Thursday, July 25, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 7/26/2013





Government fails rural areas in broadband and mobile
The rural affairs select committee says there is not enough government funding to put rural services on par with urban areas

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Retailers fail to face up to online fraud, survey shows
One in five retailers is not taking online fraud seriously enough, the latest Retail Fraud Survey from Martec International shows

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UK CIOs admit they cannot support software
CIOs admit their IT teams cannot support large parts of their application estates and operating systems, according to research

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DataStax helps enterprises offload Oracle
DataStax Enterprise is offering large enterprises a way to offload Oracle workloads onto the Cassandra NoSQL database

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EE doubles 4G customers in second quarter
EE reveals 687,000 users signed up to its 4G services by the end of its Q2, but its first half revenue for 2013 is still down on 2012

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Lakeland warns customers of potential data breach
Lakeland is warning of a potential data breach after a “sophisticated and sustained attack” exploited a recently-identified Java flaw

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Capita IT staff strike over pay as profits rise 10%
IT workers at Capita will strike on Friday 26 July 2013 in protest at a below-inflation pay rise as the supplier's profits increase 10%

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European Commission awards €1.7m for datacentre research
EC funds a datacentre study project led by industry consortium Data Centre Alliance and the University of East London

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Syrian hacktvists hit second mobile app in a week
A Syrian hacktivist group has hacked into systems behind the Viber mobile app in the second such attack in a week

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Mimecast enable 2GB Outlook attachments
Mimecast has introduced Large File Send for Outlook, a service to enable users to send large attachments

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Lax FTSE 350 cyber security puts UK at risk, says KPMG
Cyber leaks at FTSE 350 firms are putting the UK’s economic growth and national security at risk, says business consultancy firm KPMG

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iPhone sales boosts investor confidence in Apple
Apple posts revenues of $35.3bn and net profit of $6.9bn for the quarter ending June 2013, sending the share price up nearly 5%

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