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RSS dataFacebook, Google, eBay urge Mandelson to abandon copyright plan
News As a result, the secretary of state could introduce "arbitrary measures" according to the four companies, such as increasing the use of user data monitoring even when an individual has not broken the law. [03 Dec 2009]
2010: The year your desktop goes virtual?
News To the user, the experience is similar to the operating system running on their physical machine but in reality the processes are run and the data is stored in a central location. For businesses leery of... [01 Dec 2009]
Leaked report reveals billions in budget cuts for public sector IT
News The Public Sector Network (PSN): a single telecoms infrastructure that will provide converged voice and data comms. Shared services delivered through the cloud will help the public sector shave billions from its annual... [30 Nov 2009]
Your top HR tech priorities for next year revealed
Comment This means that you could find yourself having to pay to run the old internal IT systems alongside just to keep this data, eliminating much of the cost savings that come with switching to SaaS. If you are moving to a... [30 Nov 2009]
The Role of Open Source Data Integration
White Paper This free-to-download whitepaper looks at how Enterprise customers are demanding projectÂ]sized data integration tools that can be scaled up to enterprise use. With such a large market need, we argue that the future... [30 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.11.09
Round-Up They must also hold a record of how many notifications a customer has received and give this data to rights holders. The rights holders, such as record companies, can then use this data to apply for a... [27 Nov 2009]
Going Global With Geolocation.
White Paper This white paper, sponsored by Quova, Inc.a leading provider of IP geolocation data and services, illustrates how companies are using geolocation to greatly improve the user experience across languages and borders -... [26 Nov 2009]
ID card database: 500 names added in first month
News A Home Office spokesperson said it contains the data of people who either have an ID card already, or have applied for one. The National Identity Register - the database behind the ID card scheme - contains more than 500... [26 Nov 2009]
Why you must rein in your power users
Comment The Payment Card Industries Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), which any business taking credit or debit card payments should adhere to, recommends "auditing all privileged user activity" as well as avoiding the use of... [25 Nov 2009]
How the cloud is swallowing your comms
News The move towards higher mobile data allowances will also see the extension of unified communications to smartphones and other wireless data devices, according to the analyst. Unified communications is... [24 Nov 2009]
Is losing a mobile device really such a big deal?
Comment If a company secret is released into the wild, it can be copied; if customer data is released, there is a compliance cost as well as reputational damage. We have to face the fact that mobile devices are capable of... [24 Nov 2009]
Photos: Take a tour of Microsoft's self-contained datacentre
Photo Azure is Microsoft's operating system for cloud computing, a style of computing in which servers host the bulk of the data and applications that users access from their local PCs, smartphones and other devices. [24 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome OS
Cheat Sheet This should help data loss to become a thing of the past. On top of that all user data is encrypted as its sent back and forth over the internet and apps are sandboxed when they are run, so malicious... [23 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google takes the wrapping off Chrome OS
Photo Chrome OS doesn't store data permanently on its local machine but instead relies on central servers - in this case Google's Gmail system - to store data. Google released the source code for Chrome OS on... [23 Nov 2009]
Illegal downloaders crackdown: Digital Economy Bill to cut them off
News They must also hold a record of how many notifications a customer has received and give this data to rights holders. The rights holders, record companies for example, can then use this data to apply for... [23 Nov 2009]
