Here’s five Business Continuity Staggering Statistics and Frightening Facts that have been compiled by the team behind Business Continuity Expo 2007 which takes place at London’s Excel from 28-29 March 2007. “The UK has more...

Pay By Touch has launched Paycheck Secure which is a biometric check-cashing service that can help banks and credit unions generate additional non-interest fee-based income while decreasing the risk of fraud and meeting...

EDITORIAL: Every search engine should obtain permission from a website before copying its pages or even snippets of text, according to a ruling by a Belgian court today.The Court of First Instance in Brussels upheld a previous...

Stuart Ebdon, Head of Functional Practice Management, Fujitsu, talks about Making the switch to Managed Telephony and IP Centrex. From the "Managed Services" Theatre, IP06 Event, Earls Court London, 17th & 18th October 2006....

Top executives from Microsoft Corp. outlined a vision for secure and easy "anywhere access" and committed to working with the industry to evolve networks, protection and identity to achieve that vision for customers.In their...

Gates and Mundie reinforced Microsoft's commitment to interoperability and its ongoing work with governments, organizations and partners to create and implement industrywide standards that enable systems and applications to work...

I nearly fell off my chair last night when I read that AVG AntiVirus 7.5 has been certified by Virus Bulletin for use on Windows Vista.This is the first certification that the IT security publication has issued and, says Virus...

I was highly amused to read last night that the Moscow metro, the Russkie equivalent of the London Underground, has announced plans to extend its turnstile pilot project for credit and debit cards.Russia, in case you didn't know,...

In an interesting twist, EMC Corporation, an information infrastructure solutions specialist, announced its intention to sell approximately 10% of VMware via an initial public offering (IPO) of newly issued VMware stock. This...

Google will appeal today's judgment from a Belgian court that it broke the law when it used newspaper material in Google News. The company will have to stop publishing links to certain newspaper sites having been found liable for...

Funambol, a mobile open source software company, previewed its new mobile email portal for consumers at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. The company also showed the world's first open source Java mobile email client for mass...

In case you’re wondering, I had a wee bit of travel this week, and combined with an unusually heavy workload load, I’ve been light on the old blogging. I actually had someone email me, asking me if I was ok. But speaking of...

Business people who write fake reviews of their own products will fall foul of new European laws from next year. Laws banning businesses from misleading consumers will bar the act.As consumers rely increasingly on online forums...

As cards and flowers wind their way through office postal systems for St Valentine's Day research has revealed that one in six workers have had a relationship with their boss. Almost 60% of workers have had romantic encounters...

Wired writes about click fraud. Yes, there is click fraud, but this article includes breathless statements like “It's search giants against scam artists in an arms race that could crash the entire online economy.” Excerpt:...

Business letters can be protected by copyright and forwarding them to others can be an infringement, the High Court has ruled. The decision could have implications for email communication because the same principles will apply.In...

Starware toolbar installed with no EULA or proper disclosure.I get a popup at an MP3 site:I click Download. Bingo. It’s installed. No notice, EULA, nothing. The Recipe Finder is tied to epicurious.com. Tsk tsk.

I’m going to play with it. However, I doubt anyone can prioritize my email. Microsoft Research's Community Technology presents SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder. SNARF was built around the notion that social...