Previous DayJunior doctor loses confidential patient data
Blog Apparently junior doctors are toting unencrypted confidential data around on USB sticks, according to an article in E-Health Insider. One of the sticks, which contained highly confidential...
Microsoft backs Digital Pipeline to Africa
News Company claims its backing of a hardware re-use charity could mitigate the environmental impact of businesses dumping old PCs as part of Vista upgrades
Cisco fleshes out 'Data Center 3.0' strategy
News Network equipment supplier has revealed the next two years' upcoming products, plus its strategy to revitalise the data centre
German court convicts Skype of GPL breach
Roundup Court has ruled that the VoIP company has violated version 2 of the General Public License through its sales of SMC's Linux-based handset
Precisely!
Talkback And what *is* the market for something like the iPlayer? Certainly *not* the plain old desktop Windows(TM) PC. If you are at home, where are you going to watch TV? On your Windows(TM) PC, or on...
BT Wholesale names chief executive
News Telecoms veteran Sally Davis is to replace Paul Reynolds as chief executive of the telco's wholesale division
How easy is it to switch operators?
Blog Ofcom may be changing the rules on number porting to make it easier to switch mobile operators, but experience suggests that many businesses find it difficult to make that change for a variety of...
And the support's not free!
Talkback Everyone likes something for free - particularly when it's something that you need. At Camwood, we think that Microsoft’s idea of free is not quite as we would all like it to be. As Vista...
ITIL: The key to productive performance
Comment A framework developed by the UK government has become the de facto method of developing best practices for managing IT services, says Accenture's Michael Nieves
Sex.com
Review Who would have thought that a tale of the legal shenanigans surrounding the theft of a domain name could be entertaining? But when the domain in question is sex.com it can be, as Kieren McCarthy...
Web-borne security threats soar
News Security industry has highlighted the growing threat from internet-borne malware, which now outstrips the risks posed by email
The core role of application lifecycle management in software development
Blog Do you want to know what really gets most of the software engineers I speak to fired up and ready to spit blood? You guessed it, well, hopefully… they always complain that their team leader or...
Study claims mobile base stations are safe
News Three-year study at the University of Essex finds that cellular phone masts pose no short-term health threats
EMC continues to deliver strong growth
News Spectacular performance by VMware boosts storage and software supplier EMC's figures, but Documentum continues to lag behind the rest of the business
First wireless USB products certified
News Dell and Lenovo launch notebooks with the new technology, but such products won't be sold in the UK until wireless USB's legalisation in August
SmoothWall SmoothGuard 1000-UTM
Review By porting its established security tools onto a powerful dual-core hardware platform, SmoothWall has come up with a highly effective and very scalable appliance that will appeal to a broad...
GPLv3 may not bind Microsoft
News A leading lawyer has claimed that the software giant should be able to extricate itself from the implications of GPLv3
Nasa signs up supercomputing support
News Deal with Computer Sciences Corporation worth up to $597m will provide support services to Nasa's Advanced Supercomputing
Lawyer urges debate over data-breach rules
News Current regulations are creating uncertainty for executives, claims lawyer James Mullock, who is calling on business leaders to address the issue
AOL buys ad firm Tacoda
News Time Warner's net unit adds a behavioural targeting firm to its advertising arsenal
Vendorboard: The value of converged services
Vendorboard Jason Ellis from Orange looks at the benefits businesses can get by getting all their connectivity services from one source
Convergence: The end of communications managers?
Feature Changing roles for IT and communications professionals may be on the way following the recent merger of the CMA and the BCS
Understanding obstacles to convergence
Feature Merging data and voice networks and fixed and mobile systems into one unified platform sounds good in theory, but it's not progressing as fast some would like
Convergence: Coming together at last?
Feature Businesses are warming to the idea of integrated fixed and mobile communications and the associated cost savings, according to research
Video: Are UK companies taking advantage of convergence?
Video Rick Paskins, managing director of Rhetorik Market Intelligence, discusses his company's research into how widespread uptake of converged fixed and mobile services is among UK business
Research: Convergence in mobile communications
Special Report Research conducted for ZDNet.co.uk by Rhetorik has revealed that uptake of fixed mobile convergence in the UK is quite low
