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Blog Great verbal slip just then from RSA's executive vice president, Art Coviello, in the analyst/journalist session at RSA Conference 2007. Opening up to questions, he explained that if we waved our...
Can EMC leave its wallet alone?
Blog Rather like one of English football's WAGs, storage vendor EMC does love a shopping spree. This week's irresistable accessory is Valyd, an Indian IT company specialising in enterprise data...
Security conference dances into life
Blog RSA Conference 2007 has just kicked off in San Francisco, and I'm reeling from a truly, ummm, remarkable opening event. The lights were dimmed and 25 to 30 people trooped onstage, dressed as monks...
Microsoft sets sights on seamless security
News Giving the opening keynote at the RSA Conference, Craig Mundie warned that the IT industry must deploy certification technologies such as IPSec for better security
Cisco offers slew of security kit updates
News Enhancements are designed to aid collaboration between products, and increase security as a result
Microsoft offers protocols to its rivals
News In a nod to the European Commission, Microsoft will open up three sets of application protocols for use by its competitors
Panasonic Toughbook CF-W5
Review Panasonic's Toughbook CF-W5 is an ultraportable with a 'semi-rugged' construction that should help it to withstand the rigours of life on the road better than the average sub-2kg system.
Denial of Incompetence and Failure
Talkback The NHS's chief executive David Nicholson is very, very wrong to refute the concerns of the experts. In any commercial organisation his head would roll in the event of failure but in the NHS,...
Paris unlocks open source for kids
News Schoolchildren and apprentices in the Ile-de-France region will be given a USB key loaded with open-source software
No surprises following speech flaw
Talkback And the surprise is? A flaw was discovered on Wednesday, by George Ou, in vista's use of the text to speech app. It is used by the disabled and will do as told with no dialog box to confirm the...
Brand on the run
Leader Steve Jobs gets with The Beatles. Peace, love and a fair profit beckon
Resource hog
Talkback I checked out RC1 & RC2 of vista and both said my system was capable to run vista ultimate. Yet, it wasn't. Processor (AMD 2000, 1.66ghz), 256 video card. I downloaded Mandriva Linux, which has a...
Microsoft's own antivirus fails to secure Vista
News Both Live OneCare and McAfee's enterprise software fall short on virus protection, according to tests
Many more will follow
Talkback Last week at the Always On event, the big elephant in the corner (Google) was mentioned in most of the presentations. Some were simply swimming against the tide in thinking that they could take on...
FTC limits size of Rambus royalties
News Memory chipmaker has been ordered to reduce the size of royalties on DRAM technology, and it plans to appeal
Kodak shakes up inkjet market
News HP's all-in-one printer market share is under threat as Kodak aims to halve the price of ink
NHS dismisses calls for IT review
News Computer experts fail in latest attempt to force the National Programme for IT to launch an independent review
Vista upgrades: A case of technology hobbled by business models?
Blog As we start to delve into the intruiging world of Vista upgrades, the following email arrives from disgruntled Microsoft customer Mike Cope: "After spending over 2.5 hours on the phone with...
McAfee ventures into data-loss market
News Data Loss Prevention Host is a package designed to help businesses reduce the risk of their physical and electronic data being lost or stolen
BT takes over Indian enterprise comms
Blog Another week, another foreign acquisition for BT. Last time it was an IT consultancy in the States, but this week it's more standard telco stuff, specifically i2i Enterprise in Mumbai, an...
Microsoft issues Excel zero-day warning
News 'Extremely critical' vulnerabilities affect several versions of Microsoft's Office software, including one for Macs
Ad platform offers alternative to Google
News Fast AdMomentum lets companies serve ads on their websites without involving an ad agency or network
Researchers devise chip and PIN crack
News Cambridge University security researchers have devised a 'man in the middle' attack for chip and PIN transactions that could be used to steal diamonds
