September 2015

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  Cornwall Council and BT to meet in court over botched outsourcing deal

  Cornwall Council and BT will meet in the High Court in December 2015 as the council attempts to end its £260m outsourcing deal with the company  Continue Reading

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  Open-data incubator for Europe Odine hands out €650,000 to seven startups

  Odine – an open-data incubator involving the Open Data Institute – has awarded €650,000 to seven European businesses  Continue Reading

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  CityFibre ousts BT from Edinburgh Council WAN

  Edinburgh City Council to connect 294 of its sites to CityFibre’s Edinburgh Core fibre network as it ends a long-term contract with BT  Continue Reading

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  Open Data: 'civic engagement' is on the cusp

  Mark Headd is the key guy when it comes to developer evangelism at Accela -- the firm provides cloud-based 'civic engagement' solutions for government.  Continue Reading

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  Porn used as lure for mobile ransomware attacks, Zscaler warns

  Adult Player app is the latest example of a growing list of mobile ransomware, which is becoming an increasingly popular way for cyber criminals to extort money from victims  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Managed Print Services and the Circular Economy

  The circular economy is fast gaining ground as the latest buzzword in sustainability, bringing together emerging practices such as collaborative consumption and traditional concepts such as ...  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  iHealth launches healthcare tracker for digitally excluded

  There are healthcare monitors designed to track everything about your body and habits - but what about those who aren't digitally savvy? Look at all of the health trackers on the market at the ...  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Philippines' roadmap aims for 500 startups by 2020

  The government of the Philippines is eager to emulate its success in BPO in the IT startup sector  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Security researchers disclose flaws in Kaspersky and FireEye products

  Kaspersky Lab has responded within 24 hours to a vulnerability disclosure, even thanking controversial researcher Tavis Ormandy for his work  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  School kids would rather study coding than a foreign language, says Ocado

  A year since computer science was added to the school curriculum Ocado discovers kids would rather learn to code than to speak another language  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Myanmar internet gets boost with content delivery network

  Myanmar internet users will start benefiting from changes in the law that encourages foreign direct investment in communications infrastructures  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  University of St Andrews gets European funding to push the limits of C++

  Highly parallel computing represents the future of IT, but data processing applications cannot be made to work efficiently in such environments  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Security Think Tank: Three key cyber resilience goals

  How can companies best assess business resilience to identify the gaps and improve business resiliency to reduce the impact of cyber attacks?  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Will BlackBerry's MDM aspirations quash device business?

  BlackBerry has been trying hard to reinvent itself as a mobile device management provider. The acquisition of Good Technology represents its boldest move yet, but will it pay off?  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  BBC director general Tony Hall proposes an 'open BBC for the internet age'

  As the internet changes the way the public consumes content, the BBC proposes to make itself a platform for UK talent and an ongoing trustworthy source  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Case study: North Middlesex NHS aims to go digital by 2017

  North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust embarks on an ambitious project to go digital by the end of 2017 – three years ahead of the government’s mandate  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  NHS England’s controversial Care.data programme on hold again

  The trials to upload patient data from GPs to a central database have been put on hold for the fourth time as the government works on opt-out model  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Who are the women in IT?

  The IT sector covers a wide variety of careers and firms - but who counts as an IT professional? A while ago I was chatting to a woman who had quite a senior IT job. On finding out I had a Computer ...  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Anna Berggren, ManpowerGroup Nordics

  ManpowerGroup Nordic CIO Anna Berggren talks about the importance of IT to the recruitment firm and the different approaches she takes to managing it  Continue Reading

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Toshiba share price up despite £208m loss

  Toshiba investors are said to be relieved that, by meeting the latest deadline to post its results, the company has avoided the risk of delisting  Continue Reading