Glasgow City Council is well advanced in its ambitious plan to provide the city’s 600,000 population with anytime, anywhere access to council services. Key to its Connecting a 21st Century City communications strategy is the...

Tyler Reguly tries out the Sandbox.Lately, I've been more and more interested in malware analysis... I've been gathering viruses I receive and watching how they operate inside VMs. Due to this interest I've added more blogs to my...

Diebold, the manufacturers of an e-voting machine that is due to be used across the US in the mid-term elections, scored an own goal yesterday when it demanded that HBO pull a documentary that effectively slagged off the machines...

Some say that the technical platform future lies with commodity-based blade computers. Yet others say that software as a service will drive us towards a socket-in-the-wall mentality where all computer requirements are served by...

A little while back, I was talking with Dr Bernd Kosch, chairman of the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), now to be the Open Grid Forum, and we got on to the issues of cross-charging within a utility-style environment.My feeling...

The iPod celebrates it’s 5th birthday while identity fraud in the UK continues to rise says Huntswood, a provider of professional services to public and private sectors.It stated that theft of personal information should be a...

Open-Xchange Inc. has released the commercial edition of its next-generation Open-Xchange Server 5. It is now available for a free, 30-day trial. It provides critical collaborative functions such as e-mail, calendaring, contacts...

Digital music- the most popular form of mobile entertainment– is set to drive customer adoption of 3G services, with record labels, aggregators and handset manufacturers pursuing the mobile music arena.“Digital music is expected...

Four out of seven on-line banks have failed to secure their sites after being alerted over a month ago by information security research and publishing company heise Security, to serious security issues on their web pages for...

3V Transaction Services, an Irish e-payments company, says its is partnering with Visa International, Irish Life and Permanent and the Payzone cash acceptance network to launch a Visa-branded e-payment system for the Internet.The...

Proposed changes to English fraud legislation will result in more convictions, according to a litigation specialist who says that the laws need to be updated to take account of advancing technology.The Government has drafted a...

Blyk, a new Scandinavian cellco, has outlined plans to offer a free mobile phone service - targeted at 16 to 24-year-olds - in the UK from next summer onwards.In return for filling out a very detailed life-style questionnaire,...

Businesses both large and small increasingly understand the benefits of converged voice and data applications in improving customer service. Yet, despite the ability of such solutions to support effective service...

The Register reports that Seventeen members of an alleged international phishing and carding gang have been arrested in the US and Eastern Europe following an FBI investigation. The arrests in Poland and the US came as part of an...

Nokia today introduced Wibree technology as an open industry initiative extending local connectivity to small devices. This new radio technology developed by Nokia Research Center complements other local connectivity...

I’ve seen a number of posts on a couple of different groups speculating that there has been a big increase in spam. The answer is yes, there has been a dramatic increase. You can see this chart yourself at TQMcubed. Just as a...