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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment At this time it started to work with major university libraries to scan and digitise millions of books, including texts which were out of copyright, others which were still in copyright and 'orphan' texts where rights'... [27 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Paul Haley, director of information technology at the University of Aberdeen said the total cost of migrating to open source, coupled with the size of educational discounts on proprietary software, means "it does not... [23 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News Apparently so, according to David Wall, professor of criminal justice and information society at the University of Leeds. Scareware is bad for your PC and your pocket - but the fake security warning messages popping up... [19 Oct 2009]
Naked CIO: Put more business in IT education
Comment University programmes are research and theory-based - and thus not practically applicable to modern business and challenges. What can be done to better train students for the IT workplace? The Naked CIO has some... [12 Oct 2009]
GSM and GPRS Security
White Paper Analog cellular phones and networks were designed with minimal security which soon turned out to be insufficient. The GSM system provides solutions to a few important aspects of security: subscriber authentication, subscriber identity... [09 Oct 2009]
Software Self-Healing Using Collaborative Application Communities
White Paper Software monocultures are usually considered dangerous because their size and uniformity represent the potential for costly and widespread damage. The emerging concept of collaborative security provides the opportunity to re-examine the... [09 Oct 2009]
U.S. Cellular: The SAP for Retail Solution Portfolio Provides Backbone for New Merchandise Management System
White Paper Cellular needed an automated merchandise management system when it shipped telephone plates that were emblazoned with the University of Wisconsin's Bucky Badger mascot to retail locations in North Carolina. [08 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge.silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, Acorn's early days and... [07 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Once again, September saw another fresh crop of students head off to university for the first time, on their way to becoming the next generation of IT workers. Asked if tech graduates are finishing... [06 Oct 2009]
Network Security: Compromises and Countermeasures
White Paper Network security is a long-standing and well-recognized problem in the computing world. Protecting information is a main priority of a network administrator, with security techniques becoming increasingly robust. [05 Oct 2009]
A Novel Quantitative Approach for Measuring Network Security
White Paper Evaluation of network security is an essential step in securing any network. This evaluation can help security professionals in making optimal decisions about how to design security countermeasures, to choose between alternative security... [05 Oct 2009]
Group-Based Security in a Federated File System
White Paper The SILENUS federated file system was developed by the SORCER research group at Texas Tech University. The distributed file system with its dynamic nature does not require any configuration by the end users and system... [04 Oct 2009]
A Decentralized VPN Service Over Generalized Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
White Paper This paper presents a decentralized VPN service that can be built over generalized mobile ad-hoc networks (Generalized MANETs), in which topologies can be represented as a time-varying directed multigraph. [04 Oct 2009]
Security, Fault-Tolerance and Their Verification for Ambient Systems
White Paper For the emerging ambient environments, in which interconnected intelligent devices will surround to increase the comfort of lives, fault tolerance and security are of paramount importance. In contrast to the computers in a normal... [04 Oct 2009]
Self-Encryption Scheme for Data Security in Mobile Devices
White Paper The pervasive use of wireless networks and mobile devices has been changing the living style significantly. Along with great convenience and efficiency, there are new challenges in protecting sensitive and/or private data carried in... [04 Oct 2009]
