Thursday, July 15, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 15/07/2010



Intel reports “best ever” financial quarter
Chipmaker Intel has reported its "best ever" quarter with second-quarter revenue of $10.8bn (£7.1bn), up 34% year-on-year.
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Government scraps £80m Microsoft licensing deal with NHS
The government has scrapped the long-running NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) enterprise agreement (EA) software licensing deal with Microsoft after deciding there was no business case or budget to renew it.
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UK jumps up spam-relaying rankings
The UK has jumped from ninth to fourth place in the ranking of spam-relaying countries since the first quarter of the year.
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Co-op to introduce contactless payments
The Co-op supermarket chain is to enable customers to make purchases of £15 or less using "touch and go" technology.
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Trading Standards raid Swansea business suspected of using pirated software
Trading Standards officers in Swansea have conducted the first anti-software piracy raid in the city under the Copyright Act after a tip-off from the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST).
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How will suppliers cut government IT costs?
The government has told IT suppliers that it wants them to reduce the cost of contracts with government departments, but it could be the government that has to change the most.
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ICO uses strong annual report to call for direct reporting to Parliament
Productivity at the UK privacy watchdog is up and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is handling record levels of business.
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Unilever picks BT for €1.2bn outsource deal, again
Consumer goods maker Unilever has extended its €1bn outsourcing contract with BT Global Services in a technology refresh deal worth an extra €173m (£144m), BT said.
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Google launches website for ultra high-speed broadband project
Google has launched a website dedicated to its project to build experimental ultra high-speed fibre optic networks to demonstrate how to achieve universal access at one gigabit per second.
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Facebook claims 150 million mobile users
Facebook claims to have about 150 million mobile users and expects mobile phones to be a crucial platform for the future.
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Government to review powers to intercept electronic communications
State powers to intercept electronic communications will be scrutinised in an urgent review of counter-terrorism legislation, the government said, fulfilling a pre-election promise to reverse the erosion of civil liberties under the Labour government.
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Intel reports “best ever” financial quarter
Chipmaker Intel has reported its "best ever" quarter with second-quarter revenue of $10.8bn (£7.1bn), up 34% year-on-year.
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Lords query £140k grant to rural broadband quango
Questions have been raised in the House of Lords about £140,500 of taxpayers' money given to support a mentoring scheme for rural broadband projects, but more may be at stake.
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