Wednesday, July 15, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 15/07/2009



Woman co-developer of ARM microprocessor elected Fellow of Royal Academy
Sophie Wilson, who co-developed the first ARM microprocessor with Professor Steve Furber of Manchester University, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, in a record year for women at the Academy.
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Hacker leads Apple on iPhone software compatibility
Apple has released its own application to crack the iPhone and make software compatible with the device even if it is not available on Apple's App Store. Earlier...
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Sun Microsystems warns of 30% revenue decline
Sun Microsystems has warned that revenues for what should be its final quarter before the Oracle acquisition is finalised are likely to be down 30% on last year's figures.
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Get HDTV on your phone - fixed or mobile - anywhere
Rural subscribers may soon have access to high-definition TV and broadband internet access via fixed and mobile connections following the launch of a...
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Apple: App Store won't be caught any time soon
Apple's online store for applications for iPhones, the App Store, has sold 1.5 billion applications in its first year. The App Store...
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easyJet to use Microsoft Azure for mobile passenger services
Budget airline easyJet is planning to use Microsoft...
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Webinar: Virtualising for Improved Operations with Rapid Payback
IT departments are under huge pressures right now. Not only do they have to cope with supporting more business enabling systems in different forms in different places, the economic downturn has meant that they have to do so with increasingly cut-down resources.
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Drug firm completes SAP to support acquisitions
Pharmaceutical ingredients supplier Aesica has completed a 12-month SAP project to support an aggressive program of acquisitions. Speaking at the SAP...
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Cybercriminals adopt business strategies
Online criminals are using state of the art business strategies to commit cybercrimes, says network...
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Microsoft beats Google and Apple in brand war
Microsoft has been voted the number one brand in the UK after knocking Google off the top in an annual survey of business brands.
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SAP tool allows Google-like searches on company data
SAP has created a web-based reporting tool, which enables end-users to identify company trends by running Google-like queries on their internal databases. Business...
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Windows 7 expected to aid economic recovery through IT industry
Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system, due for release in October, will drive revenues and growth for...
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Woman co-developer of ARM microprocessor elected Fellow of Royal Academy
Sophie Wilson, who co-developed the first ARM microprocessor with Professor Steve Furber of Manchester University, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, in a record year for women at the Academy.
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Microsoft announces massive Windows 7 discounts
Windows 7 is available with massive discounts if customers pre order them now. Microsoft has announced a programme which will offer آ£100 off the home...
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Businesses face deluge of patches from Microsoft and Oracle
IT security administrators will have to deal with more than 10 security patches from Oracle and nine from Microsoft this week. Oracle's...
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How Moonfruit got Twitter right
Most big companies are suspicious of Twitter. Critics say there is no clear business case for Twitter, there are security problems, a lack of control over what happens, and there's potential for spectacular mistakes and reputational damage.
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Google closes Indian centre hit by Swine flu case
Google closes Indian HQ hit by Swine flu case Google has closed its Indian headquarters in Hyderabad for two days after a worker tested positive for...
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Critical security hole hits Firefox 3.5
Mozilla is working on a fix for a "highly critical" vulnerability in is Firefox browser.
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Hacker leads Apple on iPhone software compatibility
Apple has released its own application to crack the iPhone and make software compatible with the device even if it is not available on Apple's App Store. Earlier...
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Sun Microsystems warns of 30% revenue decline
Sun Microsystems has warned that revenues for what should be its final quarter before the Oracle acquisition is finalised are likely to be down 30% on last year's figures.
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Get HDTV on your phone - fixed or mobile - anywhere
Rural subscribers may soon have access to high-definition TV and broadband internet access via fixed and mobile connections following the launch of a...
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Dell cloud services could cut SMEs' IT costs by 30%
Dell UK has launched three cloud-based services that it says could help small and medium enterprises cut their IT costs by 30%. Dell...
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US allegations against UFO hacker Gary McKinnon were 'over baked'
US allegations about the severity of Pentagon hacker Gary...
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UK faces potent cybercrime cocktail, warns government
Britain faces "a potent cocktail of crimes enabled by technology", particularly identity fraud, the government has warned. Much of the...
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Video: Lifeboat application floats on Azure cloud
The Royal National Lifeboat Institute could be one of the first organisations to use Micrsoft's Azure cloud service in a safety-critical environment.
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Apple: App Store won't be caught any time soon
Apple's online store for applications for iPhones, the App Store, has sold 1.5 billion applications in its first year. The App Store...
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Microsoft warns IE users of another ActiveX vulnerability
Microsoft is warning Internet Explorer users of attacks that attempt to exploit an ActiveX vulnerability affecting MS Office and ISA Server. This...
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Microsoft Azure goes online: priced to compete with Amazon EC2
Microsoft has announced pricing of Azure, its cloud computing service, which be made available in Europe, Singapore and the US from November.
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easyJet to use Microsoft Azure for mobile passenger services
Budget airline easyJet is planning to use Microsoft...
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O2 customers to get free Twitter texts
O2 customers will be able to receive free text alerts from Twitter from August.
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Mobile phone directory crashes as users rush to take numbers off
A controversial mobile phone directory has been suspended after being inundated...
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Russia's DST values Facebook at $6.5bn
Facebook has been valued at $6.5bn by Russian internet investment group Digital Sky Technologies (DST). DST, which invested $200m...
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Unified threat management a strong trend in Europe, survey shows
Most mid to large European companies plan to consolidate network security on a single hardware...
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15-year-old intern dismisses Twitter as "pointless"
A 15-year-old intern at investment bank Morgan Stanley has generated a flurry of interest after writing a research...
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IT managers 'lack skills to lead firms through recession'
Four out of 10 management teams in the UK IT industry do not have the right skills to lead their firms through recession, research has suggested.
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Microsoft challenges Google with free web-based Office 2010
Microsoft has intensified competition with Google by announcing a free web-based version of its Office software.
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On-demand service aims to cut cost of fixing software security flaws
UK business typically spends 75% of software development budgets on eliminating security flaws, according to IT cost studies by security firm Comsec Consulting.
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