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Union slams Aviva’s offshore plan
Union Unite has accused Aviva of betraying UK workers after it emerged that 600 of its 2,000 job cuts are being relocated in India20 May 2013
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Twitter uses open source to automate security
Twitter is increasingly using open source automation tools to ensure security processes are taken care of in all the code it produces20 May 2013
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Tech City startups struggling to acquire capital for further growth
One-third of businesses in London’s Tech City are struggling to develop due to a dearth of capital and skills20 May 2013
May 2013 News
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Metropolitan Police weighs up outsourcing options
The Met Police Service is engaging with the outsourcing industry for back-office services as it targets annual savings of £500m20 May 2013
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Case study: Princess Alice Hospice goes wireless
The Princess Alice Hospice is awarded charity of the year by iWireless Solutions, winning a £20,000 wireless network installation from the firm20 May 2013
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Atos fights off HP and Capita to retain NS&I contract
Treasury-backed National Savings and Investments (NS&I) has awarded Atos a seven-year IT outsourcing contract20 May 2013
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Yahoo Japan says hack attack may have exposed 22 million users
Yahoo Japan has warned that the identity details of up to 22 million users may have been compromised in recent hack20 May 2013
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London Olympic Park will become home to a datacentre facility
The London Legacy Development Corporation has signed a deal with a UK provider to develop a datacentre facility at the Olympic Park20 May 2013
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Managing the mobile enterprise
Mobile working has brought new challenges for IT departments, but the fundamentals of managing them remain the same.20 May 2013
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Shanghai cyber hacking unit back in business, says US
China’s military cyber espionage Unit 61398 is back in business, deploying different techniques, say US officials20 May 2013
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FT is latest media group attacked by Syrian hackers
The Financial Times has confirmed that its website and several Twitter accounts were hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army20 May 2013
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Google makes IaaS product Google Compute Engine generally available
Google has made its IaaS platform, Google Compute Engine, generally available to any developer or business20 May 2013
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Yahoo board approves $1.1bn deal for Tumblr
Yahoo is set to acquire blogging service Tumblr in a $1.1bn deal, with an official announcement expected today20 May 2013
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Veeam adds WAN acceleration to virtual machine backup product
Virtual machine backup specialist Veeam has added WAN acceleration, storage array snapshots and other features to version 7 of its Backup & Replication virtual machine backup product20 May 2013
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Dell sees profits plummet amid hardware freefall
Dell saw profits plummet by 73% to $226m (£149m), as its first quarter results revealed its hardware division's profits to be in freefall17 May 2013
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Government spends £260m on e-prescribing
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt commits £260m to e-prescriptions, as part of moves to make the NHS paperless by 201817 May 2013
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Mahindra Satyam draws a line under turmoil
Mahindra Satyam has drawn a line under the turmoil caused when a former Satyam director admitted to misreporting the company’s results17 May 2013
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John Lewis launches tech apprenticeship scheme
John Lewis is to launch a technology apprenticeship programme17 May 2013
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Sapphire 2013: Plattner, Sikka hail HANA growth beyond SAP
In-memory database platform HANA is growing beyond SAP, with 431 startups building on it, Hasso Plattner and Vishal Sikka said at Sapphire 201317 May 2013
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BlackBerry Live 2013: ING Direct pilots BB10 devices and BES10 for management
Online bank ING Direct is undergoing a pilot with BlackBerry’s BB10 operating system, involving 300 Z10 and Q10 smartphones17 May 2013
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Morrisons signs deal with Ocado for online delivery
Morrisons has signed a deal with Ocado to use its technology, logistics and distribution operations to deliver online groceries17 May 2013
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Most IT environments immature, Microsoft reveals
Most business IT environments are immature, analysis of data from Microsoft’s Cloud Security Readiness Tool has revealed16 May 2013
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BlackBerry Live 2013: Orr claims mid-range Q5 will attract UK corporations
BlackBerry’s Q5 handset will attract corporations rolling out large volumes of handsets, claims UK managing director Rob Orr16 May 2013
