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From silicon.com:
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
London data centres hit by credit crunch
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
3G iPhone to storm enterprise world, says O2
Caption Competition: Road to nowhere!
MoD IT - late and over budget
Editor's Blog: The naked truth about DSL
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash |
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From ZDNet UK:
YouTube user privacy at risk in Google-Viacom suit
ID cards: Aviation workers being 'used politically' The British Air Transport Association says the government is using aviation workers to introduce ID cards incrementally and lend the scheme credibility
Seagate invests £120m in Northern Ireland plant Investment in the Londonderry plant will allow it to remain 'the lowest-cost and biggest producer of read-write heads in the world', the company said
Comms managers: UK businesses need fibre The CMA has warned the UK could suffer unless broadband speeds are increased, while a European body claims fibre deployment leads to more web usage
LiMo gets Openwave browser and messaging Purple Labs will supply its LiMo Foundation partners, like Vodafone and Orange, with Openwave's mobile browsing and messaging software
ID cards chief casts doubt on scheme security The head of the Identity and Passport Service has warned citizens should be concerned about the proposed National Identity Register
Google asks Viacom to respect YouTube user privacy The search giant has urged Viacom to allow the anonymisation of YouTube user data that must be handed over following a US court ruling
Museum of Computing seeks new home The Swindon museum has put its collection into temporary storage, having lost its previous home at the University of Bath Oakdale campus
MoD tech scheme hit by major delays The Defence Information Infrastructure scheme has delivered benefits but key elements are 18 months late, says the National Audit Office
Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard The Portable Document Format became the latest International Organization for Standardization standard as of Wednesday morning
Biometrics to speed travel between UK and US Fingerprint, iris and facial-recognition tech will be used to speed up frequent UK-US travellers' journeys through immigration control
ICO: UK may get data-breach notification law The Information Commissioner's Office has said draft EU legislation may prove the catalyst needed to get data-breach notification into UK law
Gartner: Hosted email to boost cloud-services uptake The analyst house claims increasing business use of internet-hosted email services will boost uptake of other IT apps provided over the web
Virtualisation seen as key for greener datacentres Speakers at the Energy Logic Symposium in Sydney have touted virtualisation's role in creating less power-hungry datacentres
Experts urge criminal charges for data breaches A former deputy information commissioner, among others, says data breaches should result in criminal penalties for both organisations and individuals
IBM buys mainframe maker, sparks antitrust fears An industry group has said the company's purchase of Platform Solutions will 'suck the life' out of the mainframe market
Google wins source-code ruling in Viacom lawsuit A US judge has ruled Google does not have to reveal its search source code, but must surrender YouTube users' details, to Viacom
Gov't: Terrorists increasingly exploiting tech The government and security bodies say terrorists are making greater use of tech and exploiting the growing information infrastructure to hide their activities
Cabinet Office launches mashup competition The Cabinet Office has set up a competition for people to develop their own mashups using previously unavailable public-sector information
Firefox 3 earns Guinness World Record Mozilla's browser has entered the book of Guinness World Records for the most downloads from a website in a 24-hour period
Report: India losing grip on outsourcing ecosystem The 2008 Black Book of Outsourcing claims Indian firms now account for only 10 of the top 50 global outsourcers
Internet Explorer 8 to get anti-malware protection Microsoft has announced new security features in the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, including anti-malware protection
EC expected to enforce SMS-roaming price cuts Informa Telecoms & Media says operators have failed to voluntarily reduce the cost of SMS roaming in line with an EC deadline of 1 July
Jobs, Apple directors face new stock-options lawsuit
Google employees' details stolen in burglary Employees of Google and other companies had their computer records stolen in a burglary of HR firm Colt Express Outsourcing Services
Gov't scales back ePassport upgrade The Identity and Passport Service has dropped the Electronic Passport Application project upgrade, claiming to be striving for value for money
Mobile users make same errors as disabled PC users Academics have called on tech companies to overcome mobile-device usability issues, after research found mobile users make the same errors as motor-impaired PC users
HP offers Parallels virtualisation on Integrity servers The deal between the companies covers HP's Integrity range, right up to the top-end Superdome, allowing customers to run large workloads on virtualised systems
Samba 3.2 adds cluster support The file and print server software has received a major update, adding clustered file system support, compatibility tweaks and other improvements
Asus Eee Monitor pictures leaked
Microsoft seeks allies for fresh Yahoo bid According to The Wall Street Journal, the software giant has approached Time Warner and News Corp to aid another play for Yahoo's search business
Applicant numbers for IT teacher training still falling So far this year, the number of applicants to undertake IT teacher-training courses has fallen 15.8 percent on the same period in 2007
Barclays gives online users free Kaspersky software The bank already offered its two million online customers free antivirus software, but has now beefed up the package to protect against other threats Ready to assume its place as a footnote in operating-system history, Linspire is to be bought by another of the smaller Linux players
Mobile-phone payments to hit £151bn by 2013 Juniper Research predicts a fivefold rise in mobile payments over the next five years, and recommends retailers exploit this 'fourth channel'
Report: Outdated browsers put 637m users at risk A group of researchers says 637 million web users are surfing with outdated internet browsers and are therefore at greater risk of web-based attacks
Lords questions gov't over web-data retention laws The government has been asked how it will phrase a law requiring ISPs to retain internet-traffic data for up to two years
Techies reveal their creative side for charity
IBM launches Cognos 8 for System z mainframe The company's Cognos division has produced a version of its business-intelligence tool that will run on the System z mainframe
Microsoft boosts licensing options with 'Select Plus' The company's latest licensing option is targeted largely at medium-sized firms and intended to offer greater flexibility than the Select scheme
BT signs £160m outsourcing deal with Nationwide The telecoms and IT giant will manage the building society's networked IT services for the next seven years
Gartner: Hardware market to defy economic slump The hardware market in general is still growing, with the main areas of growth being low-end Linux systems and high-end mainframes, says the analyst house
Femtocells may usher in next-gen mobile networks The Femto Forum believes femtocells could help speed the arrival of next-generation mobile-broadband networks, such as WiMax and LTE
Businesses told: Beware multi-component malware Sophos and Fortinet say increasingly complex malware is being designed, with multiple components that target different enterprise weaknesses
Adobe helps uncover 'invisible' Flash web content The company has given Google and Yahoo technology to help them better index dynamic web content and rich internet applications
Mobile operators warn EC over termination rate cuts Any move to speed rate reduction could force operators to make cuts in services, increase prices or end handset subsidies, says industry body GSMA
Google, Tele Atlas to share mapping data The deal will see Google granted access to maps and dynamic content from Tele Atlas, which will be able to use the search giant's user-input tech
NHS trust loses 21,000 patient details on laptop The patient details were stored on an unencrypted laptop stolen from the car of a Colchester hospital trust manager The operator claims to be the first in the UK to roll out high-speed mobile broadband uploading on a nationwide basis
Ubuntu creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs Mark Shuttleworth has called for Ubuntu developers to accept responsibility for all flaws in the OS's code, including those in 'upstream' source code |
CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss whether YouTube users' privacy will be threatened as a result of a US ruling that Google must turn over user data to Viacom
Chief executive Steve Jobs and several directors are being sued again over their role in the company's stock-options backdating affair
Seemingly genuine images of Asus's upcoming all-in-one monitor and PC have appeared on a French blog
A 'Virtual Rucksack' was just one of the entrants in a Microsoft-run competition asking IT pros to come up with innovative technology projects to help a charity of their choosing
