Thursday, May 27, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 27/05/2010



Morally right to try hacker McKinnon in UK, says Nick Clegg
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has repeated his view that self-confessed hacker Gary...
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Royal Mail postpones Horizon roll-out after outages
A pilot of the new Horizon Online system at Royal Mail has been scaled back after connectivity problems and outages.
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Fifa World Cup supercomputer is based in Slough
Fifa has unveiled its Fifa.com supercomputer site, which will support online access to the world cup.
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CWU members vote for BT strike ballot to press 5% wage claim
Communications Workers Union members voted unanimously this morning to ballot 60,000 BT workers for a strike in support of their 5% wage claim against BT's offer of 2% plus a guaranteed bonus of between £250 and £500.
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Berners-Lee and Shadbolt disappointed at cancellation of Institute of Web Science
Computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt have said they are "disappointed" by the government's plans to cancel the Institute of Web Science.
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BT CEO gets 80% pay boost, offers staff 2%
BT CEO Ian Livingston received £2.105m in salary and bonuses - an almost 80% increase on pay and perks - for 2009. The news, revealed in BT's annual...
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No repeal of Digital Economy Act, says minister
The controversial Digital Economy Act will not be repealed, a spokesman for Jeremy Hunt, the new minister for Culture Olympics, Media and Sport, said today.
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CWU to vote on strike action at BT
Communications workers will vote this morning on whether to ballot members on a strike at BT, the UK's biggest network operator. The move follows a...
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MSF Agile and SDL Process Template for Visual Studio 2010 due tomorrow
The latest version of the MSF Agile and SDL Process Template for Visual Studio 2010 is due for release on 27 May, says Bryan Sullivan, senior security program manager at Microsoft.
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Interview: Prudential CISO Tom Doughty on balancing security with business requirements
During his five years as chief information security manager at Prudential, Tom Doughty has dealt with parts of the business that perceive security as...
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