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Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
News There's also a benefit in terms of data loss: as very little data is held on the physical device itself, the risk of important data being lost or hijacked if the hardware goes missing is reduced. Virtualisation? [11 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Working with one such machine was a challenging task for Osborne, with its 2,500 vacuum tubes radiating heat and the risk of the reels of punched tape flying loose from the machine. The work of the Bletchley Park... [05 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News Jeff Roberts, director of information technology at Norton Rose, said that even if a UK start-up came up with the idea, US investors are still very powerful: "It could well start out in the UK but experience shows that any successful... [03 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The contract will also help support public order policing activities involving several thousand officers within confined locations, and ensure Airwave can scale to cope with the risk of "a spontaneous major incident"... [03 Nov 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News It would be unwise to save now but build in innate risk and future cost through poorly fitting applications," he said. It's a question many CIOs are wrestling with: can open source help make your IT budget stretch a... [28 Oct 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News The technologies are dubbed strategic either because they may need a large investment from companies; there's an associated risk in not investing; or because they carry with them the potential to disrupt IT or the business. [22 Oct 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News It could also help to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and, more broadly, to reduce the risk to the business from liability for the actions of its employees. Every office generates so much email, IM... [22 Oct 2009]
2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
News But as IT bosses shy away from replacing servers, printers and the like and extend refresh cycles for an extra year, they may be running the risk of equipment failures that could affect the business. If you haven't... [20 Oct 2009]
'Wi-fi hack makes plan to ban file-sharers unfair'
News In a blog post last week, Andrew Heaney, TalkTalk's executive director for strategy and regulation, said a test carried out by the ISP found a high percentage of domestic wi-fi connections are at risk from hacking. [19 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News Scareware is fake security software, often heralded by an ersatz dialogue box warning unsuspecting users that their PC is under attack by malware or that it's at risk of a virus infection. Scareware is bad for your PC... [19 Oct 2009]
Tax-refund phishing scams hit an all-time high
News Those who are duped into handing over their details risk having their bank accounts drained and credit cards maxed-out. The number of scam emails offering fake tax refunds hit an all-time high last month. [16 Oct 2009]
Troops in Afghanistan to get gadget gifts
News The MoD hopes the Operational Welfare Fund will also cut down on the number of special flights and convoys required to deliver goodwill parcels into militarised areas, which put service personnel under additional risk in... [15 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Despite Apple rejecting some iPhone apps, it's approved the potential risk to its own business that is music service Spotify. Once again, September saw another fresh crop of students head off to university for the first... [06 Oct 2009]
How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
News Persuading the vendor to share information on its takings is a good way of limiting "long-term risk to both parties". Want to avoid getting burned when signing a BPO deal? There's a set of warning signs that buyers... [30 Sep 2009]
Firefox: Google Chrome Frame poses a security risk to users
News After Google announced it, Microsoft criticised it as creating a potentially increased risk to browsing security. Firefox backer Mozilla has joined Microsoft in criticising Google's Chrome Frame. Chrome Frame is a... [30 Sep 2009]
