Vendor warns over Skype eavesdropping

Skype seems to have loads on its plate right now - so here's another kick in the teeth.

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Microsoft Office Open XML standard faces ratification set back

The US organisation that is a delegate to the ISO international standards body likely will vote against approving Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard next month, after the proposal failed to get enough support from members of the group's board.

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Windows update killed Skype's VoIP service

The widespread failure of Skype's Internet telephony service last week happened when millions of Windows users tried to log in to the system at the same time, after downloading a software update from Microsoft and rebooting their machines, Skype said Monday.

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Microsoft Office Open XML standard faces ratification set back

The US organisation that is a delegate to the ISO international standards body likely will vote against approving Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard next month, after the proposal failed to get enough support from members of the group's board.

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Citrix-XenSource deal could upset open-source developers

Citrix Systems' £250m acquisition of XenSource, last week along with VMware's massively successful IPO earlier this week, has further legitimatised the hot virtualisation space, but it may also be causing some disillusionment among the open-source community.

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Infected job search sites deliver 46,000 IDs to hackers

Notorious Prg Trojan strikes again...

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Police radio system coverage "can be enhanced", say authorities

Police forces can buy “special coverage enhancements” to make up for the fact that the national contract for the Airwave digital radio system does not include coverage inside buildings....

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Windows administrators find internal politics top concern

Administrators opt for more automation over pay rise.Internal politics is the topmost frustration for Windows administrators, according to an opinion poll taken during NetPro’s annual user conference.

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TK Maxx hacking attack cost £59m

Data breach clean-up costs keep on growing.TJX Companies, owner of the TJ Maxx and TK Maxx retail chains, now estimates a data theft earlier this year has cost it £59m.

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TK Maxx hacking attack cost £59m

Data breach clean-up costs keep on growing.TJX Companies, owner of the TJ Maxx and TK Maxx retail chains, now estimates a data theft earlier this year has cost it £59m.

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Bombings inquiry slams police Airwave radio contracts

A committee set up to review the response to the July 2005 London bombings has slammed the contracts for the Airwave digital radio system being rolled out by the emergency services because they did not include coverage inside buildings or underground.

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Dell customer satisfaction levels slip again

More bad news for PC maker.The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, published by the University of Michigan’s National Quality Research Centre, surveys satisfaction levels among 70,000 consumers in different industries, including the US personal computer market.

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TK Maxx hacking attack cost £59m

Data breach clean-up costs keep on growing.TJX Companies, owner of the TJ Maxx and TK Maxx retail chains, now estimates a data theft earlier this year has cost it £59m.

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Citrix buys XenSource to shake up virtualisation landscape

Deal moves it into server and desktop virtualisation markets

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Novell: 'We're not SCO and we won't sue'

Novell has promised not to sue anybody over the Unix copyrights that a US court last week ruled it owned. It had been contesting ownership with SCO which launched a series of claims against Linux users and suppliers

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Scotland wants to be home of Indian outsourcers

Indian outsourcers offered Scottish language skills....honest....

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Goldman in £1.5bn bail-out after computer models fail

A hi-tech hedge fund belonging to Goldman Sachs was so badly hit by last week’s stockmarket turbulence that it lost over $1.5bn (£750m) of its value after the computer algorithms it was using failed to deal with the unpredictable markets.

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Goldman in £1.5bn bail-out after computer models fail

A hi-tech hedge fund belonging to Goldman Sachs was so badly hit by last week’s stockmarket turbulence that it lost over $1.5bn (£750m) of its value after the computer algorithms it was using failed to deal with the unpredictable markets.

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Goldman in £1.5bn bail-out after computer models fail

A hi-tech hedge fund belonging to Goldman Sachs was so badly hit by last week’s stockmarket turbulence that it lost over $1.5bn (£750m) of its value after the computer algorithms it was using failed to deal with the unpredictable markets.

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Goldman in £1.5bn bail-out after computer models fail

A hi-tech hedge fund belonging to Goldman Sachs was so badly hit by last week’s stockmarket turbulence that it lost over $1.5bn (£750m) of its value after the computer algorithms it was using failed to deal with the unpredictable markets.

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Network Rail signs major IT services deal with CSC

Network Rail has signed a five-year IT services contract with CSC to provide "midrange" services and Oracle ERP support.

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Taunting the CIO

The Wall Street Journal has run a special section with the headline "Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You" and then with the clear message: IT can't help you. It then goes on to say how to get round the efforts of the IT department to keep control of corporate IT. Not really very helpful or responsible....

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Internet Explorer 6 users open to attack

Internet Explorer users are at risk from the DirectX software development kit Microsoft issued in 2002, according to a Polish researcher who claims the software contains a critical vulnerability.

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Dell users face heavy premium for Vista

Research based on last week’s LinuxWorld event shows how much more expensive Vista-based machines are compared to those using an open source OS

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BBC fights back over ISPs' iPlayer objections

The BBC is seeking to diffuse the growing controversy over the BBC iPlayer’s heavy demands on the web infrastructure in the UK, claiming it’s in regular discussions with ISPs regarding the costs of downloading video.

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Police data stolen in server heist

A database containing mobile phone numbers and information about their use has been stolen from a company carrying out forensic investigations for police forces across the UK.

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Hackers deface UN website

"Hackers" defaced the United Nations website early Sunday with messages accusing the US and Israel of killing children.

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Linus Torvalds in depth: Microsoft, GPLv3 and much more

Sixteen years after the release of Linux to the public it has grown beyond the wildest imagination of Linus. This interview spells out what's gone right and what he is concerned about.

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LinuxWorld: Virtualisation is threat to Windows

Mendel Rosenblum told an audience at LinuxWorld in San Francisco yesterday that a virtual appliance, which bundles applications with only the OS code needed to make it run, can then be deployed on a virtualised server regardless of the host OS.

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MySQL accused of backtracking on open source commitment

MySQL has made it harder for developers to use the enterprise edition of its database software for free.

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LinuxWorld: Virtualisation is threat to Windows

Mendel Rosenblum told an audience at LinuxWorld in San Francisco yesterday that a virtual appliance, which bundles applications with only the OS code needed to make it run, can then be deployed on a virtualised server regardless of the host OS.

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Dell to pay £24m to ousted CEO

Smiling all the way to his next job...

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Linuxworld: 'We need more apps!'

Linux needs to develop a broader base of applications, avoid fragmentation, address data-centre needs and expand its market, according to Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian.

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Dell looks to Linux desktop virtualisation

Dell is looking to push Linux into the corporate desktop environment using virtualisation to allow alternative Linux operating systems to run more easily alongside Windows.

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Lloyds TSB axes 210 UK IT staff

Lloyds TSB, the UK’s fifth largest bank which last week reported half year profits up 15% at £2bn, is offshoring 210 UK IT jobs to India.

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Olympics organisers reject Windows Vista

Microsoft XP-based PCs prefered by organisers

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UKVisas slammed over security hole in outsourced web site

An investigation into a security bug on a website used to apply for UK visas has painted a damning picture of “organisational failures” by a government agency and its contractor.

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Microsoft may catch Apache in web server market

IIS is running 36% of all active web sites, Apache 48%

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LinuxWorld: SaaS rival to Microsoft Project goes open source

A young maker of web-based project management software is jumping headfirst into the open-source world as a way to woo users from the dominant, but possibly vulnerable, Microsoft Project.

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Unilever IT programme drives £1bn-a-year savings

Unilever is putting standardised regional business processes and streamlined IT systems at the heart of its ‘One Unilever’ programme to rationalise its operations and generate big cost savings, it has revealed.

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Are CIOs Irrelevant to Enterprise 2.0?

For the past two years, innovation has remained the #2 CEO priority (right behind the perennial #1, customer care). And over the past several years, an important new avenue for rapid innovation and value-building has been emerging: community-based collaboration.

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Half of UK financial firms not ready for compliance

More than half of all UK firms have not implemented the security processes to comply with legislative directives such as PCI and MiFID, says a report.

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Turquoise delays launch, denies rift in bank consortium

The launch of pan-European equity trading platform Turquoise, originally planned for November, has been delayed until early 2008 due to complex contract negotiations over the technology platform used to power the venture, according to a spokesperson.

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Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member. The answer makes interesting reading.

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LinuxWorld : Google boosts Linux support with OIN license

Google has increased its support for the open-source Linux operating system by becoming Open Invention Network's first end-user licensee. Set up in 2005, OIN is an intellectual property company focused on acquiring and pooling patents to protect Linux against patent infringement attacks.

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NHS prepared to take over NHS supplier iSoft

An NHS team was put on standby to take charge of crisis-ridden software supplier iSoft and ensure delivery of a critical part of the health service’s new computer system, the government has confirmed.

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Study: Users want 50-year storage

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Data Management Forum has just reported the results of a landmark study that looked at the current state of long-term storage - that is, data stored for more than 10 years. Some disturbing results jump out of this study. They suggest that we live in a digital version of the Dark Ages.

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A question of identity

A great blog entry from the CIO in the borough hosting London's 2012 Olympics - talks about problems of identity management, why some benchmarking used in the public sector is a waste of space and why e-auctions are a dubious way of saving money.....

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Lenovo to sell £100 PC in China

Move coincides with Microsoft's cut price Vista offer

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Study: Users want 50-year storage

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Data Management Forum has just reported the results of a landmark study that looked at the current state of long-term storage - that is, data stored for more than 10 years. Some disturbing results jump out of this study. They suggest that we live in a digital version of the Dark Ages.

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Wi-Fi network and GIS prove critical in coping with Minneapolis bridge disa

A partially completed, two-month old Wi-Fi network in Minneapolis has proved vital in the city’s response to this week's collapse of its most important bridge.

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Wanted: caring and responsible employer, wages negotiable

More than a third of respondents to a survey conducted by communications group BT rated working for a caring and responsible employer as more important than the size of their salary....

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Linuxworld: Open source going mainstream

Up front cost, TCO, reliability and features drive open source as well as propriatory software adoption choices and Linux is on the way....

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RBS hails IT as profits climb

Productivity improvements on steady overheads

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Getting it right

Interesting blog from the CIO of Newham council , the London borough which will host the 2012 Olympics. The nitty gritty day to day activity of an IT leader trying to use technology to transform his community...

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Microsoft spells out open-source certification plans

Microsoft has clarified its plans to seek open-source certification for its shared-source licenses, saying it will submit for approval only the two licenses that allow source code to be used on any platform.

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Winners of open source Oscars

SourceForge.net community recognises top achievers of open-source projects

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Anti-virus 'failure' leaves 500,000 MPack crimeware victims

Poor detection of the MPack data-theft toolkit by anti-virus software has allowed it to run riot on the Internet, a new analysis from Finjan has claimed.

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Torvalds rebukes desktop critics

"Linus Torvalds, creator and maintainer of the Linux operating system kernel, has reacted angrily to suggestions that the kernel's development process is skewed in a way that prevents improvements on the desktop."

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Energy efficiency drives IBM to switch data centres to mainframes

IBM is replacing 3,900 servers in its own data centres with 30 mainframe computers to save energy and to show that the mainframe is still very much alive.

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