Mobile app stores to grow over 1,000% by 2014
Mobile application store downloads are expected to surge 117% in 2011, growing more than 1,000% by 2014. According to the latest figures by research...
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Portsmouth uses Dell supercomputer to scan the cosmos
The University of Portsmouth has installed a Dell supercomputer capable of a billion calculations per second.
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Indian government threatening BlackBerry ban again
India may yet ban BlackBerry services after maker Research In Motion (RIM) said it was technically impossible to give government access to corporate e-mails.
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ARM grows profits 47% in Q4 2010
UK-based chip developer, ARM,...
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RIM demo Blackberry Playbook secure pairing with its smartphones
RIM demo Blackberry Playbook secure pairing with its smartphones The latest video from Research in Motion (RIM) shows off Blackberry Playbook features...
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Chipset design flaw to cost Intel $700m
Intel expects to spend $700m (£437m) repairing and replacing a design flaw discovered in its Intel 6 series chipset, code-named Cougar Point
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Facebook Deals presents “major technical challenge†for businesses
The use of location-based applications, such as Facebook Deals, could present a "major technical challenge" for businesses trying to respond to user events in real-time, a chief technology officer has warned.
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Google Android overtakes Nokia Symbian as top smartphone platform
Google's Android operating system has overtaken Nokia's Symbian platform to become the world's leading smartphone platform.
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Toshiba Q3 profits boosted by smartphone surge
Increased sales of smartphone components pushed Toshiba...
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Six-year project could make internet 100 times faster
The internet could be 100 times faster than it is today if a new £7.2m six-year research project, the Photonics Superhighway, is successful.
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Forrester Research: Mobile applications will empower enterprise business processes
Despite the boom in consumer use of mobile technology and the increased availability of mobile sites and tools for customer engagement, internal business use remains limited beyond e-mail and calendars. E-mail has seen virtually ubiquitous deployment by the enterprises and SMBs Forrester surveyed in early 2010, with 89% either having implemented wireless e-mail, expanding current implementations or planning to implement within the next 12 months. Calendaring and contacts showed similarly high levels of adoption of among the survey respondents (74%).
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Hiscox boosts QA with Dynatrace for SOA
Hiscox, the international specialist insurer, has deployed Dynatrace, an application performance management tool, to improve its QA testing. The insurance...
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Mobile app stores to grow over 1,000% by 2014
Mobile application store downloads are expected to surge 117% in 2011, growing more than 1,000% by 2014. According to the latest figures by research...
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University of Salford makes £5.7m cloud computing investment
The University of Salford is embarking on a 13 month datacentre transformation project to virtualise and enable shared services.
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SAP unites with Microsoft for Duet partner network
SAP and Microsoft has finally released Duet Enterprise, the product that brings together Office 2010 and the SAP ERP system. Duet...
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Malware costs e-business thousands of customers, says Avast
Malware could be keeping thousands of customers out of online stores because owners fail to keep their websites free from infection, says security firm
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Privacy think tank calls for data stewardship and accountability
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL) at Hunton & Williams LLP has called for a privacy framework that holds organisations accountable for consumer data collection and management.
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Flawed HMRC computer system causes losses
The flawed implementation of a computer...
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Microsoft reveal Yahoo Mail as Windows Phone 7 data charge culprit
Microsoft has admitted a problem between its Windows Phone Mail client and Yahoo Mail has caused the excessive Windows Phone 7 (WP7) data charges.
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BBC criticised over £133m digital project
The early stages of £133m BBC technology project with Siemens have been criticised for not offering value for money.
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Cisco CEO John Chambers urges businesses prepare for network economy
The networked economy has the potential to raise global productivity by up to five percent but security issues could inhibit that, Cisco CEO John Chambers...
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Aston Martin uses Siemens NX software
Iconic British sports car maker Aston Martin said it would standardise its global vehicle development on Siemens...
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Interactive crime map site experiencing problems as millions log on
An interactive crime map has been launched to allow people to monitor criminal activity in their area.
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Portsmouth uses Dell supercomputer to scan the cosmos
The University of Portsmouth has installed a Dell supercomputer capable of a billion calculations per second.
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HMRC reports 78% of tax returns filed online
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has reported 6.9 million people filed their self-assessment tax returns online this year.
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Indian government threatening BlackBerry ban again
India may yet ban BlackBerry services after maker Research In Motion (RIM) said it was technically impossible to give government access to corporate e-mails.
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Cheshire Police saves £40m with Capgemini framework agreement
Cheshire Police Authority has signed a framework...
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ARM grows profits 47% in Q4 2010
UK-based chip developer, ARM,...
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Public sector CIOs welcome Joe Harley’s government appointment
Public sector IT heads and analysts have welcomed the appointment of Joe Harley as the government's new CIO.
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Apple moves to tighten control of App Store
Apple is tightening its control of the App Store even further by refusing to allow application developers to sell content within their apps.
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Google and Twitter join forces to beat Egyptian internet blackout
Google and Twitter have joined forces to enable Egyptians to tweet using the phone to bypass a government-imposed internet blackout.
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Chipset design flaw to cost Intel $700m
Intel expects to spend $700m (£437m) repairing and replacing a design flaw discovered in its Intel 6 series chipset, code-named Cougar Point
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BMW driving research for the key of the future
BMW wants to turn your car key into a universal access device using near-field communications (NFC) technology.
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Facebook Deals presents “major technical challenge†for businesses
The use of location-based applications, such as Facebook Deals, could present a "major technical challenge" for businesses trying to respond to user events in real-time, a chief technology officer has warned.
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Diageo CIO Brian Franz discusses the evolving role of IT
Brian Franz, CIO at beverages giant Diageo, discusses the challenges of global business processes, consumer technology and digital marketing. Diageo,...
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Identity card plan ignored fatal flaws
Ministers and civil servants swept fundamental problems with the ID card database blueprint under the carpet and approved a development plan that would prove so unfeasible it had to be torn up after government IT experts had worked on it for three years, Computer Weekly has learned.
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DWP CIO Joe Harley appointed as government CIO
Joe Harley, the CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions is also to take on the top job in public sector IT as the new government chief information officer.
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Google Android overtakes Nokia Symbian as top smartphone platform
Google's Android operating system has overtaken Nokia's Symbian platform to become the world's leading smartphone platform.
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Analysis: How the IT behind ID cards was never going to work
Ministers involved with the ID card system were told the plan was feasible, but recently released documents reveal key issues that were never addressed
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Network operators must find new partners for LTE, says analyst
Network operators should seek new partners to make the most of high-speed mobile transmission technology, according to a market analyst. International...
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Staffordshire Council rolls out £23m public sector network
Staffordshire County Council is to implement one of the country's first Public...
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Google UK chief joins Sainsbury's board
Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has hired...
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Public sector outsourcing grows in the UK as commercial deals fall again
Public sector contracts accounted for 77% of the total outsourcing spending in the UK in 2010, according to the latest report from consultancy TPI.
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Strathclyde Partnership for Transport signs deal for financial software package
Scottish transport authority the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport...
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Salesforce.com makes Chatter social tool free for all
Enterprise cloud computing firm Salesforce.com has introduced a free version of its social collaboration tool, Chatter, for non-Salesforce.com users to accelerate...
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Cloud opens security testing to all developers, says Veracode
Cloud computing puts the security testing of applications within the reach of all developers, says application risk management firm Veracode. The...
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Toshiba Q3 profits boosted by smartphone surge
Increased sales of smartphone components pushed Toshiba...
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City IT developers move to hedge fund start-ups to double pay
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Lancashire tenders for £40m county-wide broadband network
Lancashire County Council (LCC) is to tender for a single network operator to provide a £40m county-wide superfast broadband service by mid-2013.
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BT joint venture takes over Lancashire community broadband network supply
Three community broadband networks in Lancashire have received termination notices following the take-over of their backhaul supply by a joint venture between BT and the county council.
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Finalists decided for Cyber Security Challenge
Simon Walker, a software consultant from Tring, Hertfordshire, has won the penultimate individual event in the 2010 Cyber Security Challenge UK.
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Six-year project could make internet 100 times faster
The internet could be 100 times faster than it is today if a new £7.2m six-year research project, the Photonics Superhighway, is successful.
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Vodafone restores services to Egypt after mobile shutdown
Mobile operator, Vodafone, has restored mobile phone services in Egypt after a 24-hour shutdown.
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Assange reveals Wikileaks back-up plan
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has revealed a back-up plan to continue releasing secrets if the whistleblowing website is shut down.
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Specsavers selects SQS for offshore software testing
High street optician Specsavers has selected SQS Software Quality Systems to provide on and off-shore testing in a three-year managed testing services contract worth over £5 million.
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Analysis: can Sage break the mould with its SaaS for SMEs?
Sage finally looks set to develop its web strategy, having launched SageOne, a software-as-a-service application for small businesses. But is the move too little and too late for a company seen by many as stuck in its ways?
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