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Surf's up: Webmaster is Faking It on TV
News The webmaster of IT recruitment outfit Elan is going on TV to prove that his real world surfing skills are as good as his virtual ones. Elan's webmaster, Stuart Matheson, is taking part in Channel 4's successful documentary series, Faking It, in...
[October 28, 2002, 14:25]
The view from the floor at JavaOne
News It also puts them in a position to challenge IBM, which is traditionally (and historically) associated with the Eclipse brand. The only new item is the Java 'Store' application showcase, which is 'me too' technology in many senses, as Sun needed to...
[June 4, 2009, 16:36]
Skype to address identification concerns
News Skype plans to address the concerns of some IT managers by improving its identity authentication process. One security concern for IT managers is that while Skype uses an encrypted public key infrastructure, it automatically authenticates users...
[June 21, 2006, 16:25]
Linux kernel gains serviceability features
News The new SystemTap features enable IT professionals to debug a running system in real-time without affecting performance or recompiling. Kdump is especially significant since it represents the first crash dump tool accepted into the mainline kernel.
[December 15, 2006, 8:45]
LogicaCMG squeezed by graduate shortage
News IT services firm LogicaCMG is struggling to hire qualified staff in the UK, forcing it to increase wages and move work overseas. In its interim financial results, released on Wednesday, LogicaCMG admitted that it was finding it harder to hire high...
[September 1, 2006, 11:55]
Techies reveal their creative side for charity
News In December last year, Microsoft began a competition asking IT professionals to come up with innovative technology projects to help a charity of their choosing. The 'Missing Kid Saver' runs photos of children, as well as contact details in case of...
[July 1, 2008, 15:32]
Organising enterprise e-mail
News Most IT managers have already fielded calls from users who have lost an important e-mail. Archiving copies selected e-mails flowing through an organisation and stores that information in a secure location for retrieval when it is needed, either as...
[June 14, 2002, 23:30]
Lord battles government over cybercrime laws
News As it stands, paragraph 1b of Clause 41 of the Police and Justice Bill would make it an offence to release a computer tool that is "likely to be used" in a computer offense. As reported last month, experts are concerned that the government's...
[June 20, 2006, 14:50]
Peer loses cybercrime fight
News A Conservative peer's attempt to amend a law that could criminalise IT professionals has failed. This proposed law has been heavily criticised by Lords and senior security experts, who say it could criminalise both the police and innocent IT...
[July 14, 2006, 16:25]
Attack code released for Kaminsky DNS flaw
News This will then poison the bona fide nameserver, and anyone who visits it from then on will unwittingly be pointed to a malicious site. IT professionals will have their work cut out," said Carl Leonard, Websense's European security research manager.
[July 24, 2008, 15:39]
Photos: Computer Aid for Castro's Cuba
News Computer Aid International is inviting IT professionals to participate in its second annual Cycle Challenge and help bridge the digital divide. The event, a cycle ride across Cuba from 23 February to 3 March 2008, aims to raise enough money to...
[May 25, 2007, 18:00]
Lord vows to fight cybercrime laws
News A proposed UK law has been heavily criticised by Lords and senior security experts, who say it could criminalise both the police and innocent IT professionals who build or make available programs which are then used for hacking.
[May 25, 2006, 16:05]
Network-audit tool for Linux phone announced
News The NeoPwn tool is based on a modified Linux 2.6.24 kernel, and will let IT professionals toggle between two modes — 'phone' and 'pwn'. A handset-based network-penetration tool that runs on a Linux phone has been announced in the US.
[September 22, 2008, 13:10]
Analysis: Ofcom to give BBC remit for universal Net access?
News It may be the government sees the BBC as the best vehicle to deliver universal Net access," he says. And while it may finally find a solution for getting the UK online, even a super regulator faces an uphill struggle to unite the industries it has...
[December 13, 2000, 16:20]
Anther source of profit for MS?
Talkback And presumably the longer-term plan is that permission to practise as an IT professional would require possession of a qualification in software development, which would be issued by MS (after all they have the experience with their existing MS...
[May 25, 2007, 12:15]
A risky business
Talkback Jerry Fishenden draws a long bow when linking IT project failure with the incompetence of a technologist. The issue here is that IT projects inherently carry a large degree of risk. In this immature industry failures should be expected, and the...
[May 25, 2007, 20:18]
Is contract work a good career move?
News It may not be wise for XYZ to hire a permanent staff of IT professionals for a job like this. Had it with "Smarty Marty" in the cubicle on the corner and his endless lectures on the virtues of Unix? In the case of IT professionals, a contract could...
[May 8, 2002, 9:47]
These are not mistakes - they are business choices
Talkback The 'mistakes' listed above are more business choices: They become ingrained - 'it is the way we have always done it'. The response "well, you have always done it wrong then" rarely wins friends.
[July 22, 2007, 18:49]
flawed, but very interesting argument
Talkback It is interesting to reflect that some people are willing to consider IT as next in line in the human value chain to health though .otherwise why would this profession be the one to follow this criticality measure/precaution.
[May 28, 2007, 15:37]
US Report: Caldera launches Linux certification
News While Caldera is launching CLE, it is "Linux training by Caldera," rather than "Caldera Linux Training," says Dean Taylor, Caldera's director of business development.
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