Archive for the 'Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk' Category
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Outside air blows hot, cold and dusty, but it cools just as well in datacenters as expensive air conditioning, according to Intel. Fresh air could save millions in datacenter cooling costs, Intel has claimed, after a successful experiment in the New Mexico desert. …
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Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, energy, datacenter, cooling, Data Centers, Data Center, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Intel Corp. |
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
A memo from the US Department of Homeland Security has recommended that corporate and government leaders do not travel with mobile equipment carrying sensitive information. A document emphasizing mobile-data security threats has appeared online after being leaked from the US Department of Homeland Security. The…
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Spokesperson, travel, Document, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Homeland Security, Security, Mobile |
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Canonical’s CEO Mark Shuttleworth has explained the presence of a Firefox 3.0 end-user license agreement in Intrepid Ibex, following developer complaints. Mark Shuttleworth, whose company, Canonical, funds the Ubuntu operating system, has stepped in to try to resolve a dispute on Ubuntu developer’s forum Launchpad. …
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Mark Shuttleworth, Mozilla Firefox, EULA, Shuttleworth, developers, Firefox, Canonical, Linux, Web Browsers, Ubuntu, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Mozilla Corp., Internet |
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
The security team for Google’s nascent open-source mobile platform, Android, has attempted to raise its profile with the security community The security team behind Google’s mobile platform, Android, has tried to raise its profile among security researchers by appealing for their vigilance in monitoring the platform. …
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Security Team, Google, Mobile Platform, Android, SDK, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Vulnerability, Google Inc., Open source, Security, Team, Mobile |
Monday, August 18th, 2008
The Linux project lead has said new contributors should ’start small’ to avoid becoming frustrated with the Linux kernel development process Linux project lead Linus Torvalds has said it is not easy to become a major contributor to the Linux kernel. In an email interview with ZDNet.co.uk…
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Patches, Linux kernel, Patch Management, developer. Linus Torvalds, coders, Linux Foundations, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Developer, Open source, Operating Systems, Linux, UNIX, Linus Torvalds, Software |
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
VMware virtual machines on all hosts with the company’s latest hypervisor, ESX 3.5 Update 2, in enterprise configurations have found that it will not power on after being turned off. Update at 8:35 a.m. PT on Wednesday: Since ZDNet UK published this article, a patch for the flaw has…
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Desktop Virtualization, Patches, ESX, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Virtual Machine, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Security, Hardware |
Friday, August 8th, 2008
The prototype Firefox extension will bring unified messaging to the open-source browser, if early experiments are promising. Mozilla has launched a prototype messaging Firefox extension that it says could eventually enable users to keep track of all of their electronic communications, including email, RSS, social networks and…
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IM, Mozilla, Messaging, message, Snowl, Mozilla Corp., Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Web Browser, Online Communications, Web Browsers, Communications, Instant Messaging, Internet |
Monday, July 14th, 2008
The iPhone Dev Team claims to have jailbroken the iPhone 3G, while a former member of the team claims the device has not been unlocked. A group of developers has claimed to have cracked the iPhone 3G. Apple’s latest version of the iPhone was released to…
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Smart Phones, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Team Management, iPhone 3G, Apple, cracking, PwnageTool 2.0, 3G, Team, Consumer electronics, Personal Technology, Apple iPhone, Management, Cellular Phones, Wireless, hack |
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
IT jobs in the UK have the worst label possible–they’re “boring” according 63 percent of students who took part in a careers survey. Plus, the study that the gender divide will worsen. The majority of non-computing students perceive that information technology as a career would…
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skills, IT management, hiring, jobs, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Student, Strategy, Information Technology, Management |
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Microsoft blames backwards compatibility issues and changes made during the ISO ratification process for its decision to support ODF instead of OOXML in Office 2007. Microsoft’s decision to add support to Office 2007 for the Open Document Format instead of its own OOXML office file format is due to…
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Quality, Process Improvement, Iso standards, ISO, Standard, OpenDocument, Office Open XML, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, ZDNet UK, Microsoft Office, , OpenDocument Format, Business Operations, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Peter Judge, Standards, Emerging Technologies, Productivity |
Friday, April 11th, 2008
By way of the User Account Control feature, company set out to force independent software vendors to make their code more secure, says manager. SAN FRANCISCO–A Microsoft manager has said that one of the security features in Vista was deliberately designed to “annoy users” to put pressure on…
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Software Company, Secure, ISV, Prompt, Microsoft, Vista, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software |
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The recent Cyber Storm II exercise tested how effectively IT security organizations from the US, New Zealand, Australia and Canada communicated with each other in response to simulated threats. Details have emerged about “Cyber Storm II”, a large-scale exercise carried out to test how governments and critical-infrastructure organizations respond…
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CERT, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Game, New Zealand, Exercise, Team Management, Team, Telecommunications, Security, Hacker, Cyberattack, Management |
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Security vendor F-Secure says malformed archive files can cause its own and other vendors’ products to break and crash. Security vendor F-Secure has warned of multiple critical vulnerabilities in its own and other vendors’ products. The vulnerabilities exist in the way the products respond to malformed…
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antivirus, F-Secure, CERT, malware, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Viruses And Worms, Vulnerability, F-Secure Corp., Security |
