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March 20, 2012
20
Mar'12
Birkbeck College consolidates servers to cut PUE rating to 1.3
Birkbeck College has consolidated four equipment rooms into one £700,000 datacentre with a PUE rating of just 1.3
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March 19, 2012
19
Mar'12
UK hacktivist cases should spur business to action, says lawyer
The last of four alleged UK members of hacktivist group LulzSec has appeared in Westminster magistrates court in London
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March 16, 2012
16
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 16, 2012
16
Mar'12
SourceForge takes down Anonymous operating system
The open-source collaboration website SourceForge has taken down an Ubuntu Linux OS project purportedly affiliated with online hactivist group Anonymous, after a review by security experts
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March 15, 2012
15
Mar'12
BBC cyber attacks highlight difficulty of attribution
The BBC has said it is was targeted by cyber attacks following a campaign by Iran against its Persian service, but stopped short of accusing Tehran of ordering the cyber attacks
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March 14, 2012
14
Mar'12
Interview: Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude on open data
Francis Maude, Cabinet Office minister, talks to Computer Weekly about the importance of open data to the UK economy.
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March 14, 2012
14
Mar'12
NHS trust to use iPads for real-time access to patient records
An NHS trust in the Midlands is planning to equip medical staff and community nurses with iPads to give real-time access to patient records on the move.
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March 08, 2012
08
Mar'12
Councils meet first superfast broadband deadline
All but two local authorities have met government deadlines to submit plans to roll out superfast broadband
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March 07, 2012
07
Mar'12
Systems integrators 'charge more in paperwork than SMEs do in delivery’
A systems integrator asked for more money from the government for an IT product proposal than an SME was able to deliver the actual service for.
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March 07, 2012
07
Mar'12
Government’s shared services strategy failing, says NAO
The government’s £1.4bn shared services centres have failed to achieve value for money, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO)
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March 07, 2012
07
Mar'12
FBI informer Hector Xavier Monsegur aids in arrest of LulzSec hackers
Authorities in the US, UK and Republic of Ireland have arrested seven suspected members of hacktivist group LulzSec, including Hector Xavier Monsegur, who helped investigators
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March 05, 2012
05
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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March 02, 2012
02
Mar'12
Somerset Council to bring Southwest One services back in house
Somerset County Council is seeking to bring key services back in house from Southwest One , the troubled joint-venture it created with IBM in 2007.
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March 01, 2012
01
Mar'12
RSA 2012: IT security experts urge enterprises to ban smartphone BYOD schemes
Enterprises should ban employees from using their own smartphones for work, a panel of IT security practitioners told the RSA Conference 2012
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March 01, 2012
01
Mar'12
DWP tenders for £25m IDA services
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has tendered for a £25m identity assurance (IDA) framework to create a marketplace of providers across the public sector.
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February 29, 2012
29
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 27, 2012
27
Feb'12
Post Office reveals plans for identity assurance services
The Post Office is tendering for hardware and software which will enable it to be a provider of the government's Identity Assurance (IDA) services.
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February 23, 2012
23
Feb'12
OSSIM update enables cyber threat intelligence sharing
The latest update to the Open Source Security Information Management (OSSIM) base system includes a mechanism for sharing cyber threat intelligence.
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February 21, 2012
21
Feb'12
Google bypassed IE too, says Microsoft
Microsoft has accused Google of bypassing the privacy settings of Internet Explorer users after Safari faux pas
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February 20, 2012
20
Feb'12
CIO priorities 2012: Ali Jaffri, ICT manager, Gallions Housing
Ali Jaffri, ICT manager at Gallions Housing, talks about the challenges of 2012.
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February 19, 2012
19
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 16, 2012
16
Feb'12
Cisco wants EU to reconsider Microsoft Skype deal
Cisco is calling on European Union authorities to reconsider the unconditional approval of Microsoft’s $8.5bn acquisition of Skype.
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February 14, 2012
14
Feb'12
President of European Parliament critical of Acta
After a weekend of public protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement (Acta), the president of the European Parliament has added his voice to those of critcs.
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February 13, 2012
13
Feb'12
IE update top priority for Patch Tuesday
Microsoft releases nine bulletins addressing 21 vulnerabilities in its monthly Patch Tuesday security update on 14 February
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February 10, 2012
10
Feb'12
Government takes on proprietary software lobby in open standards battle
The government wants to push through open standards against vested interests keen to maintain the dominance of proprietary systems.
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February 10, 2012
10
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 09, 2012
09
Feb'12
Cisco back on acquisition trail after record quarter
Cisco Systems has reported record revenues of $11.5bn for the second fiscal quarter that ended 28 January 2012, up 11% on the year-ago quarter, and profits of $2.6bn or 47 cents a share, up 27%.
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February 08, 2012
08
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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February 07, 2012
07
Feb'12
More than half of government projects behind schedule
More than half of major government projects are behind schedule, according to the head of Whitehall's Major Projects Authority.
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February 07, 2012
07
Feb'12
UK to take part in weekend protests against Acta
Protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement (Acta) have been organised across Europe, with most set to take place on 11 February.
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February 06, 2012
06
Feb'12
FBI investigates Anonymous intercept of call with Scotland Yard
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking into how a conference call with Scotland Yard was intercepted by a member of the activist hacking group Anonymous.
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February 03, 2012
03
Feb'12
St. Helens and Knowsley NHS trust signs £1.3m storage deal
St. Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a £1.3m deal with EMC as part of its five-year plan to overhaul its storage infrastructure.
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February 01, 2012
01
Feb'12
Fewer than a third of UK organisations plan mobile security projects
Despite the media hype around the adoption of mobile technologies and the need to secure them, relatively few UK organisations are planning mobile security projects, a survey has revealed
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January 30, 2012
30
Jan'12
Oracle and SAP worst for government ERP cost differences
Oracle and SAP have been singled out as having the most inconsistent prices for ERP systems across government departments.
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January 30, 2012
30
Jan'12
ICO fines Midlothian Council £140K for data breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed its highest penalty yet of £140,000 on Midlothian Council for breaching personal data
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January 30, 2012
30
Jan'12
MEP quits as thousands protest ACTA signing
A European MP has resigned after thousands of people in Poland protested against the international anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA)
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January 25, 2012
25
Jan'12
EC publishes proposed data protection reforms
European Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, has unveiled the new European data privacy framework that includes new regulation.
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January 23, 2012
23
Jan'12
Advocacy group La Quadrature du Net rallies opposition to ACTA
As controversial anti-piracy legislation stalls in the US, a European group of free internet supporters, La Quadrature du Net, calls for a halt to similar legislation in the European Union.
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January 16, 2012
16
Jan'12
NHS Trust saves £1m a year with text reminder service
Barts Hospital and the London Hospital NHS Trust have saved nearly £1m a year with an automatic appointment reminder text service.
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January 16, 2012
16
Jan'12
Apple aims to improve working conditions for technology workforce
Apple has published a list of all suppliers for the first time and says it will allow independent observers into its facilities around the world to monitor working conditions.
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January 16, 2012
16
Jan'12
Rupert Murdoch attacks Barack Obama over online piracy legislation
News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch has accused Barack Obama's administration of siding with "Silicon Valley paymasters" as two anti-piracy bills go through US Congress.
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January 13, 2012
13
Jan'12
NHS Trust to appeal £375k data loss penalty
An NHS Trust is to appeal against a proposed monetary penalty of £375,000 after after patient records were stolen from a hospital and sold on eBay.
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January 11, 2012
11
Jan'12
ICT curriculum for GCSE is scrapped
The government is to scrap the teaching of GCSE ICT in schools this September, with plans to replace the subject with the “rigorous” teaching of computer science and programming subjects.
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January 10, 2012
10
Jan'12
Healthcare IT is a beneficial force, say doctors
IT in the NHS has had a bad press in recent years as a result of the problems associated with the now defunct £12bn NHS National Programme for IT, but most doctors in England believe IT improves patient care.
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January 10, 2012
10
Jan'12
Accenture bolsters public sector skills
Services giant Accenture has recruited two former civil servants to its ranks to boost its UK and global public sector services capabilities.
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January 09, 2012
09
Jan'12
Olympics resale site still offline after two days
The Olympics tickets resale site has been offline for more than two days, after tens of thousands of people clamoured online buy unwanted tickets on 6 January.
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January 06, 2012
06
Jan'12
Ramnit worm steals 45,000 Facebook passwords
A computer worm has begun targeting Facebook accounts and has stolen at least 45,000 login credentials from users, say security researchers.
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January 03, 2012
03
Jan'12
British Waterways Scotland signs £2.3m ICT deal
British Waterways Scotland has signed a £2.3m deal with business technology company Amor Group to develop its ICT systems.
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January 03, 2012
03
Jan'12
Hacktivists plan to use satellites to by-pass internet censorship
Hacker activists plan to launch communication satellites to overcome the threat of internet censorship.
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December 23, 2011
23
Dec'11
Top 10 SME IT stories of 2011
For small businesses, 2011 has been another tough year, with many continuing to batten down the hatches as the economy continues to stall. But at the same time it has also been a year of technological innovation, both in terms of SMEs using the ...