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RSS force in newsNet bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
News Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under sustained assault. IP networks were bombarded by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks -... [12 Nov 2008]
Beat bobbies need more cash for smartphones
News Inspector Jim Hitch, of Bedfordshire Police, told the committee after his force deployed PDAs the amount of time officers spent in the station dropped from almost half (46 per cent) to just over a third (36 per cent) -... [10 Nov 2008]
End of data losses no loss to NHS Lothian
News Given the significance of the risk and the likelihood of it, we believed we had to introduce a technological solution where we actually force policy rather than leave up to professionalism and individual choice," he said. [05 Nov 2008]
'Microsoft, SAP just don't get cloud computing'
News Speaking at Salesforce's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco, Benioff questioned SAP's delayed software as a service ERP project, Business ByDesign even inviting the German company to use the Force.com developer... [04 Nov 2008]
Force.com breaks out to the web with Sites
News Salesforce.com has launched an application that enables developers to build and run external websites on the software as a service company's Force.com platform. Force.com Sites allows people to publish... [04 Nov 2008]
Salesforce.com teams up with web 2.0 titans
News Applications developed on Salesforce.com's developer platform, Force.com, can now be supported by Amazon's web services while Facebook apps can be built and run on the platform. The tie-up with Amazon allows... [04 Nov 2008]
Revised search deal for Yahoo!-Google?
News Should an agreement be reached, the Department of Justice would likely file a consent decree with the courts, which would carry the same force as a court order. Yahoo! and Google have reportedly revised their search... [04 Nov 2008]
EU privacy law shake-up to force data breach confessions
News These amendments would force ISPs and telecoms companies to notify customers and authorities when they lose their customers' personal data. Banks, other businesses and authorities could soon be forced to confess to data... [28 Oct 2008]
Canonical readies its latest Ubuntu Linux for launch
News We force ourselves to look to services-oriented business models. Canonical will release the newest version of its Ubuntu version of Linux on Thursday, chief executive Mark Shuttleworth said Monday, but the company's... [28 Oct 2008]
Google Android goes to Market with app store
News Google's considerable clout with developers could be key to helping Android rise from an open-source operating system used on only a tiny fraction of the world's mobile phones into a force to be reckoned with. [23 Oct 2008]
€100m Pink Panther robbers snared by fingerprints
News The force is hoping to add photographs to the database to allow facial recognition from next year. Prints taken following an arrest in Monaco this month matched those of a suspected member of the Pink Panthers gang,... [22 Oct 2008]
Mobile biometric scanners for all UK police
News The project will initially allow each force to ID suspects on the move by providing mobile access to the 7.5 million fingerprint scans held on the police's Ident1 biometric database. Handheld fingerprint readers will be... [22 Oct 2008]
Google dusts off Chrome bugs with developer update
News The browser wars are back in force, albeit in a more standards-compliant and collegial way, and a major thrust of the resurgent competition is higher performance for faster, more sophisticated web applications. [16 Oct 2008]
Home Office turns down Nasa hacker's appeal
News The US has accused McKinnon of hacking into 97 US army, navy, air force and Nasa computers, and causing damage costing hundreds of thousands of dollars by deleting files. The man accused by the US government of accessing... [14 Oct 2008]
Credit crisis sees eBay slash 1,000 jobs
News eBay said it will cut 10 per cent of its work force and spend about $1.3bn to buy online payment and classified companies to counter a slowdown in its main web auctions business. Investors are concerned the US housing... [07 Oct 2008]
