Silicon.com Datacentres moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39451668,00.htm
The days of tracking down software counterfeiters in other countries who are selling pirated CDs are numbered as companies increasingly distribute software and store data online via hosted computing services, Matthew Parrella, an assistant US attorney based in San Jose, California, said at Symantec’s Norton Cyber Crime Day.
Computer Weekly: Big brands use Twitter to push corporate messages
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/10/236851/big-brands-use-twitter-to-push-corporate-messages.htm
Big companies are using Twitter to push out messages rather than engage in conversations according to new research by a PR company.
The Guardian: Collapse in illegal sharing and boom in streaming brings music to executives’ ears
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/12/music-industry-illegal-downloading-streaming
An increasing number of users are streaming music rather than downloading files.
IT PRO: Social networking helping women turn on to tech
http://www.itpro.co.uk/612640/social-networking-helping-women-turn-on-to-tech
The IT industry is still suffering from a gender imbalance but recent high-profile leadership appointments and the growth of social networking is helping to turn things around. So claims research published by Orange Labs, a Silicon Valley research arm and part of the France Telecom Group.
Computer World UK – NHS hospitals infected by 8,000 IT viruses
http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsid=15646
As the government spends £12.7 billion moving patient records, prescriptions and X-rays to IT systems, it has emerged that the IT virus prevented those systems from working in many cases.
