Previous DayRE:Wireless standards: the early years
Blog Comment The ITU was originally the International Telegraph Union, formed in 1865, well before the advent of radio telegraphy, to harmonize international telegraph line tariffs and content regulations in...
IBM: IT managers are facing storage squeeze
News Faced with information overload, IT departments will struggle to deal with issues of business risk, warns IBM's storage chief
How to use social networks for business gain
Feature Applications such as Facebook are seen as a distraction by some employers but, if managed in the right way, the technology can actually improve business collaboration
Alcatel-Lucent hit by further losses
News Thousands of jobs are to go after the French-American telecommunications company posted its second serious quarterly loss in a row
Gmail spam decreases
Blog Google has claimed that its spam filters are discouraging spammers, after a decline in attmepts to spam Gmail users. In a post on the Official Google Blog, Brad Taylor, Google "Spam Czar",...
Fast answers aren't good answers
Leader If the Federation Against Software Theft is serious about wanting to label file sharers as 'black sheep', it is baa-king up the wrong tree
Infortrend launches small RAID drives
News The storage specialist claims the new drive is the world's first to offer RAID in a 2.5-inch form factor
Lords: Government doesn't get internet threat
News The government has been accused of putting its 'head in the sand', after rejecting many recommendations from the House of Lords aimed at protecting consumers online
Dell criticises OLPC, Negroponte hits back
Blog The chief executive officer of Dell computers, Michael Dell, has criticised the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. Speaking to an audience of CIOs at the Gartner ITxpo conference in Orlando on...
Orange does the business
Blog Orange is to open up a business-customers-only store on Oxford Street, in the centre of London, tomorrow. Sadly there won't be a fanfare-laden cutting of ribbon, so there's not much point in us...
Ukrainian presidential website under attack
Blog The website of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has been suffering a prolonged distributed denial of service attack, according to a post on antivirus vendor F-Secure's blog. According...
Mobile VPN
Talkback Great article Cath, thank you; just a wee bit puzzled on your limiting considerations fro a VPN for mobile to SSL VPNs in your point 4 "4. Focus on securing data not devices". There are an...
'Kissing Babies' in Public
Talkback Highfield: "I am a deep lover of Macs." This is 'kissing babies in public' moment for Highfield regarding technologies other than those from Microsoft. He can't, yet, bring himself to say the 'L'...
stifle innovation?
Talkback On the contrary, if vendors were forced to stand behind their products it should increase innovation. It would force more, and better , testing before hitting the sales floor, resulting in fewer...
Make Cisco $1bn and win a job
News The I-Prize competition aims to find a new IP-based technology, with the winners likely to be offered a position in the company
Freeing yourself from inbox tyranny
Vendorboard Darren Adams, messaging and collaboration sales leader at IBM, argues instant messaging can help cut email traffic by up to 40 percent
The role of SCM for RIAs
Blog I’ve blogged a good deal recently on Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) but mainly concentrated on the runtime and application structure sides of the equation. So let’s be fully rounded and look at...
Eco-efficient IT: Marketing adores a vacuum
Comment Andy Lawrence, research director for eco-efficient IT at analyst firm The 451 Group, says the green debate needs a lot more metrics and a lot less marketing
New green site launches today: Smartplanet
Blog It's only a soft-launch, no fan-fares or dancing girls, but the latest website to launch from ZDNet.co.uk's parent company CNET Networks is dedicated to all things green. It goes by the...
Symantec: Virtualisation a cure for data-centre woes
News Research claims virtualisation and consolidation can help data- centre chiefs struggling with more work to do but minimal budget growth
BT's Wi-Fi voucher strangeness
Blog BT has announced a new roaming voucher for its business traveller customers, based largely on a tie-in with the soon-to-go-live iBahn network of hotel hotspots. It may offer relatively cheap...
IBA completes iSoft takeover
Roundup Following months of stop-start negotiations, the acquisition saga between the two companies has finally been concluded
BBC says iPlayer criticism unfair
News The head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology unit has said launching the iPlayer on the Windows XP platform only was 'never the plan'
Intel's Montvale Itanium chip arrives
News The chipmaker launched on Wednesday its line of Itanium processors for high-end computing servers
iPhone Hackers Fight To Claim Territory
Blog iPhone Hackers Fight To Claim Territory By: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com Reminiscent of the historic days of claiming the land of the “new world” iPhone hackers are fighting for their...
RE:Linux server market sagging?
Blog Comment I wonder if there is a means to determine if the servers that are going out are ones that have software installed on them or not. Most server dealers and OEMs will sell you a system WITHOUT an OS....
