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News According to the Sophos security threat report Blogspot.com, the blog publishing system owned by Google, was found to be hosting two per cent of the world's web-based malware in June 2008 - with hackers hosting malicious code on blog pages and... [23 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Last month StopBadware.org, a site sponsored by Google, found that Google itself was one of the top five networks hosting malicious web pages, largely due to the popularity among attackers of Google-owned networks such as Blogger. [14 Jul 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News It added it will be hosting a series of "working sessions" as soon as possible, to focus on "practical action and resolution of areas of uncertainty". Speaking at a conference hosted by UK trade association for technology, Intellect, Ofcom chief... [04 Jul 2008]
£3bn gov't IT contracts up for grabs
News Other contracts will be awarded for maintaining and upgrading its hosting services, its voice and data networks, application maintenance and support and integration services.silicon.com Public Sector Tech contracts worth a total of £3bn are up for... [01 Jul 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News All this year, the University of Manchester will be hosting a series of events to celebrate the birthday of Baby and the work of its inventors, Tom Kilburn and Freddie Williams. On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first... [20 Jun 2008]
Google looks to the cloud to woo business
News Google's App Engine, basically a scalable hosting platform, offers "almost unlimited scalability. Rishi Chandra, product manager for Google Enterprise, speaking at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in the US, said: "The next 10 years of innovations are... [11 Jun 2008]
Stock Exchange offers low latency feeds
News The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has agreed a deal for connectivity service provider Savvis to provide a proximity hosting service for member firms, hedge funds, market data vendors and the automated trading community. [10 Jun 2008]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News The Trust relies on visitors (which have increased by 40 per cent in the last two years), event hosting and donations to run the park and aims to make it into a world class heritage site and educational centre. [30 May 2008]
Google - the best workplace in the UK
News Other IT companies in the rest of the list include search engine optimisation business BigMouthMedia, tech support company IT Lab and server hosting company Rackspace. At its Silicon Valley complex it's famed for pampering staff with gourmet free... [28 May 2008]
AstraZeneca simplifies outsourcing rules
News Services provided by IBM under the deal include server and storage hosting, service desks, PC management, network and comms and computer operations support. The contract extends to server hosting and storage for scientific, commercial and supply... [19 May 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News A number of nascent Storm hosting domains using fast-flux techniques to mask their URLs have been identified by the security company, which issued a warning this week. Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm, the malware which... [07 May 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News This was identified as being the prelude to a spam or phishing attack and the attack was traced to a Seattle hosting service. Facebook brought a lawsuit against the hosting service, which was subpoenaed. [23 Apr 2008]
Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts
News ISPs should have a responsibility of making sure users aren't hosting botnets. President of the Internet Security Advisors Group, Ira Winkler, said: "The statistics are basically that we're screwed. There is no real strategy for it. [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 offering web developers a slice of its own... [09 Apr 2008]
Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract
News From July the companies will serve Shell and its subsidiaries in more than 100 countries, with AT&T looking after network and telecommunications, T-Systems hosting and storage, and EDS end user computing services and operational integration of the... [31 Mar 2008]
