PC World Has this ever happened to you? In your haste to save, say, a Word document, you give it the wrong name or introduce a typo in the filename. Happens to me more often than I care to admit. Shoot, I just admitted. Obviously you can open up Windows Explorer, find your file, and [...]

Hackers have and continue to feast on Microsoft applications—particularly Internet Explorer—and the software giants monthly Patch Tuesday release has largely become just another mundane task for enterprise IT departments to complete as quickly and painlessly as possible. But as eSecurity Planet reports, this months fixes are both numerous and crucial to safeguard corporate IT networks [...]

Smart cards are used by reason of a variety of purposes from storing a patients medical records and electronic payments to safety identification. The newer generation of credit card-sized smart cards are activated dint of. simply waving the card at the electronic reader. Billions of pungent cards have already been shipped and, as eSecurity Planet [...]

Parliamentary Information Technology Committee chairman Andrew Miller has been elected to chair the Commons Science and Technology Committee in the first ever series of elections to select committee chairmanships. He will take up the post shortly when MPs are appointed to the committee. It is one of the formal select committees of Parliament which will [...]

A shift is underway from simple automation to business optimisation, and information is at the centre of it. Information, when aligned with your business strategy, holds the key to driving profitable growth, cost take out and proactive risk management. But despite the tremendous growth in information, most organisations are operating with significant blind spots and [...]

BT Global Services has won a five-year abridge from department store chain Debenhams to upgrade its network infrastructure. The repaired network, which will connect 159 stores, distribution centres and datacentres, volition deliver a 16-fold increase in performance, according to BT. A speaker for BT declined to give an exact figure for the deal, unless said [...]

PC World The air is alive with information, beaming down from space. You need only the right tools to retrieve it. SkyGrabber is a low-cost application $41, 15-day free trial that can help you tune a satellite dish for the best reception of satellite internet service or television programmingbut is capable of far more than [...]

This story was originally published on October 25, 2008. Admit it. Even you, a savvy veteran e-mail user, have fallen for one or more of these Internet rumors. Or, even if you werent quite sure of the veracity of a particular story or photograph, you e-mailed it to your friends to amuse/warn them, or to [...]

Network World Substance-abuse recovery Hanley Center in Florida has patients, some of them celebrities, undergoing treatment to get off alcohol or drugs. With that kind of sensitive data in its computers, Hanley decided the way to keep a lid on it was to monitor every single keystroke an employee on a computer makes every day, [...]

Malware and cybercrime are among the fastest-evolving trends in computing, unfortunately. As quickly as the security vendors move to combat the latest malware, the bad guys make a countermove to continue their nefarious activities. Every year things change and in 2009, a number of new trends emerged in malware that were very different from 2008 [...]