Part of our dev team is under intense pressure to get a new product out. Walking down the hallway today, I saw this sign on the office door of one of our developers and couldn’t help laughing (TestTrack is the program we use to...

Ruby on Rails, often called RoR, or just Rails, is an open source web application framework written in Ruby that closely follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. It strives for simplicity and allowing real-world...

Information security is the discipline that deals with the following three attributes:Confidentiality is the assurance that information is shared only among authorized persons or organizations.Integrity is the assurance that the...

While many market drivers and strategies are similar around the world, insurers in Europe have a different approach to driving business through customer intimacy, process excellence and operational efficiency.Key Findings of this...

Novell today published additional details on the agreements announced with Microsoft on Nov. 2, outlining the substantial commitment made by both companies to address customers' growing requirement for Windows and Linux...

It had to happen eventually, but I was saddened to hear that a Wikipedia page had been seriously hacked late last week in order to spread malware.It seems that a German hacking crew created a German language Wiki page on the...

As connectivity increases, understanding someone's context before communicating to them is increasingly important. The person's availability, presence and location provide key information that improve communication and enable...

A week ago, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web. told the Guardian newspaper, that the internet is “In danger of being corrupted by fraudsters, liars and cheats.” He added “"There is a great danger that it...

As expected, APACS announced today that ATM fraud is definitely on the rise, thanks in no small part to organised criminals moving into the marketplace.As a result, the payments association has launched an awareness campaign (not...

VoIP is one of the most talked about next-generation technologies but it shouldn't be looked at in isolation, it should be one strand of a wider convergence strategy.As the owner of the UK's first Next-Generation Network, Phil...

A survey from PayPal, published on Silicon.Com, strongly suggests that online shopping is safrer than one might think. More than a third of respondents (35 per cent) have been victims of property theft, whereas only 15 per cent...

The European Commission has published proposals for a change in law that would force telecoms firms to notify regulators and customers of all breaches of data security including, for example, lost laptops and stolen backup...

A victory for OK! magazine in its case against Hello! would effectively create a new intellectual property right in confidential information, lawyers for Hello! have told the House of Lords in a case regarding the wedding...

Chad Loeven joins us as VP International and Business Development. Before joining Sunbelt, Loeven served as vice president of business development for Montreal-based email security vendor Vircom, where he held international...

The US Government will investigate the amount of trade being carried out in online fantasy games such as Second Life, prompting fears amongst some gamers that it will tax virtual trading.The Joint Economic Committee of the US...

The BBC reports that a surge in "phishing" in the first half of 2006 has produced a sharp rise in the amount of money being lost to online banking fraud. The number of recorded incidents rose 16-fold to 5,059, said the...

UK banks have agreed to Government data sharing proposals on suspected financial criminals, but say they want the public sector to share its data with them. The banks also express doubts about whether the plans would actually...

A unique broadband deal for consumers and businesses was launched today. For a monthly fee of only £19.99 every customer will receive a comprehensive PC package worth £500 as part of the broadband offer. This service is being...

Up to 50 million health records will be placed on Britain's new NHS IT system with or without patients' consent, a report has claimed. The Guardian newspaper said that patients will not be allowed to object to information being...

Phishtank, a community service run by OpenDNS, has revealed that Paypal and eBay were the most targeted organizations in phishing attacks in October. UK bank Barclays ranks third and Citibank tenth, in the list - below - of...

Networks are going into new places in new ways. Organizations are bringing dormant environments to life by leveraging wireless mesh networks and advanced radio-frequency identification (RFID).Not constrained by physical...

iBloks, Inc. unveiled its socially innovative digital media service that enables people to play with their media and "create like pros."iBloks raises the quality of personal creativity by delivering an easy way to mix and remix...