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OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, claims researcher
News Robin Wilton, a corporate architect for federated identity at Sun, described OpenID's reliance on the integrity of the Domain Name System (DNS) as a "multi-factor problem" in light of the discovery of a fundamental flaw in DNS by security... [14 Aug 2008]
The rise and rise of Infor
Comment Robin Dargue Royal Mail Ask most industry people to name a success story and they might well mention Salesforce.com. Progress may not be a household name but it is a major supplier of database and other infrastructure software to the mid-market... [06 Aug 2008]
RIM warns on BlackBerry PDF flaw
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail If you can execute with the privileges of BES, it's significant what you could do on an email server or another domain name service. RIM is warning businesses to disable the function that allows a BlackBerry to read PDF... [17 Jul 2008]
DNS Based Load Balancing With Fault Tolerance
White Paper Many sites also use DNS (Domain Name System) based load balancing using round-robin DNS. Some of the sophisticated techniques are rather expensive, while round-robin DNS does not give the fault tolerance one would like to have. [10 Jul 2008]
Performance Analysis of "Content-Aware" Load Balancing Strategy FLEX: Two Case Studies
White Paper It compares the performance of FLEX against Round-Robin and Optimal strategy. FLEX significantly outperforms Round-Robin (up to 110- 250% in average server throughput), getting within 8%-30% of optimal performance achievable for those traces. [10 Jul 2008]
Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail Still, Twomey told Agence France Press that the organisation will still try to block or reject any domain name it deems inappropriate for security or moral reasons. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers... [27 Jun 2008]
Mars - The CIO training ground
Comment The Mars name also features heavily on the CVs of many of the CIOs on this year's silicon.com CIO50 list, including winner Robin Dargue, group CIO and technology director at the Royal Mail - though he joined not as a graduate but later in his... [11 Jun 2008]
BT VoIP plays doctors and nurses
News Hospital workers contact with each other by saying a name into the Vocera device. Doctors and nurses in the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are ditching the traditional phone and pager for a voice over IP system from BT. [23 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: Post-CIO Forum
Comment OK, so I knew where the gongs were going, having been a judge way back at the start of the summer, spanning the judges' day in July, right up to catching up with Sir Robin Saxby a week or two ago to film his acceptance speech for winning the... [28 Sep 2006]
Leader: Database wars
Leader Robin Noble, ICT manager for the Royal Borough of Kingston and a user of Microsoft's new BizTalk Server 2005, said of open source: "You can download it for free but to manage it and keep it 'fed and watered' costs a lot more. [07 Nov 2005]
Winners: Intego security suite for Mac competition
And the winners are: Alexander Kells and Robin Abrahams. The ZDNet UK Intego competition is now closed and we have selected two lucky winners who will each receive a suite of Mac security software comprising NetBarrier X3, VirusBarrier X... [14 Jan 2005]
5 years ago... One quarter of IT professionals admit being software pirates
News We all have a soft spot for Robin Hoods and there are bad laws. Proper discussions through user groups, trade associations and regulators - to name just a few channels - are the best way forward. 10.02.99 One in four IT professionals think it is... [10 Feb 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: ID theft, infrastructure modelling, new breed of consultants
Comment One of the reasons why it has been such a problem in the US is the traditional use of social security numbers as an identifier - a piece of information that, when linked to the name and address of the individual, makes it relatively easy for a... [10 Dec 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Ballmer on Linux, IBM's dinosaur and SQL's future
Comment T-Rex is IBM's tongue-in-cheek code name for its latest mainframe model, the z990. So the dinosaurs are truly back and now at last they have a dinosaur's name. The day concluded with Steve Ballmer, CEO of the Redmond headquartered giant, discussing... [19 May 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Trusting Trustworthy Computing and m-commerce made easy
Comment This is the type of parochialism that gave IBM a bad name twenty years ago. Bango itself holds the fingerprint tokens on its server, and these tokens don't reveal the user's name or phone number to the content provider, just the fact that you're... [12 May 2003]
