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Photos: The tech that holds up the net
Photo Packet switching is essentially the routing of parcels of data between nodes using data links shared with other data. This was one of the first modern computers in the world and the first in London. The invention of packet switching also meant NPL... [06 Aug 2008]
Cisco looks to the future with investment plans
News This means the company will invest in new markets that are adjacent to existing product lines in all its major customer segments from the home network to the data centre, from small and medium businesses to the enterprise, and from its commercial... [06 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New niche for 3G?
Comment Written poolside at my hotel in Rome and dispatched via a 3G HSDPA data service. It also represents the first useable - for me, anyway - 3G service I could justify, sign up for and employ profitably. Wireless from A to Z [05 Aug 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo Disposing of computer hard drives in a secure and safe way has become a hot topic, especially after the high profile data leaks in the past year. This shows a doctor using the Prestel system, which was a data service for medical professionals that... [01 Aug 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment Pavitt presented the plan last September to the TfL board to provide the most state-of-the-art, cutting edge technology in a single two-year programme covering desktop, applications, networks, data centres, hosting, data management, projects and... [29 Jul 2008]
Internet blacklisting tool unveiled
News DShield is a community-based system that collaborates firewall logs from contributors in order to analyse attack trends, and is used as the data-collection system behind the Sans Institute's Internet Storm Center. [28 Jul 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Secure remote access closes in
Comment In today's highly regulated environment, large fines are being imposed on organisations that lose personal data. One of the main problems with first-generation IPsec deployments was that they traditionally required a software agent to be installed... [25 Jul 2008]
Generation Y setting tech agenda
News The research is part of Forrester's 2008 North America Technographics Benchmark survey which gathered data from around 61,000 consumers in the US and Canada. Golvin said the key distinction between Generation X and Y is that Generation X uses... [25 Jul 2008]
Tesco.com vans cut fuel bills with telematics tech
News With this data the retailer has been able to alter driver behaviour through an advanced driver training programme, called Excellent Delivery, currently being rolled out across the Tesco store estate. He said: "This is the first time we had seen a... [25 Jul 2008]
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 records
News The MoJ didn't notify more than 30,000 of the 45,016 affected by the data breaches, first when MoJ supplier records were compromised in June 2007 and then when the names, addresses, birth dates and alleged offences relating to 3,648 people were... [25 Jul 2008]
Flight booking checks into mobiles
News Mobile is the PC of the future, improved speed and falling costs for downloading data makes searching and booking flights a viable, quick and convenient option, breaking the tie with the office or home PC. [23 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment The outcry about the amount of data held on individuals is entirely understandable, says the Naked CIO. On top of that we've had the drive towards national data consolidation in the public and private sectors. [21 Jul 2008]
Indian outsource giants feeling the pinch
News More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract Cloud computing - the data centre of the future? The country's big three outsourcers Infosys, Tata Consultancy... [18 Jul 2008]
Multimedia Polska SA (Poland) Choose Allied Telesis for Triple Play
White Paper Multimedia is one of the most innovative Polish Service Providers, and is among the first to introduce IP based Triple Play (Data, Voice and Video), Video on Demand (VoD), and High Definition TV (HDTV). [18 Jul 2008]
Quality of Service and MPLS Methodologies
White Paper In a best-effort data delivery network, increasing bandwidth is a necessary first step to help with these delay-sensitive and real-time applications. Routers that forward Internet traffic on a first-in-first-out basis (called best-effort (BE... [18 Jul 2008]
