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November 07, 2006
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Your shout: IT jobs, mergers, security, English lesson
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November 07, 2006
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VMware backup still tough
VMware backup using Consolidated Backup is easier said than done, according to users at this week's VMworld show in Los Angeles.
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November 06, 2006
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Web 2.0 offers a new era for business, says GM tech chief
General Motors is investigating how the next generation of web technologies, such as blogs, wikis and social networking can improve the way it runs its business.
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November 06, 2006
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Tony Benn helps mark NCC birthday
It is the use of technology, not technology itself, that is important, veteran politician Tony Benn told IT leaders at a dinner last month to celebrate the National Computing Centre's 40th anniversary.
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November 06, 2006
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Water promises cool future for chips
A novel approach to water cooling PC chips is being developed by researchers at IBM's Zurich laboratory.
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November 06, 2006
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Is technical expertise undervalued by UK businesses?
The Big Question is an initiative between Computer Weekly and recruitment consultancy PSD. Each week we put the Big Question to top IT professionals to get their take on a current talking point.
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November 06, 2006
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Boardroom never forgives basic IT bungles
The board will never forgive an IT director who fails to get basic IT right, Computer Associates has warned.
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November 01, 2006
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Broadband outage flummoxes BT
BT is struggling to fix a major outage in its national broadband network, which has been ongoing since yesterday afternoon.
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October 31, 2006
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Flaw found in Firefox 2.0
Attackers could exploit the security flaw to crash versions 1.5.0.7 and 2.0 of the browser, according to various security advisories.
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October 31, 2006
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40 years of Computer Weekly
To celebrate our 40th anniversary year, since May Computer Weekly has published a series of special features and other special sections in the magazine.
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October 31, 2006
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Server consolidation is saving energy costs
Companies are realising as much as 50% savings in energy costs in their datacentres when they consolidate servers through virtualisation technology, says a new report from Info-Tech Research Group.
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October 30, 2006
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IT greats: Innovation is the key to greatness
Top 10 organisations
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October 30, 2006
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Essential practices for securing mobile devices
In this lesson, Lisa Phifer examines inherent weaknesses in mobile messaging devices, and discusses how to lock down mobile platforms to protect against emerging threats and risky end-user behaviors and how to ensure Bluetooth-enabled handsets ...
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October 30, 2006
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Your IT Greats revealed for our 40th birthday
To celebrate our 40th anniversary, Computer Weekly today presents a special section revealing the results of our IT Greats reader poll and looking at how IT has changed and how it is evolving.
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October 30, 2006
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Map advertising goes mobile
A system that combines maps, digital photography, and the web has been developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
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October 27, 2006
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Metro Ethernet hardware booms
Metro Ethernet equipment sales are set to triple to $15bn (£8.1bn) between 2005 and 2009, according to analyst Infonetics Research.
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October 26, 2006
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Downtime: BT opts for a cracker of a deal
The wacky world of IT
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October 26, 2006
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Computer crime guide targets non-experts
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has produced a non-experts’ guide on computer crime.
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October 25, 2006
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Oracle supports Red Hat Linux sales
Oracle has announced that it will provide the same enterprise-class support for Linux as it does for its database, middleware and applications products.
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October 25, 2006
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Laptop battery recall sees Sony's profits nosedive
Sony has seen its quarterly net profits nosedive by around 95% following a mammoth laptop battery recall.
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October 24, 2006
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Citrix shuns Linux due to 'lack of demand'
Citrix says it has no interest in delivering native Linux support in its products, and that it will continue to rely on the Windows platform.
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October 24, 2006
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Oracle and IBM joins forces for Linux mainframes
IBM and Oracle are to collaborate on the sale of Linux mainframes based on IBM's System z platform.
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October 24, 2006
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Mobile phone shipments set to reach one billion mark
Worldwide mobile phone shipments are on track to hit one billion units this year, industry analyst IDC has predicted.
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October 24, 2006
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Blackbox turns Sun green
Sun Microsystems’s latest bid to win its green spurs is an energy-efficient portable datacentre.
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October 24, 2006
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Can flash memory survive a washing machine cycle?
Flash drives are a godsend for moving around large amounts of data in a small and convenient format.
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October 23, 2006
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Does your company view IT as an asset?
The Big Question is an initiative between Computer Weekly and recruitment consultancy PSD. Each week we put the Big Question to top IT professionals to get their take on a current talking point.
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October 23, 2006
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Surf's up for all of you goggle eyed web addicts
The wacky world of IT
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October 23, 2006
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Force chiefs on board for new police IT era
Senior officers sign up to IT strategy for inter-force collaboration
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October 23, 2006
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What storage managers are buying and why, page 6
What storage managers are buying and why
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October 23, 2006
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Virtual Iron 3.0 is launched
In a bid to wrest the virtualisation initiative from VMware by setting a new price point for virtualisation, Virtual Iron has launched version 3.0 of its virtualisation system.
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October 19, 2006
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Apple may have to re-state impressive results
Apple has increased sales, net profits and gross margins for the fourth quarter, but it may have to re-state the results as a result of its ongoing investigation into wrongly accounted for stock options.
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October 19, 2006
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Manchester Airport cuts admin with wireless roaming
Runway engineers and other staff at Manchester Airport are to get wireless handheld computers to help reduce the number of paper-based reports they are required to fill in.
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October 17, 2006
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Lenovo laptops incorporate encryption-by-fingerprint
Lenovo has launched a laptop computer that allows users to fully encrypt the contents of the hard drive by swiping a fingerprint reader.
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October 16, 2006
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Ministers back legal fight to hide ID cards findings
Treasury ministers have approved a costly, cross-government legal case to stop the publication of Gateway reviews on identity cards - although the UK's information commissioner and three committees of the House of Commons want information on the ...
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October 16, 2006
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Hospital blames IT for fall in status
Executives at a hospital that pioneered systems under the £12.4bn National Programme for IT in the NHS have blamed their new technology for contributing to the trust's loss of status as top performing health service site.
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October 16, 2006
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Fujitsu launches flash-memory laptops
Fujitsu has launched laptops that use lightweight flash memory – like that used in portable MP3 players - instead of a traditional hard drive.
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October 16, 2006
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Malware forces McDonald’s recall of giveaway MP3s
Fast food giant McDonald’s is understood to have launched a recall of MP3 players given as prizes in a soft drinks promotion after finding that they were infected with spyware.
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October 12, 2006
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Palm OS brand hands over to Access
The Palm operating system brand for mobile devices is to be officially dumped by its new owner, which is now concentrating on Linux-based software systems.
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October 12, 2006
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Lloydspharmacy rolls out computer dispensing across UK
Lloydspharmacy is to implement a new computer-based dispensing system designed and built by Capgemini at all of its 1,540 branches across the UK.
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October 11, 2006
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Virtual tape library specifications
VTL systems use disk storage to improve backup and restore processes, allowing many organizations to move from tape to disk backups without disrupting current practices. High-end VTL systems can utilize almost 1,000 SATA drives, offering hundreds of...
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October 11, 2006
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Met investigates hacked personal data found on US PC
A computer seized by US authorities has been found to contain stolen files from around 2,300 UK computers.
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October 10, 2006
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Google buys YouTube
Search engine giant Google is to buy video sharing start-up YouTube in a $1.65bn (£0.88bn) deal.
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October 10, 2006
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HP users voice concerns on offshore support levels
A number of Hewlett-Packard enterprise users are dissatisfied with the quality of support on offer since HP restructured its operations to increase the use of offshore centres.
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October 10, 2006
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DPM's diary: 10 October 2006
Weekly round up of events at Bodcaster City Council
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October 10, 2006
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Itanium poses the 64-bit question
Itanium 2 offers virtualisation, memory error-checking, partitioning, resilience and scalability. So are you ready to make the step up to 64-bit computing?
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October 09, 2006
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New homes for hungry datacentres
Revised government guidelines and high energy prices make the careful consideration of datacentre design and location a business imperative
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October 04, 2006
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Tiered storage becoming tried and true
Tiered storage matches the value of data with the performance (and expense) of storage. Ideally, tiered storage can save money, while easing the access demands to any single storage tier. While tiered storage has clearly brought storage costs and ...
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October 04, 2006
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Enterprise-class disk array specifications
Key specifications for a cross-section of enterprise-class disk array systems.
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October 04, 2006
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Fujitsu recalls 300,000 laptop batteries
Fujitsu is recalling almost 300,000 Sony-manufactured laptop batteries, due to potential fire hazard.
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October 04, 2006
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Yahoo! brings sponsored search ads to mobiles
Yahoo! has announced the beta launch of sponsored search results on the company's Mobile Web service in the US and UK.
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October 04, 2006
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Apple stock options inquiry claims board victim
Apple’s former chief financial officer has resigned from the board after an internal investigation by the company into stock option awards.
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October 03, 2006
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HP says its Sony laptop batteries are safe
HP has claimed it is not affected by the general laptop battery recall started by Sony, even though it uses the type of battery that has plagued Dell, Apple, Lenovo and Toshiba in recent weeks.
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October 03, 2006
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Spotlight falls on batteries as laptop needs increase
The viability of lithium ion batteries is under scrutiny, with three major suppliers - Apple, Dell and Toshiba - recalling batteries used in tens of thousands of laptops, and three airlines issuing restrictions on their use on aircraft.
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October 02, 2006
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Debate looks to strengthen learned society for computer scientists
The UK's computer science community has for some time been discussing the need for a stronger, more cohesive learned society to provide better support and promote the interests of the community.
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October 02, 2006
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Could you live without your laptop?
The Big Question is an initiative between Computer Weekly and recruitment consultancy PSD. Each week we put the Big Question to top IT professionals to get their take on a current talking point.
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October 02, 2006
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Heat modelling tools help with datacentre planning
A new breed of capacity planning tool is emerging that will help IT directors tackle the growing problem of deploying power-hungry blade servers in datacentres.
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October 02, 2006
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Lenovo and IBM recall batteries
Domino's Pizza IT director Jane Kimberlin and her IT team distributed pizzas to hungry IT leaders at last week's annual Byte Night charity sleep-out on London's Embankment.
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October 02, 2006
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IBM targets HP blade users
IBM has introduced a programme to lure Hewlett-Packard blade server users to its own blade architecture.
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October 02, 2006
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California thievin' is simply a cry for help
Perhaps we should not panic next time we hear of a laptop being stolen with thousands of people's identity details unencrypted on the hard disc, if an incident from California is anything to go by.
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October 02, 2006
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Fujitsu joins battery recall
Fujitsu has joined a string of other laptop manufacturers in moving to replace Sony battery packs after fire hazard warnings.
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September 28, 2006
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IBM licenses water cooler to Panduit
IBM has licensed its server water cooling technology to global networking and electrical manufacturer Panduit, to help widen distribution of the technology to server rooms and data centres.
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September 28, 2006
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BBC and Microsoft explore new distribution channels
The BBC and Microsoft have signed an agreement to explore ways in which the broadcaster's content can be better exploited on the internet and through new distribution channels, such as mobile devices.
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September 28, 2006
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BlackBerry faces market squeeze from emerging rivals
The BlackBerry mobile data device from RIM faces being squeezed in the market, as competitors take away market share, according to analyst IDC.
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September 28, 2006
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Lenovo and IBM recall fire hazard batteries
Lenovo and IBM are recalling 526,000 laptop batteries after one of Lenovo’s ThinkPad notebooks caught fire at Los Angeles International airport earlier this month.
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September 28, 2006
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Sony battery recall - what to do next
Where to look for information regarding the Sony battery pack recall
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September 27, 2006
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Nokia and Intel join forces to deliver cellular laptops
Nokia and Intel have joined forces to deliver long-range wireless connectivity in laptops.
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September 26, 2006
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Itanium alliance launches Solaris migration programme
The Itanium Solutions Alliance has launched a programme aimed at easing migration from legacy Sparc Solaris platforms to Intel Itanium 2 architecture.
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September 26, 2006
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University course aims to bridge IT skills gap
Thames Valley University has opened enrolment for its foundation degree in computer systems management, developed in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard.
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September 26, 2006
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Health staff upbeat about new systems
Connecting for Health, which runs the NHS's National Programme for IT, has published comments from health service staff in praise of new systems.
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September 26, 2006
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Data sharing drives police IT spending while fire service hots up control centres
Business Focus is a weekly column providing at-a-glance statistics and commentary on spending priorities and trends in particular sectors. This week we look at the police and fire services.
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September 21, 2006
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IBM targets HP blade customers
IBM is aiming to poach HP blade server customers with its new global Blade Migration Center programme.
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September 21, 2006
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Nokia and Alcatel collaborate over IP telephony
Alcatel and Nokia are collaborating over the extension of fixed IP telephony to mobile devices.
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September 20, 2006
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EC invests in grid research
The European Commission has started a 78m euro (£55m) research initiative into computer grid technologies.
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September 20, 2006
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Motorola to buy Symbol for $3.9bn
Motorola is to acquire leading point-of-sale and short-range wireless infrastructure company Symbol Technologies for around $3.9bn (£2.1bn).
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September 19, 2006
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Government wins with ID management
The government has won an award from the Liberty Alliance for its efforts in developing and rolling out federated identity management systems.
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September 18, 2006
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Your shout: Gateway reviews, government IT, female staff
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September 18, 2006
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Was NAO report truly independent?
The National Audit Office's final report on the NPfIT was very different to earlier drafts, which criticised the programme. Was it influenced along the way?
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September 18, 2006
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Leeds extends deadline for digital pen project
Leeds City Council has overshot its August deadline for implementing a major digital pen and paper (DP&P) programme.
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September 14, 2006
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Three ways to create clustered storage, page 2
Clustered storage systems run on storage servers, NAS gateways and hosts. Here's how to determine which clustered file-system architecture is best for your needs and storage environment.
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September 13, 2006
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Government procurement arm gets new chief executive
The government’s procurement agency is to have a new chief executive.
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September 12, 2006
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Big security fixes for QuickTime, Flash Player
Apple and Adobe warned that attackers could exploit multiple flaws in QuickTime and Flash Player to run malicious code on targeted machines.
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September 12, 2006
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Dell defends Rollins, vows turnaround
In an attempt to stave off criticism that Dell failed to keep up with the competition, company execs pledge change -- with CEO Kevin Rollins still at the helm.
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September 12, 2006
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Ofcom promotes satellite broadband on trains
Telecoms regulator Ofcom is making available a new spectrum license that will allow train operators to offer passengers broadband access via satellite links.
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September 12, 2006
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Microsoft to ship fully supported Ajax development product
Microsoft plans to release a fully commercial version of Atlas, its Ajax-based web development platform.
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September 12, 2006
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Open-source Sparc chip launched by Sun partner
Sun Microsystems has seen the first company build an open-source chip based on its new Sparc designs. Sun wants to see third-party developers produce open-source processors that can help promote its own chip designs.
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September 12, 2006
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Will the real Taylors of Derby please stand up?
The wacky world of IT
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September 12, 2006
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Is team spirit vital for effective IT?
The Big Question is an initiative between Computer Weekly and recruitment consultancy PSD. Each week we put the Big Question to top IT professionals to get their take on a current talking point.
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September 11, 2006
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Start-ups create IT salary hotspot in Cambridge
Cambridge has become a hotspot for IT professionals as competition among rapidly expanding high-tech companies push up salaries for the most in-demand skills.
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September 11, 2006
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Hard disc reaches 50th anniversary
IBM unveiled the world's first hard disc 50 years ago this week.
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September 11, 2006
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Your shout: Shared services, IT A-level warning, exploding laptops
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September 11, 2006
11
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Nokia and Motorola join forces on mobile TV
Nokia and Motorola are jointly promoting the wider adoption of broadcast mobile TV services with the interoperability of their DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast - Handheld)-enabled mobile devices and network services.
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September 11, 2006
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Vodafone to enter fixed-line broadband market
Vodafone is to offer Vodafone-branded fixed-line broadband services to consumers by the end of the year.
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September 10, 2006
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PCI council focuses on security standards and requirements
American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard and Visa have created an independent PCI standards council
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September 10, 2006
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ISCSI vs. Fibre Channel IQ
What's your IQ when it comes to iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols? Take our iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel IQ quiz and find out.
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September 08, 2006
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Local government excellence shortlist announced
East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Hertfordshire County Council and West Lothian Community Health & Care Partnership have been selected as finalists for the 2006 Local Government IT Excellence Awards.
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September 07, 2006
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Weekly compilation of storage news:IBM delays shipment of Global Mirror
IBM's asynchronous replication feature for SVC, originally slated for release this month, has been delayed until November.
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September 06, 2006
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US universities lean on each other for better disaster recovery
American colleges and universities are opening their doors to each other in order to get enterprise-level disaster recovery plans working.
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September 05, 2006
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ControlGuard targets rogue devices
ControlGuard Access Manager is an effective tool for controlling what devices users can add to their workstations and how they are used.
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September 05, 2006
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Proofpoint delivers strong messaging security
Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway is a highly recommended, affordable solution for big enterprises that need protection from email-based attacks.
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September 05, 2006
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DWP shelves £140m benefits processing system
The Department of Work and Pensions has axed a computer system being developed to process benefits payments after spending more than £140m on it in three years.