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  • Newcomer spikes concerns over open source bundle support

    Inspired by the challenge of providing customers with an avenue of support for systems that incorporate multiple open source applications, start-up company SpikeSource is to go live in December, with plans to test, certify and support a va...

  • IBM launches self-management database

    IBM has launched DB2 Universal Database that automatically self-manages and self-tunes databases with key business information, including customer history, product pricing and product availability without the need of human intervention.

  • Longhorn block on portable storage

    Microsoft's Longhorn is set to address the current security fears over vital information being stolen from big corporations by allowing these businesses to block access to iPods and other small storage devices.

  • IBM set to make double splash

    IBM has outlined a strategy around its mainframe computing platform aimed at leveraging the mainframe's strengths to help customers live up to IBM's slogan of becoming "on demand" businesses, and is also reportedly set to announce a new se...

  • PC settings mobilised through iPod

    PowerHouse Technologies Group has created a new Migo product which transforms iPods from normal MP3 players into a hard drive that contains all of the personalised computer settings on any PC.

  • US spyware Bill threatens imprisonment

    A new Bill passed in the US this week outlaws spyware and even carries a sentence of five years imprisonment if somebody is found guilty of installing one of these programs under somebody's PC without permission.

  • Email archiving too laborious – study

    Much work needs to be done in the corporate email archiving space to make applications more user-friendly, if the results of a new worldwide survey on how workers are coping with the blow out of email messages they have to routinely deal w...

  • Companies unite to boost online data recovery

    XOsoft and AmeriVault, the provider of online data protection services, have joined forces to offer a new data recovery service that will allow organisation to continuously replicate data to a mobile computer whenever there is an outrage.