Tuesday, February 8, 2011

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 07/02/2011




Packard Bell stops shipping Sandy Bridge machines
Packard Bell, part of the Acer Group, has stopped shipping products with a flawed Intel chipset and has advised customers to return affected machines. Last...
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IT governance and mobile technology
The mobile world is undergoing explosive growth. Luckily, enterprises are beginning to realise the potential gains and losses this technology offers, enabling them to act appropriately.
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Case study: Vanquis Bank profits from automated backup and compliance with id7
Vanquis Bank profits from automated backup and compliance with id7.
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CW+: Supplier profile: HP at pivotal point as CEO defines new direction
If ever a company was at a pivotal point in its history, HP is it. With the controversial departure of its CEO, a new leader at the helm, and with several significant recent acquisitions under its belt, the 70 year-old company faces significant challenges as it attempts to maintain its direction, battle growing competition in a consolidating market, and shed some of the ethical breakdowns in its past. But then, HP was launched at a pivotal time. William Hewlett and David Packard started the company on 1 January 1939, shortly before the start of the Second World War. From humble beginnings in a Palo Alto garage, the firm has grown from a $5,000, two-employee manufacturer of oscillators to a $114bn concern, spanning PCs, printers, enterprise servers, software, and services.
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Case study: Ecotricity fuels green energy strategy with IBM solution
Ecotricity fuels green energy strategy with IBM solution.
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CW+: Analyst's take: Benefits of Microsoft patterns and practices
Development teams adopting patterns and practices achieved greater developer productivity and improved ongoing application management and application performance as a result, according to Nucleus Research.
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday update excludes fix for MHTML flaw
Microsoft is to address 12 security issues in its February Patch Tuesday....
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Packard Bell stops shipping Sandy Bridge machines
Packard Bell, part of the Acer Group, has stopped shipping products with a flawed Intel chipset and has advised customers to return affected machines. Last...
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Government misses deadline for first round of IT reform plans
The government has missed the deadline on nearly all its commitments to IT reform due to be implemented last month.
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Accenture Technology Vision 2011 urges businesses to adopt automated security
Accenture has urged businesses to dismantle their...
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IT services contracts spiked in final quarter of 2010
The total value of worldwide IT services contracts signed in the final three months of 2010 was 66% higher than the previous three months, according to research from Ovum.
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Anonymous lashes out at security firm HBGary Federal over Wikileaks probe
Hacking group Anonymous has lashed out at security firm HBGary Federal, which has been investigating its members.
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Huffington Post accepts AOL $315m buyout approach
The Huffington Post has agreed to accept a $315m buyout from AOL.
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Austerity drives councils into U-turn on shared services
Around nine out of 10 local authorities will move to shared services in the next two years, according to a survey of senior local authority managers by Browne Jacobson.
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Technology companies pessimistic about 2011
Technology businesses are more pessimistic about market growth than telecoms and media companies, according to research
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