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Third World nations embrace IT
News The Digital Opportunity Initiative -- a joint venture comprising the United Nations, the Markle Foundation and consulting firm Accenture -- is pointing to such tech successes in an attempt to encourage more widespread adoption of what it calls...
[July 17, 2001, 9:38]
Gov't body spends on environmental data
News Further information is available on the Technology Strategy Board website. A government body is to provide £10m for the development of data-gathering technology for dealing with environmental problems.
[February 6, 2008, 9:15]
Bluetooth add-on coming to Palm V
News Bluetooth is a wireless radio technology that allows electronic devices within ten yards of one other to share information. For example, Bluetooth technology will allow a person to print a memo from a handheld on a nearby printer.
[March 22, 2001, 8:34]
Governments prepare for 'cyber cold war'
News Mikhel Tammet, director of the Estonian communication and information technology department, said he believes forces within the Russian government may have initiated and sponsored attacks against his country's critical national infrastructure...
[December 3, 2007, 10:58]
TechNet Webcast: Active Directory and Compliance Standards (Level 300)
White Papers The presenter also covers best practice standards outlined by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), and the International Organization for Standardization...
[April 10, 2008, 1:02]
Big Blue's storage tag team
News So, as that goes up, you also see that storage and storage management are becoming an increasingly large percentage of an overall information technology budget. Meanwhile, the hardware side has been working on its own software technology.
[February 19, 2004, 14:09]
Finalists for 2008 CNET tech awards revealed
News CNET Networks UK, the publisher of ZDNet.co.uk, has announced the finalists for its 2008 Business Technology Awards. Ruckus Wireless — Ruckus SmartMesh (TM) Technology Technology Innovation of the Year
[August 18, 2008, 16:35]
Rights groups call for ID tracking laws
News Theoretically, Microsoft could couple the user's registration information with his or her computer's ID numbers -- a potent technology for tracking movements over the Internet. This is another example of how technology that allows for the...
[March 9, 1999, 9:46]
Online banking: Web services may create vulnerabilities
News Financial institutions have long been reluctant to allow technology companies to become the security gateway and repository of their customers' assets and personal information. The technology consultant was concerned about the security of his...
[May 6, 2002, 7:32]
Kurzweil 3000 Reading Software Helps Business Leader Reach Full Potential
White Papers The GM tried numerous strategies throughout his life to "Learn" to read and to cope with his difficulties, but he was most successful when he learned about assistive technology - technology that can deliver information the way he needs to receive it.
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
New e-commerce minister is broadband believer
News Since becoming a Labour MP through a by-election in 1994, Timms has repeatedly spoken about the importance of broadband to the UK, and has served as the honorary president of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee.
[May 30, 2002, 14:12]
Tech staff need better sales pitch
News Ninety percent of the survey respondents said the value of information technology is either critical or very important to their companies. Whether chief information officers have poor communication skills or quantifying the payoffs of IT...
[April 16, 2003, 13:23]
Civil liberties groups demand halt to RFID
News Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups have demanded a suspension to the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging systems until a number of issues surrounding the controversial technology have been addressed.
[November 20, 2003, 17:15]
Elderly to benefit from 'fuzzy logic' research
News The technology avoids the use of cameras so as not to intrude on people's everyday lives, relying on silhouette images and audio information. Technology aimed at improving care and quality of life for the elderly will receive a boost with a major...
[January 4, 2008, 8:25]
Microsoft.com looks for better searching
News As a result, the company said it developed an improved product and information search that's faster, more relevant, and "100 percent Microsoft technology. Microsoft updated its corporate Web search technology this month with in-house software, in...
[August 1, 2003, 11:55]
Sun's Liberty gets US government backing
News Like Passport, Liberty technology is meant to manage computer users' multiple online identities and information using a single sign-on technology. The first version included technology to handle username and password registration; the next version...
[March 6, 2003, 10:32]
Understanding the Basics About Solaris Containers in the Solaris 10 OS
White Papers This paper aims to identify the basics of Solaris Containers in the Solaris 10 Operating System so that Sun's developers, system administrators, ISVs, partners and customers will know how to address common tasks related to this technology.
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
Gates: Orwell was wrong about Big Brother
News The fact that technology can protect both security and privacy by protecting the computer systems and the information on them is a positive thing. Gates' remarks, to a conference organised by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS...
[June 26, 2003, 8:10]
UK slipping down the grid, says Oracle
News The grid index attempts to measure the growth of grid technology and is built from information from over 1,000 companies. Whatever its enthusiastic proponents such as Oracle may wish for, the adoption of grid technology is slowing, not least in the...
[June 22, 2006, 16:30]
P3P: A green light for privacy on the Web? Part II
News For one, many privacy advocates -- including the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Junkbusters and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility -- have lambasted the technology as a false start for consumers.
[July 5, 2000, 13:54]
