Sunday, September 22, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 9/23/2013





Case study: Law firm Sills & Betteridge revamps telephony with Intercity
Law firm Sills & Betteridge overhauls its telephony system to bring employees an easy-to-use, consolidated solution

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NTT increases UK colocation and cloud capacity with new datacentre
NTT Communications is building a datacentre facility in Hemel Hempstead to meet the soaring demand for scalable colocation services

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Disaster recovery planning: Don’t be fooled by suppliers
Disaster recovery planning is all about good preparation and not falling for supplier hype. Build appropriate systems, test them and train people well

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Video: The IT architecture inside Amadeus
Gerry Smith, vice-president of operations at travel services provider Amadeus, speaks to Cliff Saran about the company's software architecture

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Video: How Amadeus runs its global operations
In this interview, Wolfgang Krips of Amadeus speaks to Computer Weekly's Cliff Saran about the skills required to run a major European datacentre.

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Open source datacentre hardware helps Facebook save costs, energy
Facebook has reduced costs and IT energy consumption since it started using open source hardware systems in its datacentres

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Software licences drive Oracle revenue, but hardware takes a hit
A drop in hardware sales dragged down Oracle’s revenue in its Q1 financial results, but software revenue increased

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The intellectual property challenges from 3D printing
Designers, owners and those that carry out 3D printing need to be aware of the way in which intellectual property rights will be created and protected

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Mobile app downloads worth $26bn in 2013
The number of mobile app downloads in 2013 will reach 102 billion, with a total value of $26bn, according to Gartner

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Skandia chooses Pitney Bowes for event-driven customer communications
Skandia Bank is seeking to advance its digital strategy using customer communication software from Pitney Bowes

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Cyber bank robberies a warning for business, say experts
Barclays has joined Santander in being targeted by criminals who took control of bank computers using inexpensive kit

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Steve Ballmer uses final investor call to target Google
In his last investor call as CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer took the opportunity to attack Google’s business practices

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Virgin Media to axe 600 jobs
Virgin Media will cut up to 600 roles as part of a restructure following its acquisition by Liberty Global, but customer-facing roles will not be affected

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FireEye announces pricing of IPO
Security firm FireEye has announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 15.2 million at $20 a share

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Elop pockets $25m in move back to Microsoft
Nokia’s CEO will get 18 months’ salary and a cash bonus when his company is sold to Microsoft and he takes over as vice president of devices and services

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Government urged to get tougher on IT spending cuts
MPs have encouraged the Cabinet Office to get tougher with Whitehall departments in cutting costs of IT purchasing across government.

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Data analytics at MoD could save money and lives, says report
Applying big data analytics at the MoD could save money and lives, says a report by the Royal United Services Institute

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RSA vetoes NSA-linked encryption algorithm
RSA advises customers to stop using the encryption algorithm leaked documents suggest contains a back door placed by the NSA

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What ever happened to the paper-free office ?
Its taken longer than we thought to achieve paper free offices. Doug Miles explains why.

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How wearable gadgets will impact the IT department
The Chancellor George Osborne was spotted recently wearing a bio-monitoring wristband, suggesting wearable tech really has gone mainstream. Despite it being a useful and efficient product, it is limited when compared to the capabilities that such devices will have in only five or ten years’ time.

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A guide to WebRTC
Real-time communications standards aim to help more users speak with ease over the internet. Computer Weekly looks at how the systems work

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NSA reveals how Snowden accessed secret Prism files
Prism whistleblower Edward Snowden accessed secret documents through a file-share, the NSA has revealed

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Microsoft releases emergency fix for IE zero day
Microsoft has released a fix for the latest zero-day flaw in IE, but IT administrators must still be vigilant after patch is released, say experts

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