October 2014

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  Samsung shares up despite falling profit

  Samsung Electronics has reported operating profit of $3.9bn for the third quarter of 2014, down by 60%  Continue Reading

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  Government offers free Wi-Fi in 1,000 public buildings

  DCMS plans to make free Wi-Fi hotspots available in 1,000 public buildings as part of its Super-Connected Cities programme  Continue Reading

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  Law to leave wiggle room for public data profiteers

  Forthcoming data laws will put only a loose cap on public bodies seeking to sell public information for profit, according to the head of a UK consultation on their scope.Yet while the law change ...  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  OpenCo 2014: When do startups stop being startups?

  More than 100 UK digital companies opened their London offices to the public for a day to show how they work  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  UK cyber threat sharing ahead of target, says Cert-UK

  Membership of the government’s Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CISP) is well ahead of target, says Cert-UK  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Home Office appeals against $300m Raytheon payment in e-Borders dispute

  The Home Office has appealed against a decision to award $300m to Raytheon over the cancellation of its e-Borders contract  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Home Office to waste £1bn on immigration system IT

  Immigration system IT failures will cost tax payers £1bn and are causing a continued backlog of cases  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Zadara enterprise bolt-ons show the limits of cloud storage

  Here at Powering the Cloud (formerly Storage Networking World Europe) in Frankfurt, many of the vendors and products actually highlight the current limits of the cloud. One such example is Zadara, ...  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Tackling bloatware in the age of cloud-based apps

  Microsoft Office general manager Julia White on Office 365 security and making cloud apps easier for users  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Banks see technology firms as biggest threat, says Infosys

  Google, Apple and Facebook the biggest threat to banks as technology firms offer consumers financial services  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  HMRC to save £200m per year by scrapping Aspire outsourcing deal

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) expects to save over £200m a year by moving away from its Aspire IT outsourcing contract in June 2017  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Cyber security depends on every employee, House of Lords committee told

  A cyber security expert has told a House of Lords committee security awareness of company employees is critical  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Why is Huawei hiding behind Honor?

  When you are consistently criticised over trust and security, deliberately obfuscating the facts about your involvement in a brand is very strange.  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Apple Pay could boost NFC adoption

  The launch of Apple Pay could increase use of NFC devices for mobile payments, according to a survey by Netbiscuits  Continue Reading

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Facebook shares down despite strong quarter

  Facebook’s share price fell by nearly 10% before recovering slightly, despite third-quarter revenues of $3.2bn, up by 58%  Continue Reading

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Unify launches Ansible as Circuit UC SaaS platform

  Unify’s long-awaited Project Ansible gets its formal launch as Circuit, a single-pane-of-glass unified comms software platform  Continue Reading

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  IBM's data (architecture) developer gets new tools

  IBM makes a direct play for the "data developer" (or perhaps "data architecture developer") this month at its Insight 2014 conference.  Continue Reading

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Ideas EMC probably hates #96 - Seagate Kinetic drives

  In storage one of the key fault lines we see is between vendors keen to ensure it's their product that builds in the intelligence needed for storage or storage-related operations to take place. I ...  Continue Reading

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Analytical Insight my dear (IBM) Watson

  IBM is reaching out to developers with analytics tools across what is now an increasingly broad portfolio of products  Continue Reading

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  IBM (superhero) intelligence cybercrime analytics

  IBM has announced new high-speed analysis and criminal investigation software.  Continue Reading