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Online winning ad spend

Ofcom's report shows online ads are now dominating over TV.

Chinese web controls hit firms

Chinese web censorship is a hot topic, but it's not just media being hit.

AVG Internet Security Edition 8.0

Review: Good features and value, but is that enough for AVG's business package?

    Latest Internet News

IBM boosts business continuity

Big Blue to invest US$300 million in "cloud computing" data centres this year

Wednesday Aug 20

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IDF 2008: Boffins discuss 21st century tech

The virtual will dominate the next century of innovation: speculations from IDF.

Tuesday Aug 19

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IDF 2008: Intel launches innovation challenge

Intel launches innovator challenge with big money up for grabs to help bring ideas to fruition.

Tuesday Aug 19

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Visual search engine set for launch?

New search engine claims to search the internet using pictures, rather than text.

Monday Aug 18

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Timeline: Kaminsky’s DNS vulnerability

Is the internet fatally flawed? IT PRO looks at how isolated attacks on Domain Name System servers have risen in profile to become one of the most talked about threats in 2008.

Monday Aug 18

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London crime map goes live

The beta of the Met Police crime map mashup has gone live, and Southwark doesn’t look good.

Friday Aug 15

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Week in Review: Why did TfL cut short the Oyster contract?

Two of this week's biggest stories are both in part related to hackers cracking vulnerable systems. We also look at government snooping and exciting new products.

Friday Aug 15

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Infineon chip could be root of iPhone problems

A research report and a business website say that worldwide problems with 3G and dropping calls could be due to an Infineon chip.

Friday Aug 15

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Web 2.0 and virtualisation top poll of IT security priorities

The majority of Black Hat conference attendees point to web services and virtualisation as their key security considerations, along with 'whitelisting' more trusted sites and applications.

Thursday Aug 14

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More spent on online ads than mainstream TV

Ofcom's annual communications report makes for interesting reading, and shows how online ads are now dominating over TV.

Thursday Aug 14

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Public Sector Roundup: Hackney Homes updates IT

This week in public sector IT, Hackney Homes has signed up for a £1.9 million IT overhaul, Fife is getting new storage, a Manchester hospital opts for single sign-on, and Choose and Book (...)

Wednesday Aug 13

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Government wants to store all text, email and browsing data

The information will be used by police for crime fighting, but also other government bodies such as health authorities and the Post Office.

Wednesday Aug 13

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Yahoo set to name new board members

Former Viacom and Nextel chief executives poised to join the board of the embattled internet company, reports suggest.

Wednesday Aug 13

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Character recognising spam breaking CAPTCHA defences

Webmail and OCR based spam is on the increase, which traditional web filters are having difficulty detecting.

Tuesday Aug 12

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Liberty Media eyes up AOL deal

Internet group interested in swapping its stake in Time Warner for the unwanted AOL business.

Tuesday Aug 12

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    Latest Internet Features

Map of Russia

IT around the world: Russia

In the first of an on-going series examining IT markets around the globe, we look at whether investing in Russia is worth the risk – and how to go about it the right way.

20 Aug 2008

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Q&A: Orange's devices chief Francois Mahieu

Orange's director of devices lays out the company's strategy and explains how his firm is handling iPhone fever.

18 Aug 2008

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Q&A: Plusnet's Neil Armstrong

Plusnet reveals how it overcame a 'horrific year' to grow an even larger customer base.

14 Aug 2008

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Chinese web control an Olympic challenge for tech firms

Chinese web censorship has been a hot topic ahead of the Beijing Olympics, but it’s not just journalists being hit – IT firms and other businesses are also being hit by online restrictions.

7 Aug 2008

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Major League Baseball

Hitting a home run with IM

Case Study: Major League Baseball turns to web-based instant messaging to increase dwell time on its web site and boost fan loyalty.

8 Aug 2008

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Q&A: Mozilla's Tristan Nitot

Mozilla hasn't just improved Firefox, but pushed the 'other' browsers to up their game, according to Tristan Nitot.

31 Jul 2008

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    Blogs

Signs and Wonders

20 Aug 2008

I'm off on yet more holidays - this time to http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/ A Christian arts festival - but there is plenty of IT about. I may even be down for (...)

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The iPhone 3G battery life debate

20 Aug 2008

I've posted about this before in comments to this post, but I think it deserves a seperate update post: 1 month and a few weeks in, I'm finding the iPhone 3G battery (...)

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Forgetting to Sudo

19 Aug 2008

I'm not going to start my first blog post with an excessive introduction to who I am and why you should listen to what I have to say - this is the Google generation after (...)

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    Latest Internet Reviews

EXCLUSIVE - Astaro Web Gateway AWG3000

Rating: 4

Web content filtering is important for many businesses and Astaro's Web Gateway AWG3000 appliance is a sophisticated solution.

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    Latest Videos in Internet

Video: Q&A with Easynet Connect's Chris Stening

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IT PRO spoke to Chris Stening, managing director of Easynet’s SME division, about whether ISPs are giving businesses the service they deserve.

 

    Latest Internet How Tos & Tutorials

How to Set up Remote Admin using Netviewer

Simplify remote support by seeing and controlling the PC you’re trying to fix with Netviewer one2one - Mary Branscombe shows you how to speed through a session.

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Best practices for delivering remote support

Best practices for delivering remote support

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How Green is your enterprise?

How Green is your enterprise?

Enterprise Guide to Green IT

IT PRO and Sun Microsystems investigate environmentally friendly IT practices. With videos, features and downloads, we look at green IT strategy, sustainable energy options for the data centre and how to carbon count your business.

 
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