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RSS global and endedYour perimeters are "porous", companies told
News The debate ended with a vote from the audience of security professionals, who overwhelmingly agreed that responsible security architecture should be based on deperimeterisation. Paul Simmonds, global information security director for ICI, said: "As... [28 Apr 2006]
Photos: Inside Big Blue's new RFID centre
Photo When they enter or leave the building - walking under a portal like this one - or when laptops are moved around the campus, IBM can check exactly where its equipment has ended up. According to IBM, one global petroleum company is already using this... [22 Mar 2006]
Reed turns to Sirocom in €17m virtual network deal
News Whetstone added: "Before [with Vanco] our traffic still ended up going through BT about 95 per cent of the time but now it's truly multi-vendor. Sirocom, which stresses it is making voice over IP a reality for Reed as well as the use of Citrix thin... [22 Feb 2006]
Dell loses $700m PC services deal with Philips
News Electronics company Philips has ended a global PC services deal with Dell, worth up to $700m, just over a year into the contract. The five-year contract with Dell was signed in December 2004 and covered managed desktop services and hardware support... [21 Feb 2006]
Proof: Employees don't care about security
News Just last year Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui in the City fell victim to a spyware infection which almost ended with the theft of £220m. Among those who were duped were employees of a major retail bank and two global insurers. [16 Feb 2006]
Kama Sutra worm: How was it for you?
News The Kama Sutra worm's anticipated bombshell ended up fizzling out but experts are still divided on whether the brouhaha over the threat was justified. Some were throwing out crazy numbers and talking about this as if it was going to be a global... [06 Feb 2006]
Minority Report: Will Apple send in the clones?
Comment With a royalty of just $50 per computer sold, Apple felt it had ended up subsidising the clone manufacturers. When the programme finally ended, Jobs claimed the subsidy on each clone was in fact costing Apple several hundred dollars per machine. [04 Nov 2005]
Novell announces European layoffs
In its quarter ended on 30 April, Novell's revenue declined to $294m from $297m the year earlier. Novell plans to report financial results for its third fiscal quarter, which ended 31 July, on 25 August. [03 Aug 2005]
Big Blue sees big bounce
News The company said its diluted earnings per share were $1.12 for the quarter ended 30 June, an 11 per cent increase compared with the same period last year. At the same time, the company moved some of the operations from its Global Services division... [19 Jul 2005]
Accenture rides offshoring wave
The company made the announcement as it stated that its net revenue for its fiscal third quarter that ended on 31 May was $4.08bn (£2.30bn), the highest in the company's history. We have recently made an important decision in our offshore strategy... [13 Jul 2005]
Red Hat revenue climbs again
Revenue for the quarter, which ended on 31 May, was $60.8m (£33.9m), representing record sales for the company. Red Hat chief executive and chairman Matthew Szulik called the financial performance the company's best to date and promised continued... [01 Jul 2005]
Red Hat boosts revenue by 46 per cent
News Revenue for the quarter, which ended 31 May, was $60.8m, representing record sales for the company. Red Hat chief executive and chairman Matthew Szulik called the financial performance the company's best to date and promised continued growth based... [01 Jul 2005]
Tesco IT boss earns £1.8m payout
News Philip Clarke, international operations and IT director at Tesco, earned £1.79m for the financial year ended 31 March 2005, made up of a base salary of £588,000 and various short and long-term cash and share bonus reward schemes. [18 May 2005]
CSC nets $52m US defence biometrics deal
News Defence and Homeland Security contracts were one of the key factors behind CSC's revenue growth for the quarter ended 1 October 2004, which increased nine per cent to $3.93bn over the same quarter last year. [10 Nov 2004]
AOL to continue layoffs
AOL saw its US subscriber rate fall to 23.4 million in the quarter that ended on 30 June, compared with 25.3 million a year ago. Soon after the layoffs, AOL began advertising a job opening for a global program manager to coordinate the outsourcing... [03 Nov 2004]
