Sunday, September 29, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 9/30/2013





Researchers use lightning to charge Nokia smartphone
Mary Shelley wrote about Victor Frankenstein creating a monster using lightning. Now researchers have managed to use it to charge a phone

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BlackBerry sales drop by half in just three months
BlackBerry sales have dropped by half in just three months, with the company confirming a $965m loss for its second quarter

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Mainframe dead? IT still sees it as robust, long-term solution, shows study
Despite suggestions of its extinction, 93% of global IT execs say mainframe remains a robust, long-term solution in their enterprise IT strategy

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Executive interview: The significance of GPU accelerated Java
Sumit Gupta general manager, Tesla GPU Accelerated Computing at Nvidia discusses general purpose GPU applications

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British Gas invites startups into the connected home
The Connected Homes division of British Gas is running a competition to attract startups to develop smart energy technology

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Small businesses must encrypt customer data, says ICO
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) urges small businesses to encrypt customer data after a sole trader was fined for failing to do so

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The technology behind Birmingham NEC
The NEC exhibition centre's IT director reveals how a £40m investment from Birmingham City Council has been spent

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Take ultimate responsibility for cloud, users warned amid Nirvanix closure
The sudden demise of cloud provider Nirvanix must act as a wake-up call for end users in planning exit strategies when contracting cloud services

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Google facing European sanctions over data protection
Google is facing possible European sanctions over its privacy policy after French data protection regulators said the search firm has not complied with its requests

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Financial markets next big cyber target, says US expert
Manipulation of international financial markets will be the next evolution of cyber crime, says US Cyber Consequences Unit chief

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Continuous monitoring has great promise, says IA specialist
Continuous monitoring is fast becoming a security buzzword, but it is a way for security professionals to regain lost ground, says IA specialist

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Bank account switching service project attracts global attention
The success of the Payments Councils project to introduce a system to reduce the time to switch current account providers has stirred interest overseas

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Metropolitan Police cybercrime team claims £1bn savings
The Metropolitan Police claims its Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has saved over £1bn in the past two and a half years

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Ex-hackers best qualified to improve cyber security say 70% of IT firms
Over half of businesses are not taking IT security seriously enough and almost three quarters of IT professionals think ex-hackers could be the right people to help businesses improve cyber-security.

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Software acquisition is risk acquisition, says industry panel
New software often means new security vulnerabilities, panel tells the (ISC)2 Security Congress 2013

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IBM Extreme Blue 2013: Voice Bank project captures the human voice
A team of undergraduates working for IBM have developed a medical application for helping patients who have lost their voice

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Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Interview: Matt Atkinson, CMO, Tesco
Computer Weekly speaks to Matt Atkinson, CMO of Tesco, on how data is driving forward a successful multichannel digital operation

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Government approves BYOD for public sector staff
The government has issued security approval for public sector organisations to offer bring your own device (BYOD) schemes for employees

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Labour would force offshore suppliers to create apprentice schemes
If Labour wins the next election, offshore IT services firms would be forced to create an apprenticeship for each worker hired

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Education and skills key to cyber security, says (ISC)2
Information security professionals are making progress, but they are still losing the race, says (ISC)2 head

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British startups don’t get the ‘respect’ of Silicon Valley
The CEO of Tarmin claims his British startup needed a US base to be taken seriously by prospective customers

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