January 2013

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Software is your salesperson - how to avoid agile annihilation

  Great news: It's a good time to be a software engineer again, you no longer have to worry about your job going to India, and IT leaders are queuing up to employ you.For much of the "noughties", it ...  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Is BlackBerry 10 enough to woo the business world?

  We ask whether the new BlackBerry 10 software will bring the enterprise back into the fold  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Gaining strategic technology platforms through financing

  At the end of 2012, Quocirca carried out research for BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions into the perceptions around IT and communications financing amongst UK small and medium businesses (SMBs). For ...  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Bett Show: A great week for the computer science curriculum

  Computer science curriculum enjoys great week with speeches from education leaders, Microsoft support and becoming a part of the EBacc  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Digital app developer skills take centre stage in corporate IT

  Digital information design skills, including building business apps, have assumed new importance in corporate IT over the past year  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Can open source save STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics) graduate figures?

  RunRev has announced a campaign to create an open source programming language targeted at school students.  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Retailers eye e-commerce investment amid imminent store closures

  Research shows retailers are prioritising investment in e-commerce platforms above in-store IT systems  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Capacity management most underestimated cloud problem

  Capacity management is the most underestimated problem of cloud computing, says Morgan Stanley strategy director Evangelos Kotsovinos  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  EasyJet lifts off with Azure seat bookings

  The Azure cloud has allowed Easyjet to enable web site and mobile users to check seat availability  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  LED technology to bring Wi-Fi over light

  The University of Strathclyde is developing micron-sized LEDs which could be used to provide internet connectivity  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  BlackBerry 10 hijacks your iOS and Android device thanks to Blippar

  This week BlackBerry are shining in the spotlight of the press in the mobile world, thanks to the launch of its new operating system, BlackBerry 10, and early indications seem that it is reviewing ...  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Inside Outsourcing interview: Infosys trailblazer on iGate and the arrival of outcome based service

  I met up with the CEO of IT services firm iGate, Phaneesh Murthy, today. Just to explain the headline. In 1992 apparently Infosys was thinking about shutting down because its revenue had plateaued ...  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Former US cyber czar Howard Schmidt tells business not to wait for government

  Private business must not wait for government but take the initiative in addressing cyber threats, says former US cyber czar Howard Schmidt  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Case study: Menzies Aviation upgrades in-house datacentre

  Menzies Aviation has updated its three internal datacentres with new servers, storage and cooling products rather than invest in cloud computing  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  EE adds nine more towns to 4G network

  EE has announced the availability of 4G in nine more towns, extending the reach of its network to 45% of the UK population  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Facebook turns into a mobile business

  Almost a quarter of Facebook’s business is now mobile, according to the company’s latest financial results  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  SAP certifies Dell datacentre systems to run Hana

  SAP has certified Dell datacentre products – including servers, storage and networking systems – for running Hana as a pre-integrated system  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Kaspersky calls for international cooperation on cyber security

  Governments must understand that cyber weapons are extremely dangerous and have to agree not to use them  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Petition against £1bn Barnet Council outsourcing tops 8,000 signatures

  A petition calling for a public referendum on Barnet Council’s planned outsourcing project – One Barnet – has reached over 8,000 signatures  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Blending work and personal life increasing security risks, warns global report

  Cisco finds next generations of mobile workers increase the security challenges facing CIOs because they mix work and private lives  Continue Reading