Database and Network Journal articles from October 2005

Database and Network Journal archives from October 2005

Defining open source systems.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
October 1, 2005... Open source denotes that the origins of a product are publicly accessible in part or in whole. One of the most prominent cultures of open source is from the computer software industry, and this article focuses on open-source software in...

New product functionality for Linux.
October 1, 2005... The first UK demonstrations of new Linux enhancements in two of Avocent key products at this year's LinuxWorld show.CCM Console Manager and the latest version of Avocent's DSView 3 management software have taken place. and are reviewed below....

Open source migration guide.(DATABASE AND NETWORK INTELLIGENCE)
October 1, 2005... This feature sets out to describe the various routes that organisations can take when migrating towards the use of Open Source Software (OSS). We believe that there are many benefits to be gained from increasing the use of OSS within the...

PDA protect baseline gains MOD spproval.
October 1, 2005... BeCrypt PDA Protect Baseline, has been approved by DIPCOG (the Defence INFOSEC Product Co-Operation Group), for use within the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This approval supports the Baseline certification granted to the product last...

ADXSTUDIO CMS 2005 content management for ASP.NET 2.
October 1, 2005... ADXSTUDIO Inc. plan to launch their next generation web content management framework software product for ASP.NET 2.0, A-DXSTUDIO CMS 2005, concurrent with Microsoff's release of .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. ADXSTUDIO CMS 2005 is a...

Java programming language.(TEACH -IN)
October 1, 2005... Java is a reflective, object-oriented programming language developed initially by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. Initially called Oak (named after the oak trees outside Gosling's office), it was intended to replace C++,...

Haskell programming language.
October 1, 2005... Haskell is a standardized pure functional programming language with non-strict semantics. Named after the logician Haskell Curry, it was created by a committee formed in 1987 for the express purpose of defining such a language. The latest...

Businesses finally embrace SMS as communications tool.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... KAPOW! (www.kappow.co.uk), the UK's first SMS text gateway, revealed its list of the top-ten business sectors using SMS as an effective communications tool. Only a decade ago SMS text managing was in its infancy and for a long time was...

Microsoft to take on AJAX with Atlas.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... Not to be left out of any development trends, Microsoft is working to simplify the job of building applications with AJAX, a mixture of JavaScript and XML. The company is building software, code-named Atlas, that provides developers with...

Swyx introduces business class internet telephony.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... Swyx has announced the release of Version 5.0 of its SwyxWare software-based IP-PBX. A key feature of SwyxWare version 5.0 is its SIP Business Connectivity that will provide business customers with the ability to route IP calls via ITSPs...

Two speed Europe for VoIP emerging.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... A two-speed Europe for retail VoIP services is emerging, with France, Italy and Sweden leading the way and the UK at the back of the pack, according to a new report, Retail VoIP in Western Europe: forecasts 2005-2010, published by Analysys,...

Organisations need to focus on building adaptive capacity.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... One in three major reorganisations fail to achieve the efficiency or effectiveness objectives that lie behind them, 40% are not completed on budget, and 60% are not completed on time. These findings, from a survey of over 800 CEOs, HR directors...

IT ethics gaining attention.(ethical attitudes of Information systems professionals)(Brief article)
October 1, 2005... The fourth report in a longitudinal study of the ethical attitudes of Information systems professionals 'Is IT Ethical' was launched at the ETHICOMP 2005 conference held at Linkoping University, Sweden, 12--15 September. Based on a sample...

ILOG business rule management system for the Microsoft.Net environment.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... ILOG has introduced ILOG Rules for .NET 2.0--the first product in its category to use Microsoft Office Excel 2003 as a tool for developing and managing business rule management applications. Now, with just knowledge of Excel 2003, business...

Solution for optimising payments processing.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... webmethods Inc. have announced webmethods Payments Monitoring", a new solution designed to help wholesale banks and other financial institutions transform their corporate payments operations into more predictable, customer-centric and...

PDF editor.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... Most companies, recruitment agencies, government offices, schools, universities, clubs etc use the Portable Document Format expecting others to fill in forms by hand or in one uninterrupted online session. The format simply does not allow users...

Focus on Wikis and blogs at online information conference 2005.
October 1, 2005... 29 November--1 December 2005, Grand Hall, Olympia, London, www.online-informationco.uk This years Online Information Conference (29 November--1 December 2005, Olympia, London) will dedicate an entire day to examining blogs, wikis and RSS...

CommonTime releases mSuite version 4.(mobile/wireless Notes messaging solution)(Brief article)
October 1, 2005... CommonTime, makers of mNotes, the mobile/wireless Notes messaging solution, announces the release of mSuite version 4. mSuite offers enterprises a central mobility framework providing a robust scalable infrastructure, wireless push email,...

PCG and BCS launch joint membership initiative.(Professional Contractors Group, British Computer Society)(Brief article)
October 1, 2005... The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has joined forces with the British Computer Society (BCS) to offer a fast track route for its members to join the BCS as professional grade or chartered status members. The purpose of the joint...

Mobile corporate email expected to reach 13.5 million individual users in 2009.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... According to the latest mobile research from IDC, the European mobile corporate emall market will increase to around 13.5 million individual users--employees who use either a laptop/PDA or mobile phone to access email--in 2009, representing a...

EMEA thin client market experiences exceptional growth in first half 2005.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... According to IDC Thin Client Qview service, EMEA thin client hardware shipments grew 39% in January-June 2005 when compared with the same period in 2004. This period of exceptional growth puts the thin client market on track to ship 1,000,000...

Mindjet MindManager pro 6.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... Mindjet Corporation announced the availability of Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 in September 20, 2005. MindManager Pro 6 is a tool for graphically representing the core communications of business: from capturing meeting notes to creating sales...

Agility for maintenance contractors.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... SoftSols Group has launched Agility, a browser-based maintenance management solution that provides a flexible route for maintenance contractors and Facilities Management specialists to help customers reap significant operational savings....

Google sitemaps.(IT News)
October 1, 2005... Google has announced the launch of ten new interface languages for Google Sitemaps (beta):Freneh, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and UK English. A free and collaborative...

Documation UK.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... Documation UK focusessed on the latest solutions and technology for efficient and effective information, content and document management. Held this year within Storage Expo, it included its own, free to attend, dedicated education program....

Dialing up a scam: avoiding the auto-dialer virus.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... For many, the daily walk to the mailbox evokes mixed feelings: The glee that your favorite monthly magazine--or a friends hand-written letter (quite a surprise in the e-mail age) may be waiting is countered by anxiety of how many bills the...

Attack poses as spam Katrina.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... SophosLabs have warned of a widespread spam campaign that posed as a breaking news report about the Hurricane Katrina disaster, which tried to trick innocent computer users into visiting a bogus website which attempted to infect their PCs with...

Sophos joins anti-spyware coalition.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... Sophos has announced its membership of the Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC). Sophos joins an alliance of technology companies and public interest groups whose mission is to create a consensus regarding spyware definitions, along with best practice...

Express 3.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... SmoothWall Limited has announced the availability of the first test version of SmoothWall Express 3, based on the latest Linux 2.6 kernel and features a new open architecture designed to make it easy for software developers to produce their own...

Arabic Trojan Horse interupts adult websites.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... SophosLabs have warned users about a Trojan horse which tries to interrupt the surfing of adult websites by displaying messages from the Koran. The Yusufali-A Troj an horse monitors the websites Windows users are visiting by examining the...

Pornographic material--not just an internet problem.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... Andey Churly, PixAlert Home Office Minister Paul Goggins announced that the Government intends to ban the possession of extreme pornographic material. Under these proposals, it would be an offence to possess images depicting scenes of serious...

Major addition to DESlock+.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... Data Encryption Systems Limited, have announced the launch of DESlock+ v3.2 for Windows XP and Windows 2000. DESlock+ v3.2 offers multiple software encryption keys and increased administrative capability. DESlock+ includes folder...

CounterSpy blog.(Security News)(Website overview)
October 1, 2005... Sunbelt Software, has provided an anti-spyware blog at http://sunbeltblog.blogTot.com. The blog provides activities, opinions and thought-provoking ideas on security news and issues to help protect against spyware, spam and other threats. ...

Network security research.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... New research from nCircle, has revealed that businesses on both sides of the Atlantic are ill-equipped to measure and report on network security risk despite this being their number- one concern. The industry trend survey that involved over...

Bogus FIFA lottery emails aim to steal money from unwary.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... Experts at SophosLabs are warning intermet users of a series of spare campaigns which pretend that the recipient has won a FIFA-sponsored lottery in an attempt to steal bank account information. The messages prey on interest in the Football...

Top ten viruses reported in September.(Security News)(Brief article)
October 1, 2005... The report, compiled from Sophos's global network of monitoring stations, reveals that Netsky-P, the worm written by convicted German teenager Sven Jaschan, continues to head up the top ten, nineteen months after it was first detected. ...

Pointsec launches lst Linux enterprise endpoint encryption.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... Poinsec have announced the general availability of its endpoint encryption solution for Linux-based operating systems. With Pointsec for Linux, corporations can now employ centrally managed full-disk encryption to protect information stored on...

Top twenty viruses reported to Kaspersky in September.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... 1. E-Worm.Win32.Zafi.d 17.17% 2. Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.c 16.69% 3. Email-Worm.Win32.Zafi.b 11.35% 4. Email-Worm.Win32.LovGate.w 6.64% 5. Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.b 4.32% 6. Email-Worm.Win32.Mytob.q 3.86% 7....

48% of corporations keep server hardware for four to six years.(Security News)
October 1, 2005... Sunbelt System Software, have announced the results of its joint survey with US analyst house Yankee Group. The poll of 1,700 IT managers and executives worldwide, revealed that 48% of corporations, regardless of size, hold on to their server...