Selecting a Content Management System (CMS) is never an easy task. So when IBM Developerworks wrote an article on "Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site, Part 1", it quickly caught the...

Yesterday we learned that Microsoft will be taking the unusual step of spifing resellers 20% of their license sales — in addition to their normal margins. It seems that it’s going to be more profitable to become a reseller of...

The Home Office will review the Government's controversial identity card scheme and could order a scaled down version of the identity card. But it denied that the scheme is in trouble.The news continues the fallout from a weekend...

George Ou, Techrepublic's resident Technical Director, asks his readers whether Tape Backup systems are obsolete or not. Backing up data is one of the most tedious and time consuming jobs in the world of IT, he reckons and we...

The Information Commissioner says that the identity card scheme planned by the Home Office could breach data protection legislation unless it is carefully controlled. Commissioner Richard Thomas makes the warning in his Office's...

Last Sunday morning I took a call on the home number - flagged up as an 0845 call - from HSBC's credit card department.The Indian guy told me he was the bank's anti-fraud section and requested to take me through bank security,...

The Register reports today that "Phishers are seeking to circumvent two-factor authentication schemes using man-in-the-middle attacks. Last October, US federal regulators urged banks to adopt two-factor authentication as a means...

Most businesses understand the need for IT security, and fortunately the level of user awareness is growing as each new virus outbreak hits the headlines. With this has come a whole new industry providing software and hardware...

VAT on mobile phones, computer chips and other digital goods will not be charged between businesses under new rules about to be approved in Europe. Tax commissioner Laszlo Kovacs has said the plan will be approved in the next two...

Yahoo and Microsoft have decided to join their IM communities together to bring forth a behemoth, the world's largest IM community worldwide that's worth 350 million accounts, including duplicate ones.Yahoo just released a new...

Had a very interesting meeting with a major IP services company this week, at which I had a chance to discuss some of the offers of free or very low cost broadband, from the likes of Carphone Warehouse and Pipex.Basically, from...

A music industry coalition has proposed that ISPs and others should pay a licence fee to compensate rights-holders for unlawful file-sharing by their customers. One critic called the plans, which would change copyright laws,...

Interesting to see that Adobe plugged into Microsoft's update service this week and bundled a number of patches for its Adobe PDF reader software.According to tech reports, the vulnerabilities affected Adobe's Acrobat and Reader...

Another zero day exploit, with Powerpoint affected this time. Symantec link here.Here’s what you see if you’re unfortunate enough to open an infected Powerpoint file.(Image from Symantec Security Response)While this may not be...