Friday, March 13, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 13/03/2009



SAP and Sybase bring business suite to iPhone and Blackberry
Companies unite to attempt to overcome mobile business limitations
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Google Docs: can we trust free software in the enterprise?
Earlier this week Google fixed a security problem affecting its Google Docs application suite that caused users to inadvertently share documents.
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Five mistakes businesses make during recession
Harvard Management has outlined five mistakes for businesses to avoid during recession
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Vodafone and O2 to share transmission networks?
The UK's oldest mobile network operators, Vodafone and O2,...
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Kids responsible for Estonia attack
The distributed denial of service attack that took...
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Nominet puts phones on the net with Enum
Companies can now save on phone bills by converting their telephone numbers to an internet domain.
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Baroness Miller calls for BT Phorm ban
BT must be stopped from deploying technology...
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US IT firm iGate expects to see Satyam finances
US IT services provider iGate has expressed aninterest in buying Satyam public.It is waiting to see financial...
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Demand for permanent IT jobs outstrips contractors
Demandfor permanent IT staff has outstripped demand forcontract IT workers, according to the latest research...
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BBC botnet experiment broke law, says lawyer
The BBC may have broken the law by demonstrating how easy it is to buy and use a botnet...
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Tesco opts for flywheel power in energy-efficiency drive
Supermarket giant Tesco is using s team - a ge technology t o keep i ts 21st century data c entre ...
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UK's first national open source IT project to demo soon
A demonstration version of the UK's first government-backed national open source IT project, is to...
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Was MasterCard's decision not to publish security standard a mistake?
MasterCard may have made a mistake when it rolled out two-factor security for online banking without exposing the technical standards...
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Targeted web marketing tempts consumer backlash
Google's announcement last week that it...
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Hacker McKinnon's mum plans song protest for Obama
Janis Sharp, mother of self-confessed hacker Gary...
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Satyam fraud puts IBM off
IBM has ruled out taking over Indian IT supplier Satyam, the company at the centre of a $1bn accounting fraud.The...
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Google adds voice to service pack
Google this morning launched a preview of Google Voice, an application...
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EDS offers flexible prices to combat recession
E DS is offering its customers a flexible pricing model to help it win business while potential customers attempt to cut capital costs. The...
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Google to profile web use for targeted advertising
Google is building profiles of customers ' browsing habits so it can target them with advertisements.
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Known mistakes repeated on آ£234m IT system for prisons
Those in charge of a آ£234m “C-Nomisâ€‌ IT system for prisons made mistakes which had been evident often before in government IT projects, said the National Audit Office in a report published today.
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Why big Government IT projects keep failing – public accounts MP
Richard Bacon MP, a member of the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee, said today that the project to build a national database of offenders is a checklist of what not to do on a government IT scheme.
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Bill Gates loses آ£12.2bn but regains top spot on rich list
Bill Gates' fortune has been cut by a massive آ£12.2bn, but he has regained the position of being the world's richest person with آ£28.8bn, according to Forbes Rich List 2009.
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SAP and Sybase bring Business Suite to iPhone
SAP is working with Sybase to provide enterprise software on the iPhone and other mobile devices. The companies said they would collaborate on helping users...
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Report: C-Nomis Prison IT system guilty of 'basic' project management failures
A آ£234m “C-Nomisâ€‌ IT system for Prisons failed in almost every possible way – but the project’s main board and ministers were kept unaware of the full problems until it was too late to rescue the original scheme.
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ICO considers action against users of illegal construction worker database
The UK's privacy watchdog revealed that it does have some teeth after all when it raided the company responsible for running an illegal database on...
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Should the BBC subsidise Digital Britain?
The BBC may have to subsidise UK broadband. Following publication of the Digital Britain report, Lord Carter said today that the BBC...
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Opt out of NPfIT database in person, officials tell patients
Patients who want to opt out of having their health records uploaded to a central database have been told they will need to do so in person. But the...
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Network is integral to SmartGrid cities
Pressure is building to get serious about climate change, but countries are long on plans and goals but short on actions to address it, says Sander van 't...
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McAfee donates $110,000 to train cybercrime fighters
Security firm McAfee has approved...
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Linkedin gets business nod while Facebook rules
Facebook may have taken the headlines by overtaking MySpace as the most used social networking site with a 168% increase in users over a year, but LinkedIn quietly saw a 137% increase. It is the fifth most used social networking site.
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Data theft Trojans fastest growing cyber threat, says report
Data theft is one of the fastest growing cyber threats to business, according to the annual global threat report from security firm Scansafe....
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IT culture clash undermines project success for financial firms
IT departments and business units in financial services firms do not understand each other enough to ensure that projects are managed appropriately. Businesses...
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eBay wants to re-price ailing stock options
eBay has asked its shareholders whether it can change its employee stock options. The decision mirrors one...
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday: update now
Users should install the latest patch Tuesday update from Microsoft immediately...
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Adobe finally releases critical patch the same day as Microsoft updates
Adobe Systems has released a security update to fix a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 that could allow a hacker to take control of a computer.
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US lawmaker wants online maps to blur hospitals and schools
A US lawmaker has proposed legislation that would force Google...
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Investment banking IT workers will be powerful forces elsewhere
IT workers from investment banks will start to move into the retail financial services sector as job opportunities disappear in the investment sector. The...
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