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Elliott wants it all - especially the cash

As the week was ending, rumors were swirling that the hedge fund suitor of Novell, Elliott Associates, which last week offered $1bn net of cash to take over the perennially struggling software maker, was going to start selling off its target's assets if it clinches a deal.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

Ultra brute force attack

Password-cracking tools optimised to work with SSDs have achieved speeds up to 100 times quicker than previously possible.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Third time lucky

The data protection watchdog has strongly urged an incoming Tory government to quickly bring in jail sentences for data thieves, after the current government reneged on the idea.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Slips under $100 price point

OCZ has a sub-$100 SSD offered as a netbook, laptop and desktop hard drive replacement.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Traditional Gloucester hill stampede canned

In grim news for those who think it's a bit of a wheeze to chase an 8lb Double Gloucester cheese for 200 yards down a near-vertical hillside, the organisers of the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake have announced that this year's event is cancelled.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

What happens when you have a problem?

Lab You may be playing around with virtualisation on the edges of your IT environment or be well down the road to making it part of the furniture. But what happens when something goes wrong and it’s not immediately obvious what the problem is?…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

The rise of the secret censor

New Zealand’s internet filtering system went live last month – but the government forgot to mention this to its electorate until its hand was forced by online freedom campaign, Tech Liberty.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

And struggles to recruit net experts

It is the secretive heart of government information security, dispensing advice and setting standards throughout officialdom, but GCHQ's "cavalier" in-house policies have come under fire in a report revealing it lost 35 laptops.…

The power of collaboration within unified communications

What you need to know about the Wii-style PS3 accessory

Sony this week formally announced its long-awaited Wii-style motion controller system for the PlayStation 3. Once thought to be called Arc, the add-on is now officially Move. And here is all you need to know about it.…

Official UN website still shows it as fact, though

More bad news today for the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as another of its extravangant ecopocalypse predictions, sourced from green campaigners, has been confirmed as bunk by scientists.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud