Wednesday, April 1, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 01/04/2009



Ericsson claims mobile broadband world record
Announcement said to represent a step for HSPA evolution
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Study exposes IT rage when computers go wrong
Half the population could suffer from "computer rage", according to research from the British Psychology Society.
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Blackberry App World goes live
Research in Motion has launched Blackberry App World, a site which allows Blackberry users...
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VMware Data Backup and Recovery White Paper
This paper reviews the best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach for VMware
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Precise move to improve storage tier
Storage enhancement solution to align with dynamic whereby IT departments need to do more with less resource
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Sybase takes Office to iPhone in mobility drive
New release to offer improvements in business process mobilisation, enterprise admin, security and TCO
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Intel Xeon tackles climate change
Intel has revamped its Xeon server processor family with a family of chips designed to tackle the environmental impact of datacentre computing. The...
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LTE to revolutionise mobile broadband
Recession will not hinder LTE-based mobile broadband which could offer up to 100 Mbps
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How mobile phones support healthcare in the developing world
M obile...
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New business comms platform to hasten ROI
Platform attributed with delivering quick ROI on business communications whilst simplifying deployment of business enabling apps
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Competition: Send us your mobile working snaps!
Enter our photo competition and win a Sony Cybershot camera.
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Renault F1: supercomputer simulation prepares team for Australian GP
Murray Walker, the veteran Formula One (F1) commentator once said, "There are a lot of ifs in Formula One. In fact, if is F1 backwards." And the key if is "if only the car could go faster".
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Video: CW500 club interview with Catalina McGregor of the Cabinet Office
Catalina McGregor, Founder and Chair of the Cabinet Office CIO/CTO Council Green ICT Delivery Group, discusses Green IT issues and government policy with James Garner at the latest ComputerWeekly 500 club meeting.
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Renault F1: Supercomputer Part 3
Murray Walker, the veteran Formula One (F1) commentator once said, "There are a lot of ifs in Formula One. In fact, if is F1 backwards." And the key if is "if only the car could go faster".
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Renault F1: Supercomputer Part 2
Murray Walker, the veteran Formula One (F1) commentator once said, "There are a lot of ifs in Formula One. In fact, if is F1 backwards." And the key if is "if only the car could go faster".
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Huge discrepencies in mobile broadband charges abroad, study finds
Some UK mobile broadband ...
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The Total Cost of Email - Putting a Price Tag on your Email Environment
Your IT budget is probably going to be reviewed over the next year; now is the time to look at where you can make savings without making compromises.
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Robots body language helps human to understand them
Despite becoming increasingly lifelike in appearance, robots still have terrible body language.
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Lenovo restructures business
Lenovo has changed its structure, creating two business units to focus on mature and emerging markets.
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Blackberry: Storm blows over Google's My Location voice service
Google has found itself in a storm over its support of its location-based service on the latest Blackberry device. Yesterday Google released software...
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Tesco takes on retail banks with banking system
Tesco will buy core banking system software this year to support its plans to open bank branches in its UK stores. Tesco Bank hopes to offer current...
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LSE looks beyond India, China, Russia and Brazil
The London School of Economics has produced a detailed report of the advantages and disadvantages of 14 emerging destinations for offshore...
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Irish SME eyes smiling for mobile broadband
Mobile broadband in Ireland growing steadily over the last three years and especially during 2008
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Is Facebook about to float on the stock market?
Speculation is rife over whether Facebook is planning to float on the stock market after the exit of its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Gideon Yu.
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US to enforce cyber-security in private companies
The US government could gain powers to enforce cyber-security standards in private companies for the first time under new laws designed to dramatically step-up...
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London Stock Exchange debuts Italian signing
The London Stock Exchange has started routing UK trades automatically to clearing services. The company is using the the...
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Degree in social media launched
A degree in social media has...
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Conficker worm: no need to panic, says security expert
Businesses should not panic about the Conficker...
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G20 activists use Twitter and Facebook to co-ordinate potests
Microbloginng and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are proving to be a valuable way to co-ordinate group activities, including protests...
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Police kick-start آ£76.6m national intelligence database
The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) is spending آ£76.6m to build...
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Gordon Brown proposes 'web traffic tax'
Gordon Brown's efforts to stimulate the economy have shifted online.
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Microsoft launches SMB server platform
Aim to put Windows Server functionality within reach of small businesses
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Thorntons POS system cuts transaction times by two thirds
Confectionary retailer, Thorntons, cut transaction times over Christmas by two thirds after rolling out a point of sales system across 380 stores. The...
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Gartner predicts 3.8% fall in IT spending in 2009
Global spending in IT will decrease by 3.8% from $3.4 trillion in 2008 to $3.2 trillion in 2009, according to analyst Gartner.
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Home working will ease G20 disruption, says Continuity Forum
Organisations have been urged to make sure they have strong electronic communication links in place, as London faces potential disruption from protests during...
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Voice messaging helps Severn Trent recover آ£3m in unpaid bills
Severn Trent has recovered آ£3m in unpaid bills in the last six months through the use of voice messaging technology. The water utility firm used software...
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Sun Microsystems lays off 1,500 staff
Sun has confirmed job cuts affecting 1,500 employees today. In a statement, the company said reductions were made across all levels, including vice-presidents and directors.
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City IT is not an easy target for G20 protesters
Large financial services companies in London are well prepared for any disruptions stemming from anti-capitalist demonstrations at the G20 meeting tomorrow. London's...
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Computer crime jumps 33% in US
Computer crime has risen 33% in...
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UK small business not up to speed on security, survey reveals
IT security is a priority for less than...
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Blogger claims to dupe The Sun with fake Google Street View story
A blogger claims to have duped journalists into reporting a fake story about a woman who used Google Street View to find out her husband was cheating on her.
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Government data losers should incur criminal charges
Public tolerance of government data leaks appears to be running out with the vast majority of people now believing those responsible should face criminal...
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Opinion: The truth about Conficker 'the doomsday worm'
The media is buzzing about the most hyped doomsday threat since Y2K - the Conficker worm. But what is fact and what is fiction? Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe, sets the record straight.
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MoD payroll system: what went wrong
The MoD's Joint Personnel Administration programme is the latest government IT project to hit the headlines for poor performance.
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IT recession: telco spending slashed, but demand for security appliances grows
Businesses are buying fewer call control systems for private branch exchanges but are spending more on security appliances during the recession, according...
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Cheating husband caught on Google Street View
A woman has reportedly contacted divorce lawyers after catching her cheating husband on Google...
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Conficker can no longer hide in the network
Security researchers have discovered a way to identify any network attached computer that has been infected with the Conficker...
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Phorm to trial controversial ad technology in Korea
Phorm is conducting the largest...
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Companies fail to get the most out of business data
Businesses are not using business data effectively, according to a study from analyst Quocirca for Oracle. The research showed that only a third of...
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Adobe Flash puts Facebook on Air
Adobe Systems has co-developed a code library with Facebook that allows Adobe Flash and Air programmers to use the social media site in their applications.
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Nationwide merger with Dunfermline poses few IT challenges
Nationwide's integration of Dunfermline Building Society's systems should be straightforward, industry analysts predicted…
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Redundant staff blow whistle on bosses for pirate software
Staff who have lost their jobs are reporting their former bosses for using unlicensed software, figures released from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) show.
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Two billion mobile broadband users by 2014
Mobile broadband market to rocket by 1024% over the next five years
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China cyber spy update: business vulnerable to social malware
Businesses have no defences against social malware attacks like those used by Chinese hackers against the Tibetan movement, says a Cambridge University report.
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Patch to stop potential conficker attack this week, say security firms
The Conficker worm may unleash massive cyber-attacks this week, but security suppliers say businesses...
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MOD computerised payments system catastrophic, say MPs
Thousands of members of the UK armed forces received incorrect salary payments because of a "catastrophic" computerised payroll system, an MPs' report says.
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China based cyber spy ring 'GhostNet' exposed
An international cyber spy operation that targeted government computers has been exposed by a Canadian security research group.
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IT in the recession: Part 1
The dealing of complex financial derivatives, enabled by hi-tech trading infrastructure and high-speed networks, led to a boom in the British financial services industry. Now the financial services industry has led the world economy into a downturn not seen since the second world war.
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Executive interview: Pierre-Yves Cros, UK chairman, Capgemini
Getting stuck outside Waterloo train station isn't the best of omens en route to meeting Pierre-Yves Cros, the French-born chairman of the UK Country Board of Capgemini. Relations between the English and the French have been up and down over the centuries, so I was already wondering what it was to be the French man taking on the role of the voice of the customer for the UK.
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Companies neglect Wi-Fi network security
Some 64% of companies are neglecting
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Will Twitter's 3000% traffic growth make it any money?
Twitter is seeing extraordinary levels of growth, with recent figures putting annual increases in UK traffic at 3000%.
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Pink Floyd guitarist supports McKinnon protest
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour will take part in a sing-in protest against attempts to extradite UFO fanatic Gary McKinnon to face trial in the US over hacking the Pentagon.
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