Delivering stability for the movers Workshop In the past decade we have witnessed the use of laptops in organisations reaching similar levels to those of desktops. All the signs are that the penetration of such machines will soon exceed that of their immobile siblings. Today, they are more than status symbols. They are established as essential business devices, without which many users would find their jobs difficult, if not impossible, to perform adequately.?The power of collaboration within unified communications

Still searching for social success Yahoo! is making another attempt to strengthen its weak social networking products by buying Citizen Sports.?Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Sony and Intel join plan to rule world with ads Google has joined forces with Intel and Sony to build a television set-top box based on its Android mobile operating system and Chrome web browser.?What is your recession sales strategy?

Holographic light at end of the tunnel Collapsed holographic storage maker InPhase is being resuscitated.?Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Teasing the education from the evangelism Lab There are few if any technologies that have garnered as much industry coverage as virtualisation has enjoyed over the last few years. Okay, maybe ?Cloud Computing? has too, but that?s more vendor talk than action right now. As far as real-world activity goes, virtualisation is a hotbed of activity and a magnet for vendors to prove their worth/disprove the worth of others and help/hinder those trying to harness the technology to benefit their organisations.?The power of collaboration within unified communications

Just how much of an ongoing burden are they? Workshop In some organisations, the ERP system represents the biggest single entity within the IT environment. This is particularly the case in industries such as manufacturing, distribution and others that are heavily manpower- or goods-centric. Even if ERP in itself doesn?t account for a lot of the infrastructure per se, it is one of those applications (or suites of applications) a lot of other stuff needs to be plugged into. It's therefore not something you can easily put to one side and forget about.?What is your recession sales strategy?

Tabs to be kept A code of practice for the forthcoming Police National Database says that an audit trail will be created to tackle abuse.?What is your recession sales strategy?

A business box to get your pulse racing - surely not? Reviews You know where you stand with business-oriented laptops. They're chunky, dull-looking machines with all the pizazz of a rainy afternoon in Chester. Dell's Vostro range has been a case in point: a collection of low-power, low-charisma laptops likely to appeal only to the most frugal of IT department bean counters.?

Compatibility downer Microsoft - if not IT pros - can breath a sigh of relief, as Windows 7 has given businesses a reason for not defecting to competing desktop systems.?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Cheesehead of the decade Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is no stranger to adulation. Recent honors include Fortune's CEO of the Decade, the Harvard Business Review's world's best-performing CEO, and the Wall Street Journal's Person of the Decade. But a new trio of tributes takes Jobsian worship to new heights.?Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Really does keep going and going "It keeps going and going and going" may be the slogan coined for Energizer batteries, but the same holds true for a nasty trojan backdoor that mysteriously slipped into software used to monitor rechargeable versions of the product.?The power of collaboration within unified communications

'House 17' and the secret algorithm A federal grand jury has indicted two computer programmers on fraud and conspiracy charges for developing programs used by Bernard Madoff to cook the books in his billion-dollar ponzi scheme.?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Databases and the agony of choice OSBC Red Hat will help others build clouds, but is unlikely to following operating-system rival Microsoft by becoming a cloud service provider itself.?Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Sprint to punt HTC Supersonic The first WiMAX-capable smartphone is said to be slated for introduction next week by Sprint Nextel.?What is your recession sales strategy?

It's all about video Switch maker and server wannabe Cisco Systems is making big bets that video streaming over the internet will be the next killer app - and one that will drive its revenue and profits in the new decade as voice over IP did in the prior one. Today Cisco put some new fixed-port Ethernet switches into the field to support video streaming better than current products and also to improve energy efficiency and security.?Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

As Android crowds the iPhone The market for mobile apps - be they for smartphones, less capable "feature phones," or carry-alongs such as Apple's iPad - will swell to $17.5bn by 2012.?Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Zeus botnets' tangled web Researchers at RSA have identified the network framework that endows some of the worlds most notorious botnets with always-on connections that are virtually immune from takedowns.?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

A warm handoff In January, Novell released its SUSE Appliance Toolkit after nearly a year of alpha and beta testing. Now begins the difficult task of getting systems, middleware, and database software makers to rejigger their code and make it available through the online tool so companies can spin up and spit out software appliances.?What is your recession sales strategy?

Will it SMIL? Yesnomaybe ?HTML5 will enable a new class of applications,? says Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft's Internet Explorer general manager, speaking to the press at the company's Mix10 conference in Las Vegas.?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

When 25 million emails go bump in the night While Microsoft has been failing to outfox Google in the web search and ad game, Google has - apparently - swiped a few of Redmond's customers away from MS Office.?

Or maybe just kill television The FCC's National Broadband Plan will be largely funded through the sale of radio spectrum the FCC doesn't own: a good trick if one can pull it off.?Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Redmondian open source library love abounds Microsoft has put more of its considerable weight behind the open-source JQuery Javascript library, vowing to provide additional code contribution, testing resources, and integration with new versions of its own development tools.?What is your recession sales strategy?

Botnet-ready? Excellent Vodafone Spain has again supplied a HTC Magic smartphone that came pre-infected with the Mariposa botnet client and other malware crud.?Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Orange masthead on St Patrick's Day? Oops... It won't have escaped the attention of our US readers that El Reg Stateside today features an orange masthead - part of a temporary sponsored makeover.?The power of collaboration within unified communications

South West Trains objects to The Killers A 25-year-old musician was turfed off a South West Trains service after security operatives objected to his "suspicious" set list, The Portsmouth News reports.?The power of collaboration within unified communications

Judges wowed by elegant take on UK's clunky three-pin power system Young designer Min-Kyo Choi has bagged the Design Museum-backed Brit Insurance Design Award 2010 for his novel take on Britain's bulky three-pin power plug.?

Is Google getting too powerful? The RSA plays host to a debate tomorrow 'Is Google getting too powerful?' with a bumper harvest of Reg staff present.?The power of collaboration within unified communications

Government mandated bandwidth exams Government-mandated ISP ratings, a new copyright symbol and a national poll database - just a taste of what you'll find in the new plan for America's next-generation broadband.?What is your recession sales strategy?

Released on bail Jeremy Colman, the ex-Auditor General for Wales, has appeared before magistrates on 14 charges of making and possessing child sexual abuse images and failing to disclose a password.?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Tier one server makers MIA This being the week when Intel is rolling out its six-core Xeon 5600 processors for the workhorse two-socket server market, it's a little tough for rival Advanced Micro Devices to get some attention.?The power of collaboration within unified communications

And it should have wheels and, and a knife with fire coming out Nokia's "Designed by Community" project is intended to find out what a mobile phone feature set should be, but even the Finns aren't promising to build it.?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

CDs now for Xmas only? Performance royalties for British artists increased last year, driven by international agreements. Paid music use overseas was up almost 20 per cent to £166.9m, a healthy part of the £623m recorded by PRS For Music for 2009.?What is your recession sales strategy?

Redmond downplays virtual PC vuln A newly discovered flaw in Microsoft's virtualisation technologies creates a potential mechanism for hackers to sidestep security defences.?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Extends VirtualView API Xiotech has got an IAS architecture to embed its storage building blocks better in virtual server environments with snazzy VirtualView automated storage provisioning and management software.?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Playing leapfrog on the desktop Workshop Depending on the organisation you work in, the notion of ?desktop refresh? will have taken one of several forms. At one end of the spectrum, major ?one-off? upgrades can be the norm. The other end may involve nothing formal in the way of a modernisation program, relying more on individual employees making the case for a new desktop or laptop.?Offloading malware protection to the cloud

'Evasive action' prevents spam truncheon injury A legless Lithuanian who "assaulted a female police officer with his penis" has been fined £600 for his trouble, the BBC reports.?Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

World government is living in Sydney The owner of a US website accused of breaking Australian law by the Australian Human Rights Commission has told them to rack right off.?The power of collaboration within unified communications

Vintage 1973 vehicle discovered by NASA orbiter A lost, broken-down solar/nuclear robot rover left on the Moon by the Soviet space programme - and nowadays owned by a wealthy computer game developer and space tourist - has been precisely located by NASA's new moon-mapping satellite.?What is your recession sales strategy?

It's all about number 2.0 now Mozilla has dropped support for version 1.0 of its four-year-old internet app suite, SeaMonkey.?Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Joins Captain America in Shetlands shindig Even comic book superheroes need to chill out from time to time, and it appears that the Shetland Island's Pierhead Restaurant & Bar is where they let their hair down, along with the Mafia and giant white mice*:?Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Search engine breaks law against Google will Google's Chinese search engine was defying local law on Tuesday by returning links involving the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and the Xinjiang independence movement, according to a report from NBC News.?Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Sky limited LG isn't going to supply Sky with 15,000 3D TVs so that the broadcaster can enable 15,000 of Blighty's pubs to show their clientele 3D footie matches, the consumer electronics company has claimed.?

Cracking on steroids Russian password cracking firm ElcomSoft is using the latest graphics cards from ATI to double the speed of its iPhone password breaker and wireless security auditor products.?Offloading malware protection to the cloud

'Technical glitch' delivers explicit previews Kids in parts of North Carolina were yesterday treated to previews of Playboy TV featuring "nude women having explicit sexual conversations", as local news outfit WRAL puts it.?The power of collaboration within unified communications

VirnetX wins infringement case against Redmond Microsoft has been ordered by a US federal jury in Texas to pay nearly $106m to VirnetX Holding Corporation for infringing two internet communication patents.?Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

HTC Desire and Sony Xperia X10 launches lined up Virgin has become the latest mobile phone network to catch the Android bug - it has launched two smartphones based on the Google OS and will release two more next month.?Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Reviewing the practicalities and pressures Mini Poll Following our discussions earlier in the week on the current state of ERP, we thought it would be useful to gather some structured feedback on the burden such systems place on IT departments. So, if you have a couple of minutes, let us know how things are with your ERP system in the following mini-poll:?Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

My Passport SE Western Digital has extended its portable drive line for the Mac with 750GB and 1TB models.?Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Finance, founding and two choices Comment Larry Ellison founded Pillar Data on the premise it would become the next EMC or NetApp, and go through an IPO or be bought. On its way there it sees a new system that could replace 100 NetApp filers coming by 2012.?What is your recession sales strategy?

Freeview who? Five may not be coming to Freeview HD any time in the near future, but it will show up on Sky.?What is your recession sales strategy?