Thursday, January 21, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 21/01/2010



5,000 USB pen drives put through washing machines each year
Nearly 5,000 USB pen drives are put through washing machines in local drycleaners each year, claims a survey. And consumers leave 10,000 handheld...
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IBM shows recession-proof fourth quarter
IBM has announced a 9% increase in net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2009, from $4.4bn to $4.8bn, thanks to its cloud computing and Smarter Planet initiatives. Samuel...
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Competition: Hardware Haul - send us pics of your gifts!
Did you get what you wanted for Christmas? Was it shamelessly geeky? If so, then share your haul with us and you could win fifty pounds Amazon vouchers.
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PC market recovery slow in coming
The PC market recovery in Europe failed to materialise in the UK during the fourth quarter as recession-hit businesses continued to steer clear of new...
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Leicestershire police use technology to reduce anti-social behaviour
Leicestershire police claim to have cut anti-social behaviour by half after rolling-out techology that allows the force to map crime hot-spots. Leicestershire...
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How Top Gear laptop survived Bolivian expedition
The BBC Top Gear presenters took a 1,000 mile road trip through the rainforests of Boliva to the Pacific coast of Chile.
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Whitehall lacks coherent IT strategy, says report
Government IT needs to be better co-ordinated from the centre of Whitehall, according to a report based on interviews with senior civil servants. The...
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Viruses targeting applications are on the rise
Viruses targeting applications will increase this year, say network operators. Of 136 IP network operators surveyed, 35% believe attacks will focus...
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'Make or break' for London Stock Exchange IT
The London Stock Exchange faces a year of IT challenges. How it meets these challenges will determine whether it becomes one of the world's top five trading...
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5,000 USB pen drives put through washing machines each year
Nearly 5,000 USB pen drives are put through washing machines in local drycleaners each year, claims a survey. And consumers leave 10,000 handheld...
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Broadband growth prompts Carphone Warehouse to consider its own fibre network
Carphone Warehouse, the UK's second largest broadband supplier, may build its...
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Skills IT will need in the future
Lack of internal IT skills will force chief information officers to make more use of external IT providers, analyst firm Gartner has warned. It is...
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MoD awards $890m DII contract to Atlas consortium
The Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
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Wipro increases profits and staff numbers
Indian service provider Wipro has recorded a double-digit increase in profits for its latest quarter and now has more than 100,000 IT services staff. The...
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Interview: 'Fire me if I fail,' says Serious Fraud Office CIO
The CIO at the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) says that if he does not succeed in implementing a series of risky IT-based projects "they can fire me".
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Online consumers seek out stronger security
Online service providers will have to improve their authentication measures or lose out to competitors, an international survey has concluded. Most...
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Bill Gates signs up to Twitter
Bill Gates joined Twitter yesterday, and immediately signed up to follow Ashton Kutcher, High School Musical star...
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IBM shows recession-proof fourth quarter
IBM has announced a 9% increase in net revenue for the fourth quarter of 2009, from $4.4bn to $4.8bn, thanks to its cloud computing and Smarter Planet initiatives. Samuel...
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PC market recovery slow in coming
The PC market recovery in Europe failed to materialise in the UK during the fourth quarter as recession-hit businesses continued to steer clear of new...
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BP to streamline IT supply chain
BP plans to simplify its global supply chain and reduce IT spending by آ£20m by cutting the more than 540 hardware and software suppliers it works with...
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Avaya bets on SIP in Nortel integration
Telecommunications firm Avaya plans to focus on internet protocols (IP) as the basis for all communications following its $900m...
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Kraft keeps systems integrators waiting over Cadbury
Systems integrators will have to be patient a little while longer while US food maker Kraft fends off chocolate makers Ferrero and Hershey to complete its آ£11.9bn acquisition of UK sweets maker Cadbury.
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Leicestershire police use technology to reduce anti-social behaviour
Leicestershire police claim to have cut anti-social behaviour by half after rolling-out techology that allows the force to map crime hot-spots. Leicestershire...
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How to secure Internet Explorer: four tips to protect web browsing
With some governments warning people to stop using Internet Explorer (IE) until Microsoft patches the latest vulnerability in the software, here are four ways to protect web browsing in IE.
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