Wednesday, November 3, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 03/11/2010



CW+: CW 500 Club – how to deal with disruptive technologies
The tough economic climate will accelerate businesses take-up of "disruptive technologies", such as cloud computing and mobile working, CIOs at Computer Weekly's 500 Club heard.
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Apple sues Motorola over touchscreen patent claims
Apple is suing Motorola for infringing three iPhone patents for touchscreen software and other display technologies.
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Webroot buys Prevx
US internet security firm Webroot has acquired Derby-based anti-malware cloud provider Prevx.
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Ready for a challenge? Sign up for the 2011 CARE IT Adventure
Computer Weekly is once again teaming up with leading overseas development charity CARE International to announce the launch of the first CARE IT Adventure Challenge fundraising event, exclusively for IT professionals and those working in the IT industry.
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Oracle copyright court battle with SAP begins
Oracle's court battle with rival SAP over unauthorised access of its customer systems by an SAP subsidiary in 2007 gets into full swing today. Oracle...
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Everything Everywhere drops legal action against government digital plan
The UK's largest mobile operator formed with the merger of Orange and T-Mobile, Everything Everywhere, is to drop legal action over spectrum auction
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Five slow steps to faster and smarter project completion
Slow is not about putting your work on hold. The power of slow means to act in full alignment with your goals. If the death of multitasking has taught us anything, it is that slow is indeed faster while fast is merely exhausting.
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Facebook developers who sold user identification suspended for violating privacy policies
Facebook has revealed it has suspended an unspecified number of developers for selling user identification numbers (UIDs) to an unnamed data broker.
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Google sues US government over cloud contract exclusion
Google is suing the US government over claims that the search company was excluded a Department of the Interior (DOI) request for proposals to provide a hosted e-mail service.
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Sharing knowledge critical to IT project team success
IT project teams' ability to share knowledge and experience with each other and the rest of the business is critical if IT projects are to add value to the bottom line, according to the team leaders of a major research project.
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Anti-malware strategy is key to business IT security, says Kaspersky Lab
Business is making a serious mistake by treating anti-malware systems as a commodity, says Kaspersky Lab. The Russian security firm, which aims to...
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Cognizant breaks 40% revenue growth
Cognizant has reported a 43% increase in revenues for its latest financial quarter compared with the same period a year ago, as customers step up their investments.
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Thomson Reuters internal cloud strategy expands
Real-time information provider Thomson Reuters' project to create internal clouds to support the increased use of algorithmic trading by its investment firm customers has expanded. The project, known as Elektron, saw the company initially build seven datacentres across the world to enable its customers to connect to its information. It also offered customers the opportunity to put their systems next to its own systems to speed up the transmission of information.
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SME saves thousands with hosted service
Commercial gritting service Gritit has saved £40,000, reduced business risk and improved its effectiveness by outsourcing...
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IT jobs under threat at Durex condom maker
Fears of potential redundancy have been reported at SSL International as part of the company's takeover by consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser. According...
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Windows ‘irrelevant’, says DWP CTO James Gardner
The concept of the Windows-based business desktop is irrelevant according to James Gardner, chief technology officer at the Department of Work and Pensions.
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IT director jailed for hacking company website
A sacked IT director has been jailed for 28 months after he deleted 1,000 files after being dismissed, the Richmond Times-Dispatch has reported. According...
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Council hits back at criticism of £13,000 social media spend
Kent County Council has hit back at criticism that it spent nearly £13,000 on training members of staff to use sites such as Twitter...
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Indian outsourcing companies need to watch their backs
China will take low-end ICT work away from Indian companies, warned Vineet Nayar, CEO of India's fourth largest outsourcing company HCL Technologies. Nayar...
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SSL International IT jobs at risk following Reckitt Benckiser merger
SSL International is poised to make several IT posts redundant, following its takeover by consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser.
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Oracle starts court battle for $2.3bn in damages from SAP
Oracle's court battle with SAP is set to begin today in Oakland, California as it seeks at least $2.3bn in damages for unauthorised access of its systems by an SAP subsidiary. In a suit filed in 2007, Oracle alleges that SAP's now-defunct support services division TomorrowNow illegally copied software code from Oracle systems needed to support customers without buying licences to access it
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Apple sues Motorola over touchscreen patent claims
Apple is suing Motorola for infringing three iPhone patents for touchscreen software and other display technologies.
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