March 2013

• March 30, 2013 30 Mar'13

  What are the likely consequences of last weeks cyberbattles?

  And did the Internet really slow down? It depends who you ask. A couple of times last week I left my machine to make a cup of tea because I got tired of websites waiting to respond even though the ...  Continue Reading

• March 29, 2013 29 Mar'13

  Google will not sue developers or open-source users

  In a show of warm meritorious altruism and philanthropic awareness, Google has said that it will not initiate legal proceedings and sue developers of open-source software (on a list of specified ...  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Greenfield Linux growth is fertile growth area

  The nonprofit Linux Foundation has this week released its 2013 Enterprise End User Report entitled "Linux Adoption: Third Annual Survey of World's Largest Enterprise Linux Users."  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Business intelligence program needs long-term tending to fully blossom

  The evolution of Quicken Loans' business intelligence strategy from static reporting to self-service BI holds useful lessons for other organizations.  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Over half of IT workforce unhappy with salary

  Over half of IT workers admit to feeling underpaid for their role, according to a survey  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Indian Global IT suppliers on domestic IT challenge

  Indian IT giants have to take a different approach to supporting domestic customers.  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  More IT problems at RBS

  RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank customers using mobile apps were locked out today after another IT failure at the banking group  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Skanska turns to Accenture to implement Oracle Fusion applications

  Skanska Sverige, a project development and construction group headquartered in Stockholm has turned to Accenture to implement Oracle Fusion applications  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  CW500: Thinking outside the big storage box

  Big data doesn’t necessarily mean big storage infrastructure  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  BlackBerry 10 ships one million in first quarter

  BlackBerry revenues fell in the fourth quarter, but the Canadian mobile manufacturer remains hopeful its new OS and devices will boost profitability  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Strategic investments drive modest growth in IT spending

  The relatively stable economic climate has resulted in modest IT investment, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly spending forecast  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Patients and doctors must push for a paperless NHS, says Intellect report

  IT trade body Intellect says patients and doctors must undergo cultural change to realise government's ambition of a paperless NHS by 2018  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  The predictability of what you're going through

  While we marvel and despair at the pace of changes being wrought by the technology industry, there's a body of opinion that everything we are seeing now was entirely predictable.I enjoy the work of ...  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Ofcom slams Orange in broadband complaints report

  Ofcom says more consumers complained about Orange than any other internet service provider (ISP) after it cancelled its free broadband deal  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Somerset council settles out of court with service provider Southwest One

  Somerset County Council has settled a dispute out of court with its outsourced service provider Southwest One  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Behavioural analytics - BA, humbug?

  Monitoring behavioural analytics can lead to many benefits, from optimising customer spend through minimising churn and fraud.  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Government must address digital divide, says NAO

  Despite the public appetite for greater digital public services, government must start putting its plans into action to address the ‘digital divide’, according to a National Audit Office report.  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Activists unleash biggest DDoS cyber attack to date

  Activists unleash a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in support of a web hosting firm, Cyberbunker, blacklisted by an anti-spam website  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Python snakes through U.S. Defense Agency

  Developer newswires are alight this week with news of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announcing a $3 million dollar (£2 million pound) funding commitment directed ...  Continue Reading

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  IDC Virtualisation and Cloud Conference

  Date: 2nd May, 2013
  Location: Dublin
  
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