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Nato fires up cyber defences

News A denial of service attack brought down key banking and state systems in the country effectively crippling the country and prompting Nato to carry out a thorough assessment of its approach to cyber defence.

Tags: security, training, estonia, cyber attack

[16 May 2008]

Health care records service delayed

News According to a spokeswoman for the NAO, patient care will not be affected, as the regions' health authorities have their own records systems up and running and will have to use an interim application until Lorenzo is completed.

Tags: records, connecting for health, nhs

[16 May 2008]

Microsoft hits back at Vista security critics

News Wilson wrote in the blog post: "Our results published in the April 2008 version of the Security Intelligence Report show that Windows Vista is significantly less susceptible to malware than older operating systems.

Tags: xp, windows, vista

[16 May 2008]

Gov't department readies for Vista rollout

News The Vista upgrade is part of a regular technical refresh of Defra systems and was chosen over XP to avoid another near term upgrade, saving time and resources. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll out...

Tags: upgrade, encryption, carbon, defra

[15 May 2008]

Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes

News Soca has also sent out 46 alerts to UK business, which included 11 alerts to UK financial institutions detailing more than 46,000 online account details that had been compromised by phishing and virus attacks, a system for UK call centres to...

Tags: nhtcu, soca, cyber crime

[15 May 2008]

Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way

News Chris Line, TfL's road safety chief, recently told the transport select committee that such systems could reduce motoring deaths. Sat-navs that warn drivers not to speed or can even slow the car automatically could be as little as a year away.

Tags: sat-nav

[15 May 2008]

Open source: UK dragging its heels

News This is because they have committed to applications which are not supported on other operating systems, or have no way of moving their data to other applications. They see the [intellectual property] problems are no worse than those in proprietary...

Tags: europe, uk, open source

[15 May 2008]

NHS puts brakes on electronic record system

News A report evaluating the trial rollout of the Summary Care Record (SCR) system highlighted concerns that the system was clunky, interfaces poorly with other systems and was being foisted upon patients without their full knowledge.silicon.com Public...

Tags: nhs, cfh

[14 May 2008]

RIM reveals BlacBerry roadmap

News According to Cruz, the trend for mobility is not only good for mobile makers but the increased usage of CRM systems it generates - driven by the convenience of inputting data on a mobile device - increases the value of those systems as users are...

Tags: rim, touchscreen, blackberry

[14 May 2008]

XP SP3 throws off AMD machines

News Owners of some AMD-based computers are finding the move to Windows XP Service Pack 3 has sent their systems into an endless reboot cycle. Microsoft said in a statement: "While the root cause of this issue is complex, it results from OEMs improperly...

Tags: windows, sp3, xp

[14 May 2008]

Microsoft users surf the skies from the web

News Microsoft has launched its WorldWide Telescope, a free web-based program that allows web surfers to explore galaxies, star systems and distant planets. The program, which was developed by Microsoft's research arm, marries together images from the...

Tags: google sky, space, microsoft

[14 May 2008]

Google lays out mobile future

News O is for Operating systems Google is aiming to make an impact in the mobile sector by focusing on web-based applications, super-fast search and location based services (LBS). The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile applications for...

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Beijing 2008 Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze

News With less than 100 days remaining before the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, work on the IT systems to support the event is moving into its final phases. The team members behind the IT systems are preparing to move from their individual project...

Tags: software, games, beijing, olympic

[13 May 2008]

HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News Hewlett-Packard is in talks to buy Electronic Data Systems, HP has confirmed. The Wall Street Journal initially reported the two have been in talks for HP to buy EDS for $12bn to $13bn, citing unnamed sources.

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

Video app the highway to healthy roads

News Hampshire County Council is trialling an extension to its road management systems with an asset-counting application based on video capture. The council is piloting the Yotta DCL MARCHpms pavement management system to process video data on its road...

Tags: video, road, hampshire

[12 May 2008]

Google targets business with Postini-based security app

News Roberts said: "Microsoft clearly sees the light that the web and the internet are the [operating systems] of the future and that selling shrink-wrapped software isn't going to be feasible. Google has announced a re-branded web security for...

Tags: postini, google

[12 May 2008]

Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News Green innovations abound in the IT department, the lifetime of systems has been extended from about three to eight years, employees only have one computer each and old machines are passed on to its international network of volunteer data gatherers.

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News O is for Operating systems There will be WiMax coverage across the UK within the next two years, the managing director of Intel Capital EMEA has claimed. Speaking at a roundtable discussion yesterday, Ashish Patel said the long-range wireless...

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

Tech not to blame for Terminal 5 fiasco

News He made it clear there is room for tech improvement, saying greater server capacity is needed to cope with the quantity of data produced by the various systems in the terminal. The opening day problems at Heathrow's Terminal 5 (T5) were largely...

Tags: problem, baa, ba, heathrow

[08 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News O is for Operating systems Outside healthcare, the report points to many future applications of wireless tech in the transport sector, including road-to-vehicle and car-to-car comms technology to alert drivers to traffic jams to help reduce...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

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