I spent roughly 22 years of my life building somewhere between 150-200 custom software systems ranging from accounting systems, llama genealogy systems, labor reporting systems, airport profitability systems, huge consolidation...

The Government will create a list of 'crown jewel' events whose tickets cannot be sold on once bought. If the ticketing industry will not sign up to the voluntary scheme the Government has threatened to legislate. The Department...

The European Parliament has said that copyright-infringing music and film file-sharing should not be criminalised. The Parliament has said that file-sharers should not be prosecuted as criminal offenders unless they seek to...

It was billed as the hacker attack of 2008 - on the Saturday just gone, hackers were going to down CNN's main Web site.But it didn't happen, mainly because the group that started the hacking project off called the whole thing...

I was interested to read on the Canadian newswires that the government there is concerned about organised crime rings causing trouble in the online world.The problem, according to Ian Wilms, president of the Canadian Association...

In this second podcast based on The 10 Most Common Data Security Issues and How to Solve Them whitepaper, Gordon Rapkin, CEO of Protegrity, examines how to calculate the Return On Investment from creating a sensitive data...

After a connection or virtual circuit is established between two nodes or application processes, a bit stream or byte stream may be delivered between the nodes. A virtual circuit protocol hides the division into segments, packets...

Imagine being able to give your employees the luxury of one-stop, online shopping for all the services they need.  Now, imagine that you could provide all of your service providers with a centralized location to promote...

IBM certainly seems to see SOA as a key initiative, if its annual SOA show is anything to go by. The IBM Impact 2008 even in Las Vegas attracted more than 6000 attendees, and they can't all have gone just for the weather! But...

A recent BBUS Consumer Survey reveals a strong shift in how telecoms users like to buy their services.  There has been a big increase in the proportion of services bought in bundles, particularly by DSL users.   Table...

Microsoft has confirmed on Friday that it is considering releasing a cut down version of Microsoft Office suite and a slew of other web-centric services, called Albany, at a low price to satisfy the demand for such a product. ...

The new EEE PC 900 launched in the early hours of this morning in Hong Kong and according to sources there, the successor to the EEE PC 701 has already sold out. People were queuing up before the first store opened and more than...

Warning: Waiting for Windows Seven could seriously harm the health of your company; that's in essence the warning that research company, Forrester, has issued towards businesses which are still pulling back on a Vista roll-out. ...

Desktop on Demand, a remote desktop service launched by Security Firm De Futuro, aims at providing IT and document management teams with a full office suite, enhanced privacy and file sharing functionality. The additional...

The great British obsession with ‘haggling’ is a thing of the past when it comes to buying IT, says Birmingham based technology services provider, Probrand. Shopping around by telephone and manually comparing price...

O2 have recently been lambasted for profiling customers’ 3G access.   Many users have been capped at 128Kbps, less than the EDGE data rates for Apple, and woefully short of Vodafone’s potential 7.2Mbps data...

Skype has announced that it will be launching several unlimited calls packages with a special "buy three months for the price of two offer" till the end of May 2008. Skype has detailed three different packages which...

Slashing the price of the iPhone by £100 on Wednesday could have been one of the better decisions O2 and Carphone Warehouse took in their plans to clear out their stock of 8GB iPhones before the 3G version arrives. ...

A sudden order of Lithography hardware to Sweden-based fabrication-equipment maker Obducat has caused the storage sector to wonder who is the unknown major HDD maker. Online News Website, The Register, says that Obducat will...

ISPs here and across the pond are increasingly looking desperate to cash on the golden geese that is their customers without paying attention to possible dire consequences. After BT's Phorm saga, US-based Earthlink, one of the...

It lets you update a Web site with a single click, transfer files directly between FTP servers, resume interrupted downloads, and perform advanced file searches while doing other FTP tasks. The FTP Site Profile Manager makes it...

A Hong-Kong based company released the first commercially available portable media player with an integrated projector which could mean the end of the age old problem of failure-prone presentations. The Sunview PMPP is a...

Today ASUS is the number one motherboard manufacturer in terms of size and employees among the Tier-1 motherboard manufacturers and manufacture video cards, motherboards, laptop computers and other peripherals. Doc and I love...

PC Plus said of it that it "is an impressively specified and great value display only let down by poor colour repro and no DVI" but then at £99.99 + VAT and delivery at Misco.co.uk, you can forgive almost...

Packed with the very latest in multimedia technologies, this stylish premium Sony laptop is an entertainment powerhouse, with a Blu-Ray DVD drive for a stunning visual experience.Sold by Dixons for only £811 delivered (use...