Previous DayIT pros get to grips with WAN reports
News Cisco is to embed software from network monitoring firm NetQoS into its WAN optimisation appliances, meaning up to 40 metrics can be analysed for each link
View from a worker
Talkback A Vodafone spokesman said: "Vodafone UK engages positively and constructively with unions" This spokesman certainly doesn't work for the Newbury based mobile phone operator where I work! Vodafone...
Infallible PCs
Blog As if it wasn't bad enough to lose against a human at board games, now Canadian academics have written a computer program which will ensure that a PC never loses. The game in question this time...
Extreme bolsters NAC offering
News LAN equipment vendor continues its uphill battle with Microsoft and Cisco as it boosts its NAC offering for securing corporate networks
Wyse adds wireless access to thin clients
News Wyse improves its thin-client computing proposition with new features including wireless connectivity and smartcard security support
Toshiba Portégé G500
Review Toshiba's slider-format Windows Mobile 5 smartphone has a good feature set, including 3G/HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, plus dual digital cameras and fingerprint recognition. However,...
FBI helps China crack software-counterfeiting ring
News China's Public Security Bureau and the FBI have made a number of arrests as part of an investigation into an alleged global software-counterfeiting operation
Intel open sources multicore development tool
News Chip manufacturer is scheduled to release Threading Building Blocks under the General Public License version 2 today
VMware launches virtualisation benchmarking tool
News Company has launched VMmark, benchmarking software for measuring the performance of virtualised systems
Apple investors await iPhone numbers
News Company is expected to report healthy earnings on Wednesday on strong Mac and iPod sales, but the iPhone will hog the limelight
Becta gives guidance to schools on biometrics
News Government schools computer agency has published guidance on how to implement biometrics in line with data-protection laws
OMG Pwnies!
Blog It's an industry, there's a huge annual trade conference, so it's about time they got their own glittering awards. The Pwnies, to be handed out at the Black Hat Briefings in August, will mark the...
HP hunts UK's oldest HP-UX system
News Company says it will award a free Integrity server to the owner of the oldest HP-UX installation in the country
Sun exec accuses Microsoft of 'patent terrorism'
News James Eagleton says the software giant's recent agreements with Linux distributors are 'against the spirit of innovation around software'
Vodafone workers win union recognition
News Legal ruling by the Central Arbitration Committee means the mobile giant is now required to recognise communications union Connect
NHS to cut costs with VoIP rollout
News Upgrade to the N3 broadband network may save NHS organisations around £6m per year on internal calls
Over 10,000 sign BBC iPlayer petition
News E-petition on the 10 Downing Street website urges the prime minister to instruct the BBC to provide the iPlayer for operating systems other than Windows
HP opens wallet for software acquisitions
News Continuing its strategy of offering software for managing corporate data centres, company is offering $1.6bn for Opsware and $214m for Neoware
