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Sun creates new security posts
News In their new roles, Diffie and Masters will coordinate Sun security work in research, product and sales groups. Sun Microsystems has created two high-ranking computer security positions, naming one of its top researchers chief security officer and...
[April 18, 2002, 12:45]
Red Hat Linux: Santa's own Red Hat
News It has become the world's fastest growing server operating system and it continues to achieve widespread adoption among the largest enterprises in mission-critical roles. This is what Red Hat said: Selecting Red Hat Linux as his operating system of...
[December 30, 2002, 9:56]
IT industry: Unwilling to recruit women?
News Taylor said she felt she had to work to convince prospective employers she had the technical know-how to do the job because of her gender and the fact there were so few women in technical roles — although she conceded perceptions of women "have...
[June 14, 2007, 8:56]
What we know about Windows 7 review
Reviews Microsoft hasn't said whether it will allow users/PC makers to opt into (and out of) installing subsystems, in the same way that Windows Server 2008 users can choose specific 'roles', but hints that Microsoft is considering this approach for...
[May 28, 2008, 15:38]
The Year Ahead: Skills trends for 2003
News IT contractors in 2002 experienced drops in hourly rates of pay in four out of 49 job roles monitored by the Computer Weekly/SSP Quarterly Survey. One year ago, the world was still reeling from the raw impact of 11 September and security on every...
[December 27, 2002, 6:24]
Job hunters seeking the cold, hard truth
News Pastor said he'd set himself up a database of the ones he dealt with, and often did Internet searches for roles when he was on the hunt for a job. Australia's IT pros are on the lookout for recruitment consultants who tell it like it is when they...
[April 24, 2002, 11:28]
Assessing the tech market carnage
News Some, like Goguen, are examining their own roles in the debacle. Michael Goguen isn't afraid to admit he made mistakes in the bull-run days of 1999 and early 2000, when the partner at venerable venture firm Sequoia Capital served on 14 boards and...
[March 12, 2001, 9:00]
The Eurovision spam contest
Leader Likewise, online crime is too important to leave to purely commercial interests to tackle, much as large companies enjoy assuming quasi-judicial roles. The world looks very different from cyberspace. We've all got our own ideas of the places where...
[March 20, 2007, 16:39]
CodeGear offers drag-and-drop web development
News CodeGear said its product is targeted at developers in a wide variety of roles who want to bring a web component into their applications. CodeGear has launched the Delphi for PHP 2.0 integrated development environment to improve its developer tools...
[April 15, 2008, 14:52]
Jane Wakefield: A spoonful of Internet medicine
News But just as a backlash against dot-coms has happened in the stock markets so too people are beginning to question what their roles might mean in the Internet age. Revolutions never go smoothly. Often there are splits -- illustrated perfectly in...
[October 13, 2000, 10:37]
BT: Google is our biggest threat
News Citing new online services such as YouTube, the CIO said BT’s customers had "morphed into three different roles now: customer, supplier and competitor. Google is becoming BT’s biggest competitor. That’s the surprise assessment of BT’s chief...
[June 8, 2006, 13:15]
Microsoft begins testing Exchange 12
News Microsoft is planning to split the Exchange 12 server software into various roles that can be installed on multiple physical servers or performed by a single machine. Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has released the first test version of...
[December 14, 2005, 14:25]
ClearCube PC Blade solutions review
Reviews In fact, the BackPack fulfils two roles. Hardware So let’s start with the easy bit, the hardware, where -- just like blade servers -- each ClearCube PC blade is in fact a self-contained computer designed to be plugged into a special rack-mounted...
[November 16, 2005, 9:00]
Intellect launches ICT networking group
News Suffolk described the Young Professionals' Network as "an excellent opportunity to both develop their careers and see the importance of their roles within a wider context". Intellect, the trade association for the IT and telecoms industries, has...
[April 26, 2007, 15:47]
Windows Server 2008: preview, part 2 review
Reviews Originally this wasn’t included as one of the possible roles but 'due to customer demand', it is now a supported configuration. In the first part of this preview we said that Windows Server 2008 was more or less complete and ready for launch.
[July 16, 2007, 11:33]
IBM bundles up Workplace
News Also, at the end of the month, IBM will release 17 bundles of its Workplace software that address specific job functions, or "roles", within about 12 industries. IBM stepped up its assault on the desktop software market with the introduction of new...
[November 10, 2004, 8:08]
Employee fired for blogging about Friendster
News It also, once again, raises questions about how the new publishing medium changes roles of corporate communication, news media and the community online. With Friendster like this, who needs enemies? Friendster, known for breaking new ground in...
[September 1, 2004, 8:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog People who build huge clusters of computers like Linux because it's very, very tweakable, easy to tune and has a long record of working well in very high performance roles. Thursday 24/06/04 Microsoft is suffering from Easter Islander syndrome...
[June 25, 2004, 17:35]
Take steps to retain your IT superstars
News Even in recession, large corporations actively recruit their top talent for their mission-critical roles from recognised graduate schools and rely on state universities and community colleges to provide talent in IT development areas.
[March 7, 2002, 10:01]
Microsoft's virtual spin
Leader RISC/CISC, relational databases, open systems: each term comes with its own history of a good idea being forced into increasingly ill-fitting roles, as competitors try to take over a success story by redefinition.
[February 28, 2008, 16:48]
