Friday, April 10, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 10/04/2009



Security policy not keeping up with mobile working, survey finds
More than 40% of businesses do not have security policies around accessing company data remotely using mobile...
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App Store offers free surfing tool for iPhone and iPod Touch
Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users...
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Smartphones keep mobile handset market afloat
Smartphone sales are keeping the flagging UK mobile market afloat, shielding it from the full force of the downturn, with consumers spending more - even as they are cutting back everywhere else.
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Wakefield Council places faith in unified communications
آ£3 million investment in IP-based UC infrastructure to reduce costs and enhance operational efficiency
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Total IT security threats fall as focus moves to third party apps
Increase in threats from rogue software and a move to hit third party apps identified in Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report .
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Elton John says 'technology slows me down'
Recording studio software is proof of the creativity and ingenuity of programmers who work in and for the music industry.
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Video: The Future of Mobile Government IT
ComputerWeekly.com talks to James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montford University in Leicester, about the future of Mobile Government IT at the GovNet Mobile Government Conference 09 in London.
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Red Hat makes data intergration open source
Red Hat has launched an open source project called Teiid, which provides data virtualisation, and is designed to simplify data...
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Google expands click-to-buy YouTube videos
Google is expanding its Click-to-Buy e-commerce platform for music...
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Online auction saves taxpayers آ£10m
An online auction of IT equipment and services has saved taxpayers آ£10.5m, according to the
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Top Twitter searches reveal business challenge
Twitter talk is dominated by celebrities, sport and TV, a list of the top...
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US plays down electricity grid hack reports
US government officials have played down reports that Chinese and Russian cyber...
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Trade union calls for Satyam sale to be delayed
A trade union in India wants the sale of Satyam to be delayed until after the country's general election and the completion of the Central Bureau of Investigation's...
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Recession buster: open source on the increase but security concerns remain
Use of open source software (OSS) is increasing but companies are still concerned about its security, a report ...
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Cyber defence for US military costs $16m a month
A lack of proactive protection from cyber-attacks on US defence department networks has cost tax payers about $100m in the past six months, US strategic...
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Twitter Partners to help business cash in on Twitter
Digital media adviser and investor Peter Read has set up a marketing agency to help businesses sell themselves on the increasingly popular microblogging...
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Council chief's apology after SAP go-live
Officials in Somerset say that the first stage of a SAP go-live for two councils, a police authority and a fire brigade has had a "high degree of success", though an internal e-mail to staff concedes that there are multiple problems.
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Should IT directors consider building their next business app on Force.com?
Many IT directors and CIOs are considering the impact of cloud...
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Apple getting sued over touch-screen technology
Elan Microelectronics, a company once voted the best small company in Asia Pacific by Forbes magazine, has filed a patent law suit against Apple over its multi-touch technology used in the iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices.
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Hardware spend first to be cut by recession beating SMEs
Cutting hardware spend first tactic used by SMEs forced to cut costs to get through recession
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IT has a key role in long-term economic growth
IT innovation will fuel future economic growth, according to a report from the International Chamber of Commerce. According to the International...
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Offshore savings not guaranteed
The economic climate is driving businesses to cut the cost of their software estates, but offshoring development may be a mistake. Savings from offshored...
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Police e-crime unit collars ex-Soviet gang in first strike
Police from the new Police Central E-Crime Unit (PCeU) today arrested nine suspects in connection with money laundering, computer misuse and conspiracy to defraud using a Trojan aimed at banks.
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Google voice search marks new era of speech analytics
Google sees voice-activated search as key to its mobile business and has just introduced a UK version for the Blackberry. Voice search offers an easier...
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Businesses push Skype to top of voice carriers league
Skype, the voice over internet protocol (VoIP) software company, is now the world's biggest carrier of international telephone calls, and is poised to grow even bigger by grabbing the lucrative business market.
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Some ISPs more equal than others in data retention implementation
Some internet service providers have been exempted from implementing the Data...
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IT recruits face a buyer's market
Salaries for IT workers are falling, with few IT vacancies and high unemployment levels making it an employer's market. According to research...
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Nine people charged over $1bn Satyam fraud
The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has charged nine people over the $1bn accounting fraud at Indian IT service provider Satyam.
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Google tries to woo newspapers with technology
Google has tried to woo newspaper publishers by saying that it can help them online rather than contribute to the loss of advertising for print publications.
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US investor in Monday's auction for Satyam
US investor Wilbur Ross has been named as the latest bidder for troubled IT service provider, Satyam Computer Services. Ross, a billionaire know for...
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Are passport fees paying for ID cards?
Bill Crothers, CIO of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), and its chief executive, James Hall, tell it like it is. Sometimes when officials talk to journalists they know immediately what the reporter wants to write - and they confuse, deliberately or not. Crothers and Hall are not like that. Two things were clear to us at the outset - before the interview - and were still clear afterwards.
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