Saturday, May 2, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 02/05/2009



How to reduce storage space by up to 50%
With the cost of doing business rising every day, organizations are looking for ways to reduce overhead and consolidate resources into a single, easy-to-manage environment.
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Storage Efficiency White Paper
With the current economic climate forecast remaining dark and stormy, minimising operational costs has become of paramount importance.
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Case study: Virtualisation at the London Borough of Hillingdon
Our municipal buildings date back to the 1970s, and use power supplies from the same period. Since moving in there we had simply gone out and bought the...
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Video: Infosec 2009 - First impressions of the year's biggest Information Security event
Infosec 2009 moved venue to Earls Court from Olympia. Organisers Reed Exhibitions said the bigger venue saw visitor numbers up by 10% on the first two days of 2009, compared with 2008.
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Infosec 2009: Catch up with this year's show in pictures
Infosec 2009: The story of this year's Infosec with annotated pictures, so if you weren't there, this is a great to get a flavour of the highlights.
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Ericsson profits slump following redundancy costs
Quarterly profit at Ericsson has slumped by 35% year-on-year as the vendor felt the impact of costs associated with 5,000 job cuts across the business. All...
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Photos: What went on at Infosec 2009
If you missed Infosec 2009, have a look at our photo story and it will feel like you were there!
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Security concerns hamper collaboration plans
Half of firms putting on hold collaboration solutions due to security concerns
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Europe tries to fence off cyberspace
Skype customers, internet users and...
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Facebook security questions are a joke
A blog posting on F-Secure has ridiculed the supposedly high level of security used on...
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Hacker steals Twitter admin password
Twitter's security was thrown into doubt as details emerged of how a French hacker obtained access to a Twitter staff account, allowing him to view user accounts on the micro-blogging site.
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IBM WebSphere appliance builds private clouds
IBM has introduced a hardware appliance that provides access to software virtual images and patterns which it says can be used to build a private cloud. Called...
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Facebook fixes foxy phishers
Social network site Facebook was attacked for the second day running by a worm that lured members...
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Twitter hype in doubt
Twitter will struggle to grow as a business if it fails to convert the large volume of people that try it out into loyal long-term customers. More...
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How spam led to Google
On 3 May 1978 Gary Thuerk, a marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corp, sent an...
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IBM plays Jeopardy!
IBM scientists have been working on a Question Answering system, codenamed Watson, which they say will be able to understand complex questions and answer...
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Embattled LDV uses Twitter to keep staff informed
Embattled van maker LDV has turned to social networking media such as blogs and Twitter to keep staff, suppliers and sales agents up to date as the firm...
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SAP blows away maintenance cash cow
SAP appears to have listened and taken on board user feedback on how it should charge for its maintenance contract. The ERP company and the SAP User...
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No NPfIT black box to be found
If the NHS IT scheme, the NPfIT, were a jumbo jet, its frequent crashes would have putfear-of-flying courses out of business. But because the NPfIT...
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Infosec 2009: cybercriminals growing more sophisticated
The speed, stealth and sophistication with which organised,...
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Web 2.0 reading list wins university agile development competition
Developers at the University of Kent picked up آ£5,000 prize money this week after winning a competition to encourage innovation and collaboration among Higher Education (HE) software developers.
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Who controls the Internet?
The official answer is no one, but it is a half-truth that few swallow. If all nations are equal online, the US is more equal than others.
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Infosec 2009: IT security industry is maturing, says Schneier
The shift away from security products to services at Infosecurity...
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Windows 7 release candidate available for download
Users can now download the Release Candidate of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. In an unprecedented move, Microsoft is allowing anyone to...
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Virtualisation moves disaster recovery into the cloud
Virtualisation is widely regarded as the best...
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Interview: Intel CIO discusses datacentre efficiency
John Johnson, vice-president and co-chief information officer at Intel, has an annual budget of $1.2bn and is responsible for 5,500 IT staff across more...
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Data traffic boosts network operators' revenues
Evidence that data traffic is becoming more important to fixed and mobile network operators (MNOs) comes from Verizon's...
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IT should be at heart of national curriculum, says report
Children leaving primary school should be "independent and confident" users of IT by the time they are 11 years old, a review into the future curriculum...
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Wolfram Alpha - Natural language alternative to Google due in May
A natural language-based search tool which claims to offer an alternative approach to Google for searching information, is due out in May.
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Don't rock the boat on software patents
A decision on whether software inventions should be patented in Europe is nearing, pending the outcome of the European Patent Office (EPO) Enlarged Board...
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Businesses willing to risk the future for short term gains
Recessions don't last forever and businesses that cut back on IT indescriminantly are likely to be at competitive disadvantage in the future. According...
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New snooping plans just as invasive as central database, say campaigners
The government's apparent U-turn on the "snooping" central communications database is no such thing, privacy campaigners say. Home Secretary Jacqui...
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How to use Twitter in disguise
A British web developer has created an application that can disguise the fact that workers are using Twitter at work...
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Google is world's richest brand, but MNOs chase hard
Information and communications technology companies make up six of the top 10 and 24 of the world's 100 most valuable brands, according to the latest
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Teradata reveals solid state storage plans
Datawarehouse and business analytics firm Teradata plans to unveil a data storage management system around the middle...
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NHS trusts breach Data Protection Act with patient records
Fourteen NHS Trusts...
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Negroponte praises Nominet grants for moral net development
Internet guru Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child, has praised the Nominet...
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Google defends book-scanning project
US antitrust enforcers are investigating Google's settlement with publishers over its book-scanning project, but the internet firm has defended its position.
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NPfIT supplier Cerner has 11% profits rise
Cerner -a key supplier of health IT software in London and parts of England as part of the آ£12.7bn NHS IT scheme - has reported first-quarter profits up...
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SAP results lower than expected
SAP's first quarter financial results released yesterday confirm that large software suppliers are not immune from the effects of the economic downturn.
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Software developer resigns in his own Super Mario game
Play the game a software developer in Australia used to announce his resignation from work.
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Home Office accused of colluding with Phorm
E-mails between the Home Office and Phorm discuss the advertising firm's "informal guidance" to the public on whether the company's services are legal.
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SAP user group welcomes value-based maintenance increase
The SAP UK & Ireland User Group has welcomed SAP's decision to provide benchmarking and key performance indicators (KPIs) for its maintenance. SAP...
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Infosec 2009: Most IT security professionals earn over آ£50,000
UK businesses are still investing in IT security professionals and paying them competitive salaries, despite budget cuts in the economic downturn, a survey...
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Infosec 2009: Cyber attackers are getting faster
Cyber attackers are working much faster to exploit application code vulnerabilties and IT security is being overwhelmed, according to a study of vulnerabilities...
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Amazon web services offers low cost access to students
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has begun offering grants of $100 per student for free usage of its cloud infrastructure services in eligible courses at accredited...
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Yahoo: job cuts expected
Yahoo is believed to be letting 600 staff go today, according to web reports.
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SAP revamps Enterprise Support Ts&Cs
SAP has fleshed out new terms and conditions for Enterprise Support following a run-in with the SAP user group. Last year,SAP...
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Infosec 2009: Businesses invest in IT that drives efficiency
The next wave of IT investments will be aimed at achieving efficiency across the business, attendees of Infosecurity Europe 2009 in London have heard.
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Infosec 2009: Data security loses importance in government
Only 6% of IT directors in government departments would invest in security if their budget was increased, according to a Citrix Government Forum survey released at Infosecurity Europe 2009 in London.
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UK can create 700,000 jobs with آ£15bn IT investment
The UK government can create and retain 700,000 jobs if it invests آ£15bn on IT to improve the broadband, utility and transport infrastructures.
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