Tuesday, May 18, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 18/05/2010



Personal cloud will replace traditional operating systems, says analyst
The idea of personal computing is changing. Whereas people previously used a PC as their primary computing device, they now own multiple devices, which means their data is not in one place.
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Exclusive: Domino's Pizza tech chief resigns
Domino's IT director Jane Kimberlin is leaving the fast-food company this week to set up her own technology consultancy.
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Millions of internet users unaware of dangers, says Kaspersky
Around 30,000 new malicious and potentially undesirable programs appear every day, according to security researchers at Kaspersky Lab.
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Sybase purchase, Business By Design dominate opening of SAP’s Sapphire Now event
SAP's planned $5.8bn acquisition of Sybase and controversially slow roll-out of its on-demand Business By Design product suite have dominated the opening news conference at SAP's Sapphire Now conference.
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Video: BT to roll out Facebook-style social networking
BT is to roll out Facebook-style social networking services to its 100,000 employees, in a move that will allow staff to collaborate more effectively on projects whether they are in the office or working remotely.on...
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Tata’s £600m pension deal could be put on hold
The £600m outsourcing agreement between the previous government and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) could be put on hold while the new government looks at the options for cutting the budget deficit. The government will next week announce its plans to make £6bn spending cuts this year.
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Podcast interview: Forrester's Frank Gillett on cloud infrastructure
In the first part of a two-part podcast interview, Computer Weekly's Cliff Saran talks to Frank Gillett, principal analyst at Forrester Research, about his...
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Podcast interview: Forrester's Frank Gillett discusses the end of the OS
This is the second part of the Computer Weekly interview with Frank Gillett, principal analyst at Forrester Research. In the first part , Gillett...
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Interview: Virtualise or die warns Citrix CEO, Mark Templeton
Antony Savvas in San Francisco talks to Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix, at the company's Synergy 2010 about virtualisation, competition and convergence of corporate and consumer IT
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Phishing scam hits thousands on Twitter
A phishing scam is targeting thousands of Twitter users hoping to increase their number of followers. Spam messages are circulating that claim to contain links to websites that will help Twitter users to increase their number of followers for free.
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YouTube notches up two billion daily views in five years
YouTube is marking its fifth anniversary by announcing the service has exceeded two billion daily views, demonstrating rapid growth in popularity since reaching...
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RM reports profit increase
The UK educational software provider, RM, is optimistic about performance in the second half of 2010 and has announced a joint venture with Lego Education.
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Google says Street View cars collected WiFi data by mistake
Google has admitted that it mistakenly collected data sent over WiFi networks using its Street...
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