Latest articles by Iain Thomson
Claranet top UK ISP, on the pitch at least
News Britain's top ISPs battle it out on the pitch at Wembley to raise money for IT charity
Virgin pulls viral web marketing campaign
News Competition pulled after Virgin finds out web users are more disturbed than it thought
BT buys into Bruce Schneier
News Security guru's company snapped up by BT and key personnel stay on
Data losses up over last year
News New survey shows the losses from data theft are mounting fast, up nearly a third on last year
Virus hides in lesbian pop duo
News Malware writers use the launch of new Tatu album to recruit more PCs to botnet and harvest information
Microsoft and IBM sign storage deal
News Redmond and Big Blue ink deal to co-market archiving software and hardware
Industry missing out on encryption
News Despite encryption being available and free users are continuing to leave unencrypted data lying around
UK's first 'internet rage' attack
News Man convicted of hunting down fellow chat room user and making a serious attack
UK leads Europe in Wi-Fi deployment
News Britain in front in rapidly maturing market for public subscription Wi-Fi
Lenovo and Apple top reliability poll
News Brand name laptops win reliability survey but Dell and Gateway have cause for concern
Free malware from McDonalds
News Malware infested MP3 players sent out as prizes by McDonalds in Japan
Mass MySpace spam attack as phishers strike
News Spam filters need update as phishers start using MySpace IDs
Oracle pays up for price gouging
News Peoplesoft's mispricing costs parent company dear as Oracle agrees $98.5 million fine
BEA gives timeline for shift to microservices
News SOA 360 project will shift products into new microService architecture as part of shift to collaborative services
BEA chief calls for "enterprise MySpace"
News New generation used to social networking software and will expect to use it in business
IBM plans mainframe simplification
News As mainframes fall out of fashion IBM begins a five year program to make its System z computer easier to use.
Chip sales hit record levels
News August shows largest sales yet as manufacturers gear up for Christmas
Ebbers enters the Big House today
News Big Bernie starts his new job, earning around $5 a month, after $11bn fraud
Pew study predicts brave new world of 2020
News Report from the IT great and good predicts global networks and no privacy being "obsolete"
Web surfing without a trace
News Hacktivismo's innovation allows users to turn any PC into an anonymous web browser
Global teams need mix of technology to work
News Research highlights the failings of using single communication systems to manage geographically dispersed teams
IT security staff need to reduce workload
News Common security functions need to be offloaded onto ops staff, saving valuable security specialists for tough jobs
