The furor continues over the Julie Amero scandal. Last night, there was a school board meeting where administrators tried to calm parents.At Tuesday's school board meeting, Information Services Director Bob Hartzsought to calm...

An interesting bit of research has just been published by Ofcom on the state of the UK's smaller ISPs - which the regulator defines as ISPs with under 30 staff on board and/or a small number of residential customers on their...

Seagate Technology announced the Seagate Storage Management Module (SMM), a software solution containing drivers, utilities and tools to provide hard drive support for a wide variety of chipsets. Seagate SMM will clear technical...

Criminals controlling millions of personal computers are threatening the internet's future, warns Vint Cerf, co-developers of the TCP/IP standard and one of the architects of the internet. Up to a quarter of computers on the net...

One of the high points in my job as an IT journalist is the shows and conferences I attend - usually on a weekly basis, if not more frequently. Because many of the events are small or less well-known, I usually register as a...

IBM did not destroy crucial evidence in its long-running dispute with The SCO Group, a judge has ruled. SCO claimed that IBM had destroyed materials last year but the US judge has ruled that the evidence was actually provided to...

More and more companies are adopting some form of automation whether it is within their offices or manufacturing facilities. Companies see automation as a way to reduce costs, increase access to information when needed, and...

1. Don’t let your important documents (e.g. passport, driving licence) and credit/bank details get into the wrong hands and don’t issue photocopies of such documents unless you really have to. Take out document/card...

Microsoft blasts UK policing of ecrime in The Register today. This follows submission to a House of Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry into internet security.In a written submission to the committee ahead of its oral...

KoffeeWare, a company dedicated to peer-to-peer groupware solutions, unveils KoffeePhoto version 2, free photo sharing software. Featuring an integrated peer-to-peer secure backup system and pictures available on PC (Windows or...

EnterpriseDB, maker of the world's most affordable enterprise-class database, announced today that it is open for business in EMEA, with a focus on providing a high-quality, low-cost, Oracle-compatible database to Oracle's...

Hackers are concentrating on mobile devices as more people conduct their internet banking on the move, according to a research firm. TowerGroup says that mobile devices are hackers' next big target."We're currently in the lull...

With today’s news that gambling at work costs employers more than £300m a year in lost productivity, Nick Kingsbury, CEO of network content monitoring and capturing software firm, Chronicle Solutions says employers need to put an...

Huib Coopmans, Senior Manager, Product Marketing for Advanced Voice, Verizon Business talks about Integrated IP services. From the "Managed Services" Theatre, IP06 Event, Earls Court London, 17th & 18th October 2006. Listen...

Swedish police have now traced the hacker that wrote the customised Trojan behind the $1.17 million Nordea bank heist I reported on earlier this week.It seems that a programmer calling himself The Corpse posted an advert for his...

A value-added network (VAN) is a specialized application service provider (ASP) that acts as an intermediary between trading partners sharing data or business processes. VANs traditionally transmitted data formatted as Electronic...