Sunday, November 24, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 25/11/2013





Firm launches banking app for wearable technology
A new banking app has been launched by British firm Intelligent Environments for use with Pebble wearable smart devices

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Scientists banish NAS sprawl with Red Hat scale-out NAS software
Reading University meteorology department tackles NAS sprawl with Red Hat open source storage software to build scale-out NAS cluster on commodity x86 server hardware

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You’ve got flash storage, so why isn’t everything faster?
To get the most out of flash storage you need storage performance monitoring of the whole stack, from servers to LUNs

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Salesforce offers dedicated infrastructure with HP
Salesforce.com has announced a partnership with HP that will offer its services on dedicated infrastructure within its multi-tenant platform

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Security investments reflect digital take-up in India
Indian organisations are taking data security seriously and implementing a wide range of security systems as they move online

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UK CERT moves to next phase with director Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson has been confirmed at the director of the UK’s new national computer emergency response team

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Is this the future for local government IT?
Pioneering councils are moving to the public cloud and aiming to deliver 'government as a platform' through componentised IT services

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Banks and governments targeted by invisible hijacking attacks
Net monitoring firm Renesys says it has uncovered evidence of mass hijackings of network traffic

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Samsung gets $160m off patent damages to Apple
A California court has ordered Samsung to pay a further $290m to Apple for infringing payments, taking the total in damages to $840m

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Tim Berners-Lee calls for protection of basic rights online
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has called for bold steps to protect basic human rights online

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More than one billion BYOD users predicted by 2018
Employee-owned smartphones and tablets used as part of bring your own device (BYOD) policies will increase to more than one billion devices globally by 2018, according to a study by Juniper Research

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Aviation safety social network hits the 100 member mark
Airlines British Airways and EasyJet are among 100 organisations using a new social network for air safety

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CSA appoints Microsoft’s Adrienne Hall to board
The CSA has appointed Adrienne Hall, from Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, to its board of directors

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McAfee finds code-validation dodging Android malware
Cyber attackers are using malware to circumvent digital signature app validation on Android and PCs, says McAfee

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ICO investigates claims of data breach by LG smart TVs
The ICO is investigating claims that some LG TVs are reporting viewing habits even if privacy settings are activated

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Pegasystems CEO Alan Trefler plans his next move for the $500m software company
Alan Trefler discusses his plans for Pegasystems, the BPM and CRM specialist that has grown into a $500m a year company

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NSA analysed UK data in secret deal, says Snowden
The NSA analysed phone, internet and email records of UK citizens under a secret deal with UK counterparts, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden

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Case study: McGraw-Hill Education mobilises with Salesforce
The educational resources provider utilises Salesforce to develop a mobile app and get its sales reps selling more on campus

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Report highlights poor UK attitudes to mobile security
Businesses should note that many UK mobile users do not take security precautions and do not know how to guard against data theft

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Huddle: The UK cloud software firm that grows by over 100% a year
Cloud collaboration software supplier Huddle is on the verge of expanding into Australia

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Businesses plan support for remote devices
Businesses will increasingly provide remote support for tablets and smartphones, but security fears are still an obstacle

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IT help desks adopt self-service strategy as staff cuts hit
Almost all service desks will use self-service tools to help cope amid job cuts which have left IT help desks with a huge drop in staff

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