Archive for April, 2009

Came across an interesting Mary-Jo Foley article on a new Microsoft service “Vine” about to go into trial starting today. Head over to ZDNet to read more.

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 19:35 | 0 comments
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Whilst at InfoSec we spoke to the folks at Cisco about their IronPort e-mail gateway (an acquisition in early 2007), our question was “how can we put in place a more intelligent way of quarantining e-mail embedded with images”? You see, I work within a large financial services organisation and instead of risking reputational damage […]

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 18:57 | 1 comment
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So today I thought I would venture down to InfoSecurity 2009 at Earl’s Court and see what the security vendors were touting this year, initially I noticed two things…. The show was bigger than ever before, usually it takes place in Olympia (a smaller venue located nearby). This is really encouraging given the state of the […]

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 18:24 | 0 comments
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Stephen Rose “Sr Community Manager for Windows Client”, just annouced a new IT Pro site for Windows 7. Check out his article here.

Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 22:44 | 0 comments
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There has been quite a bit of buzz around a Windows 7 feature called “Windows XP mode”, essentially the addition of Virtual PC for 7 including a Windows XP SP3 license. This feature could really help a number of businesses who have not yet widely deployed Vista and still run a handful of older applications (I […]

Monday, April 27th, 2009 at 22:28 | 0 comments
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Whilst some of you may be aware Windows 7 includes ISO burning functionality (at long last!), I thought i’d recommend an excellent alternative to those still using Vista or XP. Check out ImgBurn, (free) not only will it let you write ISOs but you can create them too. Burning ISOs in Windows 7.

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 at 08:29 | 0 comments
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