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Google Android goes to Market with app store
News For example, the file system "is write-locked so nobody can get access to it", and one application can't get access to another's data. Google officially opened its Android Market Wednesday and promised... [23 Oct 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News The vulnerabilities in indexing validation and array, record parsing, and credential caching could allow an attacker to compromise a system if the user opens a malicious Excel file. The arbitrary... [13 Aug 2008]
Apple releases patch for critical flaw
News Apple's update also fixes a QuickLook bug where loading a malicious Microsoft Office file could lead to "arbitrary code execution". Apple released a security update yesterday to users of its Tiger and Leopard operating... [01 Aug 2008]
Microsoft goes mobile with Live Mesh
News If using a Windows Mobile device, or any other phone that supports file system access, users can upload files over the web to Live Mesh storage. Missing is an installable client, which is on the horizon... [22 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News The binary files produced by Protocol Buffers are three to 10 times smaller than a comparable XML file, Google said. Various other methods exist for passing encoded data over networks but Google found none of them suited... [11 Jul 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News Each file is protected by a low-level seven-digit alphanumeric password. The NAO begins its first discrete external audit of the Child Benefit Computer System (CBCS). The loss of 25 million records from... [26 Jun 2008]
Taxman gets record number of online returns
News Employers with 50 or more employees must file their 2007-08 return online. HMRC said almost 60 million P14s were received, and 70 per cent of these have already been posted successfully to National Insurance Recording... [02 Jun 2008]
Building society streamlines system support
News The system, called Aegis and supplied by Attachmate subsidiary NetIQ, automates a number of time and labour-intensive tasks such as server reboots, event response, server maintenance and file... [27 May 2008]
Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft
News That feature was in Office 2004 but was pulled in the current version as Microsoft worked to add support for Intel processors and new file formats. For those still using the last release of Office, Lefebvre said that,... [13 May 2008]
Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades
News She added: "You would end up in a mixed file state in Windows, where most files would be the upgraded XP SP3, except for the IE6 files restored when uninstalling IE7. Windows XP users who install the operating... [12 May 2008]
'CopNav' to track Met's police officers
News In news reports the Metropolitan Police Federation - the body representing the rank and file officers in the force - has raised concerns about the privacy implications of the scheme. Every police officer in London is to... [11 Apr 2008]
Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable
News In a bid to make web development easier and more scalable, the company says the Google App Engine allows access to the power of the company's own Bigtable compressed database and the Google File System. [09 Apr 2008]
Gov't IT spending to face scrutiny
News Hundreds of thousands of people were given an extra 24 hours to file their tax returns online after HM Revenue & Customs' computer filing system crashed hours before the final deadline on Thursday. The... [01 Feb 2008]
Self-assessment tax site crashes out on deadline day
News Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has been forced to extend the deadline for filing self-assessment tax returns online after the website crashed due to the number of people trying to file their returns before the 31... [31 Jan 2008]
Gates: 'My work here is not yet done'
News The digital watches that use Microsoft's Smart Personal Object Technology have remained geek toys, and his dream of an all-new Windows file system based on SQL found itself on the cutting-room floor when... [19 Oct 2007]
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