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Five iPhone apps for business
News According to the research firm, the iPhone 3G "does not deliver sufficient security for custom applications", so businesses wanting to deploy such applications will likely have to bear with a lower level of security. [04 Sep 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo Research Machines RM 380Z The BBC Micro was developed with computer manufacturer Acorn and was aimed at breaking Research Machine's stranglehold on the education market. Peter Chilvers, volunteer at the National Museum of Computing, said: "They... [03 Sep 2008]
Legal Eye: File-sharers under fire
Comment Driven by the huge growth in the number of homes with internet access, research shows that up to six million people in the UK participate in illegal file-sharing of films and music each year. In the latest development, users attempting to access... [03 Sep 2008]
HP unleashes virtualisation products
News The company said it sees virtualisation as a wide-open territory, and pointed to its global research conducted in August by Penn, Schoen & Berland. Asked to comment on this emphasis, HP's business-development manager for virtualisation, Peter... [03 Sep 2008]
Preemptively defend against threats to your network, throughout the enterprise
White Paper The IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force research and development team reports that the number of vulnerabilities susceptible to traditional and next-generation attacks has increased an average of 23 percent per year since the beginning of 2000. [02 Sep 2008]
Cyber Attacks On The Rise: IBM 2007 Midyear Report
White Paper The IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force research and development team discovered, analyzed and recorded new vulnerabilities and the status of varying threats throughout the first six months of this year. [02 Sep 2008]
Series 40 Developer Platform 1.0: Usability Guidelines for J2ME Games
White Paper Research with three different J2ME mobile phone games from three developers was conducted in order to come up with the general usability recommendations for this dimension path (Series 40 J2ME games). [02 Sep 2008]
Bank job losses: Offshoring not to blame
News National Outsourcing Association research director Nigel Roxburgh agreed with the report's findings, but also stressed that a distinction needs to be made between outsourcing and offshoring, where the latter can mean a company sets up its own in... [18 Aug 2008]
Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge
News Explaining the company's focus on software research and development (R&D), he said its $7bn investment in that direction is necessary to push innovation in a market that is "increasingly software-driven". [14 Aug 2008]
The Business Benefits of e-Learning in High-Growth Companies
White Paper This research report from Bersin & Associates looks at learning strategies and the use of e-learning technologies in high-growth companies - by focusing on the experiences of six such organizations. In addition, data from Bersin & Associate's... [13 Aug 2008]
Are your systems falling down on resiliency?
Comment Research has shown repeatedly that organisations rank IT high on their list of business risks. Some 1,200 IT professionals took part in the research. The latest research from Freeform Dynamics discovered 24 per cent of organisations suffer... [12 Aug 2008]
Semantic web breaking out of the lab
News That's according to John Davies, head of next generation web research at BT, who told silicon.com: "We've really seen the emergence of semantic web from the research lab. Semantic web - a concept championed by 'father of the web' Tim Berners-Lee... [11 Aug 2008]
The Engineer Research and Development Center Leverages HP Supercomputer Systems to Help the Department of Defense Support Soldiers in Combat
White Paper Army Engineer Research and Development Center ERDC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC), managed as part of the Department of Defense-wide high performance computing capability provided by the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program... [09 Aug 2008]
BBC reveals iPlayer user habits
News The most common age group using iPlayer is 35- to 44-year-olds, with a quarter of all users coming from this section of the population, according to research commissioned by the BBC's marketing, communications and audiences group. [06 Aug 2008]
Skills gap plugged by latest IT degree?
News This is in contrast to research that suggests that 163,000 new employees will be needed in the IT profession by 2016. Mike Bicknell, business development manager for HP's Solution Partner Organisation, added in a statement: "Working towards closing... [06 Aug 2008]
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