May 2010
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May 06, 2010
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Facebook under fire after flaw exposes live chats
Facebook has again come under fire for not doing enough to protect personal information after a security flaw allowed users to eavesdrop on private chat sessions. Continue Reading
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May 06, 2010
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May'10
IT leaders may face recruitment challenges if Tories win
So the much awaited day of reckoning has arrived. The General Election is here.I remember when the Tories were booted out in 1997. I was a student at the time and there was a feeling of renewal in ... Continue Reading
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May 06, 2010
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May'10
Public vs. private clouds
Find out the difference between public and private clouds and get help determining which of the two would best suit your enterprise. Continue Reading
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May 06, 2010
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HDS, NetApp, IBM and bloggers line up to kick EMC
Coincidence or Google Bomb: Why is the whole storage blogosphere lining up to kick EMC the week before EMC World? Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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Betfair uses CEP in real-time map of General Election betting
Online gambling firm Betfair is using complex event processing (CEP) technology to monitor and react to customer behaviour around the General Election Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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Logica revenues are down overall but the UK is up
Logica UK reported a 3% year-on-year revenue increase to £187m, up from £182m in 2009, while Sweden's revenue was up 4% at £135m."This steals a march on Atos, which reported a 2% UK revenue ... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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May'10
eTick - eTock
With (as I write this) a little over 24 hours until the UK General Election results start coming through, I have been caused to wonder about a number of things; a) Will the pundits and pollsters be ... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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HCL was the fastest growing Indian Supplier but TCS hangs on as biggest
I often blog about the relative success of the India suppliers so here is a list of the main Indian players and the revenue and revenue growth in 2009 compared to 2008 in western Europe, according ... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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Do women in technology need to just get on with it?
You can't argue encouragement to enter the technical field is lacking. The technology industry isn't just a good sector for setting up a business, it has thousands of positions that are well paid, ... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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May'10
Would Tories create raft of new IT-related projects?
Board directors of major Government IT suppliers have good reason to vote Tory Plans for major outsourcing deals already underway in private? Sir Peter Gershon, adviser to the Conservative Party, ... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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Microsoft-Nokia mobile alliance delivers first application
Microsoft and Nokia ... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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May'10
Time for a change in the way government runs - Burnt Oak Partners
I asked Robert Morgan, a director of Burnt Oak Partners, an organisation that enforces Outsourcing commitments and contractual obligations, for his views on the credibility of Conservative plans to ... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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May'10
IBM acquires Cast Iron to accelerate cloud services
IBM expects the global market for cloud computing services to be worth $126bn by 2012 and is bolstering its capability to strengthen its own offering. Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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May'10
Logica figures down, but upward trend expected
Logica has reported first-quarter revenue of £939m, down 2% from the same period a year ago, but better than the 4% average decline for the past three quarters.... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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May'10
Why did Accenture and HP services revenues drop the most last year
Yesterday I blogged about the Gartner figures on the IT services market last year.Accenture and HP both recorded double digit falls in revenue compared to 2008. The two giants stood out amongst ... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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May'10
How to start a movement
Brilliant video here from Derek Sivers, who discusses with real insight what would otherwise have just been an amusing video of a guy dancing. This makes me think a couple of disparate thoughts: 1. ... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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May'10
Be prepared to create outcome based outsourcing agreements
It seems that outsourcing agreements with a business outcome written in are all the rage. Gartner's latest report on the IT services market said that suppliers selling outcome based services did a ... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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Business responds to recession by tying outsourcing agreements to outcomes
Business outcomes are increasingly being written into outsourcing agreements, as companies respond to the recession. Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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May'10
Visualising social media
Brian Wallace has collected ten great social media infographics. I think the most useful is Age Distribution on Social Network Sites, the most interesting is The Conversation Prism (below), and the ... Continue Reading
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May 05, 2010
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May'10
Whoever wins the election, IT will be vital
It is very unlikely that anybody who goes to the polling booth this week will base their voting decision on the IT policies of the parties listed before them. But the fact that Gordon Brown, Nick ... Continue Reading