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US head of cybersecurity quits to spend more time with his family
News It is even clearer today that cybersecurity must be properly elevated within the DHS in order to provide the necessary resources and the ability to implement policy that will better protect our information infrastructure," Robert Holleyman...
[October 4, 2004, 11:45]
Beware of keeping your head in the clouds
Blog Comment "An Autumn 2009 poll of over 300 (ISC)2 certified security professionals, indicated that over 92 % anticipate employees will circumvent the IT department to trial Software as a Service or cloud-based solutions
[December 11, 2009, 0:01]
Surveillance 2: Eyes in the back of your head
News Use monitoring software as an early warning system to identify potential problems. You should also install blocking software to prevent employees from accessing sites you consider inappropriate -- a £1,000 software package can easily prevent a £1m...
[February 25, 2000, 9:44]
Websense - The Head of the Class for the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit
White Papers When school administrators in Pennsylvania's Erie, Warren, and Crawford counties met earlier this year about filtering internet content, they knew one thing for sure: they needed to comply with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) without...
[June 16, 2007, 1:00]
DrinkorDie head sentenced for software piracy
News According to the US Department of Justice, Griffiths headed the DrinkorDie software pirate group, founded in 1993 under his alias "Bandido". The Department of Justice labelled DrinkorDie "one of the oldest and most renowned internet software piracy...
[June 25, 2007, 12:27]
US Report: Gates urges governments not to meddle
News "I think it would be a tragedy if any government action held companies back in terms of doing more advanced products," the head of the software giant said at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting.
[February 1, 1999, 16:07]
Universal embarrassment for HP
News HP held its European software conference this week despite the fact that the head of its software group quit suddenly last week. DeLaughter, formerly general manager for Open View and now acting head of the software business for HP, told ZDNet UK.
[December 7, 2005, 13:35]
SAP sets up showdown with Microsoft
News The software giant plans to expand its product line with new customer service applications through the acquisition of Danish software company Navision. Business software maker SAP plans to boost its slumping US sales by targeting smaller businesses...
[June 7, 2002, 15:03]
UK school showcases Linux suite
News An Essex junior school that has used open source software to cut the cost of setting up and running its computer room was showing off its IT infrastructure to a group of UK head teachers on Wednesday.
[January 18, 2006, 15:15]
Novell evangelises Linux in Europe
News Open-source software is picking up steam in European businesses, and Novell is following suit -- perhaps to the extent of releasing some of its own products under open-source licences, according to Novell EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
[February 13, 2004, 9:20]
IBM buys apps management firm
News Since 2002, IBM has resold Cyanea's software as part of its WebSphere brand. The purchase of Cyanea, which represents the seventeenth company IBM software has bought since 2001, is consistent with IBM's plan to build out a broad set of tools for...
[July 29, 2004, 15:40]
Microsoft's education claims rebuffed
News Some schools are hooked on particular applications that only run on Windows," said Richard Rothwell, chairman of educational user group Schoolforge UK, "but there are ways for schools to get onto high quality sustainable open source software".
[May 17, 2005, 13:15]
Microsoft boosts server unit with Muglia promotion
News An article in The Wall Street Journal on Muglia's promotion notes that it represents quite a comeback for Muglia, who found himself shuttled off to head management software in a post-HailStorm reshuffling of the internet unit.
[January 6, 2009, 7:22]
Deep Blue veteran plots Lotus game-plan
News Now charged with heading up IBM's Lotus software division, Goyal is going to need all his powers of perception to go head to head with Microsoft in the play for domination of the collaboration-software market.
[August 3, 2004, 12:35]
Microsoft readies VoIP software beta
News The launch of the new software puts Microsoft head to head with other companies selling IP telephony and unified communications software to large companies. After months of anticipation, corporate customers will soon get their hands on a beta...
[March 7, 2007, 7:27]
Borland takes on Microsoft with developer tools
News Borland, in the midst of a turnaround after years of financial struggles and strategic missteps, is now preparing to go head-to-head against Microsoft next year with new programming tools that allow developers to build software for Microsoft's...
[August 23, 2002, 11:45]
Raikes reflects on 26 years at Microsoft
News Jeff Raikes, the Microsoft executive most closely associated with the emergence of Office, has described the rise of the product as the highlight of his long career at the software maker, which will come to an end in September.
[January 11, 2008, 12:33]
FAST should be taught a lesson
Leader Its message was clear: "If head teachers, school governors and even LEAs allow the use of illegal software then it may be a fast track to a criminal record. The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST), which these days refers to itself as "The...
[May 25, 2006, 16:35]
Sun loses software head to Adobe
News Other returned execs at Sun include co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, now a top designer of the Galaxy line of x86 servers; chief financial officer Mike Lehman, who came out of retirement; Tom Goguen, the vice president of operating platforms products...
[March 17, 2006, 8:15]
Microsoft on Trial: IBM a thorn in Microsoft's side?
News IBM's head of network computing services John Soyring testified in November last year at the trial, answering questions about IBM's decision to preload browsing software with its OS/2 operating system.
[May 5, 1999, 9:59]
