Wednesday, March 24, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 24/03/2010



Opinion: Ensuring a happy marriage between IT and the environment
With a comparable carbon footprint to the airline industry, IT has gained a reputation as a major culprit in carbon emissions, writes Brian Murray, principal...
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Digital Economy Bill - Special report
The Digital Economy Bill is the culmination of the Government’s plans to drive the UK’s creative and digital sectors to boost economic growth and jobs in the digital economy.
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HP integrates Microsoft Unified Comms Server for branch offices
HP has introduced a suite of products optimised for Microsoft Communications Server "14," the next version of Microsoft's unified communications platform.
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Transport for London appoints new CIO
Transport for London (TfL) has appointed former British Energy CIO Ian Campbell as its new chief information officer. Campbell led a two-year business...
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Budget 2010: Conservatives will unpick the small print with crowd-sourcing
The Conservative Party plans to use the wisdom of crowds to unpick Alistair Darling's Budget tomorrow.
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BCS cannot accept petition for EGM because signatures are electronic
BCS, the chartered institute for IT, has not accepted a motion from 50 members who are pressing for an emergency general meeting to debate concerns over the direction of the society.
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US works with ISP to test Einstein 3 cyber security system
The US Department of Homeland Security is to work with a commercial ISP to test a US government intrusion detection system.
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Brown to create government 'service companies' to push shared services
The government is planning to establish a number of "business service companies" to help it push its shared services projects forward. It wants to...
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BT to open ducts and poles to rivals' fibre
100Mbps broadband is likely to become the norm for millions of citizens following UK telecoms regulator Ofcom's proposals to let third parties roll out their own fibre networks using BT's ducts and poles.
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Google can sell firms' trademarks as AdWords, rules European Court of Justice
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Google can continue selling search terms using trademarked...
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Google tests hotel rates service on Google Maps
Google has begun testing a service that enables users of Google Maps to search for hotels and see price listings for subscribed establishments.
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HP integrates Microsoft Unified Comms Server for branch offices
HP has introduced a suite of products optimised for Microsoft Communications Server "14," the next version of Microsoft's unified communications platform.
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Google halts censorship in China
Google has pleased internet freedom advocates, but angered Chinese authorities and drawn only muted support from the US government by halting censorship of search results in China.
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Telegraph uses Salesforce.com to get real-time opinion polls in run up to General Election
Debate2010 forum is the first crowd-sourcing site in the UK to report national opinion in real-time
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Red Hat ramps up SOA in the cloud with JBoss 5.0
Red Hat has launched its open source JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.0, which the company says improves web services and cloud integration. JBoss...
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Former iSoft financial controller admits providing false auditing information
The Accountancy and Actuarial Disciplinary Board has disciplined Ian Storey, a former iSoft financial controller, for falsifying auditing information.
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Political parties dangle the broadband carrot
Access to high-speed broadband networks has become a hot potato for political parties. They promise it will give voters more of what they like, which is mainly better quality television and government services.
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Quality, not speed counts in broadband, says BSG
Politicians' plans...
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