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  • How Safe Is Your Data?

    Highlighting the importance of data security, the international Hotel chain Marriot and Income Tax company H&R Block have both admitted to potentially compromising customer data this week.

  • Hard Disk Maker Fights Flash

    American hard-drive maker Cornice has stepped up competition with flash storage makers by announcing its new line of Dragon micro drives.

  • Sony BMG Settles DRM Lawsuit

    After the debacle that was its Digital Rights Management (DRM) software, Sony BMG is striving to settle the class-action lawsuits brought against it by angry customers.

  • MSN8 Email A Hoax

    An email claiming to direct people to a new version of Microsoft's popular MSN Messenger program has been shown to be a dangerous hoax.

  • SNIA Says "XAM, I Am"

    The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has announced a full review of the XAM (eXtensible Access Method) - also known as the X-Access Method.

  • Britain to Monitor Every Car Journey

    In what is possibly 2005’s most absurd ‘world first’, the UK Government has announced that it will be monitoring all motor vehicle journeys. Not only will an estimated 35 million “numberplate reads” be harvested, the data must also be store...

  • Oracle and Siebel Cleared for Merger

    Oracle’s US$5.85 billion purchase of enterprise software rival Siebel Systems has been cleared by the European Commission, clearing the way for Oracle to become the largest enterprise software company in the world.