Friday, January 28, 2011

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 27/01/2011




Photos: Sony PSP2 aka NGP
Sony have unveiled the PSP2 which they are calling the NGP (Next Generaton Portable).
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Can Lenovo become the top UK corporate PC manufacturer?
Can Lenovo continue to grow to take on HP and Dell in the corporate arena?
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CW+: Analyst's take: Nucleus Research's top 10 IT predictions for 2010
Did they get them right?
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Tesco appoints new CIO
Tesco has appointed a new CIO to succeed Philip Clarke, as he prepares to take over as CEO
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Sky buys The Cloud
BSkyB has confirmed plans to acquire UK Wi-Fi network provider The Cloud. The deal allows the broadcaster access to 5,000 public wireless hotspots
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Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked
The personal page of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was hacked and an unauthorised update was placed on it
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Police arrest five men over Wikileaks-related 'Anonymous' denial of service attacks
Police have arrested five men in relation to the denial of service attacks on firms that withdrew support for Wikileaks
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EMC reports record fourth quarter sales and profit
EMC has become the latest major technology firm to report record fourth-quarter results.
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CIO interview: Oliver Bussmann, SAP
Just over a year after joining SAP as global chief information officer (CIO), Oliver Bussmann's actions are already yielding results at the software giant, which posted its highest-ever fourth quarter software revenue today.
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Can Lenovo become the top UK corporate PC manufacturer?
Can Lenovo continue to grow to take on HP and Dell in the corporate arena?
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Australian government forces open source option
Australia's federal government has published a policy that mandates the consideration of open source software equally alongside proprietary products.
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Everything Everywhere to spur UK payments by mobile phone
Owner of Orange and T-Mobile networks is partnering with Barclaycard to roll out a payment system later this year that uses mobile phones.
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America must maintain its superiority in technology, says Obama
In his State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama said the country faces a challenge maintaining its world leadership in research, and that technology is "crucial to America's success".
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LinkedIn acquires business card scanning firm CardMunch
Professional networking site LinkedIn has acquired CardMunch, a startup that supplies technology for scanning and transcribing business cards.
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TalkTalk to cut hundreds of jobs to boost profitability
UK broadband provider TalkTalk has announced it is to cut its staff by almost 13% to help improve profitability.
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Cybercriminals target data in transit
Cybercriminals are shifting away from basic "smash and grab" attacks targeting stored data to more complex methods of data harvesting in transit, security research reveals.
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Council staff need to be more digitally-savvy
Council employees need to use more digital services as local authorities move to public 'self-service' systems, said Jos Creese, president of Socitm.
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Virgin supplies London schools with 10Mbps fibre optic broadband
Virgin Media's business division is to supply a managed fibre optic network to London's Grid for Learning that will replace a broadband network supplied by Symmetrix, a Capita company.
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Opera vulnerability shows all web browsers could be insecure, says Idappcom
The latest zero-day vulnerability in the Opera Web browser highlights the fact that all Web browser clients are insecure by nature, says security services firm Idappcom.
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Public trust key to making online services work
Public trust in security and data protection are central to making online and shared services work, government security heads have said.
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Google to hire more than 1,000 staff in Europe
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt said the company will hire more than 1,000 staff in Europe this year.
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PC industry grew 19% on tablet sales and corporate upgrades
The PC market grew 19% in the fourth quarter of 2010 after a surge in tablet sales, an acceleration of corporate PC upgrades and increased demand for servers and storage, according to research.
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Cybersecurity community 'learned valuable lessons from Conficker'
Conficker helped the cybersecurity community identify its strengths and weaknesses in defending against global threats, says a Rendon Group report.
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Akamai reports huge variation in UK mobile connectivity speeds
A study from Akamai, the internet content delivery network company, has highlighted major differences in the bandwidth available from UK mobile operators.
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Google boosts Voice with SayNow acquisition
Google has acquired California-based voice messaging start-up SayNow for an undisclosed sum.
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Yahoo stays positive despite mixed Q4 performance
Yahoo's profit doubled to $312m or 24 cents a share for the last quarter of 2010, beating market expectations.
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Government CIOs should have more power, says Cabinet Office
Government CIOs should be given more power to say no to certain IT spending, according to Martin Read, government efficiency advisor at the Cabinet Office.
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Jaspersoft delivers open source big data reporting
Open source business intelligence provider Jaspersoft has released a set of tools for running reports over large database systems.
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Amazon launches low-cost mass e-mail service
Amazon EC2 users can send up to 2,000 free messages each day over Amazon's new Simple Email Service, for doing mailshots.
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SAP reports 25% increase in sales
Sales of SAP software and related services grew 35% and 25% respectively during Q4 2010, compared to the same period in 2009.
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O2 to offer free access to its Wi-Fi network
UK mobile network operator O2 plans to build its own Wi-Fi network, aiming to double the number of premium Wi-Fi hotspots currently offered by BT Openzone and The Cloud combined by 2013.
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Bluwan's FTTA promises cheap high-speed comms
Start-up French wireless comms company Bluwan has previewed microwave technology that promises to slash the cost of providing high-speed broadband to rural areas to between 2% and 5% of traditional microwave and fibre networks.
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