Red Hat nurtures Chinese ambitions
News He was born in Russia, raised in Israel, lived for years in Germany, and is married to a Texan, he said. Red Hat, the leading seller of the Linux operating system, plans an expansion into China, potentially including a partnership with China's Red...
[January 22, 2004, 10:45]
Bangalore, Mumbai lose their outsourcing lustre
News While similarities in business culture and language will keep India at the top of the UK's list of outsourcing hotspots, eastern Europe and Russia could be set to emerge as an alternative. India's traditional outsourcing centres appear to be...
[January 8, 2009, 8:35]
Cybercrime summit urges international cooperation
News FBI agents who used hacking techniques to find two hackers in Russia were counter-charged with cybercrime offences, the council noted in its report. European officials met on Friday in a high-level push to persuade more countries to sign up to an...
[September 17, 2004, 15:50]
Lenovo reports loss, CEO steps down
News Under the restructuring, Lenovo said its Greater China, Asia-Pacific and Russia operations will be consolidated into a single business unit. Lenovo chief executive William Amelio resigned on Thursday after the Chinese PC maker reported a $97m loss...
[February 5, 2009, 15:19]
The Genome for the true social web?
Blog Well, news reaches me today of an exciting new project from a team of developers in Russia that may yet provide a solution to our problems, making it easy for us to carry our identities and relationships around with us.
[July 20, 2008, 18:03]
IBM's training for Olympic marathon
News A milestone was set at the Nagano site on Day 14 (Fri, 20 Feb) at 9pm (Japan Standard Time) during two simultaneous high-profile events -- the gold medal competition in women's figure skating and the semi-final ice hockey game between Russia and...
[July 13, 2000, 16:02]
XP Starter Edition off to a slow start
News Besides Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, Starter Edition is also bound for Russia and India this year, although the Indian launch has been postponed from March until June. Microsoft may have started shipping its cheaper version of Windows in Asia...
[March 18, 2005, 11:10]
IBM teams with Linux firms for Microsoft-free PCs
News The response has been strong, particularly in Russia, where large organisations such as the Rushotel hotel chain and the Russian postal service have adopted it, according to IBM. IBM has launched its latest attack on Microsoft in the enterprise...
[August 6, 2008, 12:21]
IBM plans mainframe lovefest
News That includes Russia, China and India, Stallings said. IBM has plans in place to spend tens of millions of dollars to coax new customers to buy the company's mainframes. The money will be spent in the "next couple of years" on tasks such as...
[August 29, 2006, 9:00]
China inspects Windows code
News In a press statement, Microsoft said that last month it announced GSP agreements with Russia, NATO and the UK. Microsoft has signed a pact with Chinese officials to reveal the highly protected Windows operating system source code, making China...
[February 28, 2003, 14:41]
'Free Dmitri' protests gathers little London support
News His supporters stress that he has not broken any laws while on US soil, and note that Sklyarov's work at Elcom was conducted in Russia -- a long way from US territories. Protests demanding the release of the Russian programmer Dmitri Sklyarov are...
[July 31, 2001, 13:53]
Symantec sheds light on cybercrime economy
News Cybercriminals in Russia and Eastern Europe appear to be better organised than their counterparts in the US, who are "often made up of acquaintances who have met in online forums and/or IRC channels", according to the report.
[November 24, 2008, 14:38]
eCheckRegister
Downloads Export By EmaileCheckRegister allows you to export transaction records by email in HTML format, suitable for printing or CSV (Comma Separated Values) file for integration with spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel or desktop personal finance managers...
[June 19, 2005, 8:00]
French education authorities migrate to Linux
News Every one of the Kingfisher outlets in France, Italy, Spain, Poland and Russia is now equipped with Linux servers. The French Ministry for Education has migrated 2,500 servers across its 30 local education authorities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux...
[September 5, 2007, 16:58]
Analysts predict boom for GPS-enabled handsets
News Galileo has recently suffered funding crises, and now risks falling behind rivals like Russia's Glonass system. The number of GPS-enabled handsets is set to more than triple during the next five years, analysts have predicted.
[January 15, 2008, 13:27]
MyDoom trail traces back to single author
News While some researchers believe the MyDoom code may have originated in Russia, it's almost impossible to pin down Patient Zero -- the first infected computer -- or the person actually released the virus, Kuo said.
[February 3, 2004, 7:50]
Like flying model aircraft? Fancy a really big one? And a sun tan?
Blog What I don't know, and what my discreet enquiry service is being far too discreet to tell me, is whether this job is purely loitering around the skies being part of the Plausible Deniability Caper -- as in when the CIA ran U2 spy flights across...
[April 8, 2009, 2:31]
Kaspersky launches hosted email service
News Kaspersky already offers web filtering and instant messaging (IM) security services in Germany, France and Russia. Russian antivirus company Kaspersky has launched a hosted email-filtering service. Kaspersky Hosted Security Services, launched on...
[January 23, 2008, 7:23]
The Russian approach to tackling data breaches
News InfoWatch only has customers in Russia at the moment [such as the Russian Federal Customs Service and the Transneft oil-transportation business], but we also have plans to expand internationally, which is one of the reasons I'm here [at...
[April 29, 2008, 17:41]
The UK's real missing skill: Imagination
Leader Interestingly, the vast majority of the Code Jam finalists were from Eastern Europe, with the top three winners hailing from Poland and Russia. Another day, another warning about an IT skills crisis in the UK.
[July 6, 2006, 13:10]



