Previous DayShould Instant Messaging Be A No-Go?
Blog Reality check. The last time I looked people were collaborating and sharing information through a variety of online services using these wonderful new things called computers. You only have to look...
Security body: Compliance burden will increase
Video John Colley, managing director of security skills body (ISC)2 claims companies will have to contend with increasing amounts of legislation around IT security
Gartner: Unified comms is not about saving money
News Bringing voice, email and instant messaging onto a single IP platform is expensive and the business case should be based on productivity and collaboration drivers, the analyst firm claims
Google's search for business customers
Analysis A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
Bank of Ireland loses four unencrypted laptops
News The stolen laptops contained sensitive details of around 10,000 customers, including names, addresses, account details and medical records
Lord: No proof any data was lost from HMRC
Video Security expert Merlin, The Earl of Erroll, claims no evidence has come to light to prove data was actually lost in last year's HMRC missing-disc incident
Bluetooth security dangers ignored, say experts
News Howard Schmidt, a former White House cybersecurity adviser, and RFID researcher Adam Laurie have warned that communications protocols are ripe for abuse
Security expert voices virtualisation concerns
Video Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer for security specialist F-Secure, claims virtualisation technology will have its own specific security threats
Lexmark C530dn
Member Review We've had this printer for a year - good price and good quality - although charts in Word and Acrobat print out a little oddly - lines come out thinner compared to printouts on other printers we...
Former White House adviser talks mobile threats
Video Security strategist Howard A Schmidt discusses whether mobile attacks are overhyped and what new risks have been introduced by virtualisation
RE:New Ubuntu out tomorrow
Blog Comment I tried running it from a disc and it detected most stuff pretty well but required a HDD installation to install the video card drivers. The main reasons I will have to keep windows are: 1) Games -...
Hillier is missing the whole point
Talkback Meg Hillier MP says 'the public was largely supportive of the National Identity Scheme, many people had concerns about the fee involved' and then goes on to say 'most of the cost of the scheme was...
More Rubbish.
Talkback They must have found a very leading question to come up with 60% in favour, probably on the lines of "If the card were free would you be in favour of an ID card so that we can stop nasty terrorist...
HMRC data loss blamed on targets
News Security expert Merlin, The Earl of Erroll, believes targets and budgets rather than individuals should be blamed for the loss of 25 million UK citizens' confidential records last year
RE:Skype 3.8 Beta Release - Ho Hum, Same Old Bugs
Blog Comment Thanks for the comment. In the weeks since my initial post and update, there have in fact been two posts in the forums saying that the 3.8 beta release appears to have fixed a video problem. There...
deja vu
Talkback good news - although I was wondering how long it would take the potential synergy between social networking and old fashioned knowledge management to show its face.
Ubuntu makes second stab at enterprise servers
News Canonical has unveiled its second enterprise-oriented server edition of Ubuntu, with performance, stability and security tweaks
Vendors urged to take responsibility for security
News When it comes to the security of hardware and software, suppliers should be put on the spot, argue experts at Infosecurity Europe 2008
Apple buys processor company, opens whole new world of speculation
Blog If you listen to Intel, the last hold-outs against the x86 instruction set are about to fall -- with super-powered Nehalem swarms mopping up the high end of massed Power PC supercomputers, and...
Trampoline bounces into enterprise social computing
News UK start-up Trampoline Systems's enterprise social-computing software helps workers find and track others in their organisation with specific knowledge
Media lobbying 'watered down' data-misuse laws
News As a result of media lobbying, the information commissioner says another serious data breach will need to occur before prison sentences for data misuse are imposed
New Ubuntu out tomorrow
Blog With the new Ubuntu coming out tomorrow and looking like it will be the best and most user-friendly free Linux release to date is it time to make the switch over? I have dabbled only briefly...
Photos: Inside Windows XP SP3
Photo Windows XP SP3 provides support for WPA2 and the Peer Name Resolution Protocol used in Windows Vista, among other things. See how our install of the RTM code went.
Security industry gears up for biggest UK event
Video Infosecurity Europe 2008 is underway in London and will include keynotes and product demos from the some of the leading organisations in IT security
Big Blue BlackBerry Pie
Blog I went off social networking some time back now; I put it down to already being listed on lots of websites and wanting to preserve an extra degree of anonymity. Not that there's much chance of that...
New Skype CEO "Interview" - He Still Doesn't Get It!
Blog Skype has just published a so-called "interview" with their new CEO. First, rather than face the press and public, and possibly have to answer some hard questions from people who have (miserable)...
BT to sell NetSuite on-demand software
News As well as offering NetSuite's business-management apps to SME customers, the telco will soon offer CRM software from SugarCRM
UK nears 100 data breaches in six months
News The information commissioner has bemoaned an 'alarming number' of data breaches among private and public bodies over the last six months
Home Office aims to drive down cost of ID cards
News Meg Hillier MP has said industry should be able to reduce the cost of ID cards to the public to below £30, as the volume of cards issued rises
Microsoft unveils 'Live Mesh' strategy
News Chief software architect Ray Ozzie has laid out his vision for how data will be shared between devices and online applications
PHP5 - MIME type quirks
Blog It has been a while since I did any web development, and I recently decided to get back into PHP development. After downloading the latest version of PHP for my IIS server I proceeded to do some...
My first Joomla! site!
Blog aka “Shameless Self Promotion” I built a very simple web site for the artist Edward Bell, using Joomla!, an open source content management system. I must say that I’m mightily...
