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Sun expands server test drive programme

Sun expands server test drive programme

Sun is expanding a programme that allows businesses to test drive its servers.
Shaun Nichols Oct 30 2008 12:14AM Hardware
RedDot embraces enterprise 2.0

RedDot embraces enterprise 2.0

Web content management firm RedDot has launched a suite of products designed to give firms the tools to create internal and external Web 2.0 sites that remain firmly under the control of the enterprise.
Phil Muncaster Oct 30 2008 12:14AM Software
Intel lauded by EPA for "green" power use

Intel lauded by EPA for "green" power use

Intel is giving itself a big green pat on the back after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave the firm a “Green Power leadership” award and made IBM "Green Power Partner of the Year".
Sylvie Barak Oct 29 2008 3:47PM Strategy
Google finally wins book deal

Google finally wins book deal

An agreement has finally been made with the Authors' Guild and Association of American Publishers which will cut some of Google’s woes.
Emma Hughes Oct 29 2008 3:47PM Software
Embedded Nano kit announced

Embedded Nano kit announced

Via has produced a working mini-ITX motherboard with a Nano processor on it.
Staff Writers Oct 29 2008 3:47PM Hardware
Opinion: Vista is dead, PDC suggests

Opinion: Vista is dead, PDC suggests

Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference has shown one thing at least, says Iain Thomson: the company has given up on Vista and is now looking at Windows 7 as its saviour.
Iain Thomson Oct 29 2008 3:41PM Software
3 lets users share wireless broadband capacity

3 lets users share wireless broadband capacity

3 Mobile has taken the wraps off a new 3G Wi-Fi router offering that lets users share their wireless broadband connection with others at work or home.
Staff Writers Oct 29 2008 3:34PM Telco/ISP
Inmon tries to clean up data warehousing’s dirty image

Inmon tries to clean up data warehousing’s dirty image

The ‘grandfather of the data warehouse’, William Inmon, is so incensed at the negative connotations of data warehousing today that he’s trademarked the name of the next version to prevent vendors from overhyping it.
Ry Crozier Oct 29 2008 3:32PM Storage
Online shoppers using more coupons but ordering less

Online shoppers using more coupons but ordering less

Online coupon aggregator Tjoos.com released statistics today which show that coupon use is up while order sizes are down by 30 per cent in the past two months.
Staff Writers Oct 29 2008 3:03PM Software
Fraud-as-a-service looms over firms

Fraud-as-a-service looms over firms

Newly organised methods of online criminal activity are threatening to democratise fraud and undermine banks and online traders, according to security experts at this year’s RSA Conference Europe.
Phil Muncaster Oct 29 2008 11:56AM Security
Brazil is "cesspool of fraud" says guru

Brazil is "cesspool of fraud" says guru

Brazilian hackers now more technically sophisticated than Russians, "fraud as a service" model emerges.
Paul Fisher Oct 29 2008 10:20AM Security
Hackers attack forensics tools

Hackers attack forensics tools

Criminals are increasingly deploying aggressive anti-forensics technology to ensure that prosecution is impossible, according to experts.
Mark Mayne Oct 29 2008 10:20AM Security
Credit crunch means fewer security professionals and growing risks

Credit crunch means fewer security professionals and growing risks

The gap between security risks and our ability to tackle them is set to rise.
Derek Parkinson Oct 29 2008 10:20AM Security
Mashup security requires dynamic approach

Mashup security requires dynamic approach

Software mashups will increasingly be used to develop commercial products, but securing the transactions will require new ways of identifying and managing the risks.
Derek Parkinson Oct 29 2008 10:11AM Security
Turkish hacker arrested by FBI made video giving tips for installing ATM skimmers

Turkish hacker arrested by FBI made video giving tips for installing ATM skimmers

A Turkish hacker known as "Chao" and arrested as part of the FBI operation against underground forum DarkMarket produced his own training videos. You can watch it here.
Paul Fisher Oct 29 2008 10:11AM Security
Microsoft sheds light on Windows 7 features

Microsoft sheds light on Windows 7 features

Microsoft has revealed more details of Windows 7, the next version of its desktop client platform, including user interface and usability improvements, plus features to make the operating system easier to deploy and manage for corporate IT departments.
Daniel Robinson Oct 29 2008 6:13AM Software
Arctic explorers take modern tech on 700km trek

Arctic explorers take modern tech on 700km trek

When two young Aussie explorers set out on a 700km Arctic expedition, they took some surprising technology with them. iTnews looks at some everyday hardware that withstood the harshest environments.
Kathryn Small Oct 29 2008 6:00AM Oddware
University of Queensland advances Windows cluster trial

University of Queensland advances Windows cluster trial

University of Queensland is conducting tests on a number of research applications to potentially run on its Windows-based high performance cluster.
Ry Crozier Oct 29 2008 12:25AM Networking
Self-assembling organic wires present sci-fi possibilities

Self-assembling organic wires present sci-fi possibilities

U.S. scientists have developed water-soluble electronic materials that spontaneously assemble themselves into ‘wires’ much narrower than a human hair.
Staff Writers Oct 29 2008 12:00AM Hardware
Telstra pumps $20m into West Oz networks

Telstra pumps $20m into West Oz networks

Telstra has been conspicuously absent from the NBN saga this week, instead announcing a $20 million injection of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems on fibre routes in regional Western Australia.
Staff Writers Oct 28 2008 4:36PM Telco/ISP

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