Thursday, December 17, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 17/12/2009



HP tempts Sun users with Linux and Microsoft discounts
Hewlett-Packard has partnered with Microsoft, Novell and Red Hat to entice Sun users to migrate onto HP hardware. HP said that in the past 12 months...
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Video: Hot handsets for Christmas
In the market for a mobile? Telecom TV's Leila Makki introduces 2009's hottest handsets for Christmas.
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Swindon hopes to profit from free Wi-Fi mesh network
Swindon Borough Council hopes to eclipse previous failed attempts to provide ratepayers...
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HP tempts Sun users with Linux and Microsoft discounts
Hewlett-Packard has partnered with Microsoft, Novell and Red Hat to entice Sun users to migrate onto HP hardware. HP said that in the past 12 months...
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Microsoft off the hook in EU antitrust case
The European Commission has abandoned its long-running antitrust case against Microsoft after the software giant agreed to offer European customers a choice...
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Banking will be IT jobs hotspot in 2010
Half of IT professionals believe that the banking sector will be the biggest recruitment opportunity in 2010.
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IT bosses lead world in creating wealth
CEOs of IT companies are well to the fore in creating long-term shareholder value, according to a Harvard Business Review article to be published in January. Apple...
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MPs slam Defra for losing control of آ£350m IT system
MPs have criticised the Rural Payments Agency's attempts to control runaway spending on IT for the troubled...
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Paper better than computers for patient records, say UCL researchers
Paper may be a more efficient medium than computers for delivering essential patient information to doctors, researchers have found. Researchers at...
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Legal battle forces US government to restore millions of missing e-mails
Millions of e-mails from George W Bush's administration that went missing as a result of a defective e-mail archiving system will be restored after the US government reached agreement in a legal battle.
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Don't sell Gary out, McKinnon's mum pleads with Queen
The Queen was today presented with a letter setting out how the royal prerogative had been used to shield parliament from the terms of an extradition treaty with the US, the same treaty now being used against self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon.
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Web outcry over Australia's plan to censor internet
More than 100,000 people have signed a petition against the Australian government's plans to censor internet access by using...
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Social media has changed online shopping forever, says report
The way consumers shop online changed over the past year as a result of the abundance of social networking applications enabling people to help each other make decisions.
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Cadbury streamlines IT procurement to help fend off Kraft
Cadbury has revealed plans to slim down its آ£70m annual spending on IT support as it steps up its fight against a hostile takeover bid from US food group...
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Los Angeles switches to Google cloud services to cut costs
The City of Los Angeles will use Google Apps and GMail for its office productivity software in a bid to cut costs. The cloud-based service will be supported...
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