Skytap - the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud - has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network toplogies on its floating interwebs service.…

The power of collaboration within unified communications

An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy, and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to pre-emptive copies.…

The power of collaboration within unified communications

In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own YouTube, according to a new report.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as "a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers".…

Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

If you want to make money, and perhaps especially in the open source software racket, you have to keep improving your software to help it get more widely adopted among enterprise customers who get nervous if they don't hand over big wads of cash to someone to babysit the code. That's why Terracotta, a maker of systems programs that help Java applications scale, has made a number of acquisitions and has tweaked two key programs in its portfolio.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.…

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A customer of the late Nav4All has filed a complaint with the EU, alleging that Nokia abused its market position to drive the competition out of business.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

The British Medical Association is calling on the Department of Health to suspend the roll-out of summary care records.…

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Sun Microsystems' veteran Simon Phipps quit his chief open source officer post at the Oracle-owned company yesterday.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Conservative culture front bencher Jeremy Hunt is asking what’s the point of BBC3 and BBC4? It’s a good time to ask the question. In an interview with the Independent, Hunt queried why £100m was being spent, merely to attract "very, very small" audiences.…

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Comment  The initial rush to join the government's ID card scheme appears to have eased, with applications from people in the Northwest running at an average of as little as 14.5 per working day.…

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What might the iPad have been? Apple announced it as a Magical and Revolutionary Device, defining "an entirely new category". But it actually only addresses a small part of the yawning gap between mobile handsets and notebook computers, where there's still a lot of defining to be done. There's space there for dramatically different reimaginations of the iPhone, for counter-attacks from handset companies, and for diverse devices based on Google's Android.…

The power of collaboration within unified communications

Older versions of the Windows flavour of Apache's web server software are vulnerable to a critical code injection flaw as well as a pair of lesser security bugs.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

A new report highlights a depressingly consistent drift towards ever greater control of the population using new technologies.…

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