You often hear security officers, not to mention vendors, talk about fraud detection and prevention but you seldom (never in my experience) hear anyone talking about Bribery. However, in the wake of BAE Systems settlement with the both the...

According to this article, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have been struck down by an instance of the Conficker virus. The effect has been immediate, with systems taken off line preventing GMP officers undertaking checks on the police...

Everybody's security-focused these days. So, what's wrong with Security? Well, possibly the word security itself and the silo'd thinking it encourages. And also, I'm afraid, sometimes the people in the security profession, who often appear...

Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and business jargon, assuming people outside the industry understand what it all means. By its nature, technology vocabulary is often confusing and complicated, and insiders often add...

It’s been a long time coming but Calpont has finally come to market with InfiniDB. Actually, it launched the open source Community Edition of the product last year but now it is introducing the commercial Enterprise Edition. There...

I still havent had time to write about Lotusphere 2010, but in the meantime, you may want to listen to the conversation I had with small business guru and friend Brent Leary. Last week, Brent interviewed me about my take on this years Lotus event,...

Earlier this week Omnifone and HP announced a partnership to distribute the MusicStation Desktop music service on 16 HP PC models in 10 European countries. The service will provide unlimited access to millions of tracks from Universal Music Group,...

As a follow up to my post What Is Green IT and Why Should You Care?, I had the opportunity to talk with Steve Sams, VP for IBM's Global Site and Facilities Services, along with several other members of IBM's green team. As part of its Smarter Planet...

I am looking forward to attending The Smart Governance Forum (23rd meeting of the IBM Data Governance Council) in California on February 1–3, where I will be a panelist for a session on Smart Governance Analytics. As my panel group started to...

Singularity announced the release of LiveAgility, their SaaS BPMS offering, on January 21st 2010. Like all SaaS offerings this means users can cost the purchase of software on an OPEX rather CAPEX basis. Based on what Singularity...

I've just been talking to Compuware at its new offices in Maidenhead. There are a couple or three things I like about Compuware's product offerings, quite apart from the technology (and it is one of the few vendors which can extend holistic...

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...

A report by database security firm Imperva has highlighted the most common consumer passwords. The study was based on an analysis of 32 million passwords exposed in the recent Rockyou.com breach. The report can be downloaded here - no...

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...

In the past couple of days I've read a couple of articles (IT cant be a service provider and a partner too and Run IT as a business—why thats a train wreck waiting to happen) that riff on the same theme: that the exhortation to run IT as a...

MAINtag SAS and Tego, Inc announced on January 12th 2010, that the companies' jointly-developed FLYtag products will be used in a pioneering effort to tag thousands of aircraft parts across the Airbus A350 XWB fleet. MAINtag were...

At Lotusphere this year, there was little in the way of rip-roaring, rousing announcements that could knock the socks off someone who was sitting there wondering what Lotus would do for their business. For the techies making up the vast majority of...

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...

After years of being an enforcement also-ran the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is finally going to get some teeth to deal with those that contravene data protection principles—see the details here. With the government...

I was recently sent a link by my friend Steve Gold highlighting the work of a hacker who goes by the name Jester. Apparently this hacker has found a way of initiating a DDOS attack without relying on a distributed network of systems....