Saturday, July 10, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 10/07/2010



Opera upgrades Mini mobile browser
Norwegian browser maker Opera has updated its Mini mobile browser, which should speed up Nokia S40 feature phones with limited memory, such as the 5130 XpressMusic, 6300 and the 2700 handsets.
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Kent County Council fills in rural broadband 'not-spots'
Kent County Council has spent £486,000 to fund the roll-out of high-speed broadband to nearly a dozen villages and parishes
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Opera upgrades Mini mobile browser
Norwegian browser maker Opera has updated its Mini mobile browser, which should speed up Nokia S40 feature phones with limited memory, such as the 5130 XpressMusic, 6300 and the 2700 handsets.
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House of Fraser IT supremo steps down
Duncan Gray is to leave House of Fraser after nearly four years as the department store chain's head of IT.
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BT and CWU agree pay deal to avert strike ballot
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) has agreed to a 3% pay rise which will be recommended for its members in a ballot in the next few weeks.
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New phishing attack disguised as a PDF reader update
Malicious e-mail attacks that look like PDF reader updates have been increasing in volume since the middle of June, says Symantec Hosted Services. The...
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Australia delays web filtering plan
Australia's government has shelved its controversial internet...
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Google confident, but still no Chinese licence
China has not renewed Google's operating licence in the country more than a week after it expired, but the internet firm's chief executive Eric Schmidt remains confident.
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Google apologises to Australians for Wi-Fi snooping
Google has apologised to Australians for harvesting private Wi-Fi data as the company collected images for its Street View service
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Hacker accesses details of four million Pirate Bay users
Three hackers claim to have accessed the database containing the details of more than four million users of the controversial Pirate Bay website.
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Netsuite seeks experts to rebadge white label platforms for vertical markets
Netsuite, the cloud-based business software firm, is "verticalising" its product platform to increase...
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EU to resume sending banking details to US in August
Europe will resume sending details of private bank transaction to the US on 1 August following the European Parliament's ratification of a revised deal on the processing and transfer of financial messaging data…
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Assess smart meter network on total cost of ownership, says Arqiva
The government should base its assessment of communications network alternatives for the proposed national £10bn smart meter/smart grid project on the total cost of ownership over the entire 25 year expected life of the project…
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