Tuesday, March 10, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 10/03/2009



Photos: Top Ten Gadgets from CeBIT 2009
Gadgets galore at CeBIT this year, here's our top ten.
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Vintage computers play electronica
Musician Pixelh8, aka Matthew Applegate, is performing a concert next week at Bletchley Park, using the sounds emitted from vintage computers at the The...
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Video: A day in the life of a mobile business worker
Follow our online editor as he road tests the Sony Vaio TT laptop in a day of mobile business working.
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Virtualisation uptake spurs SMBs to the Cloud
SMBs rethinking and overhauling IT infrastructure and client systems in order to achieve greater flexibility, efficiency, and performance
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Orange and Barclaycard team up for mobile payments
France Telecom's mobile network subsidiary Orange and Barclaycard are joining forces to develop new mobile payment technology for transactions under آ£10, the firms announced this morning.
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Photos: The best of CeBIT 2009
Highlights of CeBIT 2009.
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Recession begins to bite storage software market
Storage software market shows signs of recession in IDC's latest Storage Software Tracker
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Web users stick to one password, survey reveals
Only 19% of website users protect their identities with multiple unique passwords.
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Google Docs security: it's free, what do you expect?
Google has fixed a security problem on Google Docs that caused users to share documents inadvertently. The company said the issue affected 0.05% of...
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Major shake-up at Connecting for Health – but not for the NPfIT
NHS Connecting for Health, which manages supplier contracts on the آ£12.7bn National Programme for IT, is replacing contractors with permanent staff to cut its costs. The organisation is understood to employ more than 900 people.
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Police data loss highlights vulnerabilty of USB sticks
UK organisations are still failing to safeguard portable data devices such as laptops and USB memory sticks, despite high-profile...
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Google blocks UK from YouTube music videos
Google is blocking UK access to music videos on YouTube because of a licensing row with the Performing Rights Society (PRS).
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High-definition video conferencing to the masses
Video conferencing solutions designed to allow SMEs to redefine the concept of what it means to be at work
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HP and CSC in running to buy Satyam
Hewlett-Packard and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) are in the mix regarding the acquisition of troubled Indian IT supplier Satyam, according...
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Telegraph Media Group thanks hackers for highligting website vulnerability
The Telegraph Media Group has thanked hackers for highlighting the vulnerability of one of its partner websites. Hackersblog, which has exposed vulnerabilities...
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IT vacancies dry up twice as fast as jobs in other industries
Demand for IT staff fell at twice the rate of demand for staff in all industries, according to the latest employment...
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Straw scraps data sharing clauses in Bill
Datasharing The Justice ministry confirmed today that Jack Straw has asked cabinet colleagues to scrap controversial...
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Raid on builders database shows privacy watchdog has teeth
The UK's privacy watchdog is demonstrating that it has real power by shutting down an illegal database of personal information on construction industry workers.
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Who will buy Satyam?
Indian IT supplier Satyam is up for sale, but who will buy the company that has been shaken by an accounting fraud that went on for several years unnoticed.
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Facebook overtakes MySpace
Facebook...
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Wolfram's Alpha - hype, hubris or holy grail of computing?
The blogosphere is gearing up for a hypefest over Wolfram Alpha , a so-called computational knowledge engine,...
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Channel 4 Dispatches scrutinises public sector spending and NPfIT
A Channel 4 Dispatches documentary tonight, 9 March 2009, examines a rise in public sector spending, including increases in the estimated costs of the NHS's National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
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Home is where the SME working heart is
55% of SMEs are at their most productive when working from home, supported by effective broadband connections
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Beginning of the end as Satyam invites buyers
The bidding process for companies interested in acquiring Indian IT supplier Satyam has begun. The company was given...
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NPfIT costs include آ£3m on hotels and business travel
Contracted costs of the NHS's IT programme include more than آ£1m with a hotel reservations agency, nearly آ£2m with a business travel company, and آ£150m with consultancies - for two of the six years the scheme has been running.
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Spam still costing thousands, McAfee report says
Spam is still costing big business...
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Twitter hit by porno spammers
Spammers have created 750 accounts on Twitter which are being used to lure users to websites containing explicit sexual content. According to IT security...
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Foreign IT workers still flood into UK despite job losses, figures reveal
Thousands of UK job losses in IT...
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Google employee share option exchange window closes
Google's share option exchange programme aimed at retaining talent by repricing share options for employees to bring them in line with current values, closes today.
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