Friday, October 29, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 29/10/2010



Ray Ozzie admits rivals have surpassed Microsoft
Ray Ozzie, who is about to retire after five year as Bill Gates' replacement at Microsoft, has posted a blog in which he describes the failings of the software firm and the end of the PC.
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Taiwanese company threatens Apple with legal action over iPad name
Taiwanese-owned company Proview has threatened to sue Apple for an alleged trademark infringement of the name of Apple's tablet computer, iPad. Computer...
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Security Zone: Mobile device management - chore or chance?
There is an opportunity for organisations to realise cost savings by allowing staff to leverage their privately owned device to access their business correspondence
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Interview: Dr James Martin
Dr James Martin, entrepreneur, visionary, "guru of the information age", "father of Case", ranked fourth in the world by Computerworld among the most influential people in the computer industry, Martin is not only a distinguished technology expert, but also a leading business authority, generally acknowledged as THE specialist on the social and business implications of computers and technology.
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Cyber security study reveals mismatch between awareness and preparedness
Most organisations acknowledge they are part of the critical national infrastructure (CNI) and believe a cyber attack could disrupt their country's mission-critical...
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Adobe warns of Flash Player flaw ahead of Shockwave Player fix
Adobe Systems has warned of a critical vulnerability in its Flash Player. The vulnerability (CVE-2010-3654) could cause a crash and potentially allow...
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Anglian Water signs five-year deal with Capgemini
Anglian Water has signed a five-year IT services contract with Capgemini...
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UK internet economy worth £100bn, claims report
The UK is the world leader for e-commerce, with the internet economy contributing £100bn to the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) a year, a report has claimed....
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Iranian Cyber Army's plan to sell botnets increases threat level
Hactivist moves show cybercrime is going into top gear, say security experts
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IT industry split on representation of women
Just over half of IT professionals believe there is a fair representation of women in IT, but there is major disagreement over the pay disparity between...
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Bidders invited for nuclear IT outsourcing
The organisation responsible for decommissioning the UK's ageing nuclear power stations has kicked off a 12-month procurement for IT services covering everything...
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Glasgow Subway first in UK to offer Wi-Fi underground
Glasgow Subway has become the first UK transport system to provide 3G and Wi-Fi networks underground. The service, which uses The Cloud's mobile Wi-Fi...
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Indian companies eye SME sector
The adoption of cloud computing among small businesses could help Indian IT service providers grow even more.
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Yahoo hires former News Corp internet chief
Yahoo has appointed former News Corp internet chief Ross Levinsohn as an executive vice-president.
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MySpace launches new website focusing on music and video
MySpace has launched a new version of its website focused on social entertainment in an attempt to regain share in the social network market.
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Ray Ozzie admits rivals have surpassed Microsoft
Ray Ozzie, who is about to retire after five year as Bill Gates' replacement at Microsoft, has posted a blog in which he describes the failings of the software firm and the end of the PC.
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Taiwanese company threatens Apple with legal action over iPad name
Taiwanese-owned company Proview has threatened to sue Apple for an alleged trademark infringement of the name of Apple's tablet computer, iPad. Computer...
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US halts Google Wi-Fi data collection probe
Just days after the UK privacy watchdog announced it would re-open its investigation into Google's harvesting of Wi-Fi data using its Streetview vehicles in 2007, US authorities have halted their inquiry.
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Oracle claims double savings with StorageTek
Oracle has unveiled what it claims is the industry's first highly scalable second tier of disc storage that optimises tape processing in mainframe environments.
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CA offers same-day mainframe support for DB/2 products
CA Technologies is offering IBM mainframe users same-day support covering 30 CA products.
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Business analytics will enable tailored flight pricing, says American Airlines
Airlines will soon custom-tailor prices and passengers will feel happy to pay it, thanks to business analytics. That's the view of Rick Elieson, managing...
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How Vodafone increased the value of its business intelligence
Chaos and fragmentation greeted Caroline Bellamy when she joined Vodafone UK to breathe new life into the mobile firm's business intelligence operation...
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London School of Business and Finance offers MBA on Facebook
Facebook users can now study an MBA for free after a college launched a course that will be available on the social networking website.
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BMW, Deutsche Bank, Shell and UBS form alliance to build enterprise cloud standards
A group of the largest businesses across the world have joined forces to provide a set of requirements for the future of cloud computing.
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Top UK companies risk downtime through lack of software escrow, warns NCC Group
Almost half of FTSE350 companies have no software escrow agreements in place, a study has shown. That is despite the fact that the lack software availability...
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Will Indian IT giants grasp UK public sector opportunity?
The government wants to use as many options as possible to reduce the amount of money it spends on IT, while retaining service levels. Indian IT suppliers have been invited by the government to be part of this, but what do they think?
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