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The barbarians at your door. How to identify and defeat the cyberthreats facing your business today
Many of the cyberthreats your business faces are invisible. Learn how to shine a light on these threats and discover how to take action to protect your business
NASA To Offer Innovation Advice To NHS
Space experts will join speakers including dot-com innovator Martha Lane Fox at an upcoming health service conference
US To Fingerprint Visitors On Departure And Arrival
Non-US citizens will now have to give digital fingerprints on exit as well as entry
Google Android On 20 Handsets This Year
Although Android is open-source, manufacturers will be able to sign distribution deals with Google in order to pre-install their phones with more options such as Google Apps
IBM Luring Unix Customers Onto Linux Mainframes
IBM, which is seeing a continued resurgence in the mainframe space, is offering new migration services and financial incentives in hopes of luring away some HP and Sun Unix customers
Obama Declares IT A Strategic Asset
In a speech today, U.S. President Barack Obama pledged to treat the country's digital infrastructure as a strategic asset and announced the creation of the position of cyber-security coordinator
Early Review In For Palm Pre
Palm Pre, the smartphone that Palm hopes will revive its ailing fortunes and provide a viable smartphone competitor to Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion's BlackBerry, was reviewed by The Boy Genius Report
Google Hands Out “Donut” Android 2.0
At its recent Google I/O developer conference, Google dished out a preview demo of “Donut,” the 2.0 version of the Android mobile operating system with new features such as speech-to-text
Green IT Pressure Is Growing
CIOs may be more keen to save money than save the planet, but after this year's Copenhagen Forum the pressure to go green will get more serious, says Michael Vizard
Netbooks Are Not a Business Solution
Machines that are underpowered and hamper your employees' productivity are not going to catch on anytime soon.
What Windows 7 Means … For Apple
With the annoying stuff from Vista removed and the ability to run a virtual instance of XP within Windows 7, Apple should worry
Microsoft Allies Rally Against EU
An industry body partly funded by Microsoft has come to its defence
Troubled Sony Ericsson launches Satio iPhone-killer
Satio has a big touchscreen, a 12 megapixel camera and a focus on consumers. but is that enough?
EMC Admits To Rising Carbon Emissions
Despite action to improve its sustainability, the company says green house gas emissions are still rising
First Ever Intel Core i7 Laptop Launched
The Intel Core i7 processor will power a new laptop being offered by AVADirect. Expected benefits include triple-channel memory and DDR3 memory running up to 1333MHz.
US Department Loses 20 Percent Of Computers
The report also finds that many PCs are not encrypted, and the disposal process for computers is not uniform
Bing! – A New Microsoft Search Engine
Despite Google's lead in search-engine market share, Microsoft hopes that a new and improved search experience will translate into a greater piece of the online search pie
Google Puts Wind Behind Wave
Created by the team that brought Google Maps to the world, the search engine giant hopes Wave will cause more than a few ripples on the Internet
Dell Revenue Down 23 Percent
Dell reports that its fiscal 2010 first-quarter revenue declined 8 percent sequentially from the fourth quarter and dropped 23 percent from the previous year
Green IT Appetite Is Growing
Environmental responsibility is driving growing green IT spending, not cost savings, a survey says.
Server Virtualisation – Some Real Cost Savings
Server virtualisation promises to save space, costs and energy, but two UK local authorities have discovered there's more to achieving these benefits than the technology alone.
Ofcom Proposes To Lend Radio Spectrum For Olympics
the Ministry of Defence will have to hand over to the make way for the press pack for the duration
How to solve the eWaste issue
It's no good wringing our hands over eWaste. The answer is simple if we have the political will to outlaw all dumping of electronic waste, says Tony Roberts of Computer Aid International
NEC EA261WM: A Display With Green Ambitions
Including a carbon meter and a lower power eco-mode could help raise awareness of power usage in the office
Romania Issues €100 Million To Microsoft Without Bids
Contracts are drafted to exclude any alternatives and hand the money over to Redmond, say local activists
Jail “E-Waste Cowboys” Says IT Charity
US and UK governments must clamp down on the export of waste-tech claims the chief executive of Computer Aid
IBM Offers Government Stimulus Kit On Credit
Why wait for government cash for green projects when you get the technology right now and pay later, says IBM
Ingres Bundled With JBoss Middleware
Ingres has bundled its database software with Red Hat's JBoss middleware in a nod to application developers
Yahoo Would Sell To Microsoft For “Big Money”
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has suggested that she would sell Yahoo's search apparatus to Microsoft in exchange for a massive amount of cold, hard cash
RIM Edges Ahead On Smartphone Security
By a margin, third place went to Apple, which received an overall score of 1 out of 4, to RIM's 4 out of 4