The UK government has announced plans to make its computer systems wholly carbon-neutral by 2020 by adopting various green IT strategies, including automatically powering down PCs, configuring virtual servers and selective deployments of thin client technology.
Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored.
According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly invading the privacy of citizens with surveillance, identification systems and archiving of private data -- and Australia is no exception.
Now there's a way law enforcement agents can read data displayed on a user's computer monitor, even when they can't see the screen. All they need is a special light detector and lab hardware. Are your secrets being unveiled?
An unspecified computer problem is causing major disruptions to air traffic in the south-east of England, with flights delayed or cancelled at Gatwick, Heathrow and other airports.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
Now there's a way law enforcement agents can read data displayed on a user's computer monitor, even when they can't see the screen. All they need is a special light detector and lab hardware. Are your secrets being unveiled?
New coalition to name companies that sneak ads and spying programs onto computers of unsuspecting Web surfers.
The sheer size and breadth of Centrelink's operations has always meant project management there is a Herculean effort. Taking a new approach to its people and project scheduling has improved the situation dramatically -- but change hasn't been easy.
Is certification better than experience? Here's what industry analysts and IT professionals have to say, including issues with MCSE.
Veritas Software has announced plans to acquire KVS in a move designed to expand its e-mail storage and archiving offerings.
New notebooks, mapping software and data warehousing software can't compete with wine software in our book. Check out all of this week's Australian product announcements.
Researchers in Europe have made advances with a new technology that could one day be used to detect explosives or biological weapons in parcels, locate cancers beneath the skin, reveal the state of wounds beneath dressings and see through fog.
Researchers in England explore an always-on, wearable camera that could capture images automatically.
An optical antenna that uses a geometrically shaped lens promises to bring greater security to wireless networks for businesses, according to British scientists.
Why do some drivers crash while dialling their mobile phone, and others manoeuvre smoothly while applying lipstick, sending e-mail or fiddling with the radio in stop-and-go traffic?
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