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• April 13, 2011 13 Apr'11

  Microsoft launches UK mapping service to rival Google Streetview

  Starting in London, Microsoft has begun taking photographs of the UK for its street-level mapping service, Streetside.

• April 08, 2011 08 Apr'11

  Facebook has launched a project to ‘open source’ its datacentre

  In the spirit of open source software, Facebook says it wants to share the innovations in one of its datacentres with the rest of the industry in its

• March 09, 2011 09 Mar'11

  IT fails to curb anti-social behaviour

  Information technology failures are a key reason why efforts to stamp out anti-social behaviour have failed for at least a decade....

• January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11

  Organ donors preferences recorded inaccurately

  The preferences of 444,031 organ donors were recorded wrongly on the Organ Donation Register (ODR) because of a software problem.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

  David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.

• August 30, 2007 30 Aug'07

  Critical flaw found in Oracle developer tool

  A popular tool used by Oracle developers contains a critical flaw that could be used by an attacker to compromise a system.

• March 26, 2007 26 Mar'07

  What are some of the biggest challenges with unstructured data?

  By far, the volume of data has to be the biggest challenge...

• October 16, 2006 16 Oct'06

  Oracle fixes 101 flaws

  Attackers could exploit 45 of the 101 flaws remotely without a username or password. Meanwhile, the new CPU offers more detail on the number of flaws patched and their severity.

• September 14, 2006 14 Sep'06

  Three ways to create clustered storage, page 3

  Clustered storage systems run on storage servers, NAS gateways and hosts. Here's how to determine which clustered file-system architecture is best for your needs and storage environment.

• August 24, 2006 24 Aug'06

  How do I establish recovery priority for my applications?

  If it's at the IT level, it comes from a data perspective. When you start moving up a little bit into the business side, people start looking at the applications because they don't really know where the data is. If we talk today about virtualization...

• August 01, 2006 01 Aug'06

  Litchfield: Database security is 'IT's biggest problem'

  At Black Hat USA 2006, database security guru David Litchfield unveils 20-plus IBM Informix flaws that attackers could exploit to create malicious files, gain DBA-level privileges and access sensitive data.

• July 28, 2004 28 Jul'04

  Automated SQL injection: What your enterprise needs to know

  The second of a two-part interview with SPI Dynamics CTO Caleb Sima tells what you should fear, why and what you can do to mitigate your risk.

• July 09, 2004 09 Jul'04

  Old Mutual rolls out web reporting software to meet new regulations

  Financial services group Old Mutual has rolled out web-based reporting software across its business worldwide to consolidate data...

• October 27, 2003 27 Oct'03

  Council migrates to web enabled benefits system

  Liverpool City Council has completed a six-week data migration project to get its £5m housing benefit and council tax system up...