new year
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment I think there is a little more complexity and detail to it now than people just saying, 'Let's just go and call in our favourite virtualisation vendor, buy a set of new blades, install them and we'll make a 16 to 1... [20 Nov 2009]
Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News Increasing numbers of businesses are moving their systems onto cloud computing platforms: analyst house Gartner says worldwide revenues from cloud services will pass $56.3bn this year and are on track to grow to $150bn... [19 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment Fast forward to the present and open source is indeed on the rise - most notably in the mobile industry, for example, where handset makers are falling over themselves to embrace new open source OSes such as Google's... [19 Nov 2009]
Photos: Apple's latest Big Apple store
Photo Here's a look inside Apple's latest Manhattan store in New York US. Apple's head of retail, Ron Johnson, introduced the new store to the press and talked about Apple's retail strategy. Apple says that... [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta released to the public
Among the features new to the beta is a social networking connector that allows users to bring in Windows Live and other social networking feeds into Outlook. LinkedIn is the first that will take advantage of it — early... [19 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: Cloud computing more expensive than we thought?
Comment I am very troubled by a new trend that is impacting IT departments across the country and around the world. Before they knew it they were spending more than £500,000 per year on user fees annually... [19 Nov 2009]
Clouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
News Azure, first announced at last year's PDC, will remain in community technology preview until the end of the year. The official release will see a number of new features introduced into... [18 Nov 2009]
Trojan bank fraud gang sentenced
News The Trojan then used the information to create new transactions that sent money from the victim's account through a web of middlemen, known as money mules, to other members of the international criminal network in... [17 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The delay to the Manchester rollout is the latest in a long line of setbacks for the £4.6bn scheme: in July this year the government dropped plans to force new airport workers at Manchester and London to... [16 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Facebook saves teen from prison
Comment I just chanced upon a news story about an innocent New York teenager who had armed robbery charges dropped by prosecutors thanks to evidence provided by his Facebook activities. The 19-year-old was... [16 Nov 2009]
Opportunities in Adversity: Responding to the Crisis
White Paper The economic news at the beginning of the New Year has made for grim reading. Headlines hype to attract attention and journalists simplify, but the collective media assessment of 2008 is clearly... [13 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.11.09
Round-Up While ikee doesn't put your personal data at risk, it could certainly damage your street cred: it replaces infected iPhones' default wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley - the pop star whose 'Never Gonna Give You Up' song is the... [13 Nov 2009]
McAfee Avert Labs Top 10 Threat Predictions for 2008
White Paper The past 12 months comprised a record-breaking year. McAfee recorded well over 100,000 new viruses and Trojans, a 50 percent jump in the total number of threats ever cataloged. Other areas saw... [12 Nov 2009]
New Standard Lays the Foundation for Coordinated, Multi-Vendor Security
White Paper Later this year, leading vendors will begin delivering products that support a new security standard that opens the door to powerful, multi-vendor defense-in-depth solutions. From Ethernet to HTML,... [12 Nov 2009]
Malware Trends and Report
White Paper A new statistical method was used to prepare this report; the 2006 figures used in this report were also recalculated using the new method. As a result, they may not match the figures given in last... [12 Nov 2009]