Thursday, November 25, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 24/11/2010



How to make IT procurement environmentally friendly
When it comes to reducing some of the catastrophic problems caused by redundant IT, what matters is what's in it, and how it's put together.
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CW+: How to manage a mobile phone fleet
PDF: Quocirca Taming the mobile tiger.pdf. Pic Rob Bamford. The mobile phone is a ubiquitous tool, but unlike its landline cousin has become a powerful...
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Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian available to download
Norwegian browser maker Opera Software has released a final version of its free internet browser for smartphones running on Nokia's Symbian operating system.
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Video: The Blog Awards Winners - How does it feel to have won?
The IT Blog Awards were held at The Delfina last week, in this video we catch up with some of the winners to find out how it feels to have been voted top blog by the public.
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Apple's first computer sold for £130,000
One of the first batch of Apple personal computers has sold at auction for £133,250 in Christie's auction house in London.
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SAP prioritises security and looks to greater cross-industry collaboration
Security is a top priority for SAP, particular as business applications become increasingly on-device and mobile, says co-chief executive Jim Hagemann Snabe. In...
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£132m Cornish broadband project will deliver first services by March 2011
Eight communities in Cornwall will be the first to receive superfast broadband services as part of a £132m EU-backed project to bring high-speed fibre links...
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Enterprise spending boosts HP sales by 8% in Q4
Hewlett-Packard has reported an 8% increase...
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CW+: CW 500 Club – how organisations are sharing IT services to beat the downturn
Businesses, charities and local authorities are looking to cut their overheads by sharing their IT infrastructure, CIOs at Computer Weekly’s 500 Club heard last week.
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Daimler picks Siemens as global CAD standard
German vehicle maker Daimler AG is to standardise computer aided design (CAD) for its worldwide vehicle development on Siemens NX software.
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How to make IT procurement environmentally friendly
When it comes to reducing some of the catastrophic problems caused by redundant IT, what matters is what's in it, and how it's put together.
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IT sector shows recovery in jobs for senior execs
The IT industry has continued to show recovery in the jobs market, with 40% of vacancies for senior IT positions in 2010 offering salaries of more than £150,000, said a report.
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Software outsells hardware for sixth straight quarter
UKplc bought more software than hardware for the sixth quarter in a row, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) third quarter bulletin on business investment.
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Salesforce.com hires JP Rangaswami
IT veteran JP Rangaswami has joined the enterprise cloud firm Salesforce.com after a five-year spell at BT
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Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian available to download
Norwegian browser maker Opera Software has released a final version of its free internet browser for smartphones running on Nokia's Symbian operating system.
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UK IT profession unimpressed by government immigration cap
The government has announced its cap on the number of non-EU immigrant workers allowed in the UK every year, but many in the IT profession believe it will do little to prevent abuse of an immigration loophole.
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£13m goes to fund online centres as public services go web-only
The government has earmarked £13m to fund online centres in a bid to close the digital divide and encourage people to use the internet.
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Fight looms over shared infrastructure for broadband networks
How to share infrastructure is likely to become the hottest topic in rolling out next generation broadband access (NGA), especially in rural areas, it emerged at the NextGen10 conference in Birmingham this week.
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Apple's first computer sold for £130,000
One of the first batch of Apple personal computers has sold at auction for £133,250 in Christie's auction house in London.
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SAP to pay Oracle $1.3bn in damages for copyright infringement
A US federal court has ordered German enterprise software maker SAP to pay US rival Oracle $1.3bn in damages for copyright infringement. The damages...
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Information Commissioner issues first fines for serious data protection breaches
The Information Commissioner has issued the first two fines for serious breaches of the Data Protection Act.
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Tesco Bank goes live with core system
Tesco Bank has gone live with a new Fiserv platform that is underpinning its fixed-rate savings account. The bank signed...
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Asos launches Marketplace site
Online retailer Asos launched its Marketplace site today, allowing smaller designers and boutiques to sell through...
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Independent software testing standard complete next week
A software testing standard, which ingrains processes into an organisation throughout software development to pick up bugs before software goes live, will...
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SAP prioritises security and looks to greater cross-industry collaboration
Security is a top priority for SAP, particular as business applications become increasingly on-device and mobile, says co-chief executive Jim Hagemann Snabe. In...
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£132m Cornish broadband project will deliver first services by March 2011
Eight communities in Cornwall will be the first to receive superfast broadband services as part of a £132m EU-backed project to bring high-speed fibre links...
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Enterprise spending boosts HP sales by 8% in Q4
Hewlett-Packard has reported an 8% increase...
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SAP sales culture must change, says Forrester
Business is seeing a change in attitude of SAP's leadership towards customers, but that has yet to filter down to sales forces in many regions, according...
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Apple releases iOS 4.2 for iPad and iPhone
Apple has released the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 4.2, available to download for the Apple iPad, iPhone...
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Martha Lane Fox calls for ‘revolution’ in online government services
Digital champion Martha Lane Fox has published a report calling for a centralised government internet address to replace 750 websites. In a review...
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SAP user groups forge closer ties with leadership
SAP user groups have made good progress in improving relationships with SAP in the past year, says Alan Bowling, chairman of the UK & Ireland SAP...
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Businesses lose graduate talent to outsourcing suppliers, says expert
Organisations that outsource technical work are losing graduate IT talent to its suppliers, according to an industry expert. Iain Smith, research director for Diaz Research, which specialises in advising large businesses on IT employment issues, told Computer Weekly outsourcing and offshoring has "chopped career structures off at the knees".
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BT’s T&Cs put broadband providers off £830m rural pilot bids
The government's plans to attract competitive bids for four rural broadband pilot projects may be disrupted because non-BT network operators say they lack...
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Government to introduce online-only public services
The government is to cut costs by moving more public services online, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude will announce today.
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SAP in 'transformational stage' says co-chief executive
SAP is in a transformational stage, Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-chief executive of SAP has told the UK & Ireland SAP user group conference taking place in Manchester. The...
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Interview: BSkyB’s head of corporate business intelligence on making BI work
The way business intelligence is deployed in companies must change. Avi Marco, business intelligence director of BSkyB, speaks to Cliff Saran about making...
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