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Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News While disapproving of the use of Linux in the Oyster system, Stallman said there is not much that could have been done to stop Linux being used in surveillance or military systems, as it is a general tool. [10 Jun 2008]
Microsoft tactics akin to "patent terrorism" - Sun
News James Eagleton, systems product manager for Sun Microsystems, said: "What we're seeing though now can be loosely described as patent terrorism, where people are using their patent horde as a threat. No one [wants a... [24 Jul 2007]
Intel: 'Software must learn to do Moore'
News Applications can handle multiple distinct tasks, and systems can run multiple applications. Programs and systems can also both speculate on what tasks a user might want and use processor performance that... [29 May 2007]
'Abandon DRM' shocker: Apple CEO pens open letter
News I think it's really interesting that the company that's the greatest beneficiary of DRM systems is basically telling the industry 'this is a problem, you need to fix this'," he said. Jobs wrote: "Much of... [07 Feb 2007]
Vista to cure ID management headache?
News With today's systems, granting a third party access to a corporate resource has become fraught with red tape, stifling business, said Cameron. Cameron added: "Nowadays nobody has to go and learn how to do word... [14 Sep 2006]
Porn spam spike due to Windows hole - CipherTrust
News CipherTrust can trace the increase in spam-sending zombies to Mocbot by comparing junk email sent by systems it knows were compromised by the worm to the spam sent by new zombies,... [23 Aug 2006]
IT work ain't so bad after all
News One reader wrote: "All this is 'invisible' to clueless management up and down the country who seem to think that reliable networks and systems build and maintain themselves. To start with, there's the boredom that comes... [18 Aug 2006]
Skype - is your version secure?
News Gartner analyst Lawrence Orans said in a research note: "Because the Skype client is a free download, it is widely used and most businesses have no idea how many Skype clients are installed on their... [30 May 2006]
Should Oracle fear open source?
News Research companies Gartner and IDC both predicted continued growth in worldwide sales of relational database management systems, or RDBMS, software, which enables data to be stored, manipulated and retrieved. [26 May 2006]
Do sandals and ponytails really hold back Linux?
News The decision, made to ensure that archived documents would be interoperable between systems over many years, had effectively shut out Microsoft, which did not support OpenDocument. Whether the CIO knows... [29 Mar 2006]
Online child abuse - a decade on and the IWF reports progress
News Nigel Hawthorn, VP international channels and marketing at Blue Coat Systems, one of the filtering companies that backs the IWF, said: "The UK is ahead of the rest of the world. He criticised those coming up with... [09 Mar 2006]
Mac OS X hacked in less than half an hour
News If this situation was to change, in my opinion, things could be a lot worse on Mac OS X than they currently are on other operating systems. In January, security researcher Neil Archibald, who has already been credited... [07 Mar 2006]
Don't let MiFID delays stop IT work
News But the limited time remaining to prepare for the directive could leave banks facing big bills for IT work and create a skills shortage as financial services organisations try to poach the best tech staff to get their... [31 Jan 2006]
Sober attack shouldn't bite, say antivirus experts
News But experts from antivirus companies F-Secure, MessageLabs and Websense all agreed this Sober attack is unlikely to have a major effect, as systems administrators and antivirus companies have had time to prepare. [04 Jan 2006]
CIOs bamboozled by asset management
News Other factors which contribute towards 61 per cent of respondents saying the challenge is getting harder include the merger of systems and hardware following the consolidation of companies and also the fact many CIOs... [30 Nov 2005]
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