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IBM blade slashes security threat
News The IBM blade aims to reduce security threats, such as viruses and denial-of-service attacks, by performing real-time analysis of network activity so malicious traffic can be diverted. It can also help... [04 Sep 2008]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News Nicholas Bohm, the FIPR's general counsel, said last week "the illegality stems… from the fact that the system intercepts internet traffic". The Home Office] gave an opinion, not a legal opinion, of their understanding... [11 Apr 2008]
Is online TV throttling broadband networks?
News Despite its comments, Tiscali says it would not target iPlayer content for traffic shaping - possibly as it can't distinguish iPlayer content from other BBC traffic - but the issue is something the... [28 Jan 2008]
BBC iPlayer gets Christmas bonus
News The BBC's iPlayer website saw a 14-fold increase in traffic during the festive period. From 8 December 2007 to 5 January 2008 visits to the site rocketed following its full marketing launch on Christmas Day, according to... [10 Jan 2008]
How Topshop.com survives the Kate Moss effect
News When Topshop launched the Kate Moss range earlier this year, its website traffic leapt from its average of 1.5 million page views per day to 5 million. Parent company Arcadia Group's IT director Andrew Clarke told... [22 Nov 2007]
Storm botnet 'services' for hire?
News Stewart has claimed in a blog post that the latest Storm variants now use a 40-byte key to encrypt their peer-to-peer traffic, meaning each node will only be able to communicate with nodes that use the same key. [17 Oct 2007]
Revealed: Top UK base for IT businesses
News Despite only being placed in the top 30, London was named as the best for airport, supply chain and talent availability, but the worst for cost of land and levels of traffic congestion. The deciding factors were the cost... [26 Sep 2007]
Is your office printer giving you the sniffles?
News The result was a chance discovery when a project investigating office ventilation systems, carried out jointly between the university and the Queensland Department of Public Works, found five times as many particles indoors as those... [01 Aug 2007]
Inmarsat readies for mobile push
News Data rather than voice is Inmarsat's current money-spinner, accounting for 80 per cent of the company's traffic and 60 per cent of its revenue. ¦ The top 10 CIOs ¦ CIO50 analysis: How to be a top CIO... [07 Jun 2007]
Police National Computer gets a facelift
News The PNC - which celebrated record traffic last year - holds information about people, vehicles, property and crimes, which can all be accessed electronically by officers 24 hours per day. The PNC was established in 1974... [03 Apr 2007]
How Formula One takes tech to the extremes
News Beyond the day-to-day operations of the team, technology is used to further the brand - for example following Jenson Button's first win in Hungary last year, Pipex, which hosts the team's website, had to respond quickly to cope with... [14 Mar 2007]
Mobile broadband: Too energy inefficient?
News Noting that energy costs represent the third most expensive operating expense (Opex) for carriers today - and that energy costs continue to fluctuate and could rise - the authors claim that the increase in data traffic... [15 Jan 2007]
Online pirates face Redmond legal blitz
News The goal of our enforcement is to target enterprises that traffic counterfeit software. In its analysis of counterfeit software, Microsoft found software pirates actually meddle with the product and, in... [31 Oct 2006]
Taiwan fingered as spam hub
News CipherTrust also determined that unwanted email traffic went up as much as 20 per cent worldwide in May. Using images, spammers can also more easily alter the print, background colour and other identifying factors used... [12 Jun 2006]
San Francisco airport secured by 'all seeing CCTV'
News The technology is also employed in access and exit lanes through security checks to spot people moving in the wrong direction and also with traffic around the airport - at secure locations such as the fuel farm. [24 Apr 2006]
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