Thursday, April 1, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 01/04/2010



Ten Cooling Solutions to Support High-Density Server Deployment
High-density servers offer a significant performance per watt benefit. However, depending on the deployment, they can present a significant cooling challenge.
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Watts and Volt-Amps: Powerful Confusion
This whitepaper helps explain the diferences between watts and VA and explains how the terms are correctly and incorrectly used in specifying power protection equipment.
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The Different Types of UPS Systems
There is much confusuion in the market place about the different types of UPS systems and their characteristics.
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Warwickshire County Council breaches Data Protection Act
Warwickshire County Council has landed in hot water with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after the theft of two computers and the loss of a memory...
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Sophos reveals defense for search engine hack attacks
Security firm Sophos has published...
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Interview: Paul Cheesbrough, CIO, Telegraph Media Group
Paul Cheesbrough, chief information officer at the Telegraph Media Group, has pioneered cloud computing and web 2.0 technologies at the newspaper.
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REC outlines 2020's in-demand technology skills
The IT profession and the skills it needs will...
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Flood hits tens of thousands of BT broadband users in north London
A flood in a BT exchange in the Paddington area has knocked out telephone and broadband services to tens of thousands of customers in north and west London....
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New immigration rule open to abuse
Rules regarding oversees workers coming to the UK on intra-company transfers have been changed in an attempt to control alleged abuse of the system, but one new element could open it up to more abuse.
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Red Hat boosts virtualisation with Enterprise Linux 5.5
Red Hat has begun shipping the fifth update to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform, which supports virtualisation,...
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Anti-Digital Economy Bill campaign gains momentum
Civil rights campaigners 38 Degrees and Open Rights Group (ORG) have raised...
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Warwickshire County Council breaches Data Protection Act
Warwickshire County Council has landed in hot water with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after the theft of two computers and the loss of a memory...
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Mandelson revises Digital Economy Bill's Clause 18, giving more power to courts
The government has rewritten the controversial clause 18 of the Digital Economy Bill to give a greater role to the courts in fighting online piracy, and force copyright holders to do more to provide legal access to copyright material.
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Skoda picks SGI supercomputer to speed up time to market
Volkswagen subsidiary Skoda has ordered a 12 teraflops SGI Altix ICE...
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Sophos reveals defense for search engine hack attacks
Security firm Sophos has published...
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Linux is free, as jury rules for Novell in SCO Unix copyright case
The jury in the District Court of Utah trial has confirmed Novell's ownership of Unix copyrights. This secures the future of Linux against intellectual property...
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Leading computer scientist calls lack of gender balance in tech 'depressing'
Dame Wendy Hall, a professor at Southampton University's computer science department, says the situation surrounding women in technology has got worse over the past 20 years.
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QD Stores chooses SAP to underpin expansion
Norwich-based retailer QD Stores Group is planning a 35% expansion in the number of stores to 50 across the UK in...
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US congressmen call for investigation into Google Buzz
A group of US congressmen has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Google's Buzz social networking tool for breaching privacy and trust.
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Top tech companies join call for US privacy law update
A coalition of technology companies, privacy groups and academics has called for an update of US law that defines the rules for government access to e-mail...
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Interview: Paul Cheesbrough, CIO, Telegraph Media Group
Paul Cheesbrough, chief information officer at the Telegraph Media Group, has pioneered cloud computing and web 2.0 technologies at the newspaper.
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Google finally blames China for search blocks
Google has blamed China for interruptions to its Chinese-language search service after initially saying changes to its system code caused the outages....
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