July 2014

July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
Barefoot Computing offers primary schools teachers 800 workshops

Barefoot Computing project and BT offer 800 workshops to support primary school teaching children as young as five Continue Reading
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
Yahoo shares up despite lacklustre quarter

Yahoo’s shares rose slightly in after-hours trading despite a lacklustre quarter that saw profits fall by 18% and revenue by 3% Continue Reading
July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14
New data law a serious expansion of surveillance, say law experts

The emergency surveillance legislation being rushed through parliament could be in breach of European law, 15 technology law experts have warned Continue Reading

July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Imperial College and KPMG join forces with £20m business analytics centre

KPMG and Imperial College London have combined to create a £20m ‘KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics’ Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
No skills follow-through for IT transformation of public services

Only a quarter of local government authorities consider investing in people to be a high priority, according to research from BT Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Download: Improve the success of HR systems implementation

HR technology is the answer - but you must ask the right questions HR directors in companies large and small are grappling with selecting and implementing HR systems that need to enhance the business and add long-term value. We pretty much have the... Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Why Rackspace is betting on managed cloud amid doubts over future

Rackspace has relaunched its public cloud services as managed cloud to differentiate its costly services from cloud heavyweights. Will the move help? Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Brazil's World Cup humiliation softened by Twitter success

Despite not winning the World Cup, host nation Brazil can take solace in the fact its team was the most Tweeted about Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Microsoft tells Labour not to mandate a single open standard for documents

Microsoft has told the Labour Party not to mandate a single standard for open documents Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Orange opens up to app developers and startups with Apigee

Orange picks Apigee’s digital API platform to help developers and startups create services by levering data already held by the telco Continue Reading

July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Diageo puts ServiceNow fizz in IT service desk

Diageo has gone live with an implementation of ServiceNow to automate IT services as part of a global transformation Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
HP staff refuse to cooperate in knowledge transfer

HP staff working on contracts with the Department of Work and Pensions and the Ministry of justice will refuse to cooperate in move Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Developers call for Microsoft to bring back Visual Basic

As Microsoft forges ahead with mobile and cloud-first strategy, developers are venting their frustration over Visual Basic support Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Atos continues to supply IT to disability tests

Atos will continue to supply IT to the DWP’s disability testing despite paying compensation to step down as the main supplier Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Red Hat adds erasure coding in Inktank Ceph Enterprise v1.2

Red Hat adds erasure coding aimed at backup and archive use cases to Inktank Ceph Enterprise version 1.2 Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
iPhones not a security threat to China, says Apple

Apple has denied allegations that location-tracking iPhone features pose a threat to China’s national security Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Security industry welcomes £1.1bn government fund to fight terror and cyber threats

The UK government has granted the information security industry a £1.1bn defence fund that includes initiatives aimed at fighting cyber threats Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
ICO calls for better funding and more powers

The Information Commissioner’s Office calls for better funding and greater powers as it faces record workload Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Dotforge launches in Leeds as UK’s first regional fintech accelerator

Leeds has become home to Dotforge, the first financial services technology (fintech) accelerator outside London Continue Reading
July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14
Case Study: Frontline builds contact centre business on Callmedia

Customer service and call handling specialist Frontline relies on Azzurri’s Callmedia contact centre platform to provide first-line support to customers Continue Reading