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| Offshoring May Finally Deliver On Its Promises |
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| According to research from respected research house The Standish Group, two thirds of software projects worldwide are considered failures, more than half exceed budget and 84 per cent suffer from over-runs. For many ... |
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24.08.05
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| Risking IT All? |
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| If you knew nothing about major IT projects and someone told you that 29 per cent of them fail, you'd probably think to yourself, 'Hmmm, almost a third, that's not so great, room for improvement there…' But if the person then ... |
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18.10.05
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| The New Hackers On The Block |
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| Forget the outdated hacker image of a spotty anarchic teenager holed up in his bedroom defacing the Web sites of global organisations, today's hackers are not only older but more determined than ever to claim your cash and ... |
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11.11.05
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| Linux: the thinking person's IT solution |
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| Organisations want reliable, low-cost, scaleable IT solutions, so why are they still buying Microsoft server technology? With no dedicated IT resource, SMEs want a server solution that is basic technical knowledge. It is ironic ... |
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28.10.04
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| Days in the life of a security penetration tester |
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| Foreign hackers, weak passwords, backdoors and buffer overflows - just another day at the office for a penetration tester. Here's a look at a typical few days' testing work at my company, and what all companies can learn from ... |
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03.11.04
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| Why We Need To Dynamically Rate Web Sites |
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| The Web has more pages than there are people in the world - over 10 billion and growing faster than ever. Each day, there are 30000 new pornographic Web pages added! Phishing pages may only be online for a short while. The ... |
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23.02.06
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| Googlisation cometh! |
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| Founded in 1998, Google has fast become the world's largest and most popular search engine, offering access to more than 8 billion URLs. Reasons for Google's success have been well documented recently, but it's simplicity and ... |
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25.02.05
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| Mac Attack! |
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| Computing history and computer virology did not begin with Windows, or with DOS. The first computer virus was a worm that appeared in 1988 and was written for Unix. However, computer virology only really started to evolve ... |
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13.07.06
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| SOA - The Future Of Banking Technology? |
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| The reported increased profitability in the US and Europe suggests that retail banks are meeting the challenges of recent years. They appear to have avoided the worst effects of major corporate collapses and increased regulatory ... |
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28.02.06
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| Business service management - the ITIL way |
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| In 1989 the first elements of what was to be known as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) were published. Since then, ITIL has developed into the most powerful and widely accepted set of guidelines for achieving best practice ... |
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15.02.05
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| Return On Investment: Fact Or Fairy Tale? |
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| Return on investment (ROI) is the buzzword of the moment. But while many vendors in the IT market enthusiastically talk the talk, how many IT investors actually walk the walk? These are difficult times for investors in IT. In ... |
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01.04.05
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| Spyware: software spies are starting to get nasty |
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| When is a virus not a virus? When it's a piece of spyware. Spyware, aka advertising-supported software or adware, has been until recently a fairly benign snooper on your surfing habits. The data it gathers is then used to target ... |
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04.11.04
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| Getting Real About Risk |
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| Why should organisations invest in business continuity? As we move into an increasingly networked world, enterprises are exposed to a changing set of vulnerabilities. The landscape of risk has changed. In this new world, good ... |
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26.07.05
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| Click Fraud - The Fly In The Ointment For PPC Ads |
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| Advertising the presence of your Web site via the search engines, better known as Pay-per-Click (PPC) advertising, is becoming one of the most effective and direct ways for businesses to find customers on the Web. The nature ... |
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16.03.05
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| What is ITIL and where did it come from? |
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| ITIL, or do use its original name, the IT Infrastructure Library, was the brainchild of the UK government, and dates back to 1989, when the first five books became available. ITIL was originally targeted at the UK government's ... |
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11.11.04
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