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BlackBerry twice as likely to fail as an iPhone
News After two minutes of handling an iPhone, it's impossible to escape noticing that the handsets are incredibly slippery. Apple's iPhone has half the failure rate of RIM's BlackBerry in the first year of use, a study... [11 Nov 2008]
Cops enlist HAL in fight against crime
News There is a problem in handling that mass of data, in storing it, routing it, tracing it and in finding patterns. Looking at how AI techniques can boost digital forensics, the government-funded Cyber Security Knowledge... [05 Nov 2008]
BA blames Heathrow T5 chaos on IT testing slip ups
News However, according to BA, there have been significant improvements since the March opening of T5, with the terminal "now providing the best customer experience Heathrow has known for many years", with "significantly improved baggage... [03 Nov 2008]
CEOs told - take responsibility for 'toxic' data
News In the speech Thomas warns the flow of data breaches and sloppy information handling continues - despite high profile data losses being widely reported and the threat of enforcement action. CEOs must take more... [29 Oct 2008]
London Olympics fibre hub 'template for UK broadband'
News We will need to be handling six gigabytes every second, the equivalent of 6,000 novels or the entire content of Wikipedia every five seconds," Hill said. The London 2012 Olympic Games is set to turn the capital into a... [23 Oct 2008]
Court orders Oracle to name its price in SAP spat
News A federal court judge ordered Oracle to name its settlement price in its ongoing litigation against archrival SAP over the handling of proprietary maintenance and support information for former Oracle customers who had... [22 Oct 2008]
MoD admits losing nearly 2m recruits' details
News He said the data breach had happened in part as a result of work to overhaul information handling in the MoD, following the Cabinet Office data handling review and Sir Edmund Burton's review - which was... [14 Oct 2008]
MoD breach: Data goes missing from "secure location"
News This came to light during a priority audit EDS are conducting to comply with the Cabinet Office data-handling review. IT contractor EDS has lost a hard drive containing Ministry of Defence data. According to press... [10 Oct 2008]
Data breach at Virgin prompts encryption order
News When we found out we contacted everyone on the list and offered them credit protection to ensure they weren't at risk," he said, adding that staff training on data handling has also been stepped up. Virgin Media has been... [30 Sep 2008]
Data breach victims get the mushroom treatment
News The survey also found that only 30 per cent of organisations educate staff in IT security and information handling procedures on a regular basis, and less than a third have a specific security incident response team. [25 Sep 2008]
Built-in email, editing ditched in Windows 7
News Earlier on Monday, Microsoft had declined to say how it was handling things. Microsoft has decided Windows 7 won't include built-in programs for email, photo editing, and movie making, as was done with Windows Vista. [23 Sep 2008]
Notts police turns to tech for better crime handling
News The force will go live with the Vision PX call handling system from Fortek Computers early next year, and is currently customising the technology for its specific needs. Speaking to silicon.com, command and control... [19 Sep 2008]
Firefox 3.1 to jump on privacy bandwagon?
News Other enhancements planned for Firefox 3.1 include speed improvements in Javascript handling, the ability to drag and drop tabs between browser windows, and the addition of a video tag element that is part of the HTML 5... [16 Sep 2008]
Scottish gov't enlists data privacy experts
News Scottish finance secretary John Swinney said in the statement: "While I am confident that public bodies are already working to high standards of IT security, we recognise the need to ensure public confidence in the public sector's... [11 Sep 2008]
Data loss consultants sacked by Home Office
News Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said in a statement to parliament that the loss of the memory stick containing the data, which went missing after being left in an unsecured place in PA's offices, was "a clear breach of the robust terms of... [10 Sep 2008]