October 2014

October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Payment Systems Regulator could oversee Visa and Mastercard

The payments regulator due to be set up in 2015 could regulate Visa and Mastercard as well as major interbank payment systems Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
The MPS opportunity for SMBs

Analysts Louella Fernandes and Clive Longbottom examine the need for Managed Print Services (MPS) and how SMBs are faring as they embark on their MPS journey. Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
CW Buyer's Guide to Security Analytics

Computer Weekly looks at how organisations are gathering intelligence to stay ahead of emerging threats; the importance of gathering data throughout an incident; and the impact of context-aware security. Continue Reading

October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Data Breaches in Europe

The personal data of millions of Europeans have been compromised with 89% of the breaches the fault of corporations, according to this investigation by the Central European University. Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
House of Fraser’s journey to multichannel innovation

House of Fraser is providing technology offerings in the form of mobile in stores and buy-and-collect innovations Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Cyber security failing in execution, says ex-US cyber czar

Cyber security suffers from a lack of execution, says former White House cyber security co-ordinator Howard Schmidt Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
P&O Ferries launches multichannel website in legacy estate overhaul

P&O Ferries told the Internet Retailing conference it will launch a multichannel website next week as part of a move to overhaul its legacy estate Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
HP on board with VMware’s EVO:Rail as scale-out future hinted

HP and HDS join the hardware makers’ list for VMware’s EVO:Rail hyper-converged appliance Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
More firms sign up to offer Paym

Six more banks and building societies have signed up to offer the Paym mobile payment service Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Russian cyber criminals exploit Microsoft bug

Russian hackers have used a vulnerability in Microsoft software to spy on targets including NATO and Western European governments Continue Reading

October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Harry Potter and the Badly-Researched Press Release

The moral of the story? Don't send stuff to Millennials misquoting Harry Potter. It won't end well for you. Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Europe’s top cyber cop calls for access to online data

Trust in police and state should be applied in cyber space as it is in the real world, says the head of Europol’s EC3 Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
VMware expands private cloud into Germany

In a bid to showcase its data sovereignty credentials Vmware has opened a hybrid cloud datacentre in Germany Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Microsoft, SAP and Facebook call on EU to support better IT education

IT giants have written an open letter to EU ministers urging them to support better ICT education and encourage children to code Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
What has happened to the Prime Minister's Digital Taskforce?

In July, the government revealed the existence of the Prime Minister's Digital Taskforce - notable at that time mainly for the fact that Tech City chair and former Facebook Europe managing director ... Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Security Think Tank: Use governance strategy to manage cloud backups

What can IT teams do to ensure users are not synchronising sensitive corporate data to insecure cloud services? Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Dutch government organisations innovate in the field of BI

The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority and the Radiocommunications Agency are using advanced BI to do new things Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Motorsport firm replaces ageing comms with cloud telephony

Motorsport and automotive engineering firm Prodrive adopts cloud telephony to ease the pain of an office move Continue Reading
October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14
Backup and disaster recovery in the age of virtualisation

One of the benefits of using virtual machines is the scope for improved backup. We look at the product offerings from traditional and new suppliers Continue Reading
October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14
Businesses guide students to TeenTech awards at the Palace

Companies including JVC and Google have mentored a number of schoolchildren who have won TeenTech awards Continue Reading