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Does open source pose a security risk?
News As a result, government and commercial organisations should approach open-source applications with "great caution", carrying out risk analysis and code review before it is used, Fortify said. The report said: "Open-source development can benefit... [22 Jul 2008]
Number of free ATMs to increase by a third
News A government initiative that has rolled out 419 non-charging cash machines to low income areas is set to increase deployment by a third by the end of the year. The initiative run by HM Treasury and the ATM Working Group was set up 18 months ago to... [18 Jul 2008]
London City Hall Gets High-Tech Makeover From Foundry and Mitel
White Paper City Hall needed High availability to keep government services functioning. The opening of the Greater London Authority's headquarters, City Hall, in 2002 symbolized a new era for Great Britain's capital. [18 Jul 2008]
Finding an Effective Sustainable Model for a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network: Analyzing the Case of Pittsburgh
White Paper City leaders must often balance competing goals, including the desire to maximize the area in which wireless services will be available, to maximize competition among providers, to minimize subsidies from government agencies and non-profit... [18 Jul 2008]
Bulletproof Security Without Compromising Functionality
White Paper For over 50 years PinkRoccade has provided ICT (Information & Communication Technology) services in information intensive sectors, such as finance, government, health care and manufacturing. PinkRoccade currently employs over 9,000 employees. [18 Jul 2008]
Privacy watchdog to get power to raid
News The UK's privacy watchdog could get new powers to raid organisations under government proposals to "sharpen its teeth". The government launched its consultation on the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) powers and funding following the Data... [17 Jul 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The government has announced plans to make Whitehall's computer systems wholly carbon neutral by 2020 by adopting various green IT strategies, including automatically powering down PCs, configuring virtual servers and selective deployments of thin... [17 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News Tom Phillips, chief government and regulatory affairs officer at the GSMA, said in a statement: "According to our analysis, the average price of SMS roaming services in the EU has declined by 18 per cent in the last year, as operators launch new... [16 Jul 2008]
EC to outline slash in roaming rate
News Reding gave operators a retail target of 12 cents per text but a study for the Danish government recommended 4.2 cents. This sector is five times the size of roamed services. The cost of sending a text message when mobile-phone users are outside... [15 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Enemies of the state
Comment The UK is rapidly becoming a third-world technology community, a decline that the government through its policies and ignorance is supporting. That perception may be inevitable because some of the things government is responsible for are necessary... [14 Jul 2008]
Gov't to ramp up IT outsourcing?
News A government pledge to outsource more IT contracts ignores a history of blown budgets and missed deadlines, unions claim. A spokesman for the PCS told silicon.com: "Our concerns about the private sector's ability to run government IT contracts... [11 Jul 2008]
Borland Software Case Study: Cybersoft Information Technologies
White Paper Cybersoft is the leading software house in Turkey, specializing in enterprise-scale information system development projects for e-government and financial services. The company wanted to increase the quality of services presented to taxpayers and... [11 Jul 2008]
Rapid Response Monitoring Services, Inc. Ensures Security and Business Commitments With Managed BorderGuard High Security VPN Services
White Paper RRMS is a nationwide leader in wholesale security alarm monitoring services that security companies in turn resell to residential, corporate, and government customers. With the threat of attack from hackers becoming more tangible each day, RRMS... [11 Jul 2008]
Network Intrusion Detection & Active-Response System
White Paper A particularly notorious attack is the Denial of Service (DoS) attack on data communication networks, which has the potential of crippling government networks and posing great threats to national safety and security, or business networks causing... [10 Jul 2008]
Preserving End-to-End Quality of Service for IP VPNs Over MPLS Satellite Networks
White Paper Federal Agencies in particular look to outsourced MPLS as a way to respond to requirements that government operations, including private networks, be opened to competition from private firms. Enterprise users increasingly look to MPLS providers for... [10 Jul 2008]
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