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E-Data InfoSec: Gartner Says Spyware-Related Thefts Resulted in $2.4 Billion in Direct Fraud Losses
White Papers Illegal access to checking accounts is the fastest-growing type of U.S.financial consumer fraud, and thieves appear to be proliferating through online channels, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. Based on a survey of 5,000 online U.S.adults in...
[December 16, 2004, 2:00]
Lifetime of KODAK Writable CD and Photo CD Media
White Papers The extremely low cost per megabyte, small size, and convenient handling of CD-ROM and CD Recordable (CD-R) discs has resulted in the explosive growth of their use as a data storage and distribution medium.
[May 7, 2004, 0:00]
Mainframe Application Support
White Papers A merger with a large retail bank further resulted in a comprehensive IT Systems consolidation effort. This resulted in the bank having to embark on a number of IT initiatives while ensuring that the current business operations were not impacted.
[March 4, 2009, 0:25]
Microsoft Windows Vista Migration: Addressing the Issues of Operating System Upgrades and Migration
White Papers Windows Vista (originally codenamed Longhorn) has been one of the greatest software challenges in history and has resulted in a completely re-written operating environment that has over 50 million lines of code.
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Petrol for sale at Internet auction site
News Britain's worsening petrol crisis resulted in petrol being auctioned to the highest bidder on an Internet auction site Wednesday. Blockades at refineries in the UK -- in protest of international oil prices -- have caused a nation-wide petrol...
[September 13, 2000, 14:27]
Thousands under scrutiny as piracy ring shut down
News One of the largest Internet piracy rings in the world has been shut down in a police operation that resulted in the arrest of 181 people. The sting also resulted in the recovery of around 118m (about £84m) euros worth of pirated software -- one of...
[June 16, 2003, 14:45]
EDS threatened with legal action over £51m tax fiasco
News The Inland Revenue is threatening to drag EDS through the courts unless compensation is agreed for overpayments that resulted from problems with the new tax credit IT system. A software error on the EDS-designed tax credits IT system resulted in...
[June 22, 2005, 9:35]
Survey: Security measures pay off
News Companies working to harden their security have found that the efforts have resulted in fewer incidents of unauthorised computer use and a decline in damages from security incidents, a computer security group said in a report released on Thursday.
[June 11, 2004, 12:35]
The Privacy Gap: Managing Website Privacy
White Papers However, this real-time connectivity has resulted in significant threats to individual privacy. Powerful data collection techniques, users’ inability to know what is being collected or how to stop it, combined with media exposure of perceived ‘bad...
[January 18, 2004, 23:29]
Barclays Global Investors Enhances End User Productivity Using the Windows 2000 Active Directory Service
White Papers Prior to the Windows 2000 initiative, Barclays Global Investors's (BGI's) highly decentralized IT infrastructure, consisting of seven data centers with a mixed infrastructure composed of Microsoft Windows- and UNIX-based servers, resulted in...
[May 16, 2004, 1:03]
EarthLink flaw exposes domains
News The first of two flaws resulted from a common error. The vulnerability resulted from a recently discovered flaw in an open-source e-commerce package combined with a misconfigured hosting server operated by EarthLink subsidiary MindSpring.
[October 18, 2000, 7:46]
Xacutti Orders Up Faster Food Service With Palm Handhelds
White Papers This use of Palm resulted in instant and efficient service for customers and adoption of a user-friendly, portable technology for its staff. This also resulted in faster delivering orders to the kitchen/bar and provided on the spot access to menu...
[April 22, 2004, 0:05]
Stephen Fischer, M.D., Mends Productivity With HP Tablet PC
White Papers It resulted in improved quality of care due to current information at their fingertips and resulted in positive impression about quality of medical care and knowledge of medical staff. With 13,000 patients and a thriving medical practice in one of...
[May 14, 2009, 1:19]
CSA IT 'a turkey from day one'
News IT problems have resulted in a backlog of 239,000 cases, with an additional 36,000 new cases stuck in the system. From the outset, its complex administration procedures and inadequate IT system resulted in poor performance and enormous backlogs of...
[July 5, 2007, 15:15]
Swansea ends 18-month IT nightmare
News That resulted in the threat of further strike action after Unison accused Swansea Council of reneging on an agreement to give staff the option of permanent transfer or secondment to Capgemini. Swansea IT staff lost their fight after the council...
[January 5, 2006, 8:35]
Microsoft admits targeting Wine users
Talkback Furthermore, everyone of them has had instances where MS updates have resulted in downtime because a required security patch "broke" a critical application that they could not find a UNIX-based version of.
[February 26, 2005, 19:33]
Nokia's Ovi Store launch marred by server issues
News The Ovi team subsequently blogged that Nokia's servers had experienced "extraordinarily high spikes of traffic that resulted in some performance issues for users accessing store.ovi.com and store.ovi.mobi".
[May 26, 2009, 16:42]
13-year-old put on register for Internet paedophilia
News A dawn raid in March dubbed Operation Appal resulted in the immediate arrest of the teenager, after 326 indecent images were found on the hard drive of his PC. A three-month investigation resulted in a series of raids across the country, at 7am...
[May 15, 2001, 17:07]
Vignettes from Interop
Blog While he admitted that the recession has resulted in a smaller show, there's a lot of energy and innovation, he said. What was also notable was that Cisco decided to display only a cursory presence, which resulted in other big players -- you know...
[May 26, 2009, 14:00]
Forget Bagle, the real threat is home users
News This move by virus writers has resulted in corporate IT systems becoming increasingly dependent on home users keeping their computers patched and virus-free. Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant for Sophos, said that the increasing use of...
[January 23, 2004, 15:20]
