When Microsoft Vista and VPNs don't mix
Feature | ComputerWeekly.comPapa Gino's is ahead of many companies in deploying Windows Vista, thanks to its involvement in the Microsoft TAP program. But VPN compatibility has ...
VoIP security fundamentals
News | ComputerWeekly.comVoIP security is a challenge for IT staff because IP telephony brings with it not only the security problems of data networks but also new threats ...
VoIP advice from the trenches
News | ComputerWeekly.comITKE, or ITKnowledge Exchange, is simply a cool (and quick) way to get a response to your VoIP-related questions.
Social media policy: Seven questions to ask
News | ComputerWeekly.comBusinesses must create a social media policy to guide employees using social networks and micro-blogging sites, according to Gartner.
UPDATE: Stolen network equipment causes Vodafone UK network outage
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe theft of specialist equipment has prevented thousands of users from accessing the Vodafone network.
Vodafone protests Egyptian government propaganda on network
News | ComputerWeekly.comVodafone has described the Egyptian authorities' use of its network to send pro-government texts as unacceptable.
Twitter increases security with HTTPS encrypted tweets setting
News | ComputerWeekly.comTwitter has added a new profile setting to increase the level of security when accessing the mobile blogging site over an unsecured Wi-Fi connections.
Middle East governments stepping up internet control, study shows
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe internet has proved to be a powerful tool for rallying social and political change, but Middle East governments have also recognised their ...
Intel rolls out high speed cable 'Thunderbolt'
News | ComputerWeekly.comIntel has rolled out a high-speed PC connection technology named Thunderbolt, in collaboration with Apple.
Government wants hard evidence before changing fibre tax
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe government wants concrete evidence that the business rates tax on lit fibres - the so-called fibre tax - unduly hampers network investment before...
Glasgow 1,000-core FPGA accelerates MPEG video coding
News | ComputerWeekly.comResearchers at Glasgow university have developed a 1,000-core chip, which could lead to significantly faster processing compared to today's ...
Gartner: CIOs fail on staff career development
News | ComputerWeekly.comCIOs are getting better at reinvesting savings into new projects, but investment in skills and career development is still poor.
FDM seek 1000 graduates for training scheme
News | ComputerWeekly.comIT services provider FDM is recruiting 1000 graduates for its training scheme in 2011.
Gartner outlines six money-making CIO profiles
News | ComputerWeekly.comA new generation of CIOs with skills to make the business money will replace traditional CIOs by the middle of the decade, says Gartner ...
DHL launches real-time information to improve supply chain
News | ComputerWeekly.comDHL Supply Chain has launched a live order tracking system (Lots) to deliver real-time information to its customers.
Eli Lilly signs Cognizant deal
News | ComputerWeekly.comPharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has signed a multiyear deal with Cognizant to provide a range of business services
Tesco rolls out in-store mobile phone network
News | ComputerWeekly.comSupermarket Tesco is rolling out a converged fixed and mobile voice network across its stores based on GSM technology. Cliff Saran finds out how the ...
Tight budgets will hit IT departments in 2011
News | ComputerWeekly.comBudget constraints will be the biggest challenge for IT managers in 2011 as UK companies are forced to cut costs
IPv4 addresses will run out within eight months
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe Internet Address and Naming Agency (IANA) will allocate the last remaining IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses this month, signalling a ...
IT services contracts spiked in final quarter of 2010
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe total value of worldwide IT services contracts signed in the final three months of 2010 was 66% higher than the previous three months, according ...
HP to offer enterprise cloud on demand
News | ComputerWeekly.comHP has unveiled its enterprise cloud service compute strategy, which will offer UK users computing on demand from its Wynyard datacentre.
Google revamps Apps Engine
News | ComputerWeekly.comGoogle has revamped its App Engine to combat reliability issues in its Datastore.
Fixing the cracks in public sector digital infrastructure
Opinion | ComputerWeekly.comThe Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the flaws in the UK's digital government set-up. The appointment of new IT leadership presents an ideal ...
Banks and telcos lead big data analytics spending in APAC
News | ComputerWeekly.comBanks and telcos contributed nearly one-third of spending on big data analytics in the region, while the government and healthcare sectors will ...
Broadband boosts BT profits to £531m
News | ComputerWeekly.comAn early return to positive cash flow at Global Services helped BT to produce earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation 7% higher ...
Criminals fiddled stolen Covid-19 vaccine data to damage trust
News | ComputerWeekly.comMalicious actors manipulated stolen Covid-19 data in a way clearly intended to damage public trust in vaccines, says the EMA
The impact of the Olympics power drain on London-based datacentres
News | ComputerWeekly.comPower shortages and costs are becoming an increasing concern for companies with datacentres in London as the Olympics approaches.
Visa Europe opens its doors to IT trainees on Higher Apprenticeship programme
News | ComputerWeekly.comVisa Europe has recruited 14 IT apprentices through its Higher Apprenticeship programme, launched in April 2011. Most will study for a foundation ...
Web security certificate breach widens
News | ComputerWeekly.comGlobalSign, the fifth largest digital certificate issuer, has suspended the issuing of authentication certificates for websites after the DigiNotar ...
University challenge: using IT to improve services and reduce costs
News | ComputerWeekly.comUniversities face a balancing act as they become increasingly expected to improve the experiences of more demanding students while making budgets go ...
US House of Representatives committee approves cybersecurity standards bill
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe US House of Representatives has passed a bill designed to increase education, research and development to counteract cyberthreats.
Ten-year-old hacker exposes exploitable flaws in Apple and Android games
News | ComputerWeekly.comA 10-year-old Californian hacker has exposed a new type of security vulnerability in many mobile games at a hacker conference in Las Vegas.
Pakistan bans VPNs to prevent users accessing banned websites
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has virtual private networks. Pakistanis are banned from accessing social networking sites and all internet...
Retailer Aurora gives iPads to shopfloor sales staff to check stock and shorten queue times
News | ComputerWeekly.comFashion retailer Aurora is providing iPads to sales staff at London branches of Coast, Oasis, Warehouse and Karen Millen.
Small suppliers dominate social CRM market
News | ComputerWeekly.comSpending on social software for marketing, customer service and sales increased by 40% in 2010, but social CRM remained less than 5% of the total CRM...
Sunderland City Council signs multimillion-pound 10-year network deal with BT
News | ComputerWeekly.comBT will deliver a corporate network connecting 188 sites.
Twitter acquires social network site Bagcheck
News | ComputerWeekly.comSocial network site Bagcheck has been bought by Twitter for an undisclosed sum.
Tate museum group chooses Drupal and cloud hosting for new website
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe Tate museum group is scrapping the use of HTML code in favour of open source content management platform Drupal...
Trend Micro aims to secure consumer mobile devices for enterprises
News | ComputerWeekly.comSecurity firm Trend Micro has announced an enterprise mobile management product to help organisations integrate consumer devices into an enterprise ...
PricewaterhouseCoopers takes 40 graduate IT interns on security and testing teams
News | ComputerWeekly.comConsultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers has selected 40 graduate interns for its IT department. The trainees will work with PwC's information security and...
Facebook admits to 600,000 cyber attacks a day
News | ComputerWeekly.comFacebook has revealed that every 24 hours it receives around 600,000 logins to the social networking website from impostors attempting to access ...
Improved debt collection with BI: An ICICI Bank story
Feature | ComputerWeekly.comDebt collection can gain immensely by BI. By powering this, ICICI Bank has effectively turned debt collection into a customer-relations management ...
Analysis: What is the secret sauce in SAP's success?
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe last major upgrade to SAP's core enterprise resource planning (ERP) product was released in 2005, so how is the company achieving record growth? ...
John McCarthy, father of Artificial Intelligence and creator of LISP language, dies aged 84
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe artificial intelligence (AI) community is mourning the death of John McCarthy, the US scientist who invented the LISP computer language at the ...
How Unilever took control of its software
News | ComputerWeekly.comUnilever has automated the processes it uses to manage its software globally through a service which has saved millions of pounds, reduced the ...
DigiNotar certificate authority breach: Why it matters
News | ComputerWeekly.comThere has been much speculation around the identity and motive of the hacker who was able to breach DigiNotar and issue fraudulent digital ...
Gartner: Best defence against social media threats is monitoring and education
News | ComputerWeekly.comBlocking social media in the enterprise encourages bad behaviour by employees but does not prevent access, warns Gartner.
UKtech50: The 2021 longlist
News | ComputerWeekly.comEach year, Computer Weekly launches its annual search for the most influential people in UK IT, where the tech industry nominates who it thinks ...
Gartner: Keep encryption simple and standardised to cut cost and complexity
News | ComputerWeekly.comBusinesses should consider self-encrypting drives (SEDs) for new installations that hold significant volumes of sensitive data, says Gartner.
Smaller companies installing SP2; larger firms not
News | ComputerWeekly.comSymantec offers bare metal restore software
News | ComputerWeekly.comAuthorize.Net says it has 'learned' from attack
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe credit card processing service was unprepared for the kind of attack it suffered last week, but it will use the experience to improve security.
Fast Guide: iSCSI
News | ComputerWeekly.comIf you need to come up to speed rapidly on iSCSI, you've come to the right place. In this Fast Guide, we touch upon the basics and then we walk you ...
Spamming the universe
News | ComputerWeekly.comHackers costing enterprises billions
News | ComputerWeekly.comSymantec's semi-annual Internet Threat Report finds hackers continued adding billions to the cost of doing business on the Internet.
Battery fault prompts HP laptops recall
News | ComputerWeekly.comHewlett-Packard is to recall more than 15,000 laptops worldwide because a fault makes them a fire hazard.
Technology industry figures pay tribute to Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs
News | ComputerWeekly.comApple's co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died, aged 56. Jobs battled with pancreatic cancer, and had liver transplant surgery in 2009. He ...
Salesforce chief Marc Benioff compares Larry Ellison to 'oppressive dictator'
News | ComputerWeekly.comMarc Benioff, head of Salesforce.com, has given his swan song speech at Oracle Open World, comparing Larry Ellison to an oppressive dictator. He ...
Video is future of communication, claims Cisco CEO John Chambers
News | ComputerWeekly.comVideo will be the future for all forms of communication, claims John Chambers, CEO of networking company Cisco.
Apple unveils iPhone 4S, iOS 5 and iCloud
News | ComputerWeekly.comApple has launched its latest smartphone device, iPhone 4S, an updated version of its operating system (OS), iOS 5 and the new iCloud service.
Cisco SNMP flaw allows for DoS attacks
News | ComputerWeekly.comA coding flaw in Cisco's IOS software for certain routers and switches could leave networks vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
Telecom overspending -- thwart it!
News | ComputerWeekly.comResearch has found that telecom overspending is out of control, but a new batch of software is out there to help enterprises get a handle on their ...
EMC, NetApp duke it out in the midrange storage
News | ComputerWeekly.comAs NetApp gains market share in midrange storage, EMC makes a rare response to performance claims.
Effective wireless security is available, but holes exist
News | ComputerWeekly.comSpecialist vendors offer products that allow even small businesses to run a secure wireless network without paying a high price, but that doesn't ...
Study: Some firms balk at mobile security
News | ComputerWeekly.comCompanies are failing to safeguard sensitive data on employee mobile devices, according to a survey by the Business Performance Management Forum.
Microsoft to patch critical zero-day flaws in Windows
News | ComputerWeekly.comMicrosoft plans to repair five critical flaws in Windows and a flaw in XML Core Services as part of its monthly patch update next week.
Insider security threats come in many forms
News | ComputerWeekly.comInsiders could be the greatest threat to a company's security. The best defense is to let them know Big Brother is watching and a plan to deal with ...
Skype Trojan: Much ado about nothing?
News | ComputerWeekly.comThis week in Security Blog Log: A Trojan horse has captured headlines by targeting Skype users. But some believe the threat is being blown out of ...
Seagate to acquire EVault for $185M
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe disk drive maker has plans to tuck the online backup and archiving service provider into its services group.
Tech roundup: WAFS products
News | ComputerWeekly.comA guide to wide-area file services (WAFS), which allow distant users to access files and applications from the datacentre as if they were local.
Check Point gets big IDS boost from NFR deal
News | ComputerWeekly.comAnalysts say Check Point would gain much-needed intrusion detection and prevention capabilities through its acquisition of NFR Security. The deal ...
Microsoft investigates Windows Vista flaw
News | ComputerWeekly.comLocal users could gain elevated system privileges and run malicious commands by exploiting an error within the Windows server library. Vista is among...
Top 10 VoIP tips of 2006
News | ComputerWeekly.comEcho and latency issues top the list in 2006, as seen in our top 10 list of most popular tips. If you have missed any of these tips, now is the time ...
Extracting the cipher text with an undulator
Photo Story | ComputerWeekly.comLondon CDO: More groundwork needed to gain trust for data use
News | ComputerWeekly.comLondon’s chief digital officer, Theo Blackwell, says organisations need to do more groundwork if a smarter city is to be real possibility
Former Macedonian PM convicted in corruption case exposed by illegal government surveillance
News | ComputerWeekly.comInformation exposed by leaked recordings that were part an illegal mass surveillance campaign orchestrated under the government of former prime ...
Checking product backlog
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The Tunny machine
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Photo Story | ComputerWeekly.comSmartcards in the New York subway
Photo Story | ComputerWeekly.comPhotos: Payment technology in the US
Photo Story | ComputerWeekly.comWe take a look at the current payment technologies across three major US cities
Photos: Sony Vaio P-Series
Photo Story | ComputerWeekly.comSony's Vaio P-Series boasts a clear eight inch screen, weighing 638g XrossMedia Bar (XMB) similar to the PS3 and PSP, 3G and WiFi.
Photos: Blackberry Playbook rivals iPad
Photo Story | ComputerWeekly.comBlackberry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) has launched its tablet, the Blackberry PlayBook. With RIM’s stronghold in the enterprise market, its new ...
A project that is costing UK taxpayers £12bn
Photo Story | ComputerWeekly.comPhotos: A history of the demise of the NHS IT programme
Photo Story | ComputerWeekly.comThe controversial NHS National Programme for IT "is no longer needed", according to the Department of Health. Computer Weekly tracks the demise of ...
First appearances
Photo Story | ComputerWeekly.comWindows 7
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Photo Story | ComputerWeekly.comMoD reports 18% rise in data loss incidents
News | ComputerWeekly.comThe Ministry of Defence reported more than five hundred data security incidents in 2019-20, with seven serious enough to warrant disclosure to the ICO
What are the outsourcing options for the SME?
Feature | ComputerWeekly.comThe pace of change of technology can cause the small and medium enterprise (SME) critical issues which outsourcing can only address with carefully ...
Photos: 2012 London Olympics – the challenges facing IT
Photo Story | ComputerWeekly.comThe London Olympics 2012 venues and the IT supporting them.