August 2009 News
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Manage your mainframes to cut costs
Like all server systems, IBM's system-z mainframes need effective management to ensure operational costs stay...
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Fujitsu staff strike over pension plans
Unite members at Fujitsu have voted to strike over pay and pensions.29 Aug 2009
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US Civil Liberties Union tells UK to defend McKinnon
The American Civil Liberties Union has called on the UK foreign secretary to review the "lopsided" extradition treaty to prevent people like UFO
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Government plans to link criminal records to ID cards
Privacy advocates have reacted angrily to reports that the government...
28 Aug 2009 -
Emulex develops virtual fabric for IBM blades
Emulex has developed a Virtual Fabric Adapter based on its OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) architecture IBM's BladeCenter HS22 blade...
28 Aug 2009 -
Met office tackles climate change with super-polluter
The Met Office has bought four supercomputers from IBM to help it tackle climate change.
The power-hungry supercomputer produces 12,000 tonnes of...
28 Aug 2009 -
Girl Geek Dinners changing the tech industry
Four years ago, Sarah Blow set up the Girl...
28 Aug 2009 -
Facebook shuts apps privacy loophole
Facebook has amended its privacy practices and policiesto give users more control over the information they keep on the social networking site, following a report from the Canadian Privacy Commissi...28 Aug 2009
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Dell predicts recovery in 2010
Dell expects customers to start spending next year as the market moves from its current stabilisation to recovery, but the PC maker has held back from...
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Laptop search and seize will continue at US borders
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the US has amended its policy to seize any electronic device brought into the country, in a bid to counter criticisms that the policy infringes civil li...28 Aug 2009
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Vodafone upgrade cities to 14.4Mbps
Vodafone is to upgrade network speeds in its most congested UK areas to 14.4Mbps, the mobile...
28 Aug 2009 -
BP: the challenges of strategic multi-sourcing
BP has reduced the number of IT suppliers it works with from
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ICO calls for input on privacy business case
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) plans to develop a model business case to help public and private sector organisations justify and implement privacy protection in their business process...27 Aug 2009
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XP single sign-on applications fail on Windows 7
Old style Windows XP single sign-on applications will fail on Windows 7, businesses were warned today.27 Aug 2009
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Nokia picks Maemo for N900 Linux phone
Hard on the heels of its Windows-based netbook, Nokia today launched a Linux-based touch-screen phone handset with full qwerty keyboard, the N90027 Aug 2009
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Amazon connects EC2 into corporate networks
Amazon has extended its Elastic Cloud Computing service (EC2) to enable IT departments to link their own datacentres with virtual servers running in the...
27 Aug 2009 -
Portables drive growth in PC sales
IDC has predicted an upturn in UK PC sales on the back of sustained growth in consumer netbook purchases, but the relatively low price of these devices...
27 Aug 2009 -
Home Office lost 377,000 names on memory stick
The Home Office memory...
27 Aug 2009 -
Met Police wants handheld ID card readers
The Metropolitan Police is looking for suppliers of portable biometric identity card readers.
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Mobile steadies France Telecom results
Steady growth in the number of mobile customers helped shore up France...
27 Aug 2009
