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Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes

News The police body tasked with fighting e-crime in the UK has revealed some of its cyber crimefighting successes - but e-crime still appears a low priority. The Serious Organised Crime Agency's (Soca) 2007 to 2008 report details work by the agency...

Tags: nhtcu, soca, cyber crime

[15 May 2008]

LiMo targets the business mobile

News The LiMo Foundation, a broad industry consortium of manufacturers, operators and software developers working to put Linux onto the mobile phone, is to launch a major enterprise push later this year. LiMo announced a raft of new members, the most...

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

Best Practices for Managing the Move to Vista

whitepaper To deploy Windows Vista in 2008, a significant amount of preparation work must be done. Deployments don't just happen overnight. It will take many organizations about 18 months from the time Windows Vista ships to test applications, get Independent...

Tags: windows vista

[15 May 2008]

Research Institute Streamlines IT Management With Flexible Deployment

whitepaper The Institute of Microbiology at ETH Zurich wanted a more flexible, streamlined deployment process for client software. It installed Windows Server 2008 to take advantage of Windows Deployment Services.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Developers Use New Testing Capabilities to Reduce Costs and Boost Productivity

whitepaper OpenNETCF Consulting is a highly respected firm known for supporting and developing mobile solutions and embedded applications. As a small organization, they wanted to boost the quality of their products without sacrificing flexibility or...

Tags: programming languages

[15 May 2008]

Oil Company Improves Branch Office Infrastructure With Server Virtualization

whitepaper Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) runs an oil pipeline system that extends between Kazakhstan and Russia's Black Sea coast. CPC is expanding rapidly and needs to upgrade its IT infrastructure to support business growth.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Service Provider Cuts Costs, Speeds Development, and Simplifies Remote Access

whitepaper TUV NORD Group provides inspection and certification services for numerous industries. With 8,000 employees spread across Germany and 70 other countries, the company sought a way to simplify remote access to IT resources.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Service Provider Speeds Access to Resources, Improves Security, and Reduces Costs

whitepaper With thousands of employees spread across Germany and 70 other countries, TUV NORD wanted to simplify remote access to IT resources. In 2007, the company deployed Windows Server 2008 to take advantage of new Terminal Services capabilities.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Announcing Symantec Backup Exec 12 - New Levels of Data Protection and Enhanced Best-in-Class Features!

whitepaper Symantec Backup Exec has been delivering leading Windows data protection for over two decades. The latest release of Symantec Backup Exec 12 builds on Symantec's engineering excellence, providing companies with optimized backup and recovery for...

Tags: back-up

[15 May 2008]

Postal Service Improves Application Protection, Remote Access With IT Solution

whitepaper The Post of Slovenia provides postal services to customers throughout Slovenia. The company manages a large group of post offices and regional centers. Because it wanted to make remote user applications more accessible and more secure, the...

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

IT Developer Speeds Time-to-Market Using Open XML Formats

whitepaper To stay competitive and open to innovations in the software development market, Programmer's opted to use Open XML Formats when developing its electronic invoicing application. The solution, now in a Release Candidate version, took seven months to...

Tags: programming languages

[15 May 2008]

IT-Hosting Services Company Enhances Offerings by Using New Operating System

whitepaper The Garant Park Internet Company (Parking.ru) offers a variety of IT services to business customers in Russia. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, Parking.ru has particular expertise in using Microsoft software to develop and host Web applications...

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8: Enhancing Your Disaster Recovery Capabilities

whitepaper Today's mission-critical environments must be quickly recoverable in the event of a system failure or disaster to avoid the revenue and employee productivity losses that too often result from downtime.

Tags: disaster recovery

[15 May 2008]

Software Developer Increases Document Creation Speed With Open XML

whitepaper The majority of today's audiences don't take the time to read generic documents or e-mail messages. People expect to receive information that is targeted to their specific needs, but creating those customized documents can be time-consuming.

Tags: xml

[15 May 2008]

University Optimizes Security for Campuswide Network, Increases IT Efficiency

whitepaper La Trobe University, a leading higher education institution in Australia, had to automate network access controls for all clients connecting to the campuswide network. With more than 28,000 students and 2,600 staff, this was no small task.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Doctors Boost Patient Load and Still Get Home for Dinner With Microsoft-Based System

whitepaper The Michigan Knee and Shoulder Institute, of Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a leading sports-medicine practice in the region, staffed by two board-certified orthopedic surgeons. Before adopting a first generation Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system...

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

RIM reveals BlacBerry roadmap

News The days of the BlackBerry as purely a big business enterprise device are numbered as RIM targets its smart phones at all sizes of business - from the biggest fish to the tiniest tiddlers running a business from a single home PC.

Tags: rim, touchscreen, blackberry

[14 May 2008]

Video: Does the UK need a police e-crime unit?

Video Speaking at the Infosec 2008 security show in London, security experts gave silicon.com their thoughts on whether the UK needs a central police e-crime unit and how the country could benefit.silicon.com's e-crime Crackdown campaign has been...

Tags: expert, industry, infosec, security

[14 May 2008]

RIM quiet on touchscreen BlackBerry rumours

News The new BlackBerry Bold may have been touted as an 'iPhone killer' despite its use of the familiar Qwerty keyboard but manufacturer RIM is refusing to be drawn on rumours that a touchscreen BlackBerry is in the offing.

Tags: iphone, rim, blackberry

[14 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: A petabyte before I die...

Comment Written in a coffee shop in Ipswich UK and dispatched via a company wi-fi service. Today I was in a well-known electronics store buying an audio connector for £1.46 when I was offered a mouse for 23p.

Tags: storage, innovation, technology costs

[14 May 2008]

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