Friday, April 3, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 03/04/2009



Independent oversight needed over database state, Lords told
An independent authority is to be responsible for managing the increasing volume of personal data collected by the government, the House of Lords heard yesterday.
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Hewlett-Packard prices to rise by at least 1% from May
Hewlett-Packard distributors will raise prices across the portfolio by a minimum of 1% from the start of next month after it emerged that the supplier plans to withdraw some back-end rebates for wholesale partners.
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Satyam attempts to speed up bidding process
The government appointed board of Indian IT services provider Satyam has changed the...
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Four pointers when starting a business
Potential technology entrepreneurs can't just rely on past experience when starting a new venture. Sarah Gant, Centre Director of SETsquared at the University of Surrey, looks at some of the common pitfalls encountered by those who embark on their first technology business.
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IBM poised to buy Sun
IBM is set to buy Sun in the next few days, for between $9 and $10 a share, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal. Sun's share price has...
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Tesco may use social media to improve customer service
Tesco is considering ways of using...
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Facebook and Twitter help teens hack
A massive 40% of teenagers have hacked into peoples social networking profiles on websites such as Facebook with hacking techniques even shared on micro-blogging sites such as Twitter. But parents are just as bad.
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Google rumoured to be buying Twitter
Google is rumoured to be in the late stages of buying Twitter.
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Robot scientist can make discoveries without human help
A robot scientist that can generate its own hypotheses and run experiments to test them has made its first real scientific discoveries, reports New Scientist.
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