Tuesday, March 3, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 03/03/2009



Nokia pulls 3G phone in US after connectivity problems
Nokia has confirmed its newly launched 5800 touch-screen smartphone in the US is having problems connecting to 3G networks.
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Budget Linux Tablet can be stuck on a fridge
Mobile specialist Always Innovating has developed a $299 ARM processor-powered magnetic tablet computer running Linux, which the company says can be stuck...
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Mobile phone sales on downward spiral
Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 6% in 2008, but sales declined 5% in the fourth quarter, says Gartner. The...
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Communication problems cost SMBs up to €3,900 per employee
Poorly integrated communications channels is costing SMBs 40% of productive time
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Sony unveils high-speed disc storage burner
Sony Optiarc Europe is launching a high-end DVD burner which delivers a 24x burning rate. The Sony offering...
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PC shipments to nosedive 11.9% this year
The PC industry will experience its sharpest ever decline in PC shipments during 2009, says Gartner. The analyst says PC shipments totalling 257m in...
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iPhone leads mobile web browsing market
Apple's iPhone dominates the...
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Microsoft Live Search rebrand leaked on Twitter
A US Microsoft executive has leaked Redmond's plan to relaunch and rebrand its Live Search service on the Twitter mobile blogging service. The executive's...
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Data security is top priority
Security is a top priority for business es despite the economic downturn, says Howard Schmidt, president and chief executive of the Information Security...
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Microsoft joins coalition to track financial trail of child porn traders
Microsoft today joined Visa, Mastercard and Paypal and Europol in setting up a coalition to track and trace the criminals who trade in child pornography...
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'Sloppy' council websites need improvement, says Socitm
Council websites are "sloppy" and improvements this year were only "marginal", says Socitm.
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Sick IT worker rides 66 miles and gets fired
An employment tribunal in Exeter heard that Andrew Hamlyn from Newton Abbot, who was off work for 92 days with a viral infection, took part in a 66-mile cycle race while off sick.
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UK computer games industry asks for government help
The UK games industry is being held back by the government's tax regime, skills shortages and a lack of finance, says games industry body TIGA.
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Ofcom paves the way to super-fast broadband
BT can build its آ£1.5bn super-high-speed...
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Big drop in students taking IT subjects
Information and communication technology in schools is improving but it's inconsistent, with some secondary schools lagging behind, says schools standards...
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Recession sees SMEs offered extended 0% finance
Avaya increases 0% finance in response to SMEs' problems in investing when it is difficult to justify capital outlay
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E-commerce worth آ£56bn by 2014, says Forrester
As the rest of the economy suffers, e-commerce...
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HR staff must embrace social networking, says report
HR professionals are not taking advantage of
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Facebook hit with five attacks within days
Facebook has been hit with four malicious applications and a new variant of the Koobface virus in the past few days, reports the BBC.
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UK gets National Ballistics Database
The Home Office has opened an آ£8m National Ballistics Database service to help police solve crimes involving firearms. The...
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Data sharing bill will let government snoop patient records, doctors warn
Britain's medical fraternity has condemned the government's plans to share data, including medical records across Whitehall and has asked for a meeting with ministers to have medical records exempted.
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GlaxoSmithKline switches to Microsoft Online
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has become one of the first businesses to standardise on Microsoft's Online Services, launched earlier today.
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Criminals target customers of troubled banks
The head of specialist and economic crime at Scotland Yard has issued a warning to customers of banks that are being targetted by cyber criminals. Nigel...
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Aviva signs EDS آ£700m outsourcing deal
UK-based Aviva, the...
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Sting supports hacker McKinnon's fight for UK trial
Police frontman Sting and wife Trudie Styler are among the latest celebrities to support self-confessed hacker...
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Microsoft releases application virtualisation platform for Windows 7
The Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) platform is now available for use with the Windows 7 Beta. "We've been listening to customers who...
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Brown: science must provide new UK growth, not financial services
Prime minister Gordon Brown says he wants the UK to rely less on financial services and more on science and technology for generating GDP.
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Online card readers will become fraud target
Bank card scanners used to authenticate online bank users only have a 100% safety record because criminals have softer targets to attack...
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EDF sales team clicks with new scheduling software
EDF Energy has expanded its use of automated scheduling and routing software for maintenance work to manage a 500-strong...
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L&G to axe up to 450 support jobs
Legal & General is planning to cut between 250 and 450 jobs in support function roles, including in HR and IT. Legal & General, which employs 8,700...
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Microsoft releases free security tool for developers
Microsoft has released a public version of the latest update to an internal threat modelling...
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Google tops technology pay league
The 10 US technology firms that pay their engineers the most have been revealed by gigaom.com,...
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SAP shrinks carbon footprint
SAP plans to slash its carbon emission s by 51% and help its customers reduce theirs. "We will try to use technology to help SAP reduce...
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Windows grabs more of the OS market
Microsoft's Windows operating system increased its online market share in February. According to web analytics firm Net...
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Lockerbie could have Europe's biggest datacentre
Lockerbie in Scotland could get Europe's biggest datacentre. The firm Lockerbie Data Centres is...
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Google Earth lays bare UK's nuclear defences
Britain's top secret nuclear submarine base in Scotland can be seen using basic technology through Google Earth.
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Satyam looks for a new owner
Troubled Indian IT supplier Satyam is...
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