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BlackBerry PDF flaw puts business networks at risk
News Catherine Doran Network Rail A 'high' severity flaw affecting how BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) opens PDF attachments could be exploited to compromise a corporate network. Most organisations place the BES within key networks, such as email... [17 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News Catherine Doran Network Rail Bletchley Park cracking Enigma or Brit Berners-Lee inventing the web gives us as much advantage as Stephenson's Rocket gives us a good national rail network. IT chiefs have hit out at the lack of respect the UK as a... [15 Jul 2008]
Microsoft readies online apps for business
News Catherine Doran Network Rail 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]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Catherine Doran Network Rail 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... [02 Jul 2008]
Nationwide hands network reins to BT
News Catherine Doran Network Rail The contract will see Nationwide's voice and data network infrastructure and existing third-party network contracts transferred to the telco. Nationwide's infrastructure will sit on BT's next generation 21CN network as... [30 Jun 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News Catherine Doran Network Rail Gartner claimed that an employee-owned-notebook programme needs to contain four key elements: a technology solution to protect the device and the network it's attached to; policies to guide behaviour; third-party... [30 Jun 2008]
Yahoo! has a reshuffle at the top
News Catherine Doran Network Rail 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 Catherine Doran Network Rail 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... [27 Jun 2008]
Need for "radical change" in gov't data handling
News Catherine Doran Network Rail 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]
Oracle pumps up prices, BEA takes the hit
News Catherine Doran Network Rail Oracle's latest price list for its growing portfolio of applications software contains significant increases across the range, and a particularly large price rise for its BEA software. [24 Jun 2008]
MI5 seeking changeable techies
News Catherine Doran Network Rail Psst! MI5 is on the hunt for techies with killer design skills. The UK's security intelligence agency is looking to recruit enthusiastic IT architects to work in Central London with experience in "IT solutions design... [23 Jun 2008]
Revealed: What students think of tech work
News Catherine Doran Network Rail If IT is to plug its skills gap by attracting graduates from other disciplines the industry needs to convince students the work can be as exciting as its potentially wallet-fattening pay packets. [23 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing delays?
News Catherine Doran Network Rail New mobile phones being developed by Google and more than 30 partners based on software called Android will arrive in the fourth quarter, a schedule that some carriers and program makers are struggling to meet, The Wall... [23 Jun 2008]
Facebook is "educational", says US uni
News Catherine Doran Network Rail Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as tools for procrastination but a new study from the University of Minnesota, US says contests this. According to the study, social networks build beneficial... [23 Jun 2008]
BCS warns over IT degree funding
News Catherine Doran Network Rail The government is gambling with the UK economy by removing funding for graduates who want to retrain in IT, the British Computer Society (BCS) has warned - at a time when the industry is crying out for more skilled... [20 Jun 2008]
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