November 2010

Citigroup creates 440 IT jobs in Northern Ireland

Citigroup is creating 440 IT jobs at in a technology and operations centre in Belfast over the next five years.

The IT jobs are part of the banking...

Microsoft warns of zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer

Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning of a zero-day vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser versions 6, 7 and 8 that could allow remote code execution.  Continue Reading

Top ten IT strategies for SMEs, number six: BI

Business intelligence enables companies to analyse data, such as sales revenue, by breaking it down by products or departments and provides historical, current, and predictive views of business ...  Continue Reading

Bristol Council's open source plans hit by further setback

Bristol City Council's efforts to implement an open source IT strategy have hit a further obstacle, one that raises questions about the feasibility of the...  Continue Reading

Agile is a skill in demand

Contractors with Agile software development methodology skills are currently in demand according to figures from CWJobs.co.uk and businesses will soon be looking for permanent staff with these ...  Continue Reading

Is IT offshoring inevitable to meet government cuts?

Large-scale offshoring of IT and business processes is seen by many as the way government departments can cut costs, but the ineffective procurement of the past could mean there is an alternative.  Continue Reading

Ah grasshopper, turn to the Agile Samurai developer!

A new book uses the Samurai theme to explain Agile software application development  Continue Reading

CIO Interview: Kevin O'Connor, Paddy Power

Technology plans are moving full steam ahead at Paddy Power, with a new chief information officer recruited to oversee the IT underpinning the bookmaker's exponential growth.  Continue Reading

Public sector IT jobs start to feel the spending cuts

Public sector IT job advertisements have fallen by 36% in the third quarter of this year compared to the first three months as contract roles are decimated.

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Vodafone offers businesses smartphone security

Vodafone has partnered with mobile security specialist Good Technology to enable businesses to manage corporate data on Android, Windows, iPhone and Nokia...

East London to become new Silicon Valley?

Prime minister David Cameron is to unveil a new technology centre in London's East End today.

Google and Facebook are said to be investing in the East...

One in eight malware attacks are via a USB device, study shows

A growing number of malware attacks are using plug-in USB devices, according to researchers at security firm Avast Software.  Continue Reading

Europe tests cyber defences in first regional attack simulation

Europe's cyber security experts are testing their responses today in the first ever pan-European cyber-attack simulation exercise.  Continue Reading

Stormy Peters leaves GNOME, breezes into Mozilla

Technology analyst and renowned free and open source software (FOSS) advocate Stormy Peters has left her post at the GNOME Foundation to join Mozilla.  Continue Reading

HP dodges Oracle's court call for chief Leo Apotheker in SAP case

Hewlett-Packard has refused a subpoena for new chief executive Leo Apotheker to testify in Oracle's case over IP theft by an SAP subsidiary while he was CEO at SAP.  Continue Reading

2011 set to be IT services M&A frenzy

A couple of things this week have prompted me to write a post about the possibility of a rush of mergers and acquisitions in the ICT services space next year. First I received a press release from ...  Continue Reading

Email attachment viruses: Old tricks meet new sophisticated malware

Recent research reveals that, while email attachment viruses may be using old techniques, the malware they contain is vastly more sophisticated.  Continue Reading