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News Security analysts The 3rd Man looked at 30 million online and mail order card transactions from high street retailers and pinpointed the card fraud blackspots. The UK's top card fraud hotspots have been revealed in a report that shows the crime is... [24 Jul 2008]
The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News Police are believed to have searched National Audit Office buildings, two HMRC premises and other government buildings, the Royal Mail depot in Belfast, four TNT depots and a rubbish tip in Kent, with the main search concluding on 5 December 2007. [18 Jul 2008]
UK youths going mobile web crazy
News Other factors helping to drive mobile internet consumption in Blighty include operators signing contracts with free email providers, such as Google Mail, and social networking websites like Facebook. Britain is fast becoming a nation peopled by... [17 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry PDF flaw puts business networks at risk
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail He said: "Given the BES needs to access the data store from the mail server, obviously that's quite a high privilege. RIM is warning businesses to disable the function that allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until an... [17 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a nation gives to its computing heritage following the mothballing of the Museum of Computing in Swindon.silicon.com asked a number of CIOs whether the UK made the most... [15 Jul 2008]
Microsoft readies online apps for business
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail Microsoft announced its road map and pricing for web-based software suites built for big companies and growing businesses. Enabling telecommuting, which many employers and workers increasingly favour, is likely to be a... [09 Jul 2008]
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News There are suggestions that elements such as mail, photos and video could be available as an option on Windows 7 meaning customers could buy a version which supports what they want to do, without the loads of extra stuff they won't use or need. [07 Jul 2008]
Email: The tip of the cloud iceberg?
News The use of internet hosted email services - such as Microsoft's Hotmail and Google Mail - will fuel the business uptake of "cloud services". With the consumer mail platforms serving millions of users Cain said there is a clear opportunity to... [03 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for the... [02 Jul 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail Nationwide Building Society has signed a seven-year £160m deal with BT to outsource the management of its networked IT services. The contract will see Nationwide's voice and data network infrastructure and existing third... [30 Jun 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail The ability of virtualisation technology to free software from the underlying hardware could give more companies the option to allow employees to choose and run their own devices at work, according to analysts. [30 Jun 2008]
Yahoo! has a reshuffle at the top
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail Yahoo! under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management yesterday in a plan designed to improve its products, underlying technology and operational execution, the company said. [27 Jun 2008]
Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted Thursday to relax rules for naming websites. At its meeting in Paris, Icann, a not-for-profit organisation that oversees the naming scheme for websites... [27 Jun 2008]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News The October loss saw two serious breaches of policy, relating to the lack of authorisation for disclosure of the full data and its being sent via untraceable internal mail. Three separate investigations have looked into HM Revenue & Custom's loss... [26 Jun 2008]
Need for "radical change" in gov't data handling
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail Justice minister Michael Wills has called for a root-and-branch change in how the government handles citizen data. Wills told the House of Lords Constitution Committee on Wednesday that government should treat data... [26 Jun 2008]
