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Maxwell Cooter

Maxwell Cooter

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Maxwell is one of the co-founders of Techworld, the culmination of a long career in IT journalism. He originally trained as a programmer but quickly found IT journalism more interesting and has worked on a variety of publications and websites. He was editor-in-chief of the UK's first networking weekly, Network Week, and has launched two websites for the telecoms community.

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Cloud guidelines set out by US standards body

The US government is setting out to address concerns about security in the cloud. read more »

Cisco and Canonical join the open source cloud project

The OpenStack project, set up by Rackspace and NASA to offer open source cloud deployment, has launched the next phase of the development and several new members, including Canonical and Cisco. read more »

ICT must drive economic productivity says Cisco chief

Technology must help drive productivity in the western word, according to Cisco CEO and chairman, John Chambers. read more »

UK researchers target 110-fold broadband speed boost

The days of slow downloads could be over by the end of the decade according to researchers from the University of Southampton and the University of Essex. The scientists are working on a six-year project that, they claimed, that could make broadband internet 100 times faster. read more »

PayPal most spoofed site, Facebook most blacklisted site

Facebook is the most blacklisted website and second most whitelisted too. PayPal is the winner when it comes to phishing according to research from Open DNS read more »

Surrey university sends smartphone into space

Researchers at the University of Surrey have constructed a satellite made entirely from smartphone components read more »

Computacenter launches Exchange-based cloud email service

Computacenter is set to introduce a cloud-based email service as the company revealed details of a new survey, confirming that security was still the main inhibitor when it came to cloud adoption. read more »

Google, Yahoo, Facebook & Akamai plan global IPv6 test day in June

A group of web companies have come together to test the viability of next generation Internet protocol IPv6 read more »

Forrester says x86 taking market share from RISC computing

The gap between RISC and x86 is narrowing according to a new report from Forrester. read more »

A third of all malware in history 'created last year'

More than a third of all malware that has ever existed was created by criminal gangs in 2010 alone according to the latest PandaLabs Annual Report. read more »

Google picks UK company for remote access to Chrome

A small British company is to work with Google on developing remote access for Chrome read more »

BT announces winners in broadband race

BT has annnounced the names of the communities that are set to benefit from the rollout of super-fast broadband read more »

All GSM networks 'vulnerable to hackers'

Two security researchers have claimed that, for the first time, any GSM network or phone could be vulnerable to hackers, without the need to buy expensive network-sniffing tools. read more »

UK credit card industry tries to gag student security research

A row has broken out between Cambridge University and the UK's credit and debit card industry over a student's work on the flaws of chip-and-pin. read more »

The worst software failures of 2010

Software quality testing company, SQS and analyst and research firm, Ovum are clearly not feeling any Christmas goodwill and have highlighted examples of major software failures in 2010 and the year's worst mobile products, what Ovum called The Wireless Turkeys. read more »

Citrix buys Netviewer to boost European presence

Citrix Online is set to acquire SaaS company NetViewer in a deal expected to close in 2011. The German company offers a similar product base to that of Citrix Online and has 18,000 customers. read more »

HP offers support service for virtualisation

HP has introduced a service to help its server customers migrate to virtualised environments read more »

Rackspace buys Cloudkick to improve management

Rackspace Hosting has bought cloud management company, Cloudkick to bring new dashboard service to its customers. read more »

Storm brewing over FBI OpenBSD back door rumours

An online row has broken out about claims that FBI has had backdoors inserted into an operating system read more »

Companies struggle to cope with security for virtualisation projects

New research has revealed the security holes in virtualised environments read more »


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