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Doctors May Be Fined For Losing Data
News Information commissioner Richard Thomas, giving evidence at a House of Lords Constitution Committee inquiry into data collection and surveillance on Wednesday, proposed that a doctor who is found to be "flouting data-protection principles" should...
[November 16, 2007, 10:41]
London Losing Lustre As Data-centre Destination
News Power-supply issues and soaring lease costs in London are being blamed for forcing companies to look outside the M25 when building new data centres. Accenture has claimed there is a lack of growth in new data centres, compared to demand, in London.
[February 28, 2008, 10:00]
Data-loss Rife In UK Companies, Says Survey
News Most UK companies are losing data every month, a survey has found. The survey, of 250 senior IT staff at businesses larger than 1,000 employees, found the majority of UK businesses — 79 percent — were losing data at least once a month.
[May 13, 2008, 8:43]
Consumers - Failing To Protect Themselves Against Infection
News Tales of home users losing megabytes of data have been rife in the last few days. One technically-savvy user confessed to losing "loads of data" when the CIH kicked in on his home PC at midnight on Tuesday.
[April 29, 1999, 6:18]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback india don't feel bad we go through the same bull s#$t.some customers are alright but to the customers whining about losing data. Make backups and you don't have to worry about losing "priceless data".and to customers that call in with an attitude...
[March 17, 2006, 14:55]
Marks & Spencer Loses 26,000 Staff Details
News Retailer Marks & Spencer could face prosecution if it does not comply within two months to the overhaul of its data-security procedures, after losing 26,000 employees' pension details. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened the...
[January 25, 2008, 16:32]
KPNQwest Loses Its Grip On Data
News An Internet performance-monitoring company says KPNQwest's fibre-optic network has been losing track of the data it delivers at "alarming rates" since Friday. Since early Friday, KPNQwest's networks have been losing an average of 4 to 5 percent of...
[June 13, 2002, 11:46]
Tech Giants Launch Open-source Messaging For Web Services
News Reliable Messaging for Grid Services (RM4GS) implements the WS-Reliability standard, and allows Web services to communicate without the risk of losing data. However, until the advent of the WS-Reliability standard, web service creators either had...
[November 26, 2004, 16:35]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback I contacted DELL support expecting some help from them without losing data on my hard drive. I felt happy .because all i hoping is system to be back without losing all the data. So you contact DELL onCall specilist people, they will be able...
[April 25, 2006, 22:13]
HMRC Loses Thousands Of Pensioners' Details
News The details were lost at an office of HM Revenue & Customs in Cardiff after a data cartridge went missing in September, an HMRC spokesperson said on Tuesday. However, the spokesperson insisted that, because the information on the data cartridge can...
[December 18, 2007, 17:02]
Tackling The Threat From Portable Storage Devices
News Employees may also be responsible for losing data if they inadvertently mislay these devices. Companies are at risk of losing intellectual property and other critical corporate data. The impact of the latter goes beyond the commercial value of the...
[July 5, 2004, 17:10]
Banks 'must Raise Their Game On Security'
News The remarks follow a survey conducted for the firm, which found almost a third (30 percent) of consumers would close all accounts and move to another bank if their personal data was compromised. The survey of 1,424 people in north America...
[September 21, 2005, 9:45]
Salesforce Customers Hit By Service Disruption
News A Salesforce.com outage lasting nearly a day cut off access to critical business data for many of the company's customers on Tuesday in what appears to be Salesforce's most severe service disruption to date.
[December 22, 2005, 8:40]
Localise Your Disaster Recovery Plan
News How do you know if it's worth the price of setting up recovery systems locally as well as planning for restoration of data off-site? First, you should determine which systems, if any, would require immediate restoration of services in the event...
[April 24, 2006, 17:15]
Public Confidence Shaken By Data Breaches
News The majority of UK citizens do not trust the government with their data following the HM Revenue & Customs data breach, according to security vendor Symantec. A survey of 1,000 members of the public, which was sponsored by Symantec and conducted by...
[December 13, 2007, 11:56]
Losing The Laptop Blame Game
Leader Loss of a valuable laptop, and the potentially valuable data held on it, usually results in a blame game. Encryption is one obvious way to protect data, though protected data is of little use if it goes missing and has not been backed up.
[February 15, 2007, 16:46]
Immediate Ban Stops Laptops Leaving Whitehall
News All Whitehall staff have been banned from removing laptops containing unencrypted personal data from offices in the wake of the Ministry of Defence data loss. Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell sent an email to top civil servants on Monday night...
[January 23, 2008, 7:52]
BlackBerrys Grounded By Whitehall Data Ban
News Government BlackBerry devices and PDAs have been grounded by the Whitehall-wide ban on the movement of unencrypted personal data. The devices have fallen foul of the department-wide ban imposed by cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell in the wake of...
[February 5, 2008, 8:13]
Corporations Find Bargains In Basements Of EBay
News Many companies are building internal pipelines that can send inventory data directly and automatically to eBay for listing -- essentially turning the auction site into an arm of their operations and purchasing departments.
[September 5, 2003, 12:25]
ABO Aims To Out-compress JPEG
News Users can select compression ratios that range from mathematically lossless, for files that are byte-identical to the original, to higher ratios, for files that are visually identical with the original, but with visually unimportant data discarded.
[November 28, 2003, 9:25]
