Location, location, location… even in Business Continuity

When selecting a recovery site, careful consideration should be given to its location. In particular, the distance from the live site is important

FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Dolly Parton gets angry with Howard Stern

An interesting row has broken out in the US between Dolly Parton - she of the large chesticules - and radio shock jock Howard Stern, who has a show on a channel with the Sirius satellite radio service.

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

An interesting twist on PC infections

In an interesting hacking case, a 22-year-old Nigerian man has been given 18 months by the Lagos state high court after attempting to woo a NASA employee in the US in a bid to infect her computer.

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Intel Atom to power larger, more powerful Apple iPhone v3?

Rumours, Arguments, Denials and Counterarguments have been whizzing around in the past few hours over a quote from a senior Intel executive about the apparent use of Intel's low power Atom processor in a future iPhone

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

3G iPhone to come with onboard TV and Video Conferencing?

Swiss newspaper Le Matin broke the news of a TV-enabled 3G iPhone last week but it took nearly one week before it was reported in English speaking papers

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Ask Acquires Knowledge Websites

Search engine Ask.com has announced that it will buy the Lexicon Publishing Group which owns a number of knowledge websites like Dictionary.com, thesaurus.com and reference.com

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Samsung to quit laptop business if it fails to triple its size by 2011

Samsung has acknowledge that its notebook division is in dire state and is considering stopping manufacturing laptops within three years if it fails to triple its market share to 11 million laptops per year

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

LiMo Initiative Gathers Pace As Firms Flock To Android Competitor

A number of high profile tech companies have put their weight behind a Linux-based mobile platform that is set to compete with the Google Android team

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Comment : Can IT Security Be 'Green'?

As far as 'green' computing is concerned, the IT industry does not have a particularly good record. In the past, it has been poor in a whole range of 'green' areas, including power consumption, the use of toxic substances, over-packaging, air conditioning and product life cycle

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

MSI Wind Is the EEE Laptop biggest Challenger

Although its unfortunate name is bound to be the source of many office jokes, the MSI Wind is certainly the strongest challenger to the near monopoly that the Asus EEE PC has on the ultra cheap, ultra portable laptop market

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Newcomer Nimbuzz plans to outgun Gizmo and Skype

New-to-the-market Nimbuzz has released an audio and text IM program that promises to bring together some of the biggest communities out there under a single, unified interface, something that Digsby has been doing for the desktop

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

A rapid decline for Sprint Nextel?

Losing over a million subscribers in 3 months is a hard blow to Sprint’s esteem

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Comcast buys Linkedin Competitor, Plaxo for up to $175m

Communications company Comcast has purchased online contact manager for an undisclosed amount, although various sources say that Comcast will offer up to $175m depending on performance

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Tougher data centres : Critical and non-critical issues to consider when investing in data center resilience

In our experience, the critical areas of attention are the primary power, back-up power, cooling, telecoms, IT connectivity (cabling/switching) and fire suppression

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Software Piracy Rate rises worldwide says BSA survey

A report published by the Business Software Alliance found out that global software piracy is receding in a number of countries; nearly two thirds of the 108 surveyed had seen a drop in software piracy and only eight territories had actually experienced a rise in software piracy

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Israeli security researcher develops IE superhack

I was intrigued to read over on the IDG newswire that Israeli security research Aviv Raff claims to have developed a zero-day attack methodology against Internet Explorer.

WED 14 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Indian cybercrime experts expect one e-crime each day

According to the Hindustan Times newspaper, police in Gurgaon state have it relatively easy when it comes to cybercrimes, as their staff claim they have one e-crime reported every day.

WED 14 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Microsoft Finally Patches Its Jet Database Vulnerability

Microsoft has released six patches yesterday as part of its ritual patch Tuesday, three of which were flagged as critical and relate to Windows, Word, Publisher and Microsoft's own Malware Protection Engine

WED 14 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

IT Education Body BECTA to appeal to EU about Microsoft Interoperability issue

The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) is going forward with plans to appeal to the European Commission over the interoperability of Microsoft Products that are commonly used in the UK Education sector

WED 14 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Virtualisation technology promises cheaper, more powerful PC

MiniFrame has launched a new version of SoftXpand, set for release this month. This Windows XP based solution enables the creation of up to eight PC workstations from one standard PC

WED 14 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News