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Cloud computing: Silver lining…
Comment Others are services to the IT department such as email spam-filtering, for example. Cloud is a much more marketable term that implies some kind of meaning unlike, for example, web 2.0. Since so many people are talking about cloud computing, it... [09 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment The choice can seem mind-boggling if you take all these vendors and review them alongside other content security specialists such as ScanSafe, which specialises in managed services for web security; Bloxx with appliances for web security; and anti... [02 May 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment According to a recent report on silicon.com, the iPhone effect is filtering through the rest of the handset market as other manufacturers add new features to remain competitive with the touchscreen device. [23 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth
Comment And while it is easy to see how we might automate the truth filtering of established factually based data, it is not clear how we might go a lot further without cognitive computation complete with contextual awareness. [31 Mar 2008]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment Spam filtering uses a range of techniques to root out spam. But as the threat has evolved, so have the filtering techniques that help ensure spam never reaches the user, as Anthony Plewes reports. Like much of the security industry, success in... [10 Dec 2007]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Google has also created a filtering service to prevent copyrighted material being uploaded. Acquisitions has been the big theme, with the $1.65bn deal to buy video-sharing website YouTube, a proposed $3.1bn purchase of web advertising supplier... [12 Oct 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The web at work
Comment For filtering both email and web content, IT departments are increasingly turning to managed services. Consequently 2006 has been a good year for the providers of managed filtering services and in many cases web and email filtering services have... [18 Dec 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Vendor battleground - filtering
Comment Content filtering now goes way beyond spam email, encompassing outbound email, IM, web access and back-up. Web access filtering differs from email filtering in that it has to be very responsive. CipherTrust, originally a provider of email filtering... [02 Mar 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A single source for net protection
Comment Used to be businesses had to go to two sources to get solutions for email and web filtering. All these services can also be purchased from vendors such as Blue Coat who build specialist appliances for filtering HTTP traffic and include access to a... [06 Oct 2005]
Leader: Are cyber-loafers' bosses to blame?
Leader In the words of David Guyatt, CEO of filtering specialist Clearswift: "There will always be people who want to take advantage of the goodwill of a company and abuse resources available to them. Aren't staff just likely to be wasting time on email... [12 Jul 2004]
Leader: Police must do more to stop phishing
Leader Earlier this month, email filtering company Brightmail said more than three billion of this sort of email have been sent out. Yes, individuals should take responsibility for their actions and not give out sensitive information on the web willy-nilly. [28 May 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Do surfers really love to hate?
Comment While this may always have been the case internet filtering firm SurfControl has recognised a growth in the number of hate sites aimed at specific races, religions and minorities within society. The internet has always provided a platform for... [12 May 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.02.04
Round-Up And while we're still on the subject of breasts - or boobies to give them their proper name - search giant Google is mightily peeved about an 'adult' search site called www.booble.com which borrows heavily from Google's branding while changing the... [06 Feb 2004]
The Devil's Advocate: Buried by junk
Comment There is software that will make a reasonable stab at filtering out junk, although since it does not work perfectly, you may still have to look through the stuff it has weeded out. Commercial factors have already severely narrowed what is practical... [10 Jun 2003]
Spam: Enough is enough
Comment Spelling it out clearly, Salem said: "If ISPs don't provide spam filtering their customers will leave. UK ISP BTopenworld has this week signed up for Brightmail's anti-spam software, following the likes of AT&T and Earthlink in the US as well... [24 Oct 2002]
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