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RSS physical in newsDownloads sound the end of cassettes
News Analyst Berg Insight predicts music sold on digital formats will outsell physical by 2011. Following the demise of the floppy disk, it looks like analogue tape is about to meet a similar fate: Currys has announced it will no longer be stocking... [08 May 2007]
Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation
News Reducing the number of physical servers is also saving on management and facility costs for Ben Booth, global CTO at polling and market research group Ipsos. Virtualisation will be a key infrastructure priority for CIOs looking to reduce costs and... [04 May 2007]
Microsoft puts brakes on Viridian
News Among them: compatibility with IVT and AMD-V virtualisation technology built into newer Intel and AMD processors, respectively; support for Windows Vista; and the Volume Shadow Service, which enables administrators to back up a group of virtual... [13 Apr 2007]
Virtualisation race could risk security
News It warned that simply applying the technologies and best practices for securing physical servers won't provide sufficient protections for virtual machines. As a result, Gartner predicts 60 per cent of virtual machines used in production... [04 Apr 2007]
Halifax mortgage data stolen
News He said: "When people set up a security policy there are many steps to it and one of them will be the physical aspect in terms of what form you carry data in. UK high street bank Halifax has admitted stolen documents from one of its employees... [27 Mar 2007]
Symbian email gets pushy
News Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK, Symbian product manager, Ian Hutton, explained that the use of demand paging - loading a part of the disk's library into physical memory only when it is needed, rather than preloading it - would make... [26 Mar 2007]
High-tech security beats thieves for logistics firm
News Myron Hrycyk, UK CIO at Northampton-based NYK Logistics, said the worlds of physical security and IT are increasingly crossing over as the technology becomes more sophisticated. High-tech security measures such as number plate recognition are being... [21 Mar 2007]
Slower growth for server shipments: IDC
News EMC subsidiary VMware leads the market for x86 server virtualisation, which lets a single physical machine house multiple operating systems in compartments called virtual machines. In 2010, 1.7 million physical servers will be shipped to run... [21 Mar 2007]
Why DDos attack didn't bring down the net
News The 13 root servers are spread out across the globe and are represented by physical servers in more than 100 places geographically. An attack in early February on key parts of the backbone of the internet had little effect thanks to new protection... [12 Mar 2007]
McAfee moves to arrest corporate data loss
News McAfee Data Loss Prevention Host, or DLP Host, is a hardware and software package designed to help companies lessen the chances of their physical and electronic data being lost or stolen. The protection measures in DLP Host additionally extend... [06 Feb 2007]
Steve Jobs and Beatles make trademark peace
News Additionally, it replaces a pre-existing agreement, signed in 1991, which forbade Apple Inc from distributing music through physical media such as CDs and cassette tapes - an agreement that, needless to say, predated the advent of the digital... [05 Feb 2007]
HMV must refocus in face of digital world - analyst
News It is forecast to be worth 42 per cent of the total market by 2011 and to overtake the physical music market in value by 2013, according to Portio Research. HMV needs to put more emphasis on DVDs, games, ringtones and other new media if it is to... [11 Jan 2007]
HP spying scandal: Civil settlement reached?
News The company also employed physical surveillance and sent a bogus tip with an electronic tracer to a reporter. The California attorney general's office is expected to announce it has settled civil complaints with HP over the company's spying tactics. [07 Dec 2006]
Wi-fi signals hate it when we...
News It's not just the physical interference of added 'clutter' in the office but also an increase in reflective surfaces that can make the signal even less effective, according to wi-fi optimisation and troubleshooting experts AirMagnet. [06 Dec 2006]
Talking CCTV shames litter louts
News Middlesbrough Council's physical security manager, Jack Bonnar, explained that the speakers can warn people that there is a problem with something they are doing - and that "there's a camera there and we are watching". [28 Nov 2006]
