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Virgin Trains get connected with WiMax and HSDPA
News QinetiQ Rail said it has chosen to go with non-standard WiMax due to the lack of availability of certified 802.11e kit and to be able to operate in licence-exempt spectrum. Virgin Trains has opted for WiMax to connect passengers wanting to browse... [29 Jun 2006]
Brown's spending spree to benefit IT
News The news comes on the same day that the IR's existing online tax site came in for criticism, with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants saying that just five per cent of its members used e-filing for their income tax returns, with... [16 Jul 2002]
Microsoft launches fleet of server products
News Microsoft also announced today that the Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server is now certified to run on any Windows 2000 Datacenter server operating system. Perhaps the most notable of the announcements is the SQL server 2000 Windows CE evaluation... [20 Apr 2001]
IBM gives lukewarm support to Win2000
News There's a scarcity of certified professionals out there now, and if you think we're shy of talent now, wait until Windows 2000 ships. IBM has criticised the development of Windows 2000 (Win2000), at the same time as announcing support for the... [03 Sep 1999]
Skills crisis over - at least in Silicon Valley
Comment This is unlikely to mean - in the short term, at least - the cost of your friendly database administrator or Cisco certified engineer is going to go down. And - despite the obvious bad news of continued layoffs - many will view any kind of let-up... [30 Apr 2001]
Europe tells US: 'Hands off our flyers' data'
News Earlier this month, the European Parliament said that the data transfer infringed passengers' rights because data could only be transferred to non-European countries that met data protection standards and the US was not as yet certified as one of... [22 Mar 2004]
Photos: Germany's road charging tech
Photo Lorries from outside the country can apply for the same terminals (fitted in a few hours at certified garages) or buy temporary passes at roadside outlets or over the internet. For two years Germany has had an electronic road-charging system for... [02 Feb 2007]
Dell and Oracle launch assault on $1bn app server market
News In June, Dell certified its PowerEdge servers to run on release 2 of Oracle's 9i database software and Red Hat's Linux Advanced Server. By Wylie Wong Dell customers will soon be offered access to Oracle's application server software - technology... [12 Aug 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Programme management
Comment Unfortunately, the absorption of some theory and the completion of a set of multiple choice questions seems often to yield certified but unskilled project managers. We're used to a lot of theory and practice when it comes to project management but... [30 Mar 2005]
Linux: it's time to grasp the nettle
Comment It has been designed to comply with Open Group Unix standards - although it's not certified as such. Many think Linux servers have been built only for the web - and, on the whole, they'd be right. IDC's research on server workloads shows it's used... [11 Sep 2000]
Security consultants writing their own pay cheques
News Chapman said this security 'gold rush' is resulting in packed classrooms for courses such as CISSP (certified information systems security professionals), certified ethical hacking and computer forensics. [04 Oct 2005]
Failing security threatens FTSE100 firms
News Chapman also expressed concern about the limited take-up of the 'gold standard' security qualification - the Certified Information Systems Security Professional, or CISSP - within FTSE100 companies. Shareholders in some of the UK's most prestigious... [04 Sep 2003]
Massachusetts moots opening door to Microsoft
News Since then, however, Microsoft has submitted its Open XML file formats to Ecma, where they were certified as a standard. Massachusetts has proposed changing its standards policy to make room for Microsoft Office document formats. [03 Jul 2007]
Suse co-founder exits Novell
News It's certified globally to work with major server and software products, something others haven't achieved. Suse co-founder and kernel team member Hubert Mantel has resigned from Novell, the server software company which acquired the German Linux... [10 Nov 2005]
Inland Revenue site limps back online
News But Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), has attacked the Inland Revenue's actions. The Inland Revenue's online self assessment service is now up and running after a security scare... [05 Jul 2002]
