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RSS secure in newsAsus laptops get instant-on appeal
News With Express Gate, users will experience a new, fast and secure way to surf, chat and play on Asus notebooks for a new computing experience. Asus is to embed a lightweight, instant-on operating system into several of its new laptop models. [02 Jun 2008]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News The Trust is in talks with the National Lottery Fund and others to secure funding and Greenish is confident the funds can be raised. Historic Bletchley Park needs a financial helping hand to save several buildings used by World War II code breakers. [30 May 2008]
Cisco revamps mobility strategy
News The Adaptive Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (wIPS) operates at the physical layer of the network and, according to Bryan Pelham, Cisco's European business development manager, "provides capabilities to be able to secure beyond what [Cisco... [29 May 2008]
Publishers demand up to €49m from Google
News Google has already lost earlier rounds of a court dispute with Copiepresse, which has argued Google had violated copyright law by failing to secure permission before using headlines and snippets of Belgian French- and German-language newspaper... [28 May 2008]
Red Chilli aflame for hosted backup
News Red Chilli head of IT Simon Page told silicon.com: "This is a solid piece of software that gives us peace of mind that our data is secure. We store a lot of confidential financial information and safe, secure back up systems are critical to our... [23 May 2008]
Cloud computing: Ready to experiment with
News He said: "Issues like security and privacy still have to be addressed" but the cloud is "more secure than companies think". "Cloud computing" is now mature enough for CIOs to "experiment" with, according to Accenture's chief scientist. [23 May 2008]
Mobile industry advise on handset security
News They outline a series of tools and mechanisms designed to bolster security processes in areas such as secure data storage (for protecting sensitive data) and trusted execution environments (for sandboxing sensitive software). [22 May 2008]
BT business hubs to be wi-fi hotspots
News Hughes stressed that, as with the residential version, the business-based hotspot programme would see Openzone hotspots created alongside secure private networks, and claimed the security of the business version would be "equally strong" to that... [22 May 2008]
EDS customers advised to look for price cuts
News Companies that are happy with their EDS contracts should use their leverage to instead secure guarantees to maintain service levels or retain key staff. HP and EDS customers should look at renegotiating existing contracts to push for price... [21 May 2008]
Vista security under scrutiny, again
News In an attempt to reinforce its claim that Vista is less secure than Windows 2000, PC Tools released statistics this week, collected over the six months since last November, from customers using its ThreatFire security software. [21 May 2008]
Asus dives into instant Linux
News Splashtop is described by DeviceVM as a "secure web-surfing environment", and is embedded on motherboards so that it can be booted within seconds, as an alternative to booting up a full operating system. [19 May 2008]
Microsoft hits back at Vista security critics
News Software giant Microsoft has claimed user "complacency" is to blame for malware infections, and denied that its Vista operating system is less secure than Windows 2000. The claim that Vista is less secure than Windows 2000 was made last week by... [16 May 2008]
IT sector: Not so bad after all
News Sixty-nine per cent of the 956 survey respondents said their company's market position was "somewhat secure" or "very secure". The respondents who felt most secure in their jobs were all under 40 years old, while only 13 per cent of respondents... [15 May 2008]
Workers hit by password overload
News A surprising number, 20 per cent, even go as far as juggling a mind-boggling 20 or more passwords in an attempt to stay secure. Some silicon.com readers are juggling up to 20 different passwords in order to access their office applications... [06 May 2008]
Techies: 'We're worth more than last year'
News Almost two-thirds (65 per cent) of respondents said they are looking abroad for employment opportunities, and 87 per cent of those said this would be to secure a better quality job. UK IT workers are not letting economic woes get them down... [02 May 2008]
