Friday, October 30, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 30/10/2009



Google, Motorola and Verizon build Droid to battle iPhone
Google, Motorola and Verizon have joined forces in the US to challenge the Apple iPhone's domination of the smartphone market. Motorola's...
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Video: VMware goes mobile

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Farmers bank account details lost by Rural Payments Agency
Thousands of farmers' bank account details have been lost by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) after the Government body lost two back-up tapes of confidential data belonging to all English farmers.
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DNA database may contain records of one million innocent people
Over 90,000 innocent people have been added to the DNA database since the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled against the practice.
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Legal firm encrypts e-mail to secure communications
UK legal firm Browne Jacobson is to encrypt all e-mails to ensure secure communications.
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Yahoo and Microsoft ask for more time to finalise partnership deal
Yahoo and Microsoft have extended the deadline to finalise their search...
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Apple App Store hits 100,000 apps
Apple has now approved more than 100,000 applications for sale on its software catalogue App Store. According to the website Appshopper.com,...
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Google, Motorola and Verizon build Droid to battle iPhone
Google, Motorola and Verizon have joined forces in the US to challenge the Apple iPhone's domination of the smartphone market. Motorola's...
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Video: VMware goes mobile

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London Stock Exchange and Turquoise to merge
The London Stock Exchange and pan European trading facility Turquoise are weeks away from a merger, according to reports.
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MP calls for blacklist of IT suppliers
A member of the House of Commons' Public Accounts Committee has called for the blacklisting of IT suppliers that oversell their products, services or consultancy.
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Virgin Media halves losses in 3Q09 as network upgrade kicks in
Virgin Media's losses halved in 3Q09 to...
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Business should not rely on residential broadband for home working, warns Gartner
UK internet bandwidth may not be able to meet demand if winter flu forces an unprecedented number of people to work from home, says analyst firm Gartner....
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Business rates are killing Digital Britain
The government's Digital Britain policy may fail to meet its original goal unless it changes the way it values broadband networks for business tax, a Computer Weekly investigation has revealed.
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Google offers free sat-nav and music search
Google has announced a free mobile satellite navigation application and a music element to its search, but both are limited to US users for now.
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US Department of Defense backs open source software
The US Department of Defense has backed the use of more open...
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IT salary survey: IT job vacancies rise
The number of vacancies in IT has grown for the first time since January 2008, with a 1% increase in the third quarter compared with the previous quarter.
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Farmers bank account details lost by Rural Payments Agency
Thousands of farmers' bank account details have been lost by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) after the Government body lost two back-up tapes of confidential data belonging to all English farmers.
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Fake Olympic ticket website set up for آ£7
Which? Computing has developed a fake website to demonstrate how easy it is for criminals to trick people into handing over their personal details.
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Firms lower security despite cost of breaches
UK medium to large companies each lost an average of آ£16,000 through security breaches and yet nearly two thirds have cut or frozen IT security budgets, research has revealed.
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Wi-fi and Wimax tax could be backdated five years
Business rates tax on wi-fi and Wimax networks may be backdated to April 2005, potentially putting an intolerable strain on many community networks in...
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Outsourcing grows despite security fears
Despite an increasing trend of IT outsourcing, confidence in supplier security remains low in the UK, research has revealed.
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