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The recent theft of a hard drive from a small business owner has resulted in a significant fine and a warning from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The warning was a stern reminder to business owners of their legal obligation to protect any personal data stored on portable devices. The...
Even as weather forecasters and government officials were warning of a T-10 typhoon last month, data centre operators in Hong Kong were not panicking. They have been through these things before and they know the infrastructure and systems they've put in place can withstand just about anything the weather throws...
Researchers working on creating batteries with ever-increasing storage capacity have made great strides with molten battery technology. Their latest creation, known as the molten air battery, is capable of storage capacities so high that they make the nearest competitor seem small by comparison. One version of this new battery has...
Imagine walking up to the entrance of one of the biggest data centre facilities in the world, placing your thumb on a fingerprint reader, and instantly gaining access with no questions asked. It's the stuff of sci-fi movies and futuristic stories. Or is it? Thanks to new technology from Apple,...
There are many changes coming to EU education if European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes has anything to say about it. Kroes took the occasion of last week's FT-Telefonica Millennials Summit in Brussels to announce a brand-new initiative focusing on transforming education by incorporating it with IT services. The...
Mey Gen Ltd, a joint venture established between Morgan Stanley, GDF SUEZ, and Atlantis Resources Corporation, has reached an important milestone in its drive to create a commercially viable tidal energy array. The milestone comes by way of consent from Marine Scotland to pursue the project. Though this is just...
Late last week it was learned that Vodafone Germany was the victim of a very serious security breach that compromised the personal information of more than 2 million customers. The German arm of the UK-based phone network acknowledged the security breach but claimed the potential damage was limited. Exactly when...
New energy management systems may do more than just help data centre operators better control power and cooling; it may actually help in the fight against Legionnaire's Disease. In the UK, the regulations regarding Legionella monitoring require regular on-site maintenance and temperature checks in all public and workplace buildings. There...
You've done it before; we all have... You forget to charge your mobile phone overnight, then leave home the next morning hoping and praying you have enough battery power to make it through the day. However, what if you didn't have to worry about it? What if you had a...
A major power outage left approximately 70% of Venezuela without electrical power for approximately 3 hours earlier this week, according to government sources. Although power outages are a normal event in the South American country, they rarely affect such a large swathe of the nation. Even large parts of the...
When former US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden first revealed systemic abuses by the US National Security Agency (NSA) in its information gathering process, no one could have imagined the collateral damage that would result. The latest evidence of that damage is the closing of the well-known Groklaw legal reporting website....
Last Friday (16 Aug 2013), everything at Google went dark for just a couple of minutes. When we say everything, that's exactly what we mean. IT services, commercial applications – everything from Gmail to the Google Apps Dashboard was gone. According to GoSquared and other analytics firms, the short outage...