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Collaboration software and productivity software
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September 04, 2012
04
Sep'12
NHS claws back £1bn as CSC negotiations come to an end
The Department of Health claws back £1bn from CSC as negotiations with the troubled supplier come to an end.
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August 06, 2012
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Aug'12
Putting innovation on the outsourcing menu
Cliff Saran investigates what happens when systems integrators are asked to innovate
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August 01, 2012
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Aug'12
Microsoft to revamp and rename Hotmail
Microsoft has announced it is revamping and renaming its free webmail service, which analysts say may be aimed at winning over users of Google's rival Gmail service
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July 27, 2012
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Jul'12
Facebook share price falls after Q2 results announcement
Facebook shares fell 11% in after-hours trading on the NYSE to a record low of $23.94 after announcing second quarter financial results
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July 23, 2012
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Jul'12
Heads of business bank on IT to boost business
Top-level business managers regard IT as a competitive advantage, according to Gartner
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July 17, 2012
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Jul'12
Skype works to fix privacy bug as instant messages leak
Internet telephony service Skype has confirmed that a bug in its software has been sending copies of instant messages to unintended recipients
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June 29, 2012
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Jun'12
Key HMRC IT plans delayed due to spending freeze, says NAO
Key HMRC IT plans have been delayed because of the Cabinet Office’s moratorium on spending, the National Audit Office (NAO) says
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June 21, 2012
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Jun'12
The future of Autonomy – one year on
Recent moves to subsume Autonomy into HP have lent increasing irony to the name. Nearly a year after the £7.1bn acquisition, we examine Autonomy's future
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June 13, 2012
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Jun'12
South Lanarkshire moves to IBM XIV disk storage platform
South Lanarkshire council has invested in an IBM XIV disk storage platform as part of its move to virtualisation.
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June 07, 2012
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Jun'12
Nasdaq offers $40m compensation for Facebook confusion
The Nasdaq stock exchange in New York is to pay $40m compensation for technical problems that caused confusion on Facebook's first day of share trading
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June 01, 2012
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Jun'12
Microsoft softens July licence blow
Microsoft has lowered the price hike planned for July, but businesses still face paying up to 25% more for their software.
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May 24, 2012
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May'12
Huddle gets $24m second-round funding as CIOs wake up to cloud collaboration
UK software firm Huddle has received $24m second-round funding to support its global expansion as CIOs wake up to cloud collaboration
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May 23, 2012
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May'12
Overrun in big IT projects leads to one in three failures
One-third of big IT projects are likely to get derailed after they have been running for two years, according to research.
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May 08, 2012
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May'12
HP and F5 team up for virtual application delivery
HP has announced a partnership with F5 to speed up deployment of applications within virtualisation technology.
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April 18, 2012
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Apr'12
Government unaware how much it pays for e-mail services
Government departments do not know how much they are spending on e-mail services, according to research by Computer Weekly.
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April 05, 2012
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Apr'12
Department of Health and CSC in deadlock over Lorenzo records system
The Department of Health and CSC failed to meet the deadline to agree new terms for the troubled electronic records systems Lorenzo
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April 04, 2012
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Apr'12
South West police roll out £1.1m central data repository
Police forces in the South West of England are going live with a £1.1m data sharing system across the region
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March 16, 2012
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Mar'12
Hampshire and Oxfordshire councils sign SAP ICT partnership
Hampshire County Council and Oxfordshire County Council have signed an ICT partnership to save £1m, focusing on SAP systems for HR and financial services
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March 05, 2012
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Mar'12
NHS trusts to be freed from CSC contract commitments
The Department of Health has proposed a deal with CSC to release trusts in the National Programme for IT from their contractual obligations to use software from the troubled supplier.
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February 29, 2012
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Feb'12
Does the PSN need to happen before the cloud?
The deployment of public services networks (PSN) will need to happen before widespread uptake of CloudStore services occur, IT heads said at a roundtable meeting.
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February 19, 2012
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Feb'12
Government launches CloudStore and names G-Cloud suppliers
The government has launched its CloudStore, a catalogue of 1,700 cloud-based, pre-approved IT services now available for the public sector to buy.
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February 10, 2012
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Feb'12
LinkedIn Q4 revenue more than doubles
Social networking site LinkedIn has reported 2011 fourth quarter revenue of $167.7m, up 105% from Q4 2010; and net income of $6.9m, an increase of 30%
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February 08, 2012
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Feb'12
Greater Manchester Police deploys two-way CMS
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has implemented a case management system from STL Technologies that has a two-way interface with the Crown Prosecution Service’s system.
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January 11, 2012
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Jan'12
European river managers delve into new knowledge management system
The UK’s Environment Agency has procured a semantic wiki based knowledge management (KM) system to aid river restoration across Europe.
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December 21, 2011
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Dec'11
RIM rebuffs Amazon and Microsoft approaches
Amazon considered buying troubled smartphone maker, Research in Motion, according to a report on Reuters.
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December 13, 2011
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Dec'11
CIOs believe cloud, SaaS, consumerisation and mobility increase risk
Business models such as cloud computing and trends such as the consumerisation of IT, social media and mobility are exposing performance blind spots in IT management, a CIO survey has revealed.
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December 05, 2011
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Dec'11
SAP buys SaaS firm SuccessFactors in $3.4bn deal
Enterprise software company SAP announces a $3.4bn deal to acquire software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider SuccessFactors.
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February 08, 2011
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Feb'11
Post Office faces legal action over alleged accounting system failures
More than 50 postmasters are planning legal action against the Post Office to reclaim money they paid to the Post Office after being accused of theft and false accounting.
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May 11, 2010
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May'10
Challenges of SIP trunking for telecom managers and network admins
The challenges of SIP trunking for network administrators include interoperability and compression issues, service availability, security, SIP trunking architectures, lack of fax services, E-911 support and SIP trunk monitoring tools.
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January 29, 2010
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Jan'10
Aura will power Avaya-Nortel unified communications integration
Avaya has staked its future of retaining Nortel customers on its flagship SIP-based communications platform, Aura, as the heart of the Avaya-Nortel UC portfolio.
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September 28, 2009
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Sep'09
Post-masters form action group after accounts shortfall
Sub-postmasters have formed an action group following disclosures in Computer Weekly of unexplained deficits in the Post Office accounting system.
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September 10, 2009
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Sep'09
MP seeks answers over Post Office IT system
Welsh MP for Clwyd West David Jones is seeking a Commons debate after post masters raised questions over the Post Office's Horizon accounting system.
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August 15, 2008
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Aug'08
What is Unified Communications?
Confused by Unified Communications? This article and accompanying e-book download explains what is UC, what is not UC, and how to put it to work.
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June 27, 2008
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Jun'08
Unified Communications opportunity can be lost by bad management
Unified Communications can go awry when users are too connected, too often.Some companies, Intel included, are therefore switching off access to their staff at some times!
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June 18, 2008
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Jun'08
Unified communications' business value cloudy, but enterprises want it
Unified communications (UC)'s business value remains unclear, but line-of-business executives are all for the technology.
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June 17, 2008
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Jun'08
Integrating presence into the enterprise
Confused by presence and its benefits? Here's how to get the technology working for you.
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June 06, 2008
06
Jun'08
Microsoft OCS powerful but needs third parties for complete solution
Microsoft's OCS can run enterprise voice, but users are waiting for links to existing products before taking the plunge, analysts say.
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April 04, 2008
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Apr'08
Does rapid UC innovation beget slow implementation rates?
As unified communications (UC) technology grows, many enterprises are left to play catch-up.
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March 24, 2008
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Mar'08
Open platforms are essential to the future of unified communications
At VoiceCon 2008, keynote speakers stressed the importance of openness and interoperability of unified communications platforms.
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March 18, 2008
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Mar'08
Avaya solves fragmented presence problem with federated presence server
Avaya launches Intelligent Presence Server, which solves the problem of fragmented presence within an enterprise.
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March 06, 2008
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Mar'08
Siemens OpenScape offers tight integration of voice, video and messaging
Siemens OpenScape Unified Communications Server offers voice, video and messaging integration.
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February 27, 2008
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Feb'08
Alcatel-Lucent Forum: The Dynamic Enterprise
The Alcatel-Lucent Forum recently held in Paris was centred on building the Dynamic Enterprise.
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February 19, 2008
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Feb'08
Top ten UC terms
Here you'll find our ten favourite unified communication terms, including communication-enabled business processes, SIP, IM, presence, and more.
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February 11, 2008
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Feb'08
Build a solid Web conferencing strategy
Web conferencing application implementation is expected to grow along with the introduction of video and sharing elements.
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February 06, 2008
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Feb'08
IM security threats and resources
Instant messaging applications have their own set of security guidelines to prevent hacking.
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February 04, 2008
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Feb'08
The benefits and challenges of presence within unified communications
Unified communications may be the next big thing in networking, but presence is quickly becoming the next big thing within unified communications.
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January 11, 2008
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Jan'08
Cisco's new collaboration tools key to green strategy
Cisco's green guru Paul Marcoux explains how TelePresence and unified communications can cut costs while helping the environment.
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December 20, 2007
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Dec'07
Christmas open source guide
2007 say a boatload of open source VoIP offerings. Read all about that, plus more, in our holiday open source hamper.
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December 20, 2007
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Dec'07
Wireless Christmas hamper
Wireless is all the rage. But it's not easy to do, or do well. Get some holiday guidance with our collection of guides.
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December 19, 2007
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Dec'07
Web conferencing: Adoption grows and evolution continues
As one of the key technologies of unified communications, web conferencing will continue to grow, adding application-sharing and video elements.