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

Surveillance technology under fire, amid growing societal concerns

As San Francisco halts city use of facial recognition technology, CIOs could see more regulatory actions against surveillance ...

Deep learning pioneer Fei-Fei Li on the fundamentals of ethical AI

AI luminary Fei-Fei Li was among a group of distinguished AI researchers asked to share their thoughts on how to develop ethical ...

Andrew Ng's AI playbook for the enterprise: 6 must-dos

AI legend and online education pioneer Andrew Ng has developed an AI playbook for businesses. Here are six must-dos.

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2019's top email security best practices for employees

Attackers exploit email every day to break into your network, but you can reduce risk for everyone by promoting these email ...

IT pros stress importance of security awareness training

End-user naiveté can lead to costly data breaches, underscoring the critical importance of security awareness training. Learn how...

What makes BSA's secure software development framework unique?

BSA rolled out a new secure software development framework in an effort to promote best practices for secure software development...

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Customers get a peek at future Extreme Networks products

Extreme Connect attendees got a peek at the company's product roadmap. Upcoming Extreme Networks products include an IoT device ...

Marconi Mainnet launched for building, scaling complex networks

The Marconi Mainnet platform provides blockchain security, multi-cloud connectivity, advanced firewalls and secure gateways for ...

Key factors to consider before evaluating campus edge switches

Before buying a campus edge switch, it's important to understand how technologies such as IoT could affect campus traffic and how...

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Exascale computing, now at $2.8B, described as critical to U.S.

The race to build exascale supercomputers is a project of big governments -- China, Japan, the European Union and the U.S. ...

HPE-Cray deal brings supercomputers to enterprises for AI

HPE's $1.3 billion deal to acquire supercomputing pioneer Cray Inc. should better position the company in the HPC market among IT...

IBM mainframe pricing overhaul inspired by cloud model

IBM's new Tailored Fit Pricing model gives enterprises more flexibility in the types of workloads they run on the z/OS platform.

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Inside view of Tibco integration architecture planning

Tibco's acquisitions of well-regarded, small software specialists such as SnappyData are part of a drive toward what it calls '...

Lumina launches Radiance, a data risk management platform

In an effort to prevent data loss, Lumina launched Radiance, a SaaS data risk management platform. It collects and analyzes data ...

Advice on enterprise data cleansing from an SAP VP

SAP's Kristin McMahon details data cleansing best practices and explains why a good data cleanse needs continual communication, ...