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Prisoners to gain IT skills
News The academy is a public/private partnership between HM Prison Service (HMPS) and construction company Bovis Lend Lease, networking giant Cisco and network cabling company Panduit. Wandsworth prison already offers various... [11 Jun 2008]
Admit to security breaches, companies told
News Over the past year ENISA has also compiled a study on a European Information Sharing and Alert System to inform the public and SMEs about online threats, vulnerabilities and attacks, as well as putting together a report on the risks of... [27 May 2008]
Cloud computing: Ready to experiment with
News Swaminathan added that companies should try to embrace external applications such as those on social-networking sites: "It's a stupid idea to block out mash-ups and... [23 May 2008]
Mothercare web sales boom
News During the same period, the retailer launched Gurgle.com, a social networking and information site for parents. Online sales at Mothercare rose by more than 78 per cent over the last financial year,... [22 May 2008]
Ignore social networks at your peril, retailers told
News Analyst house Gartner says social networking sites are starting to attract a broader spectrum of consumers with the rise of career-based networks such as LinkedIn and shopping-based sites. Retailers need... [02 May 2008]
Facebook top of Vodafone's mobile web
News The social networking craze is helping to drive mobile broadband, says Vodafone UK. The top two searches on the operator's mobile internet service - which launched last summer - are... [01 May 2008]
Harrods makes a tech-savvy exhibition of itself
News Harrods is looking at using other technology such as Bluetooth broadcasting, RSS and Twitter feeds, social networking and SMS alerts depending on the campaign and target audience. Harrods is using... [25 Apr 2008]
Cool tech gets down with the kids
News At Gartner's co-located mobile & wireless and enterprise & networking conferences in London, the analyst house pointed to Apple as an example of a business whose success can be attributed to how firmly it keeps its... [23 Apr 2008]
Mobile market ripe for femtocell loving
News This is due to three main factors: global growth in the number of mobile subscribers - predicted to hit 4.4 billion in three years' time; the proliferation of broadband - itself driven by the popularity of apps such as... [23 Apr 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London,... [23 Apr 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News If heeded, the proposal could put a crimp in social networks' plans to tailor online advertisements to teenagers' behaviours. But as with most social networks, adults are free game. It states teens... [10 Apr 2008]
Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable
News Free to the first 10,000 developers to sign up, this new web-hosting platform will share resources in the same way as Google Analytics, Google Earth and social-networking platform Orkut. Google is... [09 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News Social-networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report. The report states "66 per cent of phishing attacks in the US... [09 Apr 2008]
Social networks to stamp out sex offenders
News Registered child sex offenders could soon be legally obliged to supply local police with their email address to be passed on to social networking websites to stop them using the sites. The UK... [04 Apr 2008]
Yahoo! to 'revolutionise' mobile search with OneSearch
News And searching the name of a friend could provide links to the social-networking sites the friend uses. OneConnect mobile messaging and social-networking platform, which... [03 Apr 2008]
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