CIO IT Security

Intel funds social media incubator Betaworks

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:47:00 GMT

Chip giant wants insight into user behaviour

Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behaviour on social networks.

Microsoft targets NetSuite users with new deal

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:40:00 GMT

US customers offered an $850 credit for each user who switches to Dynamics

Microsoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft's Dynamics family of business applications.

Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:45:00 GMT

Axed after disclosing security incident at Department of Transportation

Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system.

CA acquires Nimsoft in cloud computing services extention

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:46:00 GMT

CA pays $350m for systems monitoring firm

CA continued its shopping spree, agreeing to buy IT management software maker Nimsoft for $350 million.

IDC report datacentre management remains sloppy

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:46:00 GMT

Recession drives improvements but still much to do

CIOs and IT directors expect spending on staff in their datacentres to dramatically outstrip the overall growth in IT expenditure this year, according to analyst group IDC.

BlackBerry internet connections drops out for UK users

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:45:00 GMT

Wi-Fi enabled mobiles refuse to connect

Some BlackBerry users in North America and the United Kingdom experienced data outages on Monday and Tuesday on Wi-Fi-equipped BlackBerries when not connected to Wi-Fi, according to user groups and some US carriers.

Microsoft loses Word patent battle

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:21:00 GMT

US court reaffirms i4i's patent win

The US Federal Court of Appeals has once again upheld a jury's verdict that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents awarded to i4i.

Hackers aim at PDF over Microsoft Word, says F-Secure

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:16:00 GMT

Adobe Reader most attacked application

Hackers adore Adobe Reader, and have pushed it into first place as the software most often exploited in targeted attacks, a Finnish security company said today.

Microsoft Bing catching Google

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:10:00 GMT

Google remains majority share monster

Microsoft in recent months has slowly boosted its share of the search business, but still remains far behind a so far unbeatable foe in its battle with Google.

VMware and Citrix users targetted by virtual PC start-up

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:09:00 GMT

Unidesk enhances VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop rollouts

A virtual desktop start-up Unidesk is aiming to improve deployments of VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop with management software that it says reduces storage costs and gives users a more personalized desktop than the VDI tools by themselves.

Bill Gates slips to second world's richest man

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:00 GMT

Mexican telecoms tycoon takes top spot

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man according to the annual Forbes magazine list, but it's not like he's going to have to go crawling back for his old job either.

CIOs lose confidence in predicting IT budgets

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:45:00 GMT

IT spending 'not on the rebound'

The "vast majority" of IT budgets will not grow this year, said analyst house Ovum.

Digital Economy Bill hit by complaints from Facebook, Google and eBay

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT

BT and TalkTalk, add the amendment to the Digital Economy Bill has "obvious shortcomings"

Google, Facebook and eBay are among the tech giants that have slammed the government's plans to tackle internet piracy, claiming it will "threaten freedom of speech".

Trademarks and security delay domain changes at ICANN meeting

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:40:00 GMT

Generic top level domains prove contentious issue

Trademark protection, costs and cybersecurity threats are some of the issues likely to derail the introduction of new Internet generic top-level domains, being discussed at a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Board this week in Nairobi.

Europe debates controversial ACTA copyright treaty

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:10:00 GMT

MEPs demand talks are open to public scrutiny

European Parliamentarians are set to debate whether to formally oppose an anticounterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) being negotiated in secret by the European Commission with trading partners including the US, Canada and Japan. However, civil liberties campaigners think the resolution is too weak and won't have the desired effect.

Microsoft patches hit Excel

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:41:00 GMT

Redmond giant closes hacker hole

Following a heavy patch month in February, Microsoft announced a lighter load of security bulletins for its users, but security experts say the potential impact is considerable if vulnerabilities aren't addressed.

Sun's open source chief quites in Oracle merger

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:05:00 GMT

Simon Phipps: Open source success wasn't enough to rescue Sun

Sun's chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, has left the company following its acquisition by Oracle, the executive announced in his blog on Tuesday.

Ex-Sun CEO Schwartz tells it like it is on Gates and Jobs

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:48:00 GMT

Apple tried to sue Sun and .Net platform ripped-off Java, says Jonathan Schwartz

The former CEO of Sun Microsystems has taken to his personal blog, provocatively titled "What I couldn't say...," to dish some industry dirt and tell his side of the story about the demise of Sun. He has already hinted at plans to write a book, and a new post Tuesday suggests a tell-all tome could indeed be in the offing.

NHS database and summary care records must be embraced

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:22:42 GMT

Check the privacy and security by all means, but let’s make our brilliant NHS better and move into modern practices

The British Medical Association (BMA) believes the plans by the Department of Health and the National Health Service to create a national database of patient summary care records is a serious privacy breach.

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Oracle Exadata database engine will integrate Flash storage

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:03:00 GMT

Servers to feature embedded drives for performance

The second iteration of Oracle's Exadata database engine will feature flash storage embedded within the server machine, eliminating the need to source data from storage disks and cutting query processing time significantly, a company executive revealed.

Google buys DocVerse increase its range of apps

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:48:00 GMT

Google to offer online Microsoft Word app

With its acquisition of DocVerse, Google is offering an online component to Microsoft Word before Microsoft does so itself.

VMware creates developers social media product

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:02:00 GMT

New Labs site is meeting place for virtualisation techies

Having a fling has suddenly taken on a new meaning: VMware is positively encouraging its engineers to have as many as possible

Former-Novell CTO to lead W3C

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:16:00 GMT

Jeffrey Jaffe CEO to work with Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Filling a position left open since 2008, former Novell CTO Jeffrey Jaffe has taken on the role of chief executive officer for the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

Office 2010 will launch 12 May

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:07:00 GMT

Microsoft offer free upgrade until 30 September

Microsoft will officially launch Office 2010 to businesses at an event slated for 12 May, the company announced today.

Microsoft consider HTML 5 for next Internet Explorer

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:02:00 GMT

IE9 may be announced at upcoming MIX 2010 conference

Rumors are circulating that Microsoft could announce a beta of Internet Explorer 9 at the upcoming MIX 2010 conference. The new version is rumored to feature improved support for open web standards. The MIX 2010 conference will include at least two presentations about new, open web standards: One, on HTML5, is entitled "HTML5 Now: The Future of Web Markup Today." Another session looks at the SVG vector graphics standard.