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Official Organizations Losing Data
Blog And because of that, why even bother firewalling your network to prevent intrusion right up your broadband connection when some knuckle-dragger is going to take a laptop right out of the building and leave it in a shopping mall with a local copy...
[December 22, 2009, 14:49]
Microsoft wins £500m NHS contract
News I'll leave that up to the taxpayer to decide whether that's worth it," said Governor. Microsoft has won a nine-year contract, worth an estimated £500m, to put its software on 900,000 National Health Service computers, the Department of Health...
[November 3, 2004, 11:08]
WinTasks Professional 4.0 review
Reviews Unfortunately, the scripting language is Boolean and will leave many novice users confused. Setup & interface You can purchase WinTasks Professional as either a boxed CD or a direct download from the developer's Web site.
[February 26, 2003, 8:01]
Oracle withdraws BEA buyout bid
News In particular, I view your public declaration of a $21-per-share 'take-it-or-leave-it' price as a management-entrenchment tactic, not a negotiating technique. Oracle on Sunday pulled its $6.7bn (£3.3bn) buyout offer for BEA Systems, after the...
[October 29, 2007, 7:21]
ROI, security and management: three necessities of the WLAN
News On one hand, WLANs -- while terrific tools for the enterprise -- can leave gaping security holes unless experts deploy them. Wireless connectivity offers many benefits: quick setup, untethered employees, networking flexibility, and relatively low...
[March 24, 2003, 13:46]
IE5 Launch: Microsoft introduces kinder, gentler IE
News It's a wise move to leave it behind. IE 5, set to launch today (dowload it from ZD Downloads later today), will include a few new features that will automate Web surfing or save users time -- including Autocomplete, which automatically fills out...
[March 18, 1999, 7:24]
Ultralight notebooks for your business review
Reviews For example, they typically lack an internal CD or DVD drive, relying instead on a separate media slice -- a docking unit that you leave behind on the desk most of the time. After a while, it adds up to a real pain in the shoulder.
[May 18, 2004, 6:55]
Analysis: Music will survive
News His view of what the Internet will throw up does not leave much left for the middleman. Probably the biggest challenges facing the music industry is determining how to compete with the easy availability of free music on the Internet.
[April 6, 2000, 10:46]
TK Maxx 'should disclose hacking details'
News If you leave a system open, it's not a question of if, but when you'll be hacked. US discount retailer TJX, owner of UK retailer TK Maxx, revealed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that at least 45.7 million payment card details had been stolen...
[March 30, 2007, 16:45]
Dealing with the worst-case scenario
News Attempts to coerce such employees to immediately report back to work is both unfair and in many cases unethical, which could leave some large gaps in your DR efforts. "The Worst-Case Scenario", or a total loss of all data-centre structures and...
[November 28, 2005, 10:50]
Symbian SEE & the salmiak salted liquorice
Blog I asked Puckrin to leave us with a ‘walk-away’ thought from the show, ideally something sweeter than salty liquorice. It’s tough to add much to the already very extensive ZDNetUK report on the Symbian Exchange and Exhibition (SEE), but for the...
[October 28, 2009, 12:28]
Microsoft goes on green Vista offensive
News But what you are asking to do is re-educate hundreds of thousands of people — millions of people — and we kind of put it in the same perspective of asking people to turn off light switches when they leave the room," he said.
[March 22, 2007, 13:17]
Beijing starts Olympics 2008 IT testing
News The attraction of the Olympics is such that people take leave from their jobs. Tests on the IT infrastructure behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games begin this month, a full year before the event opens on 8 August, 2008.
[August 2, 2007, 9:55]
Have you got a bug in your ear?
News Timofonica -- a play on Telefonica, using the Spanish word "timo" for swindle or rip-off -- will also leave a file named cmos.com, which will delete the computer's basic settings the next time it restarts, according to a technical analysis written...
[June 7, 2000, 8:54]
There's no such thing as dead data
Leader And leave the farce to Laurel and Hardy. A bank takes huge amounts of cash, but instead of using an armoured van for the transfer it calls a courier company. At the destination -- surprise, surprise -- it's missing.
[June 8, 2005, 13:45]
US Congress votes for net neutrality
News The most pointed opposition to the Judiciary bill came from Texas Republican Lamar Smith, who said he would prefer "to leave these decisions to the courts to work out on a case-by-case basis under the antitrust law".
[May 26, 2006, 9:10]
Gator 'spyware' investigated by Harvard
News More recently, it has incorporated delays so that ads may be triggered only after visitors leave a Web site. Gator's ad server appears to ignore other variables sent by the client utility, including locale, ZIP code, user ID and machine ID, and...
[May 22, 2003, 11:34]
The Goodwins Perspective: Living with ADSL
News If nothing else, ADSL users will become natural purchasers of cellular-enabled PDAs -- you just can't leave it behind. Although today marks BT's announcement of nationwide ADSL, the company has been running a London-based trial of the technology...
[July 29, 1999, 8:52]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback I leave the country for my year abroad at university & am furious at the prospect of not having a fully functionning machine. DELL support is a SHAM. For over a month I have been trying to sort out my laptop.
[August 21, 2006, 21:22]
Microsoft moves key security into Windows unit
News Valentine subsequently announced plans to leave Microsoft and join Amazon.com. As part of its ongoing reorganisation, Microsoft on Thursday moved more responsibility for its security efforts into its Windows unit.
[October 13, 2006, 8:50]
