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Your home wireless network? About as safe as a chocolate tea-pot

A frightening number of wireless networks are unsecured and vulnerable. How safe is yours?

SAP defends its cloud strategy

German software giant admits it is playing catch-up, but it’s not yet ready to say just how many SaaS customers it has

Heap big iron sends heap big smoke signal

This isn’t one of those ‘the mainframe isn’t dead yet’ stories – though you may disagree at first glance…

New UK bank uses cloud infrastructure

A new entrant to the British High St banking market has decide to not just outsource all its IT, but to run it as a virtualised operation, too, says Gary Flood

US site claims worker disquiet at Ballmer – trouble for Redmond?

Not sure whether this is to be taken all that seriously, but a US website that claims to investigate the mood inside big US employers has produced a pretty negative verdict on Microsoft head Steve Ballmer

Met boss to government: slashing cybercrime resource is madness long term

Anyone who thinks ‘the cuts’ are only really worrying to scroungers, overpaid civil servant fat cats and suppliers who’ve become addicted to the public sector as a handy cash cow may need to think again

Oracle as a mini HP? Don’t laugh – it will probably happen soon

Rumours abound that Oracle is chasing AMD. Buying a chip company would be a daft thing for a database and business software player to do, wouldn’t it?