74% of today’s business systems are now computerised compared to just 5% in the 1960’s, yet as the functionality of ERP systems advance and improve, Human Resources are being left behind and have to make do with compromises and...

I was distinctly less than impressed by the tidal wave of hand-wringing and sympathetic noises coming from Google, Yahoo and a number of other search engine portals over the last week, following worries about customer privacy.In...

Microsoft has announced it has been working with the FBI and China's Public Security Bureau to crack a major software counterfeiting ring.According to Microsoft, a series of raids and arrests over the last few weeks has resulted...

A company cannot change its contract with consumers simply by posting revised conditions on its website, a US appeals court has ruled. The position is similar in the UK, according to an e-commerce legal expert.A customer of Talk...

Privacy has got to be the security buzzword of 2007.  All out war has been declared by the subversives to use any means necessary to capture everyone’s personal details. Privacy is so paramount that even the...

I was intrigued to read that a clutch of ex-Microsoft senior programmers have formed a company specialising in blocking Web-borne security threats at the operating system level.Known as Haute Secure, the Seattle-based (where else...

The security risks associated with storing personal data on a USB stick were highlighted this week following the apparent theft of an unprotected stick at the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. According to a report on the...

Recorded at the FIRST Security Conference back in June 2007, Ben Chai speaks to Chris Roberts about the issues of Security and Education. This is the third and last podcast in the series. Listen to this interviewYou can listen to...

Wyse Technology announced secure high-speed Wi-Fi capabilities and smart card support for its entire V and S classes of thin clients as well as its new Wyse V class L product line. Now the company's entire product line offers...

The internet's major search engines are following Google's lead in limiting their collection of information about web users and their searches. Microsoft, Yahoo! and Ask.com are taking action after controversial policy changes by...

LocatioNet Systems Ltd., a provider of mobile mapping and location applications, announced that it has launched 'amAze' - the UK's first free mobile mapping, navigation and local search solution for regular mass-market mobile...

Ingres Corporation, a Business Open Source software company, announced it has become a member of the Eclipse Foundation. The Eclipse Foundation is an open source, not-for-profit member-supported corporation that helps cultivate...