Stories by: Thomas Hoffman

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    BT's Web 2.0 security strategy 20/10/2009 07:04:00

    In 2006, just as the first tweet was being Twittered, BT Global Services launched an effort to keep its customers and 112,000 employees safe in a new world of Web-based communities and other interactive sites.
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    Q&A: Nicholas Carr on 'the big switch' to cloud computing 14/11/2008 09:01:00

    During his keynote speech at the Society for Information Management's SIMposium 08 conference in the US, author Nicholas Carr drew an analogy between cloud computing and the transition that manufacturers made from generating their own power to relying on utilities in the early 20th century.
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    Getting employees clued in to disaster recovery plans 01/04/2008 09:32:36

    Last November, a fire broke out in one of the buildings on ISTA Pharmaceuticals' main campus, forcing about 50 employees to move to another location on the property. After the building's sprinklers kicked in, the entire network had to be shut down because the water threatened the equipment carrying the company's inbound data traffic.
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    Eyeing IT spin-offs through an R&D lens 20/11/2007 12:15:06

    Venture capitalists hail from all different backgrounds. Many are investment bankers or entrepreneurs; some are even former journalists. David Tennenhouse, a recent entrant into the venture capital world, hails from the research and development trenches. Tennenhouse is a former vice president and director of R&D at Intel Corp. He also previously worked as director of the Information Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and as DARPA's chief scientist. In addition, he has taught at MIT.
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    Advice on protecting kids from online predators 05/11/2007 11:41:40

    The numbers are downright frightening: One in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log onto the Internet say they have received unwanted sexual solicitations via the Web, according to the U.S. Crimes Against Children Research Center. And, the center says, 25 percent of children have been exposed to pornographic material online.
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    IBM executive explains company's buying spree 11/09/2007 09:00:06

    IBM has been on an acquisition spree, having recently snapped up DataMirror, a data management vendor in Markam, Ontario; Princeton Softech, a data archiving company in Princeton, New Jersey; and Watchfire, a Web application security provider in Waltham, Massachusetts. Computerworld US' Thomas Hoffman talked with Deborah Magid, director of software strategy at IBM's Venture Capital Group in Menlo Park, California, about the company's strategy.
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    EDS pushing massive IT retraining effort 04/03/2005 07:19:55

    Electronic Data Systems has embarked on a mammoth retraining program aimed at providing 20,000 of its 87,000 technical workers with updated business and technology skills by the end of this year.
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    Users moan software price increases for dual-core CPUs 27/09/2004 09:55:48

    The advent of dual-core processors with two CPUs on a single chip is causing many IT managers to wring their hands over the hefty increases in licensing fees sought by major software vendors.
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    Utility-based deal cuts tennis group's IT costs 09/09/2002 07:45:00

    At this year's U.S. Open tennis tournament here, the organization that governs the sport in the U.S. tried to ace out high IT costs by joining the burgeoning move toward utility-based computing.
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    UK warns travellers of Y2K woes abroad 15/09/1999 21:49:25

    The British government has released a report warning travellers about potential year 2000 problems in 48 countries, including the US.
 
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