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Gary McKinnon on IT's weak spots

Superhacker McKinnon tells Information Age how his experiences highlight the security shortcomings of corporate IT

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Stealing from tomorrow

Knee-jerk reactions to the recession may impair the availability of IT skills in the future

Development & Integration

Enterprise mash-ups

They may not yet be as ubiquitous as some predicted, but mash-ups are set to become an indispensable integration tool

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Crunch time for the IT industry

How the economic recession will reshape the IT business – and force some game-changing investment choices

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Service management

The key to quality IT delivery. An Information Age Research Report in association with Numara Software

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Emergency care

The digital telephone system behind the NHS Direct helpline is one of the most complex in Europe – and a too-rare example of government IT success

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Accelerating safety

The British Safety Council uses WAN acceleration technology to empower its branch office

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The ultimate dashboard

The Highways Agency is increasingly using business analytics to orchestrate traffic flow in real time

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Wiring the White House

Former White House CIO Carlos Solari recalls his experiences providing all the President’s IT

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Spearing the elite

High-profile individuals are increasingly having their personal data targeted in ‘spearphishing’ attacks

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Q&A – Turquoise

The CTO of the equities trading exchange outlines how his team created the ultra-competitive platform in under a year

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Information Age Index November 2008

Start of a painful descent

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FireScope promises BSM on a budget

IT service management upstart says incumbents are ripping off their customers

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Demand for standard IT management drives growth at BMC

Service management vendor says it is building an ERP package for managing IT

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Data quality woes fuel DataFlux’s rise

Merging customers should see data management provider through the 'knee-jerk' recession period, argue executives

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IBM hails real-time analytics as business information future

Only IBM has the breadth and scale to let customers sweat their information assets, the computing giant argues

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Month in review

All the top IT industry stories from October 2008

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Systems transformation

Novell acquisition of Managed Objects and Symantec's MessageLabs buy show two systems management providers in act of evolution

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Varying accounts

The impact of the recession is apparent for Sun Microsystems and SAP but Microsoft and IBM are still riding high

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How different threats affect different industries

The types of data breaches suffered by an organisation depend which industry it operates in, finds a report by Verizon Business

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Telecoms market defies downturn

The telecoms market is booming despite the lack of confidence in the economy

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Software as a service demand growing

Enterprise demand for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications is set for rapid growth

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IT's stress factor

IT a highly stressful occuption, finds a study by the Chartered Management Institute

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Public will hand over details for £5 voucher

People are willing to part with their personal details for as little as a £5 shopping voucher, finds Symantec

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Key cloning

Researchers have discovered a way to clone house keys from mere photographs

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The hard cell

Barclays bank's law firm learns the dangers of untrained Microsoft Excel users - the hard way

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Editor's Letter: IT spending crunch?

Too much focus on cost-reduction during the crunch will cripple companies when better times return

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Book review: Schneier on Security

Crime watcher Bruce Schneier provides a refreshing take on the occasionally over-hyped dangers of the IT security industry

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Wise guys on the web

The Mafia are well-versed in computer crime, according to the original Donnie Brasco

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Patent dispute

A US court has overturned a ruling that allowed business methods to be patented. How will that effect the software industry?