March 2015

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Security Think Tank: Education, process and technology key to security challenge

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Nordic nations dominate Europe's digital league table

  The EC's Digital Economy and Society Index ranked Denmark, Sweden and Finland as first, second and fourth most digital European nation  Continue Reading

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Talon upgrades MobileFast for web and Windows file sync and share

  Enterprise file sync and share provider Talon Storage adds web browser and Windows workstation access to MobileFast  Continue Reading

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  UK open contracts pledges

  The coalition government broke its transparency pledge to publish all public contracts in full. It has attempted to backtrack, claiming it never really intended to publish all its contracts in the ...  Continue Reading

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Google warns of fake digital certificates

  Google has warned of unauthorised digital certificates issued for several of its domains that could be used to intercept data traffic  Continue Reading

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Swarovski opts for cloud HR to move function to strategic level

  Swarovski’s move to cloud HR system demonstrates its desire to move HR from an operational function to a strategic level  Continue Reading

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Payments sector empire-building continues with Skrill takeover

  The alternative payments sectors is having billions of dollars thrown at it as technology companies jostle for position in a market set to soar  Continue Reading

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Trade body and ISP file first legal challenges against US net neutrality rules

  A US broadband trade body and ISP Alamo have filed the first legal challenges to the FCC's recently approved net neutrality rules  Continue Reading

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  MPs seek reassurance over Post Office mediation scheme

  Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) select committee seeks reassurances over the Post Office mediation scheme  Continue Reading

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  MongoDB on Couchbase agility: nice idea, now let's talk about real flexibility

  Couchbase went all bullish this week and said that its Multi-Dimensional Scaling capabilities in release 4.0 of Couchbase Server are the best thing since sliced bananas.  Continue Reading

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Cash still first choice for more than half of Brits

  Cash is still the primary chosen payment method for UK residents, according to a survey by payments technology provider Verifone  Continue Reading

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Barclays Accelerator kicks off 13-week fintech programme

  London Escalator-based programme starts 13-week journey for 10 fintech startups  Continue Reading

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  CIF opens up membership to users in cloud skills push

  The Cloud Industry Forum opens doors to IT professionals to help them acquire industry recognition of their off-premise knowledge and skills  Continue Reading

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Blasts From The Past

  Been doing a few catch-ups with old vendor friends recently; one was Brocade - and more of this next month - which has a REAL SDN/NFV story - and another was NetScout; networking monitoring!!!! ...  Continue Reading

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Government backs tech in 2015 Budget

  In this week's Computer Weekly, chancellor George Osborne's 2015 Budget was the most technology friendly ever – we examine the key policy announcements. Sainsbury's CIO talks about the challenges of going digital. And we look at how virtual reality ...  Continue Reading

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Security Think Tank: Enhanced cyber security requires change in attitude

  Does the theft of $1bn from global financial firms by the Carbanak gang show it is time to seek new technologies or improve business processes?  Continue Reading

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft contests Iowa's plans to adopt Google cloud services

  Microsoft files a law suit claiming its cloud products were overlooked in the process of moving systems of the US state of Iowa to the cloud  Continue Reading

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Half of English councils won’t reach BDUK coverage target

  Almost half of local authorities in England don’t think they’ll reach the government’s 95% broadband coverage target in the allotted timeframe  Continue Reading

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  After rural payments embarrassment - the test for GDS is to 'make things open, make it better'

  The failure of the rural payment digital service last week - and its subsequent replacement by paper forms - is not the IT disaster some would claim, but it is an embarrassment for the Government ...  Continue Reading

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  IT priorities 2015 – IT budgets on the rise as economy recovers

  Almost three-quarters of IT managers in the UK expect their IT budgets to increase or stay the same in 2015  Continue Reading