February 2013 News
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Google battles BT in patent row
Google has launched legal action against BT, accusing the British firm of four counts of patent infringement14 Feb 2013
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Businesses are more willing to take datacentre risks amid budget cuts
Datacentre cost, traditionally a secondary consideration to resilience, has moved higher on IT’s agenda, shows DataCentre Dynamics study14 Feb 2013
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CIOs should scrutinise Oracle's Fusion strategy
A Forrester report paints a bleak picture for Oracle's Fusion Applications business, suggesting price hikes could be on the horizon14 Feb 2013
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Spanish police arrest ransomware cyber gang
Police in Spain have arrested a gang of 11 cyber criminals who used "ransomware" to demand money from thousands of victims in 30 countries14 Feb 2013
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Cisco quarterly profits jump 44% to $3.1bn
Network company Cisco has reported $3.1bn profits for its last quarter, up 44% compared with the same period the year before14 Feb 2013
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Grant Thornton uses Huddle for business support programme
Grant Thornton is using Huddle to share information and content as part of the £200m government-backed GrowthAccelerator14 Feb 2013
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European Commission funds research to eliminate latency
Researchers from universities and enterprises across Europe are undertaking a project to minimise latency over the internet13 Feb 2013
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US Army boots up VDI with Atlantis ILIO flash caching software
US Army Medical Command equips 11,000 staff at six hospitals with virtual desktop access and login times slashed to 30 seconds using Atlantis ILIO flash caching software13 Feb 2013
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Accenture scouts for 20 North East apprentices
Recently placing 19 young people into its three-year apprenticeship scheme, Accenture needs 20 more for its Tyneside offices13 Feb 2013
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Case study: ICEF Germany improves financial fortunes with Salesforce cloud apps
The International College of Economics and Finance has brought IT efficiencies and doubled its revenues by using Salesforce and Financialforce for CRM tasks13 Feb 2013
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Boots to roll out contactless payments nationwide
Boots is to roll out contactless payments across its stores nationwide, in a deal with payment providers Visa Europe and Streamline13 Feb 2013
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Mobile phone sales fall in 2012
Economic pressures and increased market competition are to blame for a 1.7% in the mobile phone market in 2012, according to Gartner13 Feb 2013
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Indian IT giant mentors UK digital entrepreneurs
Indian IT services company Infosys will mentor British entrepreneurs focused on digital, wireless and mobile technologies13 Feb 2013
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Cloud apps, big data priorities for significant slew of UK IT managers
Cloud-based finance and HR applications are spending priorities for a significant minority of UK IT professionals in 201313 Feb 2013
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UK companies use IAM for business not security, study shows
UK businesses use Identity and access management (IAM) mainly for cloud and collaboration rather than security, a Quocirca study reveals13 Feb 2013
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Mobile operators failing to plan for 4G backhaul
Network providers not investing in their backhaul to keep performance levels high, despite increase in mobile data and influx of 4G services13 Feb 2013
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Whitbread renews outsourcing contract with 14% cost cut
Whitbread has signed a new IT-enabled BPO deal with Steria which extends the existing agreement by five years with a 14% annual cost reduction13 Feb 2013
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Datacentre managers fail to act on EC energy efficiency targets
Only 21% of European datacentre managers have acted to address the EC's 20-20-20 Renewable Energy directive13 Feb 2013
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Twitter plans ‘pay by tweet’ system
Twitter is working with American Express on a "pay by tweet" system for users to pay for real or virtual items through the microblogging service13 Feb 2013
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Barack Obama signs cyber security executive order
US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to share cyber threat information with private companies13 Feb 2013
