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Protect and survive
Leader In the case of Delf, the particular Russian Web sites sending the SMS spam can be blocked easily: the next version could well use paid-for services, taking your credit card details from your compromised PC to foot the bill.
[November 10, 2004, 11:13]
Trade group: P2P not illegal or immoral
News In his speech, Shapiro hit several familiar notes, saying that the music and movie companies should not "whine" about the inability to compete with free file-swapping services, and instead should "should stop complaining so much and look for...
[September 18, 2002, 8:02]
Mobile .Net application could save NHS millions
News Wander is a simple, practical tool that lets us get on with the job we joined the NHS to do -- caring for patients," said Rose Stephens, chief nurse & director of services, Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust.
[July 30, 2002, 9:09]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News It's all ISP services, gone," says the operator from hell. I'd be very surprised to hear we were shipping a Pentium 133 as long ago as January 1996," says the truculent "customer services manager," (presumably, reading from his detailed records...
[April 4, 1998, 7:00]
Major Windows exploit 'days away'
News The vulnerability has been publicly known since late last month, and Microsoft last week offered a fix for the problem, but did not send it out via its automatic patching services. The patch will now go out on Automatic Updates and on other...
[July 13, 2005, 9:05]
Sun to sell Zaurus at JavaOne
News Carriers see it as a way of offering custom applications and new services," said Ron Schaeffer, Sendo's head of product strategy and planning. However, mobile data services have not yet caught on as widely in Europe and the US.
[March 22, 2002, 18:04]
Fibre access essential says industry group
News These next-generation networks (NGNs) have a much greater capacity for carrying high-bandwidth services, but critics argue that users' access will be limited by the capacity in the local loop. The BSG also acknowledges worries from businesses over...
[April 16, 2007, 13:18]
Pulling together UK ID card privacy threads
Blog A Home Office spokesperson said that essentially eID Card schemes were used for government services, while the UK ID Cards scheme would be a "gold standard" for identity. I pointed out that eID cards were used for authentication, and to log onto...
[February 9, 2009, 16:40]
Protect your domain names!
News To avoid becoming the victim of these types of scams or other common security and connection problems, you should take a quick inventory of the common problems you're likely to encounter: domain ownership issues, domain access issues, and domain...
[July 18, 2002, 10:48]
Google wannabes search for success
News Many major search services are taking on paid listing models to fuel their results and boost revenues while advertising dollars remain scarce. And unlike search services including AltaVista and Inktomi, it does not sell entry into its database.
[August 28, 2001, 15:25]
Red Hat Q2 results on target
News The newly-public Linux software and services company reported a net loss of $3.1m (£2m), or 9 cents a share, on sales of $4.4m for the quarter ending 31 August. The company said it was working to diversify its revenue with subscription-based...
[September 22, 1999, 16:23]
Gov't to spend £1bn on telecoms framework
News Central and local government departments, NHS organisations and other public bodies will be provided with telecoms goods, services and client side support under the framework agreement put out by Buying Solutions, the trading arm of the government...
[July 10, 2009, 16:17]
Public in the dark about Y2K
News The survey also found that 62 percent of IT specialists and 54 percent of the general public think that the millennium bug poses a serious threat to public services.percent of IT specialists and 43 percent of the public would refuse to fly on...
[February 2, 1999, 15:16]
Public sector cool on VoIP
News Elaine Axby, principal analyst at Quocirca, said although public sector organisations are interested in VoIP services, migration is likely to take more time than with private companies as they "need to be sure of the technology and the benefits...
[December 7, 2006, 10:20]
Microsoft to offer hosted security for Exchange
News More hosted security services will be coming but Leland declined to elaborate. The company also is changing the name of its Identity Lifecycle Manager product to Forefront Identity Manager and plans to offer a new set of technologies, code-named...
[April 16, 2009, 10:21]
IT spending soars in financial sector
News According to statistics released on Friday by the National Computing Centre (NCC), financial sector growth is being driven by new expenditure in voice over IP (VoIP) services and in online security. The finance sector is the UK's top industry...
[November 6, 2006, 12:59]
Public sector 'lags private outsourcers'
News Chris Bunce, business development manager at Xerox, said businesses, and especially the financial services sector, are focusing on the revenue generation and process improvement opportunities offered by business process outsourcing (BPO).
[November 10, 2003, 8:15]
Regulators consider the future of VoIP
News It considers the transition from existing circuit-switched public switched telephone network ("PTSN") to IP-based services and discusses the regulatory, technological, economic and structural implications.
[April 14, 2004, 14:10]
US government to boost IT spending
News The Office of Management and Budget has already outlined a 24-step eGovernment Initiative, designed to make government services more streamlined and accessible to the public. US government spending on information systems and services will grow 11...
[May 16, 2002, 7:31]
Wi-Fi Week: Mobility at the cost of security
News If you are not connected to a service securely -- using SSL for websites, SSH for text services or a corporate VPN -- then you should be aware that your link may be transmitted in the clear and open to interception.
[January 28, 2004, 11:25]
