August 2007

August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Translating Research into Reality

My posting earlier this week on the costs of incidents created a few stirs, the most interesting one being an email from the excellent Ponemon Institute, who have been the source of many ... Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
IT breakdown forces Barclays to borrow from Bank of England

Barclays Bank and Euroclear have refused to give details of the technical breakdown that forced the bank to borrow from the Bank of England's emergency reserves this week to cover a shortfall in its finances. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Bournville College invests in corporate CRM system

Bournville College has deployed a new customer relationship management (CRM) system to manage its relationship with the business community. Continue Reading

August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
IBM announces atomic computing breakthroughs

IBM has announced two breakthroughs in its atomic computing effort. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Vodafone signs £40m deal with Cable & Wireless

Vodafone has awarded Cable & Wireless a two-year, £40m contract to provide a range of professional and IP network services to support Vodafone's business customers. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Co-operative Financial Services automates decision-making with Blue Prism

Co-operative Financial Services has freed up the time of nine members of staff by installing software to automate decisions on making payments from accounts with insufficient funds. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Visa predicts cash's downfall

Reloadable pre-paid cards instead of cash is the way of the future, according to research commissioned by Visa into the spending habits of US baby boomers and echo boomers. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Mobile workers shirking security responsibilities

As mobilisation increases, the security risks increase as a result of unsafe and sometimes reckless end-user behaviour Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Monster hack sees 146,000 government job applicants' records taken

About 146,000 people using a US government jobs website managed by Monster.com have had their personal information stolen by hackers, reports Reuters. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Government to research privacy of IT systems

The government is to spend up to £10m researching how the next generation of identity management infrastructures can offer assured privacy, and depend on truly informed consent. It is calling for expressions of interest by19 September. Continue Reading

August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Allianz Insurance adopts new electronic trading platform

Allianz Insurance has gone to Kewill to host and manage a new electronic trading platform for its personal lines division. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Unified communications offers security, ROI and effectiveness

Unified communications was all the talk at VoiceCon in San Francisco. What exactly is it? What are the technical and strategic issues around UC? Associate Editor Jeff Kelly discovered some helpful advice and opinions on UC at the show. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Daily Mail and General Trust modernises with Agresso

The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) media group is replacing and consolidating the financial systems of its two largest divisions as part of a plan to standardise and modernise the back-office systems. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Suncorp reveals five-year VoIP plan

Financial services group Suncorp explains its plans to IP-enable its operations to Adam Turner. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
BBC signs £43m deal with Siemens for digital switchover

The BBC has signed a £43m outsourcing deal with Siemens IT Solutions and Services to aid its digital switchover programme. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
User performs data storage U-turn

U-Store-It, a national self-storage company, decentralized its data centers, migrated data from SAN to DAS and de-clustered Exchange to simplify storage management. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Spark Ada flies into Thales development

Praxis has won a contract with Thales UK to support its aircraft management software development. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Metro goes commercial with RFID

Metro, the German retailer, reportedly plans to penalise suppliers up to £1.35 per pallet for pallets that do not carry RFID tags. The move to enforce contractual compliance comes as Metro expands its RFID supply-chain track and trace system from a ... Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Security fears prevent firms adopting wireless networks

Perceived security weaknesses in wireless networks is preventing 43% of firms adopting them, says a survey. Continue Reading
August 31, 2007 31 Aug'07
Your shout! Recruitment agencies are not the only problem

John Pether's letter regarding recruitment consultants exacerbating the skills gap made familiar reading. Continue Reading

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