September 2010

Why audit your software ?

Organisations are increasingly resorting to automated tools to track their IT assets. One reason, according to a survey due to be published next week, is that organisations increasingly want to ...  Continue Reading

EC to take UK to court over privacy and data protection

The European Commission is suing the UK government for not fully implementing EU rules on the confidentiality of electronic communications.  Continue Reading

Who said Indian suppliers lack innovation?

BA and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have created an SAP system for the airline to support aircraft maintenance. IT bosses often refer to outsourcing suppliers as "extensions to the IT ...  Continue Reading

Small businesses in danger of security breaches

Small businesses should be encouraged to gain security certificates in order to avoid data breaches, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said.  Continue Reading

Services market in fragile state

Growth in the UK IT services market is set to stall next year to just 2%, down from 2.4% in 2010, said analyst firm Ovum .  Continue Reading

UK business beware: data protection rules will only get tougher, says lawyer

The UK has crossed the Rubicon in data protection, and regulation will only get tougher from now on, says a data protection and privacy lawyer.

"We...

CRC Deadline Day comes and goes

September 30th is the end of the registration period for the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme and there'll be no naming and shaming of those who failed to register  Continue Reading

RBS UK IT staff morale down as offshoring takes hold

In the last couple of days I have been contacted by a couple of members of the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) IT team. One RBS IT worker told us that the internal jobs board at the bank earlier ...  Continue Reading

Google Android apps found to be sharing data

Here's an interesting story that has recently emerged. It's great to see some useful research into privacy issues and mobile phone applications. By "tainting" private data researchers were able to ...  Continue Reading

Cornwall to get disputed £132m fibre broadband network

Plans to give businesses and homes in one of the UK's poorest counties high-speed internet access through fibre to the premises were unveiled today despite...

ACS Law data breach highlights hidden security weakness, says Imperva

The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on law firm ACS Law that led to the leak of the personal details of thousands of illegal file-sharing suspects  Continue Reading

Barclays to enforce encryption in software applications

Barclays Bank is enforcing the use of encryption for rewriting much of its portfolio of software applications. The bank has also begun vetting software supplied by vendors, ranking suppliers by their level of risk  Continue Reading

Will intra company transfer loophole be closed in immigration cap report next month?

A report being put together by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) about the immigration cap will be published some time in October. But will it include the dreaded Intra Company Transfer (ICT) ...  Continue Reading

The ghost of Satyam is laid to rest

Following the announcement of Mahindra Satyam's latest annual results its European head told me the company "has put the past to rest." Vikram Nair also told me some of the IT service provider's ...  Continue Reading

BA offers SAP best practices through TCS service

British Airway is working on a joint venture with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), to bring to market its expertise in implementing SAP for maintenance, repair and operations (MRO).  Continue Reading

Domino’s Pizza hires new IT director

Domino's Pizza has said it hired a new IT director as part or a series of new appointments to its senior management team.

Colin Rees has joined the...

Will SugarCRM for OEM just be too sickly sweet?

SugarCRM launches a new OEM module and provides access to developer tools  Continue Reading