web security service MessageLabs said it has intercepted more than 500 individual e-mail attacks targeted toward individuals in senior management positions within organisations around the world.
July 03, 2007 03 Jul'07
Data storage startups emerge from stealth

Three new storage firms have come out of stealth mode this June. Analysts predict the next new crop of startups will focus on wireless storage, reporting and alternatives to RAID.
July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07
Talking Trojan strikes

Computer users have been warned to watch out for a talking virus.
July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07
SAP admits inappropriate downloading of Oracle files

SAP today admitted its US subsidiary TomorrowNow downloaded Oracle fixes and support documents inappropriately, but denied it ever had access to Oracle’s material.
July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07
Are PCI auditors pitching products?

Auditors shouldn't be pitching remediation services or products to bring a company into compliance with PCI DSS rules, but some merchants are reporting the practice
July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07
Industry calls for Brown to act

Gordon Brown’s appointment as prime minister has stirred debate in the IT profession with skills and security hot on the agenda.
July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07
Weekly compilation of storage news: moving terabytes to iSCSI San

Round up including: Adecco replaces 120 TB of Fibre Channel storage with an iSCSI SAN from LeftHand, including storage for large production databases; Exanet adds search; NetApp unleashes Topio.
July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07
Obstacles to lean business culture outlined

Staff resistance to change, inadequate training, and thinking in silos are among the main obstacles to achieving a lean business culture.
July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07
Fixed-mobile convergence may have hidden costs

Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) is much more than bridging wired and wireless to ease mobility.
July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07
Sussex Police aspires to better BI

Force chooses Actuate Performancesoft Views to deliver performance reporting information to its more than 5000 strong staff
July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07
SAS hails BI leadership

SAS the only vendor of the top three in IDC report to increase its market share in BI tools
July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07
KXEN is the art of analytics

Company claims that the new version extends its expertise in automating predictive analytic processes
July 01, 2007 01 Jul'07
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July 01, 2007 01 Jul'07
VW to save £35m with global access management

Volkswagen expects to save more than £35m by switching to an identity management system that will allow it to control how staff and business partners access its network, applications and data.
July 01, 2007 01 Jul'07
Users slam lack of virtual apps support

Users of virtualisation software say they are unable to get support for applications. As reported last week, IT workers have objected to the cost of software licences for virtual applications.
July 01, 2007 01 Jul'07
O2 dome full of technology

The O2 entertainment venue - formerly known as the Millennium Dome - has installed Europe's first digital cinema, RFID-based venue management, a converged IP network and a range of enterprise IT systems.
July 01, 2007 01 Jul'07
Infected web pages reach almost 30,000 a day

There has been a further rise in web-based threats, with internet security software firm Sophos uncovering an average of 29,700 new infected web pages every day
June 29, 2007 29 Jun'07
No falls into compliance with Tripwire

Tripwire has implemented a three-tiered approach to promoting the PCI Data Security Standard awareness through customer education and partnerships with technology and financial organisations.
June 29, 2007 29 Jun'07
Tumbleweed to stop drift of data leaks

Messaging security vendor Tumbleweed Communications has announced a new version of its MailGate product in order to reduce accidental email data leaks and botnet driven threats.
June 29, 2007 29 Jun'07
Data breaches undermine consumer confidence

In the wake of massive data breaches at businesses, educational institutions and medical facilities, consumers are modifying their purchasing behaviour, including online buying
June 29, 2007 29 Jun'07
Council uses server virtualisation to slash energy and hardware costs

A virtualisation project at Newcastle-under-Lyme is set to save taxpayers £280,000 over three years and contribute to the borough council's environmental programme
June 29, 2007 29 Jun'07
Oracle helps IT directors tap into UK start-up firms

Oracle has launched a programme to make it easier for IT directors to deploy products developed by start-up
June 29, 2007 29 Jun'07
IBM unveils new compliance software

IBM has unveiled IBM Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager to help firms with information security audits and compliance.
June 29, 2007 29 Jun'07
New College in Durham reports major savings from converged network

New College in Durham has revealed significant cost savings from a new wireless and converged IT network implemented in 2005 and upgrade this year.
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
Mobile communications assists construction project management

The business value of mobile communications has increased significantly in the past two years as costs have fallen and devices have improved, said specialist project management company Total Communications Infrastructure (TCI).
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
Socitm seeks security trainers

The Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm) is looking for training companies to teach infosecurity skills based on materials validated by the European Union.
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
Optimise your data delivery system

Whether your database is Oracle, SQL Server , DB2, MySQL, or Ingres, you want it to perform as well as it can.
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
Users seek support on virtualisation

Users of virtualisation software have complained that the combination of costly licensing agreements and a lack of support from suppliers is eroding the cost advantages offered by the technology.
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
Firms struggle with network troubleshooting

Firms say they lack the information to troubleshoot and determine the cause of network problems.
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
DPM's diary: 3 July 2007

Weekly round up of events at Bogcaster Council...
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
New open source licence released this Friday

The Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL version 3 open source software licence this week.
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
Government failing to take advantage of cheap licensing deals, says PAC

Nearly half of all central government bodies are losing money because they are failing to take advantage of cheap licences for software and telecommunications, according to a report from the Commons public accounts committee.
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
Red Hat posts big sales increase

Red Hat has posted an increase in sales for its first quarter, with revenue up 42%.
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
US cleared by EU to snoop on air passengers and banking customers

EU and US negotiators have struck two deals to allow the US to snoop on air travellers and bank customers in its ongoing war on terror.
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
Swiss Re chooses Webwasher

Global re-insurer Swiss Re has standardised on Secure Computing’s Webwasher to enable it to set security policies and define practices at the network gateway.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
Floral firm saves 83% by moving to open-source

Floral company FTD is making cost savings of 83% by migrating from an existing database system to open-source for its shipping administration.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
SAP launches application for mobile data

SAP has launched a mobile software application and has added mobility features to its existing applications.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
Vista fails to drive PC sales

Windows Vista has failed to revitalise the PC industry, and without a “killer application” to drive new PC sales, manufacturers are instead concentrating on emerging markets.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
Reading Borough Council encrypts staff laptops

Reading Borough Council has issued its staff with encrypted laptops to protect confidential client data against theft and abuse.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
Silicon Graphics unveils energy-efficient supercomputer

Silicon Graphics (SGI) has unveiled an energy efficient supercomputer blade system.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
Devon councils automate policy-management compliance

South Hams District Council and West Devon Borough Council are automating their information policy management compliance with NETconsent V4.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
Camwood offers automated Vista testing

Camwood has launched appTitude, which aims to slash the time and cost of migrating to Microsoft’s Vista platform.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
Intended business outcomes lacking in IT projects

Fewer than half of IT projects have intended, positive business outcomes, according to a survey of IT decision makers conducted by the Economist Business Unit.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
Mimosa scales up email storage archiving

Version 3.0 of Mimosa's NearPoint email archiving software improves scalability. Users and analysts are waiting on file archiving and broader platform support.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
Seagate gears up for 1 Tbyte disc drives

Storage vendors qualifying new 1 Tbyte drives for nearline and clustered Nas systems to ship later this year.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
AA and Saga to launch data integration project

The £6.2 billion merger between car breakdown and insurance group the AA and Saga, which provides holidays and financial services to the over-50s market, is expected to launch a massive integration project between the two companies’ data systems.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
SAP enters ID management sector

SAP is entering the identity-management market. The pricing on a suite of programmes is currently being finalised.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
Newham council adopts new e-procurement system

The London Borough of Newham has adopted a new e-procurement system from EGS to cut costs and improve operations.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
CA network tool detects human errors

CA has developed a new network-management technology that can take into account possible human errors in network settings when gauging the health of a network.
June 27, 2007 27 Jun'07
Cisco vows to maintain IronPort tech, talent

As it completes the purchase of IronPort Systems, Cisco vows to maintain IronPort's talent base and make investments to keep its newly-acquired technology fresh.
June 26, 2007 26 Jun'07
Adobe tackles print management with Livecycle

Adobe Systems introduces a product designed to help businesses create a common design environment for document production and distribution.
June 26, 2007 26 Jun'07
Oasis standards group tackles encryption management

The Oasis consortium have formed a committee to develop an open standard for managing symmetric encryption cryptographic keys across the...
June 26, 2007 26 Jun'07
Stock exchange platform live, on time and on budget

The London Stock Exchange's Tradelect core trading platform went live on time and to budget last week in...
June 26, 2007 26 Jun'07
BT gets lippy over retail supply chain deployment

Lipsy, a UK fashion brand well-known for dressing high-profile celebrities, has selected BT to improve the management of its supply chain.
June 26, 2007 26 Jun'07
IT managers need right tools for efficiency

IT managers are spending twice as much time supporting infrastructure as they should be, according to a survey commissioned by Microsoft.
June 26, 2007 26 Jun'07
UK businesses need support in green IT

UK businesses have not set targets to reduce their carbon footprints because many do not understand how lower power costs can help save money in IT budgets, a study has found.
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
Entrepreneurial teams lauded at Bet awards

The UK's best entrepreneurial teams received accolades as part of an event this May to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Information Technologists Company (ITC).
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
BP aligns IT with physical security to combat threats

BP is to defend against global IT threats such as targeted attacks and industrial espionage by making its IT security departments work more closely with its corporate and physical security teams.
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
Salaries for IT risk managers up as threats to continuity drive demand

The need to comply with a growing number of regulations and IT-based threats to business continuity is fuelling demand for IT risk managers and is driving up salaries, a survey by security training body (ISC)2 has revealed.
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
Downtime: pantomime, rats, life on Mars

The wacky world of IT
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
Richard Granger's departure may jeopardise NHS IT programme

Richard Granger's departure from Connecting for Health may jeopardise the stability and success of the politically driven NHS National Programme for IT.
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
Torex buy should be welcomed, says RBSretail

Retailers should welcome the £204m acquisition of the operating parts of retail software house Torex by private equity house Cerberus, said Richard Goodall, CEO of RBSretail.
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
Rights group: e-voting IT failures threaten democracy

E-voting schemes should be shelved because they threaten democracy, according to The Open Rights Group (ORG), which has produced a report on widespread problems at recent elections.
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
Major enterprise hosting firm adopts Linux to cut customer costs

A major German enterprise hosting company is to standardise on Linux architecture to cut costs for customers.
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
PCI Council hears complaints, suggestions for changes

Companies with the most stringent security technologies endure hurdles to comply with PCI DSS. Some firms are turning to the upcoming Burton Group Catalyst Conference for answers.
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
HP launches the Secure Advantage platform

HP has launched new software to protect data on HP servers and storage for regulatory compliance.
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
Instant messaging usage increase highlights need for policies

A Burton Group report suggests that all companies should have an IM usage policy, even if they haven't deployed IM yet
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
Green storage gains ground

HP is just latest vendor to throw its hat into the green storage ring following Pillar Data, HDS and EqualLogic.
June 25, 2007 25 Jun'07
IT chiefs press for cut in virtual licence costs

IT user groups are to meet with leading software suppliers to tackle the costs of server virtualisation software licensing, which is a growing concern among IT departments.
June 22, 2007 22 Jun'07
FSA sharpens up Sabre II fraud-detection system

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is updating its fraud-detection system with complex event processing (CEP) software to monitor transactions and detect insider trading and other market abuses as they occur.
June 22, 2007 22 Jun'07
IBM improves mainframe support for smaller firms

IBM has unveiled a set of operational and security-software products designed to make the System z mainframe platform easier to use for smaller firms.
June 22, 2007 22 Jun'07
Instant messaging to become de facto enterprise comms tool

Instant messaging will be the de facto tool for business communications by the end of 2011, says analyst Gartner.
June 22, 2007 22 Jun'07
Hacker infiltrates Pentagon

A hacker infiltrated one of the Pentagon's e-mail servers, which caused security staff to take up to 1,500 accounts offline to deal with the problem.
June 22, 2007 22 Jun'07
DHS failing to secure data despite $322m security spend

The US Department of Homeland Security, which sets the benchmark for IT security practice in America, suffered more than 840 IT security lapses in 2005 and 2006, despite spending $332m on IT security this year.
June 22, 2007 22 Jun'07
Brown promises more technology for police

Prime-minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown said he will work to help police fight crime and reduce paperwork through technology.
June 22, 2007 22 Jun'07
Mobile devices have a changing role in businesses

One size may not fit all when deploying mobile systems, and IT directors must establish what functionality is needed through all layers of business
June 22, 2007 22 Jun'07
Cisco and IBM ease IP management

Cisco is to introduce a service management package that combines Cisco Active Network Abstraction technology with IBM's Tivoli software to help network professionals manage IP services centrally.
June 22, 2007 22 Jun'07
Plan network strategy now for BT's 21CN, says CMA

Network managers should check whether their existing IT infrastructures are able to run new converged services before adopting BT's 21st Century Network (21CN), the Communications Management Association (CMA) has advised.
June 22, 2007 22 Jun'07
Wimbledon uses wireless network to keep out the tout

The organisers of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships have wirelessly enabled the event's ticketing application to combat ticket fraud.
June 21, 2007 21 Jun'07
Mobile deployment implementation considerations

Mobile deployments require a lot of pre-planning and consideration. If you've found a business case for a mobile deployment, use these steps on how to implement, manage, and secure.
June 21, 2007 21 Jun'07
Fuller's revamps IT system

Brewer Fuller's is meeting new business challenges by revitalising its IT systems to reduce complexity and increase flexibility across the organisation
June 21, 2007 21 Jun'07
IBM serves Wimbledon's data needs

With an ever-increasing range of applications and users, keeping up with Wimbledon's data traffic demands a sophisticated, flexible approach to networking
June 21, 2007 21 Jun'07
Online banks not trusted by three-quarters of public

Almost three-quarters of UK consumers do not trust their banks, and according to research online banks the worst.
June 21, 2007 21 Jun'07
Firms offered new RFID testing centre

NXP Semiconductors, the RFID firm founded by Philips, has set up a new RFID deployment centre for customers and technology partners.
June 21, 2007 21 Jun'07
Talk turns to future for data storage at Tech Forum

From primary storage data deduplication to 8 Gbps FC, analysts and HP reps have their eyes on what's coming down the road at this year's HP conference.
June 21, 2007 21 Jun'07
Stephenson Harwood chooses XP over Vista for stability

International law firm Stephenson Harwood has chosen Windows XP over Vista in its latest desktop refresh, in order to maintain compatibility with its existing suite of applications.
June 21, 2007 21 Jun'07
HP users mull blade storage

HP's "blade everything" strategy is starting to emerge in storage. Users at the HP Technology Forum this week mulled the possibilities for the technology.
June 20, 2007 20 Jun'07
Open source software widespread in financial and public sector

Open source software take-up among financial services firms is now widespread, and is mirrored in the public sector.