Legal worries spur software spending
News The storage software market jumped by 18 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003, thanks partly to efforts by companies to meet data-handling regulations and prepare for disasters. Storage resource management software refers to products designed to...
[March 15, 2004, 10:00]
Oracle Semantic Technologies Inference Best Practices With RDFS/OWL
White Papers Then, it provides some best practices to inference using a RDFS rulebase, RDFS++, OWLSIF, and OWLPrime rulebases, considerations for user-defined rules with both, and an approach to handling semantics beyond OWLPrime.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Network Intrusion Detection Using Random Forests
White Papers This paper discusses the approaches for handling imbalanced intrusions, selecting features, and optimizing the parameters of random forests. Since data mining techniques can build intrusion detection models adaptively, data mining-based NIDSs have...
[June 18, 2008, 1:01]
Gov't departments deny memory-stick risks
News The information was obtained by Lewis PR, which sent Freedom of Information requests to 13 departments asking about their data-handling procedures. A Department of Health spokesperson said it had strict rules on data security and that data held on...
[January 13, 2009, 11:45]
ID cards face fingerprint errors, say experts
News BAG also called for more research into exception handling; guarantees on compliance with the Data Protection Act and rules on data sharing; robust controls on access; and interoperability of subsystems.
[June 23, 2008, 8:52]
Managing electronic data - a code of ethics
News Employees will be allowed to repeat the test until they pass it, said Powers, who is responsible for the data handling of 1,050 people. Teaching employees about the ethics of data management is part of the daily routine for Sandy Hofmann, chief...
[July 3, 2003, 14:37]
US companies abandon UK broadband schemes
News Major US telecommunications companies Global Crossing and WorldCom have ditched plans to introduce high-speed Internet services in Britain, it emerged Wednesday, as criticism mounted over Oftel's handling of the local loop unbundling process.
[September 21, 2000, 8:32]
Does offshoring or outsourcing increase the data privacy challenge?
Blog For Firms and organisations with a complex mix of environments and vendors, control “edge” solutions can be developed for the handling of data, based on “need to know” and “least privilege” principles, delivering sensitive data at the very last...
[June 22, 2009, 10:56]
US firms fight Euro data protection laws
News According to the GPA, industry codes of conduct would be one better way of handling this. A group of American companies is attempting this week to persuade the European Union to relax its rules governing data protection, claiming they are bad for...
[September 30, 2002, 16:29]
W3C releases draft of HTML 5
News It will also address costs by providing concise rules on handling HTML documents correctly, alongside instructions for how to recover from errors. HTML 5 will focus on client-side data storage to enable users to edit documents interactively.
[January 25, 2008, 13:59]
Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog Comment Because we backed it onto an SQL database, we did very little data handling code but still had to derive the database design document which of course was a reflection of the static business model. One SQL query took me 1.5hrs to construct given the...
[November 27, 2009, 7:19]
Cutting connection costs
News The company recently used Weblogic to integrate its account handling and booking systems into the company's website. EAI lets companies pass data between multiple legacy and enterprise applications through a single messaging hub, translating data...
[December 16, 2003, 10:55]
MAX Europe
Blog The next generation of Flash Player (codenamed Astro) was previewed - this will ship with advanced text layout support that will be capable of handling bi-directional text and will support the word wrapping rules of languages such as Hebrew...
[October 16, 2007, 11:30]
Sneak Peeks reveals some of Adobe's thinking
News There is a lot of mathematics handling the heavy lifting in the Creative Suite tools, producing everything from filters and special effects to complex image blends and edits. The same set of JavaScript tools can also handle animations created in...
[October 8, 2009, 13:39]
Can you trust TRUSTe?
News In the past six months, at least two of its other licensees have been reported to the Federal Trade Commission, the agency charged with handling online privacy issues. Last year, yet another TRUSTe licensee -- Geocities, now owned by Yahoo...
[November 3, 1999, 9:38]
Handling firewalls
News If you run a NOC or a central monitoring facility, this will probably be your primary method of notification.At a minimum, alerts should be triggered by the following events:Unsuccessful user and host login attempts: This helps you see who is...
[May 29, 2002, 21:14]
Business reporting: Microsoft changes the rules
News The larger vendors develop their reporting software to work in more realistic environments, handling data from non-Microsoft SQL systems, so their cross-platform advantage will keep their customers from switching right away.
[March 14, 2003, 16:36]
