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US: Net-neutrality regulations unnecessary
News The term "net neutrality" refers to the concept of ISPs being able to charge content providers for prioritisation of their traffic. Some argue that net neutrality should be legislated to protect consumers and keep all internet traffic equal, while...
[September 7, 2007, 11:36]
AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010
News Net neutrality refers to an ongoing campaign calling for governments to legislate to prevent internet service providers (ISPs) from charging content providers for prioritisation of their traffic. Network operators and service providers argue that...
[April 18, 2008, 13:28]
Patch Management - Prioritise and Implement to address Critical Risks
Talkback Some require prioritisation, and swift action. In amongst the long list of patches for this patch Tuesday, there are six critical patches that IT departments should definitely address for their organisations.
[June 10, 2009, 11:28]
AMD Phenom X4 9850 review
Reviews AMD says it has fixed the issue in the higher-end chips, which affected data prioritisation, and that the X4 9850 is ready to go. The Phenom X4 9850 is part of the batch of higher-end Phenoms that were beset by a 'TLB erratum' that delayed their...
[March 28, 2008, 14:16]
Microsoft deal produces branch-office appliance
News Packeteer is supplying WAN optimisation, application visibility and prioritisation technologies, while Microsoft is offering its Windows Server, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server and System Management Server (SMS).
[May 8, 2007, 16:49]
Half of UK firms lack handle on security breaches
News The concern is, if you don't have a concrete view of how many security incidents you've had, how can you make informed choices around budgets and prioritisation of resources? Just under half of UK companies do not know how many security breaches...
[October 15, 2009, 15:29]
O2 targets SMEs with business-broadband deal
News But what we've added to that is a prioritisation process where calls into our call centre from businesses are prioritised over others. Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service and extended the coverage of its home broadband...
[May 2, 2008, 8:39]
Intel wants to turn the heat down on multi-core chips
News Other areas of research involve specialisation, where small chips within a chip perform specific jobs such as encryption or compression, improving processing prioritisation. There's more than one way to build a multi-chip microprocessor, according...
[August 20, 2002, 12:44]
Bug out
Leader With none of the corporate resources for marshalling closed-room testing cycles and no possible issues of secrecy, open source developers have found that public forums provide invaluable information and context for prioritisation.
[March 28, 2006, 14:00]
AMD betting its life in Dresden -- Analysis
News At its opening he gave some indication of future plans, including the prioritisation of AMD's much-hyped foray into Gigahertz silicon. At the opening of its major European fabrication plant in Dresden this week, CPU developer AMD announced loudly...
[October 22, 1999, 9:23]
3Com: Four ports in every socket
News It includes 802.1p traffic management for prioritisation, for instance if the company has voice on IP. 3Com is bringing to the UK a network jack with a difference; it multiplies sockets by four. Future additions to the socket could include security...
[January 16, 2003, 11:49]
Merrill forecasts IT spending growth in 2002
News Re-prioritisation post 9/11 might crowd out some mainstream spending," Milunovich said. Corporate spending on technology is expected to inch ahead 3 percent in 2002, Merrill Lynch said, as companies refocus their priorities amid ever-tightening...
[January 2, 2002, 15:05]
Two separate arguments
Talkback My biggest concern is that those against net neutrality are deliberately conflating the two issues to try to dupe people into believing that you can't have prioritisation of certain types of traffic without allowing discrimination based on the...
[March 29, 2007, 11:33]
NISCC wins gong for its fight against cybercrime
News Cumming added: "There are so much data out there, organisations need some prioritisation process and SANS has given that. The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) got a pat on the back today.
[October 8, 2004, 14:10]
Enterprises 'left vulnerable' for 56 days this year
News Simon Perry, VP security strategy at CA, said time taken to release a patch is not an effective measure of security where risk analysis and the prioritisation of patches are weighed up by individual vendors.
[December 20, 2005, 15:05]
Berners-Lee: Keep the internet free
News Proponents of Net neutrality define the concept as prohibiting network operators, such as Verizon and Comcast, from being allowed to charge content companies like Google and Amazon.com extra fees for prioritisation.
[March 2, 2007, 8:12]
Prioritising patches will help keep bad guys at bay
News To assist in the prioritisation task, Eschelbeck pitched the CVSS, which was introduced earlier this year. System administrators may be dealing with security vulnerabilities more quickly, but the bad guys are still leading the race.
[November 15, 2005, 17:05]
No Longhorn beta this year - Microsoft
News We made a huge prioritisation step to say, even if we need to take things out of Longhorn or we need to push Longhorn back, or some mix of those two, we will do that to prioritise XP SP2.to provide additional help on the security front.
[April 2, 2004, 8:55]
Nortel: Businesses will become virtual
News The problem is how to maintain commitment to a nebulous concept and business prioritisation if the workforce is spread around the globe. Mobile technology is reaching a critical point where many businesses will be able to break away from the...
[April 12, 2006, 13:15]
Microsoft: The next quarter century Pt II
News It's working on Microsoft's wireless-access middleware, codenamed Airstream, producing Microsoft Research's email prioritisation software, called Priority, and developing wireless jackets for the Pocket PC platform and next-generation phones like...
[September 4, 2000, 14:28]
