Articles Posted on 29 September 2008
Ebay Dangers : VPN Hardware Lands Kirklees Council In Big Trouble
News Hardware
Ebay has always been a treasure trove if you wanted to find random data from companies or even public organisations; Andrew Mason, a security specialist, bought a Cisco VPN 3002 Concentrator on Ebay for £0.99 but when he...
Iridium – New markets, new energy
News Business & Government
I seemed to hit a sensitive spot at Iridium with my previous article (Iridium sold on for small change) concerning Greenhill & Co investment of $22.9m in Iridium. The company was very keen to assure me that Greenhill...
Agile Edge Conference
News Security
There’s a difference between running an Agile project and running your organisation in an Agile way. Having an Agile Edge - A transformational, lasting change, driven by metrics which create immediate and long-term...
Freesat Sells 100,000 HD Boxes In Five Months, Connects With Sky Dishes
News Mobile & Telco
Riding on the increasing popularity of free high definition (HD) services, Freesat has been able to sell more than 100,000 set-top boxes during its initial five months of launchFreesat, from BBC and ITV is a free to air digital...
UK Children Face Major Online Risk On the Net
News Software
According to a recent report, children in UK are relatively more at risk from online threats as compared to their peers in other countries of Europe.The study conducted by the London School of Economics highlighted the fact that...
Unlimited Music Could Make Online Piracy History Says Research
News Consumer
Listen as much as you want schemes like Vodafone's Musicstation or Nokia's Comes with Music could go a long way to reduce the threat of online music piracy according to a study published by market researcher, TNS...
BT Starts New Trial Of Phorm Ad Tracker System Tomorrow
News Mobile & Telco
BT will start running a new trial of the often decried Phorm scheme also known as BT Webwise with customers being "selected" on an anonymous basis to participate in the trial via a specially setup webpage that will...
50,000 RAF Personel At Risk After Unencrypted Hard Drives Are Stolen
News Security
Three hard drives containing the personal information of 50,000 current and former RAF employees have been stolen on Wednesday 17th, from the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency at RAF Innsworth in Gloucestershire, which left...
"Three Strike" Broadband Proposal On P2P Users Thrown Out After EU Decision
News Security
The European Parliament has voted against the move to impose a “three strikes” rule on unauthorised file sharers by European Union (EU) member states that would have allowed ISPs to disconnect their internet...
Comment : AOL Europe’s policy chief de Stempel joins Child Web Safety Council
News Security
AOL today announced that Camille de Stempel, its Director of Consumer Advocacy and Privacy for AOL Europe, has been appointed to the UK Council for Child Internet Safety, chaired by government ministers.De Stempel has been...
Hands On with the Samsung i900 Omnia
News Mobile & Telco
One of the most exciting handsets to arrive from Samsung in recent months, the i900 Omnia is one of the few completely touch screen devices released by Samsung.As per Samsungs usual trick the i900 Omnia is well specified handset...
Comment : "Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle Methodology is Working"
News Security
Application vulnerability specialist, Fortify Software, says that after being in pole position in the reported security incident charts for the whole of 2007, Microsoft has dropped to third slot in IBM's X-Force mid-year security...
IPTV Subscribers Number To Rise To 20 million, According To Gartner
News Hardware
There will be a sharp rise in the number of subscribers of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services this year, if predictions made by Gartner are to ring true.The market research firm predicted that the number of...
EU Calls for Universal Broadband Plans To be Implemented By 2010
News Hardware
European Union (EU) Information Commissioner Viviane Reding has announced a review of essential telecom services and called for broadband access for all its citizens till 2010.As of now, 36 percent households of EU member nations...
UK's MI6 Uses Facebook To Recruit More James Bond Wannabees
News Security
Maybe MI6's definition of the ideal spy recruit is one who can navigate the maze of social network with ease, which is perhaps why, her Majesty's secret services, the Secret Intelligence Service, have now turned to Facebook to...
£202.02 Dell S2409W Full HD Monitor 24-inch 1920x1080
News Software
Experience stunning detail and clarity with full High-Definition resolution with this equally stunning 24-inch 1920x1080 slim-bezel LCD screen from Dell. Ideal for multimedia entertainment, gaming and productivity, The high...
Government To Launch Internet Child Safety And Protection Scheme; but will it help?
News Security
The UK government is pushing plans for a voluntary code backed by more than 100 major technology companies and websites in a bid to make the internet safer for its younger users.The UK council for Child Internet Safety will be at...
£3899 Dell 16-core (4x4) Poweredge R900 Server, 2GB RAM, 36GB SAS
News Hardware
The PowerEdge R900 is powered by the latest quad-core 64-bit Intel Xeon 7300 sequence processors delivering outstanding performance and lower power consumption. Each base offers two processors.The R900 comes with four quad-core...
Move Over US, China Becomes Biggest Broadband Territory ... And It's Growing Fast
News Hardware
China has now overtaken the USA to become the biggest broadband country in the world. From analysis of its latest data, Point Topic believes that both the USA and China had about 78 million broadband lines at the end of August,...
Business Continuity Plans - A moving target!
News Hardware
Most people would agree when you make the statement that the world doesn’t stand still. In particular, more than ever the world we do business in today is in a constant state of flux, with reorganisations, mergers, new...
Canon PIXMA iP4500 Multi Function Printer
News Hardware
Print what you want, how you want - at high speed and with exceptional results. Features Print photos up to 9600x2400dpi*, borderless 10x15cm in 21 sec. Print documents, mono and colour, up to 31/24ppm Print...
People and processes for the front and back office functions
News Security
There is a clear distinction between the types of work and hence the types of people and processing required from these two areas. The front office customer Relationship Management (CRM) people are generalists capable of...
Credit crunch will trigger surge in online banking fraud
News Security
As the boffins at the Bank of England put the finishing touches to effectively nationalising the Bradford & Bingley over the weekend, I was interested to read a prediction that the continuing credit crunch will trigger a...
US ISPs agree not to snoop on subscribers as much
News Security
I was intrigued to read online that the US Senate hosted a hearing behavioural targeting - the process whereby ISPs target advertising and content at subscribers depending on their previously displayed online behaviour - last...
