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Floating IT lab mimics multi-tiered networks

55 min 24 sec ago
Is it real? Or is it Skytap?

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

Fraud-prevention service ponies up $12m for 'false' ads

3 hours 15 min ago
Agrees to safeguard customer data

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 juices flash drive box

5 hours 15 min ago
Reliability boost roadmap

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

Apple's draconian developer docs revealed

5 hours 38 min ago
The first rule of iPhone Club is...

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

It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app

6 hours ago
The new Microsoft

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

Cisco 'forever changes internet' with...a router

6 hours 48 min ago
322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here

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

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Google tests TV set-top search, says report

7 hours 8 min ago
Satellite TV meets YouTube meets online ad machine

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

New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild

7 hours 25 min ago
IE 6 and 7 users targeted

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 intros restyled biz laptops

9 hours 3 min ago
Vostro 3000 line debuts

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

FA launches security probe after England team bugged

10 hours 12 min ago
Lancaster Gate-gate

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

Terracotta's Ehcache back-ends Hibernate

10 hours 20 min ago
Web Sessions gets some tweaks, too

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

Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm

10 hours 56 min ago
WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim

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.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Nokia killed free navigation, alleges EU complaint

11 hours 45 min ago
The fall of Nav4All

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

Doctors tell government to stop the health records roll-out

11 hours 57 min ago
SCR ain't ready for primetime

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

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Open source boss quits <strike>Sun</strike> Oracle

12 hours 3 min ago
Simon Phipps rides out of Ellison town

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

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Tories ask: Why BBC3, BBC4?

12 hours 8 min ago
Is this the wrong question?

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.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Northerners give up ID cards for Lent figures suggest

12 hours 56 min ago
Has gov gotten cold feet on ID scanning centres?

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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Android - the winning formula for tablets and netbooks?

12 hours 58 min ago
It's the only game in town, says the maker of the other iPad

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

Critical bug does a Custer on Apache for Windows

13 hours 20 min ago
Old warrior clobbered

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

UK still lousy on electronic nosiness

13 hours 22 min ago
Report shows state of international surveillance heavyweights

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

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