Microsoft has rolled out version 4 of its Windows Desktop Search application, improving on somewhat cumbersome previous versions with better performance, faster sorting and preview functions.

Enterprise data protection specialist Pretty Good Privacy Corporation (PGP) has released new versions of its encryption software, further increasing its policy control and data protection capabilities.

The next major release for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is approaching, and as it does Microsoft is talking up new features such as its new private browsing capabilities.

Data protection solution supplier Tandberg has increased the capacity of RDX QuikStor disk-based storage system to 500GTB, as well as added continuous protection capabilities.

Symantec has announced the winners for its 2008 Australia and New Zealand Visionary Awards, with IT Leaders from Telstra and HealthAlliance NZ taking home honours.

The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) has released new research showing that medium-sized businesses will be prioritising virtualisation, information management and security in 2009.

Lexar is showing off its latest USB flash drive, saying the Secure II + Jumpdrive offers high mobile storage capacity while retaining security, enabling businesses to backup, transport and share large amounts of data.

Further extending its cloud storage capabilities, Amazon has announced the launch of its new Elastic Block Store (EBS), a persistent storage feature for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

To medium-sized companies, as a business issue information security is more important than reducing costs, so says a new survey from Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions.

According to calculations by the BBC, in the year leading up to April 2008 the UK government lost personal information of four million of its citizens.