Wednesday, July 22, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 22/07/2009



Lexmark profits dive 80%
Lexmark, the Kentucky-based printer company yesterday filed a 21% drop in revenues for the three months to 30 June as profits tumbled nearly 80% to $17m....
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iPhone helps Apple beat forecast with آ£1bn profit
The sale of more than five million iPhones helped Apple beat forecasts with a profit of almost آ£1bn for its third quarter.
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Photos: Computer fashions (it was acceptable in the 80s)
While trawling through the dustier recesses of the Computer Weekly archive, some stock shots of technology from the 1980s came to light, demonstrating just how much data processing - to say nothing of haircuts, fashion and gender relations - has changed over just two decades.
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Small business servers – Essential Guide
Small business servers, both server hardware and server software, is designed to help any small business planning to grow its operations.
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Computer security for small businesses – Essential Guide
Computer security for small businesses can be multi-layered, using desktop security products such as antivirus, antispam and firewalls, and network intrusion detection, and hardware technologies such as security tokens, disk encryption and biometric fingerprint recognition.
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Hacking dossier exposes US military embarrassment
The British courts have seen details of numerous embarrassing intrusions by hackers into some of the US...
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آ£550m staff costs of NHS Connecting for Health revealed
NHS Connecting for Health – which was set up to run the آ£12.7bn National Programme for IT – has spent آ£550m on staff costs in the past four years.
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Indian IT powerhouses must be bold in the cloud
The dominance of Indian offshore IT service providers...
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Organisations underestimate impact of swine 'flu
UK Plc only just managed to keep going during the snow storm earlier this year. Many organisations are using a home-working strategy to cope with the swine 'flu epidemic.
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HMRC reports 20 million tax e-record discrepancies
Taxpayer computer records that contain discrepancies have soared from 2.5 million to 20 million in just over a decade, Computer Weekly has learned.
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Netbooks and MFDs defy the downturn
The worst of the recession might be over, but in some technology areas the past six months have seen continued growth, particularly with netbooks and the...
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Microsoft confirms Windows 7 family pack
Microsoft has confirmed that a Windows 7 family pack will be available that will allow multiple computers in a household to download the operating system. Family...
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Nationwide tells Phorm not to scan its website
Nationwide Building Society has contacted Phorm and asked it not to scan its website to collect data, in a decision aimed at protecting its customers'...
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Lexmark profits dive 80%
Lexmark, the Kentucky-based printer company yesterday filed a 21% drop in revenues for the three months to 30 June as profits tumbled nearly 80% to $17m....
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Mothercare tidies its data for web growth
Mothercare has invested in a data management platform to manage product information across its Mothercare.com and Early Learning Centre websites. The...
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HSBC fined millions of pounds for data security failings
Three HSBC companies have been fined a total of آ£3m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to protect customer information, which led to two incidents of data going missing.
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Total picks Orange for €100m network deal
Mobile network operator Orange Business Services and French oil company
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iPhone helps Apple beat forecast with آ£1bn profit
The sale of more than five million iPhones helped Apple beat forecasts with a profit of almost آ£1bn for its third quarter.
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IT manifesto aims for 250,000 new UK IT jobs
The IT industry, lobby groups, business leaders and parliament have all tried to make it possible for start-ups to flourish in the UK. But high taxes,...
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Social networking is a growing target for cybercriminals, says Sophos
Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting social networks to identify potential victims and attack them, says security firm Sophos. Web...
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Cloud computing more secure than traditional IT, says Google
Cloud computing can...
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