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Patch management is essential for a comprehensive IT security solution
Feb 7, 2012 By Clare MuskerPatch management has long been known to be an essential part of managing software and controlling vulnerabilities but for some reason it is not being used by some. It has recently been claimed that the issues arise as people are misinformed regarding the security offered to you and your PC by...
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UK residents have seen broadband speed increases in the last year.
Feb 2, 2012 By Clare MuskerThe broadband download speed for UK residents has increased since May last year. It is up on average 0.8Mbps. This increase will not reduce the download time for a film by anything significant but will allow users- especially those with multi- connections in a household a far higher level of...
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Lack of bring- your- own- device policies- damaging your workplace
Jan 26, 2012 By Clare MuskerA bring- your- own device policy relates to a set of rules surrounding a business’s policy to support a person’s personal IT products . This includes PCs, smartphones, laptops and tablets which an employee brings in from home. Many businesses shave a strict no home device policy but recent...
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Wearable computer- soon to be on sale in China
Jan 11, 2012 By Clare MuskerChina has closed the gap between science fiction and real life with a new ‘wearable’ computer. The prototype is already in use and plans are in place to have the computer on sale to the consumer market in March. Small portable computers which can be attached to our bodies littered the market...
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New Year brings large scale security patching
Jan 9, 2012 By Clare MuskerJanuary is looking to be a busy month with regards to patching with 3 large IT companies announcing updates to be released. Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft have all announced a patching schedule for January. Adobe has announced a timetabled quarterly update, which will go live on the 10...
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UK details plans to catch up with other countries in public WI- Fi access
Jan 6, 2012 By Clare MuskerThe concept of free internet to the masses is not new. It has already been implemented in New York- in public parks and recently throughout subway stations and Paris where public areas have been connected. The London plans have been released to coincide with the Olympics. The system will be...
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Less than 1% of US internet users use the IE6 version of Microsofts internet browser
Jan 4, 2012 By Clare MuskerThis is good news for Microsoft who have been trying to kill the IE6 and move people over to the updated IE8 and IE9 versions. The IT company celebrated the ‘death’ if IE6 by baking a cake and holding a celebration. Microsoft is pleased with the drop below 1% and hope that this means that...
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Raspberry Pi auction underway!
Jan 3, 2012 By Clare MuskereBay is the current grounds of a very successful auction of the first 6 Raspberry pi circuit boards available to the public- Raspberry Pi Model B beta board - #5- #10 of a limited series of 10 are currently on sale. There are still just over 4 days left on the bidding but already the £22 British...
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The International Solid State Circuits Conference new products lacking in numbers but not innovation
Dec 29, 2011 By Clare MuskerThe International Solid State Circuits Conference, which will take place in San Francisco in from February 19 th through to the 23 rd is expected to have low numbers of server class processers exhibited. There is however interest in the IT products showing with them- specifically the...
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Endpoint security- key factors in management
Dec 28, 2011 By Clare MuskerQuarantine: Despite a person’s best attempts there are times when a PC or computing device will become infected with a virus. At this point isolating the infected machine is network critical. This can be done in a number of ways for example at the IP level, but the main purpose is to...
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