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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.…

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:21:21 +0100

.::Software glitch hits Heathrow T4 baggage system::.

Flying today? Not with those cases you're not

Heathrow's Terminal 4 was yesterday hit by a software glitch which affected its baggage-handling capacity, the knock-on effect of which means that some passengers travelling have been told to leave any hold baggage at home.…

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:16:53 +0100

.::Prince and Village People dive into Pirate Bay::.

Young man, there's no need to download

The Village People have joined forces with pint-sized popster Prince in an effort to slap The Pirate Bay with yet another copyright infringement lawsuit.…

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:19:17 +0100

.::Egg scrambles to fix network outage::.

Website blackout 'nothing to do with credit card cull'

Egg has returned its website to normal operation after a "serious network outage" forced it to temporarily suspend services on Tuesday.…

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:02:03 +0100

.::Are your staff adequately trained?::.

Avoiding the false economy trap

Reg Tech Panel …

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:01:26 +0100

.::How to lose $7.2bn with just a few Basic skills::.

SocGen: it could've happened anywhere - and still might

Special report As I swept through Kent and Calais on a Eurostar last week, the financial markets again threw some entertainment my way in the shape of the SocGen debacle.…

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:51:48 +0100

.::Transport Dept. IT: 23 years late, £100m over-budget::.

And that's a successful one...

The Liberal Democrats have got their calculator out again and added up all the cost over-runs and delays at the myriad IT projects at the Department for Transport.…

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:56:51 +0100

.::M&S rapped for data loss::.

This is not just security...

Marks and Spencers has been told it must encrypt all company laptops containing personal information by April 2008.…

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:04:21 +0100

.::Leaked email reveals civil service laptop rules::.

Civil servant finally leaks data correctly - to us...

The Register has received the email sent out to all staff at the Medical Research Council passing on instructions from the Cabinet Office that the ban on taking laptops out of the office could apply to mobile phones too.…

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:06:15 +0100

.::Do we need computer competence tests?::.

Reverse into parking space, leave laptop on back seat

Column Indignation is the immediate response if you suggest to any computer user that they should be given a licence to use their PC only if they pass a test. Why is this?…

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:20:12 +0100

.::Olympic 'business dating agency' goes live::.

Line up for the sub-contracts race

The organisers of London's Olympic Games have launched an online "business dating agency" to attract bids for sub-contracts.…

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:00:32 +0100

.::Mickey Mouse CIO joins Microsoft::.

Replaces one Scott with another

Microsoft said yesterday that it has hired Disney man Tony Scott, who will replace sacked chief information officer Stuart Scott.…

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:24:43 +0100

.::Nominet to hand out £5m to online charity cases::.

New trust to divvy up domain sales surplus

Nominet, the not-for-profit in charge of the .uk domain registry, has approved a plan to distribute its multimillion-pound surplus among "education, research and development initiatives" to benefit the UK internet community.…

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:08:05 +0100

.::OOXML marks the spot, says research firm::.

ODF? It's for poseurs

Large organisations that are considering a move away from Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) in favour of rival standard (Open Document Format) ODF should think again, concludes a new report.…

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:19:03 +0100

.::Union threatens Shell with legal action::.

Grumbles over reduced pay-off deal for IT workers

Royal Dutch Shell faces legal action from trade union Unite over the terms of its redundancy package, a week after telling staff that more than 3,000 IT jobs were to be outsourced at the firm.…

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:54:51 +0100

.::Shell expected to slash 3,200 IT jobs::.

Oil firm 'loath' to confirm number

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has told its staff that it plans to make more than 3,000 job cuts.…

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:27:38 +0100

.::Information security breaches quadrupled in 2007::.

Slippy fingers and leaky servers

Personal information leaks reached unprecedented levels last year, according to a brace of studies out last week.…

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:22:20 +0100

.::MasterCard's Maestro struggles to cope with Xmas::.

As website wobbles too

The MasterCard website struggled to cope with Christmas shopping demand that left it unreachable for nearly five hours in the run-up to Christmas. More seriously MasterCard's Maestro system also experienced glitches in the immediate run-up to Xmas. The extent of the problem with the debit card system remains unclear.…

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:56:48 +0100

.::Norwich Union Life fined £1.26m for security holes::.

Bullet proof policies - if you're a director

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Norwich Union £1.26m for failing to safeguard customers against fraud.…