Thursday, July 18, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 7/19/2013





Carl Icahn raises bid for Dell
US investor Carl Icahn is to raise his offer for PC maker Dell to try to stop a $24.4bn buyout by company founder Michael Dell

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Steve Ballmer launches Microsoft 2.0
Steve Ballmer plans to reinvent Microsoft with a big push to develop hardware from phones to set top boxes, as it attempts to remain relevant

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HP offers to help Microsoft users migrate from expiring Windows XP OS
HP has teamed up with Microsoft to provide hardware and software tools to simplify users’ transition from Windows XP which loses support from April 2014

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Ofcom proposes cuts to wholesale broadband charges
The telecoms regulator wants to reduce the wholesale price BT charges to smaller ISPs, which it hopes will lead to price drops for broadband and landline packages

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Windows out of touch as PC shipments crash
All manufacturers except Lenovo showed a massive decline in PC sales, with buyers continuing to purchase tablets over laptop devices

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Icahn wants judge to appraise Dell buyout offer
Billionaire US investor Carl Icahn says he will go to court to get a better price for his stake in the computer manufacturer Dell

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Apple guilty of e-book price fixing
Apple has been found guilty of conspiring with five publishers to raise the prices of e-books to challenge Amazon's dominance of the market

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Head of Universal Credit denies IT problems
Howard Shiplee tells the work and pensions select committee all is well, denying reports of the failing IT system behind Universal Credit

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EMC upgrades Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy
EMC Data Domain data deduplication boxes get faster CPUs and bigger disks; Avamar gets NAS and virtual machine enhancements; NetWorker gets point upgrade; Mozy gets AD integration

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Today’s datacentres are not fit for the cloud, shows study
Some 91% of IT pros admit their current IT requires substantial upgrades to meet the requirements of virtualisation and cloud

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Microsoft rallies partners to build hybrid Azure
Microsoft is set to make a major push to attract businesses to use Azure through a “cloud first” strategy.

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Colt adds 1.65MW of additional datacentre capacity to its Dutch facility
Colt is adding an additional 1,000 m2 and 1.65MW of datacentre capacity to its network-neutral facility in the Netherlands

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Government saves £500m by going digital
Latest report from the Efficiency and Reform Group claims central government saved £500m by moving services onto digital platforms

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Ashridge Business School revamps network with HP
Ashridge Business School, in Berkhamsted, rolls out HP FlexCampus to encourage its students to bring their own devices

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BT accused of ‘bullying tactics’ over BDUK
BT accused of bullying local authorities while negotiating broadband roll-out schemes, threatening to put them ‘to the bottom of the list’

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GDS tracks 'digital by default' progress of top 25 government services
Government Digital Service (GDS) launches website to track progress of the 25 services targeted as the first to go online under the digital strategy

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Datacentre industry launches bootcamp to plug skills shortage
The Data Centre Alliance has launched a bootcamp in collaboration with industry and universities to plug datacentre skills gap

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Budgets and lower cost service affect European outsourcing market
Gartner expects a slight upturn in custom application outsourcing and infrastructure utility services, but Europe is being squeezed

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GCHQ’s use of Prism not illegal, MPs find
Allegations that GCHQ circumvented UK law by using the US Prism programme are unfounded, says intelligence and security committee

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UK datacentres vulnerable to BYOD risks, shows Ponemon study
About 60% of UK businesses have no personal device policy in place and are putting critical data at risk once it leaves a company

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Tech firms target piracy profiting websites
Tech firms including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft join an initiative targeting websites that profit from piracy by cutting off advert revenue

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Egnyte synchronises Google Drive with enterprise storage
Hybrid cloud and on-premises provider Egnyte has integrated its product with Google Drive

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Tumblr issues security update for iPhone and iPad app
Tumblr has released a security update to the iOS version of its app to fix a flaw that allowed passwords to be compromised

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Yahoo wins legal fight on Prism documents
Yahoo has won the fight to have papers from a key 2008 court case declassified and published in a bid for greater transparency about the US Prism internet surveillance programme

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