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RSS operation in newsBotnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts
News The botnet problem is getting worse, with no obvious solution in sight, according to Joe Telafici, VP of Avert Operation at McAfee. President of the Internet Security Advisors Group, Ira Winkler, said: "The statistics are basically that we're screwed. [10 Apr 2008]
UK a hotbed for cyber crime
News IC3 is a joint operation between the FBI and the US' National White Collar Crime Center that takes international complaints about cyber crime, mainly originating from the US. The cost of global e-crime surged to a record $240m last year, with the... [08 Apr 2008]
Intel registers second-gen Classmate
News This can be four- or six-cell, giving three or five hours' operation. Intel has launched its second-generation Classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. The new laptop shares its basic hardware design with the first generation... [04 Apr 2008]
Sepa fraud risk warning for businesses
News The Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) directive came into operation at the beginning of the year and Faster Payments protocols are due to go live in May. As Europe starts to adopt pan-continental payments systems, UK payments takers are ill-equipped... [03 Apr 2008]
BA CEO: Heathrow T5 chaos 'not our finest hour'
News The problems at Heathrow's new £4.3bn Terminal 5 (T5) have continued into a second day following the chaos caused by baggage system problems on the first day of operation yesterday. British Airways (BA) confirmed 80 per cent of scheduled flights... [28 Mar 2008]
Thin clients the route to skinny emissions?
News According to Dr Hartmut Pflaum of the Fraunhofer Institute: "Energy consumption, when in operation, was up to 50 per cent lower than for conventional PCs. The use of thin clients can play a substantial part in reducing European businesses' CO2... [28 Mar 2008]
Heathrow Terminal 5 suffers first day baggage chaos
News BA added there were a "few minor problems" with the first day of operation at T5 including "baggage performance issues". On opening day of Heathrow's £4.3bn Terminal 5 (T5), passengers have been hit by delays and flight cancellations as a result of... [27 Mar 2008]
Mothercare buggy about new financials software
News It is expected these changes will create benefits of £8m after the second year of operation following the acquisition. Children's clothing and equipment retailer Mothercare has signed a contract with Coda to provide financials software and services. [27 Mar 2008]
Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts
News Compass warns that even though outsourcing providers might offer discounts of 18 per cent below the in-house operation on day one of a deal they will often recoup the discount over the term of the contract. [11 Mar 2008]
Satellite comms to bridge digital divide?
News We need to form a global coalition to put together our resources and efforts within a framework of international co-operation and collaboration to bridge the digital divide. The UN agency for information and communications issues is looking to the... [28 Feb 2008]
William Hill profits hit by online problems
News NextGen will be replaced by off-the-shelf systems supplied by Orbis, which is hoped will be in operation by the end of November. Technical difficulties with a new online platform wiped £10.6m from the operating profit of high street betting chain... [27 Feb 2008]
Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID
News Stephen Challis, head of product development at BAA Heathrow, said: "In effect the bag is travelling with its own passport… improving the certainty around the operation and reducing the manual intervention that's required, which we believe will... [13 Feb 2008]
Location-based services set to boom
News CSR has developed a system that augments GPS to improve the availability of location data by using the cellular timing measurements phones take during normal operation. Is 2008 the year mobile location-based services take off? [11 Feb 2008]
Finance giant breathes new life into outsourcing contract
News Diligenta has been working with SLF UK since October 2007 as its preferred supplier and will continue to run the operation from SLF UK's head office in Basingstoke. Sun Life Financial of Canada (SLF) has signed a £100m contract for Diligenta to... [31 Jan 2008]
Five mobile trends to watch in 2008
News He said: "I think that's one of the things we'll see more of: attempts to squeeze costs out of the operation and move closer to an efficient utility - like water or gas - which can make lots of money obviously you do that by doing larges volumes... [09 Jan 2008]
