As my colleague, Peter Cooke, wrote a couple of weeks ago, few businesses in the UK were prepared for the recent wintry conditions and snow, and small businesses in particular found themselves out in the cold. For those of us living on the...

Oracle Corporation has just received regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. This decision gives the go-ahead for the deal that has been waiting for an outcome since last September. Oracle is...

As computing power has increased, the available horsepower to brute force crack RSA algorithms has grown as well. The most recent announcement, in December 2009, was that a group of mathematicians, computer scientists and cryptographers had managed...