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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:23:11 +0200

.::88% of IT admins would steal data if fired::.

So the survey says

An IT administrator scorned is not to be trusted, according to a study recently conducted by Cyber-Ark.…

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:40:05 +0200

.::Biometrics exhibit blushes over email snafu::.

Fingerprints, iris scans sprayed to all comers

An exhibition designed to show off the whizzy high-tech futurescape of biometric identity has succumbed to a bout of very contemporary gremlins, by emailing dozens of fingerprints and iris scans to the wrong people.…

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:02:03 +0200

.::Dabs.com courier goes titsup::.

BT insists orders will be delivered

Online retailer Dabs.com has told customers to hang fire for a few days while orders due to be delivered by Amtrak are reassigned to another courier.…

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:46:33 +0200

.::Fringe box office FAIL pushes sales down 10%::.

Bad weather, Olympics, leaves on line credit crunch blamed

Ticket sales at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe were down ten per cent this year, in part because of the technical failure of its box office system.…

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:45:25 +0200

.::IT pay jumps as skills gap widens::.

Offshoring blamed for cash bonanaza

The IT skills shortage in the UK is being made worse by the routine offshoring of entry-level tech jobs.…

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:49:34 +0200

.::Enterprise class mobility::.

Blackberry v iPhone v Windows Mobile

It used to be pretty simple. If you were a large organisation with a hard-core mobile email requirement, the only serious option from a security, robustness, manageability, usability and ease of deployment perspective was Blackberry. If you had a need to develop custom applications, then provided you were happy to construct your own middleware and management stack, then Windows Mobile was the accepted way forward.…

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:02:05 +0200

.::Fringe box office system provider goes titsup::.

Tragedy of errors

The software outfit behind the chaotic implementation of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s box office system has gone titsup.…

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:34:40 +0200

.::Network Solutions falls off the web::.

.ohdear

Network Solutions - the company that resells top level domains like .com and .net - seems to have misplaced its own website.…

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:24:50 +0200

.::Fringe plan box office balls-up post-mortem next month::.

Bringing down the house

Edinburgh Fringe organisers will wait until after the last acts have packed up and gone home before picking over the bones of its box office system fiasco.…

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:02:06 +0200

.::Research firm emails 20,000 addresses in the clear::.

Don't they teach BCC at PR school?

We've almost got bored of stories about people sending emails to lots of subscribers without using the BCC field, but not when the mail is sent to 20,000 people.…

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:54:29 +0200

.::Fringe organisers launch inquiry into ticketing fiasco::.

Joke system leaves promoters baying for blood

Officials at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe are to launch an independent inquiry into the failure of its box office system.…

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:47:54 +0200

.::Edinburgh Fringe ticketing chaos continues::.

Standing on the shoulders of clowns

The Edinburgh Fringe festival gets underway a week on Saturday (3-25 August) but ever since tickets went on sale the box office system has suffered several major technical cock-ups.…

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:02:06 +0200

.::Vultures circle over IT jobs::.

Large suppliers make hay from greater pricing pressure

Big IT firms are likely to do better from the credit crunch than smaller suppliers, as greater economies of scale allow them to offer cheaper prices.…

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:14:02 +0200

.::SF's silent sysadmin pleads not guilty::.

The password? Can't say? Won't say?

The sysadmin accused of locking the San Francisco city council out of its computer network was back in jail yesterday after pleading not guilty to four counts of computer tampering.…

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:22:49 +0200

.::Dell hit by class action over unpaid overtime::.

US call centre workers can team up

Dell is facing a class action case from 5,000 call centre staff in the US who claim the computer giant has underpaid them since 2004.…

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:20:26 +0200

.::San Francisco's 'rogue' sysadmin still being paid while in jail::.

Mayor says bricked IT system won't affect ability to govern

San Francisco’s officials were squirming with embarrassment today as it emerged that they are still paying the salary of the banged-up sysadmin accused of locking down the city’s IT network and refusing to divulge the password.…

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:15:26 +0200

.::Irate sysadmin locks San Francisco officials out of network::.

City 'doing everything necessary'

Hapless municipal bosses in San Francisco have been locked out of their network by a disgruntled sysadmin charged with computer sabotage.…

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:41:09 +0200

.::Barclays to scrap 1,800 UK tech jobs::.

Follows the money offshore

Barclays is to axe 1,800 IT jobs in the UK as part of a major business overhaul to set up technology centres in key offshore locations around the world, with 700 workers being forced out by September.…

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:20:54 +0200

.::How to beat AVG's fake traffic spew::.

A header to save the internet

Updated As the AVG LinkScanner continues to spew fake traffic across the internet, web masters say they've uncovered a reliable means of filtering these rogue hits from their log files.…

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:28:53 +0200

.::Facebook takes a break::.

OMG!

Social networking site Facebook is mainly unavailable this afternoon.…

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:43:03 +0200

.::Staff internet policies must be Facebook-ready, warns expert::.

Web 2.0-up your regs

Dealing with staff who misbehave on the web may be hampered by office policies written without Web 2.0 sites in mind, an employment expert has said. The warning follows disciplinary action against 18 police officers who boasted about crashes on Facebook.…

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:38:01 +0200

.::easyJet warns Expedia: 'Hands off our flights'::.

'Bang, bang, click, click, click'

Exclusive Budget airline easyJet.co.uk has warned Expedia.co.uk to stop selling its flights via its website or face the possibility of legal action.…

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:02:47 +0200

.::London hospital loses 20,000 unencrypted patient files::.

'Nobody expects thieves to break into locked drawers'

Providing proof, if it were needed, that every single piece of personal data in the UK has now been lost - probably several times over, by multiple corporations and government offices - news has just broken of another theft of laptops crammed with easily accessed info. This time the there-but-for-the-grace-of-god bonehead users were hospital staff at St George's hospital in Tooting.…

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:01:13 +0200

.::Edinburgh Fringe ticket site dead as a parrot::.

Whoops, there go my trousers customers

Edinburgh Fringe festival organisers admitted yesterday that their box office system is still out of action more than 48 hours after tickets went on sale.…

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:09:28 +0200

.::Edinburgh Fringe box office system goes titsup::.

No laughing matter

Comedy lovers hoping to get their hands on tickets to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival have lost their sense of humour after discovering the company’s box office system went titsup on Monday.…

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:46:30 +0200

.::British workaholics win EU opt out deal::.

Agency staff granted more equal rights

The British government today secured landmark European Union agreements that will allow UK citizens to work more than 48 hours a week, and bring temp workers into line with permanent staff.…

Fri, 30 May 2008 15:54:57 +0200

.::NHS IT: what went wrong, what will go wrong::.

We draw up a handy list of excuses for civil servants

This week Fujitsu pulled out of the £12.7bn National Programme for IT - the government's enormous project to introduce national patient records for NHS patients leaving BT, CSC and iSoft still involved.…

Fri, 23 May 2008 15:42:55 +0200

.::US firms use own staff to snoop on co-workers::.

(Office)spy versus spy

The UK may have more CCTV cameras than anywhere else in the world but US workers are kept under even closer tabs over internet use at work, according to a new survey.…

Mon, 12 May 2008 14:53:15 +0200

.::El Reg shares the knowledge::.

Primed for business

Reg Research The Register’s Technology Primer series of white papers provide a basic grounding in some of the hottest topics in tech today. They’re all freely available, and some of the latest and greatest are listed below for your downloading pleasure.…

Fri, 09 May 2008 10:55:18 +0200

.::Barclays Capital slashes contractor rates by 10%::.

IT workers get credit crunched

Barclays Capital is forcing its IT contractors to choose between a 10 per cent pay cut or a quick exit from the company.…

Thu, 08 May 2008 01:25:18 +0200

.::Yahoo! banks on the power of !::.

Must! Love! The! Reg!

Sue Decker wants you to know that Yahoo! is the only Fortune 500 company with an exclamation point in its name.…

Fri, 02 May 2008 23:38:51 +0200

.::DoJ beats up tech firm for H-1B only job ads::.

Small fine, humiliation by press release

A Pittsburgh computer consultancy is paying $45,000 in civil penalties over claims it discriminated against legal US residents by advertising only for developers on H-1B visas.…

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:08:12 +0200

.::Citrix boss wants data center 'dinosaurs' to evolve::.

Service-oriented mammalians to survive IT recession

Interop 2008 Day two of Interop Las Vegas 2008 opened with a modest IT proposal from Mark Templeton, President and CEO of Citrix.…

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:02:28 +0200

.::IT depts under threat as City braces for 20,000 job cuts::.

Worse than dotcom losses

The City of London could lose 20,000 jobs in the next two years as the credit crunch starts to bite.…

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:07:31 +0200

.::American Apparel's tags start tracking your pants::.

But not with you in them - yet

Iconic clothing store American Apparel is to start putting radio tags into every item of clothing, tracking it from factory to stockroom to store shelf and possibly beyond.…

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:50:57 +0200

.::IBM hopes to patent 'dealing with chaos'::.

Exclusive rights to pandemics

IBM wants to patent a means of responding to hurricanes, earthquakes, tidal waves, solar flares, flooding, terrorism, war, pandemics, and other situations where you would hope companies aren't worried about patents.…

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:49:25 +0200

.::HSBC e-payments system limps back online::.

Mystery database glitch blamed for extended outage

HSBC UK managed to get its beleaguered e-payments system back online yesterday evening after the second extended outage in less than a fortnight.…

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:09:53 +0200

.::HSBC e-payments system goes titsup (again)::.

Calls for compensation from bungling bank

Merchants are furious at HSBC UK after the bank's e-payments system fell over for an extended period for the second time in less than a fortnight.…

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:02:02 +0200

.::HP sells cloud vision amidst economic downpour::.

Will customers get soaked on transformation journeys?

Hewlett-Packard has claimed the current financial storm blowing out of the financial sector and into the wider economy doesn't make it a really bad time to launch its cloud computing strategy into Europe.…

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:06:12 +0200

.::HSBC pops thousands of customer details in the post::.

Guess what happened next?

HSBC has admitted that it has misplaced 370,000 customer details, which were put in the post a month ago on an unencrypted disc.…

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:06:52 +0200

.::Royal Mail sites hit by downtime cock-up::.

Someone's going to get the sack

Royal Mail’s three main websites have been unavailable since last night, forcing millions of customers to get used to the taste of glue while guessing where their registered post might be.…

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:57:10 +0200

.::Shell starts clock ticking on unlucky 1% of staff::.

Slickly does it

Royal Dutch Shell has claimed that no more than 30 jobs will be axed following the firm’s decision to outsource more than 3,000 worldwide IT staff.…

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:43:45 +0200

.::Snitching is less than golden for piracy informers::.

We're in the money. Not really

The SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) calls it "whistleblowing." And we call it "disgruntled peons ratting on their bosses." But whatever label you use, dobbing on your own company for cutting corners on software licenses can be a lucrative sport.…

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:31:49 +0200

.::Shell waves goodbye to 3,000 IT staffers in $4bn outsourcing gig::.

Oil-y company

Royal Dutch Shell today inked three outsourcing deals – worth $4.2bn over five years – to spin out IT and telecoms operations.…

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:01:36 +0100

.::Boss puts development team on Craigslist::.

Web programmers meet web jobs market

Call it compassionate capitalism or a desire to do good in these darkening times, but one US manager has placed a "for hire" ad online touting his developers' skills just one day after being forced to axe them.…

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:15:40 +0100

.::Futurists predict a world of IT fairy tales::.

Easier to manage? And the three bears...

Here's a nightmare vision of a technology-driven future:…

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:02:02 +0100

.::How big an eco-hazard is IT equipment?::.

A hard charge to make stick...

Are computers bad for the planet? As a consumer of power, IT equipment is certainly all too visible, and is shaping up to become a prime whipping boy for governments striving to get a lid on their CO₂ emissions. After anything that burns petrol, PCs, chargers and that arch eco-criminal, standby mode, now come pretty close to the centre of the crosshairs.…

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:23:21 +0100

.::Analysts call for secure Facebook access for workers::.

Reg prepping Moon on a stick campaign

Number crunchers at Gartner have decided that businesses should allow their workers to access Facebook and all manner of web guff "securely", via the company network.…

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:10:27 +0100

.::Why I downgraded from Vista to XP::.

More like an upgrade?

…

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:25:22 +0100

.::DoH IT projects overshoot budgets by £247,000::.

'Unexpected technical issues'

Five of 15 IT projects run by the Department of Health and its agencies are costing £247,000 more than expected.…