ITProPortal's Ben Chai interviews the Managing Director and Founder of Global Secure Systems, David Hobson; he gives us his perpective on Business Continuity and Security Threats and talks about Harry Potter, the Credit Crunch...

A survey released by Anti-spam company Clearmymail showed that the US still occupies the top spot amongst the countries sending spam to UK email accounts. According to the report, despite falling by almost a third since last...

UK IT managers and directors admit that web projects are repeatedly failing to fully meet business or organisational objectives according to an independent survey commissioned by Ruby on Rail developer, New Bamboo. Respondents of...

Writing a business continuity plan is a piece of cake these days isn’t it? A quick trawl of the internet will turn up several plan templates that you can download, or you could try and get hold of another...

The IT industry is currently facing a shortage of experienced data storage staff due in part to recent changes in legislation. IT recruitment specialists Ifftner Solutions says that the demands of complying with standards set by...

In a classic example of management going awfully wrong, the National Audit Office criticised the failure of the Department of Transport to execute plans to save money across the board by sharing IT services.Instead of saving...

Samsung will launch its most impressive iPhone wannabee phone yet in a few weeks' time; the SGH-F480 has some very impressive specifications that put the current iPhone to shame. The F480 has a 2.8-inch touchscreen, marginally...

In a press conference held on May 21, Tesco announced that it has signed a Mobile VoIP deal with Freshtel on a trial basis.This is the first time ever that a mobile VoIP service will not be issuing a separate mobile number for...

This week saw the launch of Channel 4’s news catchup service that lets users catch up with Channel 4 News programmes that were broadcast in the last seven days.This service is available through the channel’s website...

This allows independent viewing of images by large numbers of people in diverse locations. It involves a synthesis of microscopy technologies and digital technologies.Prior to recent advances in virtual microscopy, slides were...

I've been travelling up and down to London on the high-speed East Coast Main Line rail link quite a bit recently. It used to be GNER on the line, but now it's National Express.In GNER's day, the plebs in standard class had to pay...

CI-Net, a wide area networking company, announced on May 21 that it was going to partner with the Solihull Community Housing (SCH) and provide Internet access to approximately 11,000 council homes in the area via the...

BBFC has announced that it will launch a new voluntary scheme, which will be called BBFC.online, that would allow it to apply its rating system to downloadable movies and videogames.Further, it was announced that companies such...

As of the last two years, however, things are changing with overclocking features making their way in along with new design layouts. ECS has started to produce some rather impressive boards, and while not quite at the same level...

While ATI/AMD have made attempts to compete on value NVIDIA has answered back with a die shrunk “stripped” down version for the rest of us mere mortals who don’t want to shell out 5 bills for a great performing...

DreamCoder for MySQL is a powerful software solution for MySQL Database administration and development. Our very intuitive interface will save you time and money. DreamCoder for MySQL works with all MySQL versions from 3.23 to...

The UK broadband market is on the verge of market deregulation; Ofcom announced that the regulations governing the price of the BT wholesale services could be removed in 70 percent of the country. What the future holds will now...

SmartCode VNC Manager is a powerful yet easy to use remote administration and monitoring software application for both the business and home network environments. It is typically used for remote network management, remote system...

Strong partnership between Intel and Asus become very obvious and as a result of good collaboration between them, ASUS made Asus P5Q Pro motherboard based on new Intel’s logic controller under the name of P45. Before any...

Microsoft said that future versions of its near-ubiquitous Office productivity software will allow users to save documents not just in its own proprietary formats but also as Open Document Format (ODF), Portable Document Format...

Today's world is all about Gigabytes. Programs and data take up more and more storage space. The need for installing an extra hard drive on your PC or Mac is more present than ever. On sale at Play.com for only £59.99 -...

Co-invented by SanDisk, U3 technology gives you the ability to carry your files and your software on a secure USB drive. You can have your wallpaper, preferences, favorites, profiles, and more - everything you need for a...

I'm indebted to the Yorkshire Post for reporting the fact that a 23-year plonker from Leeds recorded his criminal activities and then posted them on YouTube.Andrew Kellett, was given the title of Yorkshire's dumbest criminal by...

Japan was in the IT security news this week as the authorities there prosecuted a student accused of creating and spreading the Harad virus - one of the country's major bits of malware - using copyright legislation.Copyright law?...

In one of those types of stories that gets swept under the corporate carpet in the UK, it appears that a PINpad in a Canadian theatre in Nanaimo North Town has fallen victim to fraudulent tampering.According to Canadian newswire...