BT Quarterly Earnings Up 1 Percent
BT Group, Britain's fixed-line telecom provider, said revenues rose 3 percent to 5.18 billion pounds, ahead of forecasts. BT Group posted a first-quarter rise in underlying core earnings of 1 percent on Thursday, just below forecasts, and said its full-year guidance remained unchanged. The BT Retail unit's share of net broadband additions was 31 percent during the quarter. - LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - Britain's BT Group Plc posted a first quarter rise in underlying core earnings of 1
percent on Thursday, just below forecasts, and said its
full-year guidance remained unchanged.
The group reported underlying earnings before interest, tax,
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Microsoft Exchange Online Beta Performs Well
Microsoft's hosted Exchange offering is easy to configure, maintain and use, but it's tied too tightly into Windows. - In one of the most substantial incarnations of its software-plus-services model to date, Microsoft is preparing to throw its hat into an already-crowded ring of hosted Exchange providers.
In fact, Microsoft's Web site lists more than 30 hosted Exchange providers operating in the United States, so, ...
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Rethinking Web Browser Security
New and ever-changing Web-borne threats necessitate a change in practices and technology. - With Web-borne threats and drive-by downloads becoming the most troublesome form of malware today, enterprise IT administrators and users alike need to reconsider the tools and practices they prescribe and employ to protect computers and data particularly as otherwise legitimate Web sites become th...
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Is Hosted E-Mail Right for Your Organization?
Control, performance, reliability and scalability are key points to consider when evaluating the hosted e-mail model. - Whether you call it hosted e-mail or e-mail as a service or utility e-mail, alternatives to traditional on-premises e-mail have been growing in prominence recently.
And it makes sense: At best, e-mail services represent a simple cost of doing business something that diverts a portion of IT staff re...
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Study Finds CMDBs Can Save Enterprises Big Bucks
An analyst report on the data center configuration product reflects sample customer savings of more than $1 million per year due to improved planning and processes. But watch out: The upfront investment in a configuration management database can be steep. - Enterprises considering investing in a configuration management database may
want to read a study released by Forrester Research on July 28 that outlines
cost savings and ROI involving this relatively expensive product.
In the interest of full disclosure, the study involved 26 enterprise users...
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AMD Previews New Notebooks, Consumer Products
After struggling to bring new desktop and server processors onto the market, Advanced Micro Devices is looking to focus on two key areas that have served the company well in the past: laptops and gaming PCs. eWEEK got a sneak peak at some of the notebooks and gaming systems built around AMD's new mobile platform and ATI graphics line, which should help AMD compete against Intel.
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Hewlett-Packard offers a wide range of AMD-based laptops, as well as tablets. The Pavilion tx2500, which has a 12.1-inch screen, uses the newer AMD quot;Puma quot; mobile platform, which includes a dual-core Turion X2 Ultra processor and an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card. While the tx2500...
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Security Vendors Embrace Application Whitelisting
Security vendors are increasingly baking whitelisting technology into their anti-virus and other security products to battle malware. Whitelisting is an effort to compile a list of trusted, malware-free applications that IT and the user community agree to support. - Corporate IT security managers are
confronting the reality that the sheer volume of both malicious and unmalicious
software programs is growing explosively, prompting them to look for more
effective tools to deal with the situation.
But with some research reports showing that the
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Intel's Barrett Sees No Slowdown in World Desktop and Notebook Market
Intel, the world's biggest microchip maker, expects no slowdown in global demand for PCs, desktops and notebooks despite economic problems. - LISBON (Reuters) Intel Corp,
the world's biggest microchip producer, expects no slowdown in global
demand for personal computers despite economic problems in the United
States and in other countries, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett said on
Wednesday.
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Amazon Opens Mechanical Turk Crowdsourcing for Non-Coders
Amazon Web Services offers a Web-based editing tool for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for non-programmers to create tasks for others to work on together. Even as Turk is fading, businesses are leveraging Amazon's EC2, S3 and other cloud computing tools to give developers platforms to launch Web-based apps. This has spawned a nation of startups, including Bungee Labs, Etelos and Coghead. - Amazon Web Services, the Amazon.com unit that popularized Internet-based computing with its (Elastic Compute Cloud) and S3 (Simple Storage Service) services, is making its application development marketplace available to non-programmers.
Today, business users with no coding skills can use a new W...
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In Search of the Best Web Security Solutions
It's no longer possible to stay secure on the Web using best practices; eWEEK Labs' Andrew Garcia tests a variety of Web security technology solutions and finds that most come up short. - Security companies have been getting more creative with offerings designed to shore up the Web browser, introducing a variety of solutions for the consumer market aimed at helping Web surfers make more intelligent and informed decisions about the sites they visit and the code they download.
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