Last year I moved into a cottage that didn't have anything resembling a phone line, let alone Broadband. A colleague had at this time been waiting a number of weeks to have his Broadband installed, and the light at the...
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January 26, 2012 9:00 AM
Last year I moved into a cottage that didn't have anything resembling a phone line, let alone Broadband. A colleague had at this time been waiting a number of weeks to have his Broadband installed, and the light at the...
January 23, 2012 9:00 AM
It's a while since I played with (and, for that matter, wrote about) the Asterisk Open Source IP Telephony package. But as it happens I was having a pint with a friend from the telecoms industry last week, and he...
January 20, 2012 9:22 AM
For most companies websites are their corporate face to the world. Any downtime can be costly especially if the sites are used for e-commerce. Web monitoring checks can be set up quickly and easily in Opsview giving you powerful alerting...
January 18, 2012 9:11 PM
I'm about to get my eye back into .Net development on Windows and C development on Linux, primarily so I can do a couple of projects I've been promising myself for ages I'd have a bash at. Being the user...
January 18, 2012 11:06 AM
f you are associated with construction and development of any kind, chances are very good that you have had your share of headaches. From shipping and delivery delays, to fouled-up coordination between trades, to the classical separation of design intent...
January 13, 2012 9:57 AM
by Accenture Technology Labs Staff
From a cover story in Time magazine, to high profile reporting in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, to several landmark privacy bills in US Congress, the concerns around online privacy are on the rise. Battle lines...
January 12, 2012 4:51 PM
by John E. Dunn
At last the world’s most effective but ignored digital police force, Microsoft, has said it plans to give third-parties including CERTs, ISPs and even foreign governments automated access to its formidable botnet intelligence feeds through an API.As an article written...
January 5, 2012 5:30 PM
by John E. Dunn
The irony of Microsoft launching a legal action over illegal operating system recovery disks against UK retail chain Comet in the very week it announced a feature in Windows 8 that will render them largely obsolete deserves special mention. The...
January 4, 2012 11:00 AM
The dawn arrives late and the evening pretty early this time of year in Keflavík. Good thing our building shells are completed and the focus of our work is channeled into the final connections of our new modular datacentre. At...
December 12, 2011 2:55 PM
by John E. Dunn
A hacker claims to have found the entire Playboy magazine featuring nude images of celebrity Lindsay Lohan sitting on an Internet file-sharing website, it has been reported.In a story from Fox News, the unnamed Russian said he had discovered 200...
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At last the world’s most effective but ignored digital police force, Microsoft, has said it plans to give third-parties including CERTs, ISPs and even foreign governments automated access to its formidable botnet intelligence feeds through an API.As an article written...
I'm about to get my eye back into .Net development on Windows and C development on Linux, primarily so I can do a couple of projects I've been promising myself for ages I'd have a bash at. Being the user...
For most companies websites are their corporate face to the world. Any downtime can be costly especially if the sites are used for e-commerce. Web monitoring checks can be set up quickly and easily in Opsview giving you powerful alerting...
The dawn arrives late and the evening pretty early this time of year in Keflavík. Good thing our building shells are completed and the focus of our work is channeled into the final connections of our new modular datacentre. At...
From a cover story in Time magazine, to high profile reporting in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, to several landmark privacy bills in US Congress, the concerns around online privacy are on the rise. Battle lines...
It's a while since I played with (and, for that matter, wrote about) the Asterisk Open Source IP Telephony package. But as it happens I was having a pint with a friend from the telecoms industry last week, and he...
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