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Probe into loss of 21,000 hospital patient details
News The manager has been suspended following the theft on 18 June and trust CEO Peter Murphy admitted the laptop should have been encrypted. A hospital trust has lost an unencrypted laptop containing details of thousands of... [30 Jun 2008]
OOXML - Microsoft admits to standards naivety
News Microsoft has admitted that, despite being one of the dominant names in IT for more than 30 years, it had little or no experience of software standards until the company was mid-way through the process of getting Office... [24 Jun 2008]
Red Hat CEO: We're "tough to do business with"
News Red Hat's new chief executive Jim Whitehurst has admitted his company needs to improve its approach to its customers and partners. Speaking on the first day of the Linux specialist's annual user conference in Boston,... [20 Jun 2008]
'Connected' UK vulnerable in face of cyber attack
News He admitted past failings in the public sector security due to delays in issuing patches in time but said that the government is committed to continuing to improve response times. Security minister Lord West told the... [16 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News More than half (58 per cent) admitted to copying music from friends' hard drives, while 95 per cent have copied music in some way. Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the... [16 Jun 2008]
Nasa hacker fights extradition
News Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into Nasa systems, is due to fight his extradition to the US in the House of Lords on Monday. McKinnon has admitted hacking Nasa systems but claims he... [13 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: The 3G iPhone has landed
Comment As Jobs himself admitted, 56 per cent of potential purchasers were put off the iPhone by the price. But even though the launches turned out to be short on shocks, there's still plenty to chew over, says Seb Janacek. [13 Jun 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News Jaaksi admitted that concepts like these "go against the open-source philosophy", but said they were necessary components of the current mobile industry. Open-source developers targeting the mobile space need to learn... [12 Jun 2008]
EC pledges open standards support
News Microsoft has admitted to encouraging partners to join national voting bodies to push through OOXML. The European Commission has pledged to support open standards and promote interoperability, to avoid vendor lock-in of... [12 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Migrant techies and BBC web budget busters…
Comment So we started by bemoaning the lack of graduates, then went to preferentially importing immigrants with the right skills, then with extreme reluctance admitted that women might be able to do the job, completely ignored... [05 Jun 2008]
UK plc 'needs more skilled migrants'
News Indian nationals are the largest group of highly skilled migrant workers in the UK, with almost a quarter of skilled migrants admitted to the UK under the previous work permit regime being ICT professionals. [02 Jun 2008]
Dell's smiling after quarter profits
News Dell admitted publicly at D6 this week that his company had indeed missed a few very big trends, including retail and a focus on consumer products. The PC maker reported its first-quarter profits yesterday, with revenue... [30 May 2008]
Cisco revamps mobility strategy
News Acknowledging that the word "seamless" has been somewhat overused by communications vendors, Pelham admitted that flawless handing-off between networks and connectivity types was a "tough problem to solve". [29 May 2008]
Mobile fans won't hang up on old handsets
News Of these, 15 per cent said they've had their mobile for two to three years, 14 per cent three to five years and 13 per cent five to 10 years - and one per cent even admitted to having had the same phone for more than 10... [23 May 2008]
SAP promises to listen to customers
News Steve Rogers, UK MD of SAP admitted the company has fallen short in terms of listening to its customers in recent years but said there is now an opportunity to get closer to users and encourage greater collaboration... [23 May 2008]
