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Jane Wakefield: Gates gets his coat, Case gets an empire
News I'll get my coat," he was heard to say to 'Bash 'em Ballmer' on his way out the door. It is unlikely that Steve Case and Bill Gates shared a festive eggnog this Christmas but, in what turned out to be a remarkable week of general shuffling about...
[January 14, 2000, 13:52]
CacheFlow turns into Blue Coat
News Network vendor CacheFlow is changing its name to Blue Coat Systems in an attempt to reflect the company's shift in emphasis towards enterprise security. It seems the new name, Blue Coat Systems, is intended to evoke the traditional blue coat of an...
[August 21, 2002, 15:16]
Blue Coat bags £10m URL filtering firm
News Internet and email security firm Blue Coat Systems agreed on Monday to acquire Ceberian, a URL filtering software developer, for around £10m in stock. Blue Coat makes security solutions that are designed to help companies protect themselves from...
[July 19, 2004, 14:45]
Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation Centralizes Identity Management, Increases Security
White Papers Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a national department store retail chain, offering current, high quality designer merchandise at discounted prices. Burlington Coat Factory wanted to manage identities of all employee desktop users...
[October 18, 2006, 0:00]
Server Clustering Is Tailor-Made for Burlington Coat Factory
White Papers Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a U.S.retail chain offering high-quality merchandise at prices up to 60 percent less than competitors. A retailer needs to migrate 40 Oracle-based applications from a proprietary UNIX platform to a...
[May 15, 2007, 1:00]
Blue Coat Spyware Interceptor review
Reviews Blue Coat makes big claims for the SCOPE technology -- short for Spyware Catching Object Prevention Engine -- on which the Interceptor is based. Simply browse to the URL supplied and a Blue Coat hosted wizard will first identify the Interceptor...
[September 12, 2005, 10:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Japanese inventor Susumu Tachi has unveiled -- well, de-cloaked -- his amazing Retro-Reflectum coat of invisibility, which projects an image forwards of whatever's behind the wearer. The most important thing for this trick, besides sounding like a...
[June 18, 2004, 18:45]
Users confuse spyware with Star Wars
News The survey, carried out by NOP and commissioned by security company Blue Coat, appears to highlight a lack of concern in the UK market about spyware, with more than half of those surveyed unaware that spyware is software on a user's computer that...
[August 18, 2005, 16:25]
IM creates 'rampant security risk'
News Already some companies see IM as a time-wasting technology -- as was the case when email, Web access and even the telephone were first put on workers' desks -- but the latest warning, levelled by Blue Coat Systems, is based on three key factors.
[February 5, 2003, 14:33]
Open source: Supply and demand
Talkback If I paid $2,000 to buy a coat, I'm more likely to pay $150 to have the coat repaired. A coat is a coat. More thoughts after examining the realities. JC:"When the price of cars goes down, the demand for auto mechanics goes up"
[June 13, 2004, 15:04]
Of painters and programmers
Blog Dave puts down a foundation coat to make sure the rest of the paint sits on top of a good base layer - programmers make sure they adhere to proper design procedures and have a solid technology backbone with backup and disaster recovery...
[April 14, 2008, 9:36]
Thursday
Blog Some time later the stragglers are about to follow suite when we notice a coat, a carrier bag and a notebook by our feet. These obviously belong to one of the departed partygoers; we don't recognise the coat, but a freelance was in attendance so...
[November 15, 2002, 15:44]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News In the US it's joked that Visio is virtually a testing department for Bill Gates but you can see why it might make sense to tuck in behind the Microsoft coat tails (sorry, Active Coat tails TM etc). Tuesday
[August 30, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News A representative of a very famous encryption company appears in the offices -- alas, not wearing a long coat, trilby and dark glasses -- to tell us all about said outfit (the company not the coat, silly) and its plans for the UK.
[June 4, 1999, 18:54]
A Year Ago: Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News A representative of a very famous encryption company appears in the offices -- alas, not wearing a long coat, trilby and dark glasses -- to tell us all about said outfit (the company not the coat, silly) and its plans for the UK.
[June 5, 2000, 7:01]
A Year Ago: Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A representative of a very famous encryption company appears in the offices -- alas, not wearing a long coat, trilby and dark glasses -- to tell us all about said outfit (the company not the coat, silly) and its plans for the UK.
[June 5, 2000, 8:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A representative of a very famous encryption company appears in the offices -- alas, not wearing a long coat, trilby and dark glasses -- to tell us all about said outfit (the company not the coat, silly) and its plans for the UK.
[June 4, 1999, 19:54]
K9 Web Protection
Downloads Based on commercial-grade Web filtering controls from Blue Coat Systems, K9 Web Protection is unique among content filters and it is free for home use. K9 Web Protection is easy-to-use Parental Control and Internet filtering software that helps...
[March 9, 2009, 16:56]
Apple vs Microsoft - the chips are down
Blog Comment I may have to hold his white lab coat as surety. Please don't give Rupert ideas.
[June 13, 2008, 16:55]
No News is Good News for Microsoft PowerPoint in Office 14
Blog PowerPoint 2007 offers a lot of surprises to us when she made her debut with ribbon coat and SmartArt accessories years ago, however, those tremendous changes lead a lot of problems, such as incompatibility.
[February 11, 2009, 10:17]
