Thursday, July 19, 2012

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 19/07/2012





CSC wins deal to transform datacentres for engineer firm Alstom
Engineering company Alstom has outsourced the transformation of its datacentres to systems integrator CSC in a five-year contract

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Samsung buys CSR mobile handset division
UK chip manufacturer CSR sells its mobile business to handset maker Samsung for $310m

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UK cyber protection should be more aggressive, say MPs
The UK should declare cyber war on states and cyber criminals who target the country, say MPs

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Online identity theft is up 300% on 2010, warns Experian
Fraudsters exchanged 12 million pieces of personal information online in the first quarter of 2012, says Experian

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IT consultancy rises in construction and transportation sectors
Finance and the public sector remain IT consultancies' biggest clients but the construction and transportation sectors are increasing their use

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Skype works to fix privacy bug as instant messages leak
Internet telephony service Skype has confirmed that a bug in its software has been sending copies of instant messages to unintended recipients

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BT wins North Yorkshire rural broadband contract
Fujitsu has lost out again to a bid from BT, which will see the telecoms giant provide rural broadband across the UK’s largest county

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UK ISP says block on The Pirate Bay file-sharing site proving ineffective
A block on file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is proving ineffective, according to data from a top UK internet service provider (ISP)

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Google revises proposals to EC competition authorities
Google has submitted a revised set of proposals to address the concerns of European Commission (EC) competition authorities

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Steve Ballmer launches cloud-based Microsoft Office 2013
Steve Ballmer releases a preview of Microsoft's cloud-based Office 2013 suite of productivity tools, which he says works best on Windows 8 OS

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Yahoo lands Google's Marissa Mayer as CEO
Yahoo has appointed leading Google executive Marissa Mayer as CEO, ending months of speculation

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