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July 24, 2012
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Jul'12
Cisco loses 1,300 jobs in another round of cost-cutting
Cisco Systems is to cut around 1,300 jobs – or 2% of its workforce – in continued efforts to cut costs and streamline decision making
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July 23, 2012
23
Jul'12
CIO interview: Sally Howes, National Audit Office
Sally Howes, CIO at the National Audit Office, talks about how the NAO hopes to perform more IT health checks and fewer project post mortems
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July 23, 2012
23
Jul'12
Amazon to open London development centre
Amazon today announced a new hub in central London to focus on the development of digital media products
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July 23, 2012
23
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 20, 2012
20
Jul'12
Eurozone crisis hits IT outsourcing
IT outsourcing contract values hit their lowest in five years as fears over the stability of the Euro restrain European business spending
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July 20, 2012
20
Jul'12
Google results: $774m spent on IT, with more to come
Google has reported a 10% increase in net income in the second quarter of 2012 and is continuing its datacentre expansion.
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July 20, 2012
20
Jul'12
Microsoft reports first loss since 1986
The software giant recorded an operating loss of $492m in the fourth quarter of its 2012 fiscal year
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Will Microsoft turn things around for Nokia?
With more disappointing results, Nokia is pinning its hopes on Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 launch, but can the Redmond giant save the day?
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Electrical power grids prime targets for cyber attack, says McAfee
Legacy electrical power grids are a prime target for cyber attack and security needs to be built into these critical systems, a study has found
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Imperial College London moves ITSM to the cloud
Imperial College London is moving IT service management (ITSM) into the cloud after it grew out of its eight-year-old system
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Lack of IT investment could prolong recession
Research suggests the UK economy could continue to suffer economically as businesses fail to invest in technology and innovation
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
IBM experiences cloud growth, but traditional business areas suffer
IBM's second-quarter revenues remained relatively flat, although the company reported strong growth in its cloud, analytics and Smarter Planet initiatives
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Many global firms unaware of online risk, finds KPMG
Many global organisations could do a lot more to protect their private data and reduce exposure to attacks by hackers, according to KPMG
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Cisco secures virtual machines with Virtuata buy
Details of the deal remain scarce but Cisco is keen to build up its cloud offerings by bringing Virtuata on board
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
BP rolls out first global cloud for workforce
BP is putting its global messaging infrastructure into a private cloud to benefit from pay-per-use functionality and scalability
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Europol leads initiative to pool cyber crime intelligence
Europol is to lead an initiative pooling cyber crime intelligence from business, government, law enforcement and security agencies
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Amazon offers cloud-based SSDs for low-latency applications
Amazon Web Services is offering SSDs in the cloud to support low-latency applications
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Security researchers join forces to bring down Grum botnet
Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world’s third-largest botnet of hijacked computers
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Apple ordered to run 'Samsung did not copy iPad' ads
A UK judge has ordered Apple to publish adverts that say Samsung did not copy the design of its iPad
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Government-sponsored hackers target commercial secrets
Government-sponsored organisations are increasingly turning to hacking techniques to steal commercial secrets from businesses, KPMG has warned
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July 19, 2012
19
Jul'12
Microsoft reveals 26 October launch for Windows 8
Microsoft has updated announcements that Windows 8 will be available in October, by revealing an exact launch date
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July 18, 2012
18
Jul'12
UK Cyber Security Challenge zeroes in on software developers
The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has launched another competition aimed at finding software developers to defend critical national infrastructure.
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July 18, 2012
18
Jul'12
Intel warns of slowdown amid falling PC sales
Chip maker Intel warned of a slowdown over the next quarter as it announced its sales and profit for its latest three-month period.
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July 18, 2012
18
Jul'12
CEO Paul Maritz hands VMware reins to EMC COO Pat Gelsinger
VMware CEO Paul Maritz takes a job at parent company EMC as EMC COO Pat Gelsinger moves over to head up the virtualisation firm
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July 18, 2012
18
Jul'12
Microsoft faces substantial EC fine over browser rules breach
Microsoft faces a large fine for failing to offer Windows users a choice of web browser despite apologising to the European Commission (EC)
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July 17, 2012
17
Jul'12
UK cyber protection should be more aggressive, say MPs
The UK should declare cyber war on states and cyber criminals who target the country, say MPs
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July 17, 2012
17
Jul'12
CSC wins deal to transform datacentres for engineer firm Alstom
Engineering company Alstom has outsourced the transformation of its datacentres to systems integrator CSC in a five-year contract
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July 17, 2012
17
Jul'12
Google revises proposals to EC competition authorities
Google has submitted a revised set of proposals to address the concerns of European Commission (EC) competition authorities
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July 17, 2012
17
Jul'12
Yahoo lands Google's Marissa Mayer as CEO
Yahoo has appointed leading Google executive Marissa Mayer as CEO, ending months of speculation
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July 16, 2012
16
Jul'12
DCLG sticks with same old system integrators for IT refresh
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) will contract a single outsourcing giant for its desktop management services
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July 16, 2012
16
Jul'12
Polycom releases open APIs for RealPresence
The telecoms firm boosts mobile capabilities for its video as a service platform, with new developer kits and further compatibility with tablets
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July 16, 2012
16
Jul'12
Sophos combines endpoint security and UTM
Security firm Sophos combines endpoint protection and unified threat management (UTM) products into a single physical or virtual appliance
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July 16, 2012
16
Jul'12
CIO interview: Antoine Shagoury, London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange CIO Antoine Shagoury – who recently added COO to his job title – talks about his balancing act at the LSE
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July 16, 2012
16
Jul'12
Olympics media centre set to become datacentre
The Olympics media centre looks set to become a datacentre after the London 2012 Games, with technology company iCITY one of two remaining bidders
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July 16, 2012
16
Jul'12
Hacker gets eight years for role in $3m hacking spree
A trio of US cybercriminals has been given stiff sentences in a case that netted $3m and has important lessons for businesses
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July 16, 2012
16
Jul'12
Court orders RIM to pay $147m to Mformation in software patent dispute
A court has ordered Research in Motion (RIM) to pay $147.2m damages to Mformation Technologies for server software patent infringement
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July 13, 2012
13
Jul'12
SAP expects strong second quarter
Software provider SAP expects a strong second quarter, with revenues up 18% on last year to €3.9bn (£3bn).
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July 13, 2012
13
Jul'12
Yahoo Voices breach highlights basic security failings
The data breach of the details of more than 450,000 Yahoo account holders highlights common enterprise security failings, say experts
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July 12, 2012
12
Jul'12
SME uses cloud to meet FSA regulations
When the Financial Services Authority (FSA) introduces new rules, companies under its jurisdiction often have to invest in IT to adhere to new rules.
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July 12, 2012
12
Jul'12
£1m competition opens to find tech start-up with the X factor
A global competition with a £1m prize has opened with the aim of finding and funding an entrepreneur with a good idea for a start-up business in London
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July 11, 2012
11
Jul'12
IT cost-cutting slashes legacy budget
Almost 60% of IT executives have a plan in place to retire applications, according to a UK study by Accenture
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July 11, 2012
11
Jul'12
Global enterprises utilising Malaysia infrastructure
Businesses are increasingly taking advantage of the economic and political benefits of setting up operations in Malaysia
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July 11, 2012
11
Jul'12
Websense launches cyber security intelligence services
Security firm Websense is to launch cyber security intelligence services to enable businesses to tap into the resources of its research teams
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July 10, 2012
10
Jul'12
Websense takes aim at modern hacker attack methods
Defenders need to know themselves as well as their enemy and this can be applied to defending information security, says security firm Websense
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July 10, 2012
10
Jul'12
Strong leadership essential to shared services strategy, warns PAC
The Cabinet Office must show strong leadership if it is to make shared services work, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned
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July 09, 2012
09
Jul'12
Microsoft confirms Windows 8 OS release in October
Microsoft's latest operating system (OS), Windows 8, will be released to manufacturing in August, with full release due three months later
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July 09, 2012
09
Jul'12
Businesses rein in spending on hardware and software
Businesses are reining in spending on hardware and software amid continued uncertainty in the global economy, according to analyst Gartner
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July 09, 2012
09
Jul'12
Riba saves £100,000 with move to IaaS
The Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) hopes to save £100,000 with an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform
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July 09, 2012
09
Jul'12
Orange Business Services touts internet offload service
Orange Business Services (OBS) claims business applications can excel on VPNs by pushing non-critical applications onto local ISP networks
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July 09, 2012
09
Jul'12
Cloud mobile device management key to BYOD, says Lambeth IT head
Cloud mobile device management will be key to enabling bring your own device (BYOD) policies, says Lambeth council IT chief Rob Miller
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July 09, 2012
09
Jul'12
Atos staff could walk out during Olympics
Over 1,500 workers in Atos’s IT services and healthcare units could go on strike during the Olympics after a below-inflation pay rise was offered
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July 09, 2012
09
Jul'12
Google Android OS Trojan virus hits 100K devices in China
Trojan malware has hit 100,000 devices using the Google Android operating system (OS) in China, say security researchers
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July 06, 2012
06
Jul'12
Ultrabook sales suffer as consumers feel the squeeze
Ultrabooks are failing to take off in western Europe because consumers are not prepared to spend a premium on expensive devices
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July 06, 2012
06
Jul'12
Kaspersky Lab finds first malware on Apple's App Store
An app known as “Find and Call” has been targeting users of the Apple iPhone App Store and Google’s Play market, says Kaspersky Lab
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July 05, 2012
05
Jul'12
HTC wins victory over Apple in patent battle
HTC claimed a patent victory over Apple in the latest legal battle in the ongoing smartphone patent turf war
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July 05, 2012
05
Jul'12
Insurance giant Aegon selects Serco for BPO
Serco’s fledgling global BPO business has landed a 10-year business process outsourcing contract with insurance giant Aegon’s UK business
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July 05, 2012
05
Jul'12
Bank network group Bian calls for SOA for move to commercial software
Bank network group Bian calls for service-oriented architecture (SOA) across banks to support the industry shift toward off-the-shelf software
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July 04, 2012
04
Jul'12
Tech sector faces a decade of recession
The UK IT industry will decline in real terms until at least 2016 and there is a real risk of the sector reaching a decade of downturn, according to research from analyst firm TechMarketView
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July 03, 2012
03
Jul'12
Cloud computing underpins Uefa business strategy
Uefa outsourced its IT infrastructure to a supplier-built private cloud to cope with demand and free up in-house resources for contingency action
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July 03, 2012
03
Jul'12
Microsoft takes $6.2bn hit as ad network stalls
Microsoft is taking a massive $6.2bn hit in its fourth quarter revenues, following poor performance in its online business
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July 03, 2012
03
Jul'12
Exeter University automates overseas student processing for UKBA compliance
The University of Exeter is using IT to replace manual processing overseas students in compliance with UK Border Authority (UKBA) rules
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July 03, 2012
03
Jul'12
Gartner survey tracks consumer email preference shift from PCs to tablets
Users are increasingly turning to tablets instead of PCs to check email and social networking sites, a study of consumers from Gartner has found
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July 02, 2012
02
Jul'12
Dell buys Quest Software for $2.4bn to boost enterprise family
Following its acquisition of Wyse earlier this year, Dell is to buy Quest Software to bolster its software virtualisation portfolio
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July 02, 2012
02
Jul'12
Analysis: Businesses are not securing virtual environments. Why?
Virtualisation is the norm, yet a third of companies admit they have not invested in security for their virtual computing environments. Why not?
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July 02, 2012
02
Jul'12
Apple pays $60m to settle iPad trademark dispute in China
Apple is to pay $60m to Chinese electronics firm Proview Technology to settle a long-running dispute over rights to the "iPad" name
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June 29, 2012
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Jun'12
Companies fail to secure virtual environments
A third of companies admit they have not invested in security for their virtual computing environments, a survey has revealed
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June 29, 2012
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Jun'12
Security firm LogRhythm lands $15m investment
Cyber security and compliance firm LogRhythm has secured $15m investment funding for product innovation and international expansion
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June 28, 2012
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Jun'12
Microsoft ramps up Windows 8 security for IT consumerisation
Microsoft is building antivirus and secure, role-based authentication into Windows 8 to make the OS enterprise-ready
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June 28, 2012
28
Jun'12
Google unveils Nexus 7 tablet
Google's Nexus 7 tablet is built by Asus, powered by Nvidia and will go on sale from just £159
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June 28, 2012
28
Jun'12
MoD signs £17m IT services deal with HP
The Ministry of Defence is the first department in government to sign up for a new flexible service level agreement from HP for desktop IT
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June 27, 2012
27
Jun'12
UK fails to impress in technology innovation league
The UK ranks only 11th in KPMG’s global survey asking where the top technological innovations will come from in the next four years
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June 27, 2012
27
Jun'12
White House cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt joins Qualys
Former White House cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt is to join the board of security and compliance company Qualys
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June 27, 2012
27
Jun'12
Cisco’s chief strategy officer steps down
Ned Hooper leaves the networking colossus to form his own investment company as Padmasree Warrior takes the helm
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June 27, 2012
27
Jun'12
Apple blocks US sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Apple wins a court order blocking the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in the US until the patent dispute between the firms is resolved
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June 27, 2012
27
Jun'12
Network security: Is new technology bypassing traditional controls?
Network security practices are among the most mature, but can businesses be sure network traffic is not sneaking past traditional controls?
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June 27, 2012
27
Jun'12
FTC sues Wyndham Worldwide hotel group over data breaches
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing hotel group Wyndham Worldwide over claims it failed to secure customer data
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June 27, 2012
27
Jun'12
Six arrested in the UK in worldwide FBI-led credit card data sting
Six people in the UK and 12 in the US arrested in an FBI-led sting operation that netted a total of 24 credit card cyber fraudsters in 13 countries
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June 26, 2012
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Jun'12
F5 and Webroot partner for security in the network
F5 and Webroot bring together products from their portfolios to offer a single solution for application security
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June 26, 2012
26
Jun'12
Cambridge University turns to computer games to unlock secrets of the universe
Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science
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June 26, 2012
26
Jun'12
Cambridge University targets businesses with commodity supercomputer services
The University of Cambridge is offering businesses supercomputer services built on commodity Intel chips
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June 26, 2012
26
Jun'12
Amazon delivers high-performance computing applications from Ireland datacentre
Amazon debuts a computer cluster at its facility in Ireland to support European high-performance computing (HPC) applications
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June 26, 2012
26
Jun'12
Microsoft to acquire Yammer in $1.2bn deal
Microsoft has announced that it is to acquire enterprise social networking firm Yammer for $1.2bn in cash.
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June 25, 2012
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Jun'12
Businesses fail to prepare for travel chaos during London 2012 Olympic Games
With just one month before the London 2012 Olympic Games, most employees are unaware of plans to allow them to work from home
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June 25, 2012
25
Jun'12
Two UK teenagers plead guilty to hacking charges
Two UK teenage members of hacktivist group LulzSec have pleaded guilty to charges linked with attacks on several high-profile websites
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June 25, 2012
25
Jun'12
Senior managers unaware of data locations, survey reveals
Two thirds of senior managers do not know where all their company data resides, according to a survey conducted by governance firm Varonis
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June 21, 2012
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Jun'12
ROP mitigations top contenders for Microsoft's BlueHat Prize
Microsoft has announced the three finalists of its inaugural BlueHat innovative security protections competition
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June 21, 2012
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Jun'12
NHS Trusts tender for £300m clinical systems
Some 29 NHS Trusts across London and south England have issued a framework tender, worth £300m, for clinical information systems
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June 21, 2012
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Jun'12
BT suffers broadband outages due to to ‘equipment failures’
London, Sheffield and Glasgow are among the cities to be hit by the BT broadband outage caused by separate hardware crashes in the network
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June 21, 2012
21
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 21, 2012
21
Jun'12
CompTIA targets CFOs for IT education programme
Supplier trade body CompTIA is targeting CFOs and other senior executives with an IT education programme
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June 21, 2012
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Jun'12
Forrester: The costs and benefits of BYOD
People are willing to spend more than £1,200 to buy their own devices, which questions the need for IT departments to continue purchasing and supporting PCs
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June 21, 2012
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Jun'12
Banks break with in-house software in move to commercial systems
Increased regulation, reduced profits and customer demands are driving banks to replace home-grown software with off-the-shelf alternatives
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June 21, 2012
21
Jun'12
Microsoft uses disruption strategy to tackle botnets
Disruption is the best way of tackling botnet-based cybercrime, says Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit
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June 20, 2012
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Jun'12
European aeronautical supplier hit by Microsoft zero-day exploit
A European aeronautical supplier's website has been infected with zero-day exploit, say security researchers
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June 20, 2012
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Jun'12
Interview: GDS head Mike Bracken on Estonia's digital services
UK government IT could learn much from Estonia’s open source model, says head of Government Digital Services (GDS), Mike Bracken
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June 20, 2012
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Jun'12
Q&A: Why do we need exascale computers ?
Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second.
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June 20, 2012
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Jun'12
Supercomputers running up against the barriers of Moore's Law
The next generation of supercomputer will require a radical re-think, as computer design begins to run up against the limits of Moore's law.
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June 19, 2012
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Jun'12
Microsoft updates free mitigation tool for enterprises
Software mitigation techniques are an important element of layered security for enterprises, says Microsoft
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June 19, 2012
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Jun'12
Metadata could better control personal data, says Microsoft
In an increasingly data-centric world, we need to focus on the use of data, says Microsoft's Scott Charney
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June 19, 2012
19
Jun'12
Forrester: Prepare for digital disruption in your business
The digital revolution will impact every business sector. CIOs must adapt to support digital products