March 2015

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Sainsbury’s creates 480 digital specialist jobs, while cutting 500 jobs elsewhere

  Sainsbury’s is creating 480 jobs for in-house digital specialists to develop digital systems to meet the increasing technology demands of customers  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  G20 data leak highlights threat of human error, say experts

  News that personal data of 31 world leaders was accidentally leaked before the G20 summit in November 2014, highlights the threat of human error  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  OpenScholar: a Drupal-based content management system for universities

  OpenScholar is a Drupal-based content management system designed specifically for academic use, created by Harvard University and released under an open source license. So what? Well okay you so ...  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  HP files for $5.1bn damages while Mike Lynch counters

  Mike Lynch has counter-sued HP following the computer maker’s London court appearance yesterday  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Brecon Beacons National Park soups up staff comms with Unify

  Brecon Beacons National Park Authority deploys Unify’s OpenScape voice technology to keep remote staff and home workers in touch  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Axa builds broker web portal on OutSystems

  Insurer Axa has begun using the OutSystems rapid application development tool to help it modernise for 21st century business  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Is autocorrect the bane of working from home?

  Everyone is caught up in the BYOD revolution, and the flexibility it brings mean more people are emailing from anywhere using whatever gadget they have on them. Unfortunately it seems that ...  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Fake chocolate more lucrative than cybercrime?

  A press release came through to the Downtime inbox in the lead-up to Easter warning consumers to be aware of fake branded chocolate bars being sold, presumably over the internet or otherwise. An ...  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Women in IT think men are offered more opportunities

  Men and women disagree on whether equal opportunities are being offered to both sexes working in IT  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Tories lag Labour, Ukip and SNP for tweets but Cameron is most tweeted

  David Cameron was the most tweeted-about politician in recent days but his party was tweeted about less than Labour, Ukip and the SNP  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Targeted controls key to effective information security, says Protiviti

  Targeted controls are the key to effective information security, according to global business consultancy Protiviti  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  BT and Virgin warn of business broadband price rises

  BT, Virgin Media and Kcom have warned Ofcom that major regulatory changes to the business broadband market risk forcing price hikes  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Is it time to jump off the Windows bandwagon?

  The growth of user power has forced organisations to re-think IT strategies as employees demand mobility, collaboration and the latest technology  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Interoute bags private equity funding to support datacentre growth

  Cloud services giant plans to use private equity funding to support its M&A activity and push ahead with its datacentre growth plans  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Skyhigh Networks' research highlights cloud collaboration dangers

  Skyhigh Networks urge cloud users to be careful who they share their business data with in the cloud  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  To make Britain digital we need leaders who are part of the network, not apart from it

  It's great to see so much debate taking place on social media - and hopefully in the real world - following Martha Lane Fox's Dimbleby Lecture broadcast on BBC1 last night. Regardless of what ...  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  IBM sets up $3bn IoT unit to integrate unused data

  IBM to invest $3bn by 2019 in a new internet of things unit to address the fact that 90% of data generated by smart devices is never used  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Microsoft adds ODF 1.2 to Office 365 to adhere to government demands

  Microsoft will roll out the ability export documents in open document format (ODF) in Office 365, regardless of original file format, to adhere to government policy  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Retired accountant fined in Logica share scam

  A man who bought thousands of shares in Logica based on inside information has been fined £35,212 by the Financial Conduct Authority  Continue Reading

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  AWS gets EU approval for data replication outside of Europe

  The European Union Data Protection Authorities has approved Amazon Web Services’ Data Processing Agreement  Continue Reading