April 2014
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April 03, 2014
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Apr'14
Pharmaceuticals company turns to cloud HR technology
Astra Zeneca CIO Dave Smoley turns lessons learned from an earlier cloud HR implementation to use at the pharmaceuticals giant Continue Reading
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April 03, 2014
03
Apr'14
Yahoo encrypts users' data to boost security and privacy after NSA revelations
Yahoo is the latest internet company to start encrypting users' data to try to win back trust after disclosures over National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Does Windows 8.1 Update have usability, at last?
The great and the good among the software application development coding community were invited to Microsoft's Build 2014 conference in San Francisco last night. Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Telecom Services Spend - Travel Agents & Tour Operators
Travel agents & tour operators spend £1,000 per employee on telecom services. This is twice the UK norm. Smaller travel business concerns outlay is around £1,400 which is twice the expenditure ... Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Female students head to Silicon Valley as UK firms fail to open arms
Head of Townley Grammar School for girls shares why he takes 80 computer science students to meet female role models in Silicon Valley every year Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Government signs £5.5m Microsoft deal to extend Windows XP support
The government has signed a deal with Microsoft to support Windows XP across the UK public sector for 12 months after 8 April deadline Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
'On your bike Workday' says Oracle.
Oracle appears to be a little riled by the sudden appearance of cloud computing upstart, Workday in London this week. Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
High Performance Computing on demand attracts SME interest
High performance computing in the cloud will make supercomputing a possibility for companies of all sizes.I have written about the attraction of public clouds such as Amazon Web Services for raw ... Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Barking and Dagenham Council swaps XP desktops for Chromebooks
Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council migrates from Windows XP to Google Chromebooks Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
CESG defends CCP as UK cyber security skills foundation
CESG has defended the validity of its CCP scheme as a foundation for cyber skills development in the UK Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Bank mobile apps are being overwhelmed
The use of mobile banking apps has exceeded what banks anticipated and organisations risk service outages unless they better align IT resources to support the customer channel, according to research from CSC. Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Millions of routers open to criminal exploitation, study shows
More than 24 million routers worldwide could be used by cyber criminals to launch DDoS attacks, a study shows Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
CIO interview: Andrew Marks, Tullow Oil
How speeding up seismic data transfer between African oil fields and a Dublin datacentre helps the London-based oil exploration company save millions Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
CIOs and CISOs should work more closely together, says panel
Chief information officers (CIOs) and chief information security officers (CICOs) need to collaborate and work closely together to encourage security throughout the organisation Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Gartner: IT spending increases by 3.2% as businesses invest in digital strategies
Spending on IT is set to increase as businesses gain confidence in the economic recovery and start developing digital capabilities Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Study alleges deeper NSA influence on RSA
RSA adopted a second NSA-developed encryption tool, increasing the agency's spying capabilities, a study claims Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
4.7 Million NTP Servers Ready To Boost DRDoS Attack Volumes
The US Internet CERT organisation warns ISPs about the danger of open NTP servers. The Shadowserver Foundation has found 4.7 million vulnerable servers Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Has SkySQL MariaDB pulled off the NoSQL + SQL combo challenge?
Has SkySQL MariaDB pulled off the NoSQL + SQL combo challenge? Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
LinkedIn halts Sell Hack plugin revealing email addresses
Sell Hack has suspended functionality to reveal LinkedIn email addresses in response to a cease-and-desist order Continue Reading
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April 02, 2014
02
Apr'14
Businesses must rethink HR IT as traditional jobs disintegrate
HR software needs a complete rethink to deliver services to an increasingly dispersed workforce, says cloud technology specialist Continue Reading