Archives for April, 2010

IT consultant gets 5 years for plundering $2m


… from banks he administered
A contractor who provided IT administration services to banks was sentenced to more than five years in prison this week after admitting he used his insider knowledge to plunder some $2m from four financial institutions.…

IT consultant gets 5 years for plundering $2m


… from banks he administered
A contractor who provided IT administration services to banks was sentenced to more than five years in prison this week after admitting he used his insider knowledge to plunder some $2m from four financial institutions.…

What does HP want with Palm?


Web-based OS, or a nice stack of patents?
Palm, which defined mobile computing, has been bought by HP, which pissed away its stake in the same industry. So can HP do any better this time around?…

US airmen hornswoggled by Transformers email trick


Flight of Megan Fox fancy fools fools, creates far-reaching foofaraw
A US Air Force security training exercise which created a false buzz about the filming of Transformers 3 succeeded in creating awareness of phishing issues, but went a little further than was expected.…

US boffin builds ultra-dense nanodot memory


With frikkin’ lasers
A US scientist has developed a way to store binary data on dots 6nm in size – possibly leading to a one-square-inch chip holding 2TB of data.…

US boffin builds ultra-dense nanodot memory


With frikkin’ lasers
A US scientist has developed a way to store binary data on dots 6nm in size – possibly leading to a one-square-inch chip holding 2TB of data.…

Managing the distributed workforce


Practicalities, tips and techniques
Video  Over the past few weeks we’ve been asking you about working practices and how they are evolving based on an increasingly distributed workforce. Well, enough writing – this time we’ve brought film into the equation.…

Samsung ships phase-change memory for mobes


Throws NOR out for PRAM
Samsung is shipping phase-change memory in a multi-chip package (MCP) as a NOR replacement for mobile phones.…

Samsung ships phase-change memory for mobes


Ditch the DRAM, its time for PRAM
Samsung is shipping phase-change memory in a multi-chip package (MCP) as a NOR replacement for mobile phones.…

Free White Paper – IBM Sets Pace in Unix Virtualization

IBM’s Unix poaching slows in Q1


HP vague, Oracle mum on competitive wins
IBM wants you to know about its competitive wins against HP and Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems) shops, and Oracle doesn’t want you to know much of anything.…