A UK housing provider has made improvements to the management of its data by enlisting the help of data management solutions provider DataFlux. The A2Dominion Group, the result of a merger between housing agencies A2 and Dominion, provides more than 33,000 homes across London and southern England and is in the process of building thousands [...]

MUMBAI, INDIA Food Corp of India FCI will begin electronic auctions of wheat from March 16, using National Spot Exchange Ltd NSEL platform under the open market sales scheme, the company said in a statement on Monday. The government releases excess stocks available after public distribution through an open market sales scheme OMSS to stabilise [...]

Thestories about IT security and the cost to businesses of security failures continue unabated, creating uncertainty in the typical business about the security systems that are in place. As soon as one security challenge is addressed, a new business model is developed with its own security management issues. Traditional IT infrastructures have known boundaries that [...]

Computerworld Most iPad owners will most likely use their shiny new tablet to read books and magazines, watch movies, TV shows and YouTube videos, and do typical Internet tasks like check e-mail and surf the Web. But what about putting it to use in different business situations? Does it fit in at work? In a [...]

Security is a major priority for all IT shops due to the cost, both in dollars and in reputation. But at a recent Gartner symposium on security matters, it was pointed out that theres a lot of reliance on loss-prevention software but not enough use of other, more pragmatic solutions. eSecurity Planet reports on what [...]

Cybersecurity is a complicated affair. In addition to the numerous and highly sophisticated technical tools in place to fend of malware and cyberattacks, so much of an organizations defense capabilities comes down to the habits of its employees, according to a panel of security experts recently convened in New York. With data breaches making near-daily [...]

AMD has rounded out its Opteron family of processors, offering a compliment to its high-end Magny-Cours line with the new 4100 unit, developed under the codename “Lisbon.” With Lisbon, AMD is taking aim at the middle market, offering a series of processors with an entry-level price of $99 that boasts advantages in power efficiency and [...]

The Eclipse Foundation started as an alternative Java effort to Sun Microsystems. Even its name was meant as a dig at Sun an eclipse blocks out the sun. But in time, it put the joke behind it and grew to expand other open source efforts. One of them is the PHP scripting language used as [...]

Computerworld Sure, companies have started using Web 2.0 tools, but one man says weve only seen a glimmer of the serious change that theyre going to bring to the way we do business. Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, is also the [...]

NEW DELHI, INDIA Business software and hardware systems company Oracle said on Tuesday that the Center for Railway Information Systems CRIS has implemented Oracle Tuxedo and Oracle WebLogic Server for its Freight Operations Information System FOIS. In a statement, Oracle said that CRIS implemented the systems to deliver a high performance, highly reliable and flexible [...]