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• June 07, 2005 07 Jun'05

  Whitehall says no to Freedom Act requests

  Whitehall officials have refused requests under the Freedom of Information Act to publish the results of Gateway reviews on high-risk IT-related projects at the NHS, the Child Support Agency and on a national ID card scheme.

• June 06, 2005 06 Jun'05

  Firms urged to tackle long-hours culture

  Businesses were urged to tackle the long-hours culture at a masterclass on working time and productivity in London last week.

• June 06, 2005 06 Jun'05

  Ball gets the Hollywood treatment

  The annual Intellect IT Industry Charity Ball in London on 7 July is the highlight of the IT social calendar. Last year's event raised more than 50,000.

• June 06, 2005 06 Jun'05

  VMware to start subscription service

  VMware, which sells solutions that allow computers to run multiple operating systems, is to introduce a subscription service to allow developers to use its technology more cheaply.

• June 05, 2005 05 Jun'05

  Dell extends OptiPlex line

  Dell has extended its OptiPlex business PC line with the launch of the OptiPlex GX520 and GX620 machines.

• June 03, 2005 03 Jun'05

  Network storm knocks out NY stock exchange

  A “network storm” hit communications systems and forced the New York Stock Exchange to halt trading in the crucial minutes before closing

• May 27, 2005 27 May'05

  Hewlett-Packard's final PA-Risc processor offers users last stop on road to Itanium 2

  Hewlett-Packard is due to release its final processor upgrade for its HP 9000 Unix servers today (31 May), preparing the way for...

• May 26, 2005 26 May'05

  Nokia offers its technology to Linux developers

  Nokia is allowing open source developers to use its patented technology to develop the Linux operating system.

• May 23, 2005 23 May'05

  Security and proving value are top concerns

  Security, proving the value of IT, and insufficient board-level representation are the three major concerns of IT directors,...

• May 23, 2005 23 May'05

  Mobile phone tracker keeps tabs on deliveries

  DaimlerChrysler, which owns Mecedes-Benz, is extending a pilot IT programme based on an external mobile service to improve the...

• May 23, 2005 23 May'05

  Hospital tags patients with RFID wristbands

  A German hospital is to use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to help track patients and administer the correct...

• May 23, 2005 23 May'05

  Fire hazard prompts another Apple recall

  Apple Computer is recalling 128,000 batteries shipped with PowerBook G4 and iBook G4 laptops over the past eight months. This is...

• May 20, 2005 20 May'05

  Server blades first goal of IBM/Nortel joint R&D push

  Nortel and IBM have signed an agreement to co-develop a range of new server, storage and telecoms products.

• May 19, 2005 19 May'05

  Revenge drives network sabotage

  Insiders who sabotage their organisation’s network are almost always motivated by revenge, says a joint report from the US Secret...

• May 18, 2005 18 May'05

  PalmOne bucks trend with 4Gbyte PDA

  PalmOne has unveiled the LifeDrive Mobile Manager, a low-cost device that includes a 4Gbyte hard drive.

• May 17, 2005 17 May'05

  IT glitch sends Nasdaq soaring

  Nasdaq, the US high-tech stock market, has revealed that a computer problem at a stock trader resulted in massively bloated...

• May 17, 2005 17 May'05

  W3C aids mobile access

  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), with the aim of making web access from a mobile...

• May 16, 2005 16 May'05

  Call for common skills framework

  The British Computer Society is pressing major IT suppliers to adopt a common framework to assess and describe the skills of...

• May 16, 2005 16 May'05

  Oracle settles over invoice fraud

  Oracle has paid out $8m (£4.3m) to settle a lawsuit brought by the US government, which had accused the company of invoicing for...

• May 13, 2005 13 May'05

  Trojan horse hacker jailed in US

  A US hacker has been jailed for 12 months for using a Trojan horse virus to break into US Department of Defense computers.

• May 13, 2005 13 May'05

  Dell profits rocket

  Dell has reported big increases in sales and operating profits for the first quarter and has reported a 21% increase in sales...

• May 12, 2005 12 May'05

  BCS to set a gold standard

  A new joint British Computer Society (BCS) and industry initiative plans to put the IT profession on par with governed or...

• May 12, 2005 12 May'05

  Clear business gains from BlackBerry mobile technology

  Significant business efficiencies and cost savings can be gained from using converged voice and data devices

• May 11, 2005 11 May'05

  W3C launches mobile web access initiative

  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), with the aim of making web access from a mobile...

• May 10, 2005 10 May'05

  Sun delays grid utility processing

  Sun Microsystems has delayed the roll-out of its web-based Sun Grid utility processing service because of a lack of computing...

• May 09, 2005 09 May'05

  Computer Weekly wins top honour

  ComputerWeekly was last week declared the UK's campaigning magazine of the year at the publishing industry's annual awards for...

• May 09, 2005 09 May'05

  Supercomputer improves forecasts

  The Met Office has started to produce weather forecasts from the supercomputer at its Exeter headquarters.

• May 06, 2005 06 May'05

  Intel launches dual-core chip prototypes

  Intel has unveiled three second generation dual-core chip prototypes, as it continues to battle AMD in the processor market.

• May 04, 2005 04 May'05

  TNT creates global service desk

  Logistics company consolidates 30 service centres into virtual desk

• May 03, 2005 03 May'05

  Chinese firm completes purchase of IBM PC division

  Chinese firm Lenovo has completed the acquisition of IBM’s personal computing division, and has now become the third largest PC...

• May 03, 2005 03 May'05

  Dell opts for Microsoft 64-bit technology

  Dell is to install Microsoft 64-bit processing technology across its Dell Precision workstations and PowerEdge server lines

• May 03, 2005 03 May'05

  Why this is not just another Windows release

  Microsoft, Intel, AMD and hundreds of PC manufacturers spent last week discussing ways to get you to buy something you already...

• April 29, 2005 29 Apr'05

  Quantum cryptography demonstration

  Quantum cryptography has entered a new phase on its path from the laboratory into business with a major series of demonstrations...

• April 28, 2005 28 Apr'05

  Sales up but profits fall at Siemens

  Siemens recorded a 4% increase in sales for its second quarter ending 31 March but net profits still fell, partly as a result of...

• April 26, 2005 26 Apr'05

  Free film and video clip network hits the Play button

  Former Netscape bosses Mike Homer and Marc Andreessen have set up a free film and video clip internet distribution network.

• April 22, 2005 22 Apr'05

  Sales high drives Motorola up rankings

  Motorola has announced record sales of $8.16bn (£4.53bn) for the first quarter, an increase of 10% on the same quarter last year.

• April 22, 2005 22 Apr'05

  RealNetworks patches media player

  RealNetworks has released a security patch for its media player to stop hackers running their own code on users’ machines via a...

• April 22, 2005 22 Apr'05

  Second DRAM maker pleads guilty to price-fixing

  Hynix Semiconductor has agreed to plead guilty to DRAM price-fixing, and is willing to pay a $185m (£102.7m) fine to settle a...

• April 22, 2005 22 Apr'05

  XM Satellite Radio goes online with Akamai

  Akamai Technologies has been named lead provider of internet streaming services for XM Radio Online.

• April 21, 2005 21 Apr'05

  AMD delivers dual-core servers

  AMD has launched the first commercial dual-core processors for both servers and desktops, days after rival Intel's launch of its...

• April 21, 2005 21 Apr'05

  Spellcheck and print tools for Blackberry

  Smart Global has launched Smart Print2Fax and Smart Spellchecker to boost the functionality of mobile e-mail.

• April 19, 2005 19 Apr'05

  Dell offers dual-core PCs

  Dell has started selling PCs equipped with Intel’s new dual-core processor platform.

• April 19, 2005 19 Apr'05

  Mac update goes wrong

  Apple has admitted that a minor security update to the Mac operating system has prevented users from gaining access to certain...

• April 19, 2005 19 Apr'05

  Licensing top priority for user alliance

  Software licensing, international purchasing and IT service contracts will be the first issues tackled by the Strategic...

• April 18, 2005 18 Apr'05

  Europe drives rising demand for PCs

  PC shipments increased by over 10% in the first quarter of this year, said analyst Gartner, although enterprise demand was...

• April 15, 2005 15 Apr'05

  AMD first with chips that herald era of the multi-core PC processor

  AMD is due to launch the first dual-core PC versions of its 64-bit Opteron server processor on 21 April, ahead of rival releases...

• April 15, 2005 15 Apr'05

  Digital pen and paper system speeds up customer research analysis

  The Sheffield-based South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE) is improving the way it collects customer service data...

• April 14, 2005 14 Apr'05

  AMD reports $46m loss for first quarter

  AMD made a first-quarter loss for the three months ending 27 March and is now selling off its struggling memory chip business,...

• April 14, 2005 14 Apr'05

  Spanish supermarket giant chooses Red Hat Linux

  Mercadona, one of Spain’s leading supermarket chains, is deploying Red Hat Linux software on 10,000 desktops.

• April 13, 2005 13 Apr'05

  Fujitsu launches global enterprise PC brand

  Fujitsu has re-branded its enterprise PCs to give it a more easily recognisable global presence.

• April 12, 2005 12 Apr'05

  Adobe Reader launched for Linux

  Adobe has launched Adobe Reader 7.0 for the Linux operating system, to allow Linux users to read, manage and print documents in...

• April 12, 2005 12 Apr'05

  Automation tools accelerating benefits of server farms

  The cost and complexity of implementing and operating large server farms is driving the move to automated management, according...

• April 12, 2005 12 Apr'05

  US Department of Defence hacker arrested

  A Venezuelan man has been arrested for allegedly hacking into US Department of Defence (DoD) servers in 2001.

• April 12, 2005 12 Apr'05

  Managed services opportunity in data centre market

  A new report from consultants BroadGroup forecasts that managed services will contribute markedly to revenues for data centres...

• April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05

  Users' poor understanding holds back e-learning

  The take up of e-learning has been stunted by businesses' lack of understanding about how the technology should be used, an...

• April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05

  News in brief

  Short takes on this week's news

• April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05

  Sun to enter new Galaxy

  Sun is believed to be planning to launch four new high-performance servers by the end of the year, which will all rely on AMD’s...

• April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05

  Scania switches to software-based tokens to reduce its security costs

  Swedish truck maker Scania is replacing hardware-based two-factor authentication from RSA with a software-based system in a bid...

• April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05

  Fujitsu adds Itanium 2 servers

  Fujitsu has introduced two Itanium 2-based servers in an attempt to increase its enterprise user base.

• April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05

  Blades could help councils at the sharp end

  Local authorities under pressure for savings should take a fresh look at servers

• April 11, 2005 11 Apr'05

  Lack of proper training compounds problems

  Lack of proper training compounds problems

• April 08, 2005 08 Apr'05

  IBM sponsors female IT student awards

  IBM sponsors female IT student awards

• April 08, 2005 08 Apr'05

  Cybercrime police chief plans for local officers with high-tech savvy

  New Hi-Tech Crime Unit head reveals plans at last week's conference

• April 08, 2005 08 Apr'05

  CA flies in for Concord

  Computer Associates is to buy Concord Communications for $330m (£183m).

• April 07, 2005 07 Apr'05

  Trojan aimed at smartphones

  Mobile device security firm F-Secure has discovered a Trojan virus that crashes users’ smartphones and causes them to lose their...

• April 06, 2005 06 Apr'05

  Fujitsu launches Itanium servers

  Fujitsu has introduced two new Itanium 2-based servers in an attempt to increase its enterprise base.

• April 04, 2005 04 Apr'05

  E-crime is costing UK business £2.4bn a year, says police report

  Businesses are facing direct losses to computer criminals of at least £2.4bn a year, research to be published today by the...

• April 04, 2005 04 Apr'05

  Bank attempts to cut costs with IBM

  Commerzbank of Germany is replacing EMC and Hewlett-Packard storage systems with IBM hardware in an attempt to cut costs as part...

• April 04, 2005 04 Apr'05

  RFID tags get speed boost

  RFID supplier Impinj is about to start shipping radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags based on the more powerful Gen 2...

• April 01, 2005 01 Apr'05

  Transmeta bows out

  In a widely predicted move loss-making chip company Transmeta is extricating itself from the processor manufacturing business and...

• March 30, 2005 30 Mar'05

  Security fears scupper Mac hacker challenge

  Apple Macintosh peripherals maker DVForge has cancelled a $25,000 (£13,900) challenge to hackers to write a virus against the Mac...

• March 30, 2005 30 Mar'05

  Media firm cuts cost of web content hosting

  A UK media company is using edge side includes (ESI), to dramatically cut the cost of supporting dynamic web content in large...

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Problems with biometric IT could double ID card costs, warns study

  The cost of the government's £5.5bn ID card programme could double because of problems with biometric technology, a report by the...

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Brainshare news in brief

  Short takes from Novell's Brainshare conference

• March 29, 2005 29 Mar'05

  Novell reveals its Linux strategy and 10-year support programme

  More than 6,000 delegates gathered in Salt Lake City last week to hear what Novell has in store for application development on...

• March 24, 2005 24 Mar'05

  Programmers crack Apple's iTunes again

  A group of US and Norwegian programmers claim they have again bypassed Apple's anti-piracy controls in its iTunes music...

• March 24, 2005 24 Mar'05

  SBS takes over entire Siemens infrastructure

  Over the next three years, Siemens will hand over the operation of its IT infrastructure for all its units and regions to Siemens...

• March 23, 2005 23 Mar'05

  GPs win battle for IT systems of choice

  The government has announced that GPs will have a wider choice of computer systems as part of the National Programme for IT,...

• March 23, 2005 23 Mar'05

  HP points blades at SMEs

  HP is expanding its Smart Office initiative to boost server blade sales in the SME market.

• March 22, 2005 22 Mar'05

  Apple bites back over piracy hole

  Apple has modified its iTunes downloading technology to prevent users bypassing its anti-piracy controls.

• March 22, 2005 22 Mar'05

  Time Warner fined £166m for accounting failures

  Media giant Time Warner has been fined $300m (£166.6m) by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for posting inaccurate...

• March 21, 2005 21 Mar'05

  Linux lags Windows in new security report

  A controversial research paper takes a critical look at two popular platforms' track record on vulnerabilities and fixes. In turn, its findings are facing sharp scrutiny as well.

• March 21, 2005 21 Mar'05

  Lack of transparency limits value of Gateway reviews into NHS plan

  The national programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS opposes Computer Weekly's call for an independent audit of the scheme.

• March 21, 2005 21 Mar'05

  IT will be crucial in making £21bn savings

  The government's commitment to make £21bn savings by 2008 across all ministerial departments, which was restated in last week's...

• March 18, 2005 18 Mar'05

  Annual CA World user conference back on

  The annual CA World user conference is back on after Computer Associates initially said it would be cancelled this year, having...

• March 18, 2005 18 Mar'05

  Toshiba launches Satellite R15-S822 convertible notebook PC

  Toshiba has launched the Satellite R15-S822 convertible notebook PC, which doubles up as either a laptop or tablet device.

• March 17, 2005 17 Mar'05

  RIM settles wireless patent dispute with $450m payment

  RIM has splashed out $450m (£250m) to settle a patent dispute over its use of wireless connectivity technology used by its...

• March 16, 2005 16 Mar'05

  Harden Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 RRAS Configuration

  This excerpt from Chapter 11 of Roberta Bragg's "Hardening Windows Systems" describes how to harden Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003.

• March 16, 2005 16 Mar'05

  Yahoo launches blogging and social networking rival to MSN and Google

  Yahoo is introducing a blogging and social networking feature to its portal to compete with MSN and Google products.

• March 16, 2005 16 Mar'05

  IT manager jailed for hacking ex-employer's network

  An IT manager who pleaded guilty to hacking into his previous employer's computer network using a rival company’s equipment has...

• March 15, 2005 15 Mar'05

  Express tool released for 64-bit Linux

  Software tools provider Micro Focus has launched Server Express for 64-bit Linux applications running on Intel Itanium 2 64-bit...

• March 14, 2005 14 Mar'05

  Property firm predicts efficiency gains from mobile access system

  Property services firm National Property Solutions (NPS) began to implement an ambitious "zero-client" system last week to allow...

• March 10, 2005 10 Mar'05

  AMD launches 64-bit processor

  AMD has launched its Turion 64 processor family for high-end laptops, to compete against Intel’s established Pentium M...

• March 08, 2005 08 Mar'05

  Remote PCs come under control

  Intel has released details of Active Management Technology (AMT), a specification for a set of hardware components designed to...

• March 04, 2005 04 Mar'05

  TfL expands Oyster card plans

  Transport for London is considering allowing Oyster smartcard users to pay for low-value goods such as newspapers and milk as...

• March 01, 2005 01 Mar'05

  Hitachi doubles consumer hard drive shipments

  Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is to double the total shipments of consumer hard drives this year, in response to faltering...

• February 28, 2005 28 Feb'05

  Intel forum spotlights extended memory and multi-core chips

  Intel chief executive Craig Barrett is due to kick off Intel's annual developer forum today (1 March), with a keynote examining...

• February 28, 2005 28 Feb'05

  IBM introduces new leasing plans to aid PC management

  IBM has introduced three new PC leasing programmes to make it easier for firms to acquire and manage PCs. Analyst firm Gartner...

• February 28, 2005 28 Feb'05

  United we stand for user needs

  Suppliers often talk about partnerships with their customers, but these have too often turned out to be one-sided, with little...

• February 28, 2005 28 Feb'05

  Akamai gets Flash

  Akamai Technologies and Macromedia have announced the availability of Akamai streaming with Macromedia Flash, to improve...