Wednesday, December 4, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 05/12/2013





Huawei invests £10m in UK university research
Chinese telecoms firm Huawei boosts investment in the UK, promising £10m funding for universities' technology projects

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Case study: Oxford Brookes revamps network with Juniper
Oxford Brookes University signs Juniper Networks to overhaul its infrastructure and modernise services for students and staff

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Internet of things will drive forward lifestyle innovations
Internet-connected devices have been predicted to become popular for many years, but have been held back by many issues

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Interview: Steve Furber on UK chip innovation
ARM chip designers Stephen Furber and Sophie Wilson will be honoured at the Economist Innovation awards on 3 December 2013

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Security is network professionals’ top priority for 2014
New research from TechTarget and Computer Weekly shows networking professionals see security as the biggest priority for 2014, whilst they claim the vendors’ favourite – software defined networking – is just not ready yet

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Many enterprises not getting value of consumerisation, says IDC
There is still a wide variety of approaches to mobility and consumerisation within the enterprise, says IDC

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HP shareholders win out as revenue declines by $8bn
HP shareholders are set to receive an early Christmas present in spite of the company making $8bn less in 2013 compared to 2012

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Microsoft admits RT mistake
Microsoft has admitted that its RT operating system may have confused people, who expected full blown Windows

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Janet6 ‘offers the future’ for research networking needs
Jisc takes back the network from a managed service provider to light up its own fibre and offer a future proofed service to researchers, universities, colleges and schools across the UK

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Why understanding context is the key to biometric success.
Since Apple launched the double whammy of the iPhone 5S and 5C in September, internet chatter has focussed primarily on the merits and disadvantages of the new home button on the 5S and whether its biometric fingerprint scanner is ultimately secure or hackable.

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White hat Wi-Fi hacking shows vulnerability of business data
Whitehat hackers have shown that senstitive data can be sniffed easily from public Wi-Fi hotspots

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How the datacentre market has evolved in 12 months
The increasing interest in co-location, hosting and cloud has led to murmurings around the death of in-house datacentres

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Apple acquires Kinect developer PrimeSense
Apple has confirmed the acquisition of Israeli motion-sensing firm PrimeSense

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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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Tech spend to increase in 2014 as executives explore big data
Over three-quarters of chief financial officers plan to increase technology investments in 2014

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BlackBerry CEO promises to ‘go back to enterprise roots’
As the mobile firm releases a BlackBerry Enterprise Service update, CEO John Chen promises to return to a corporate focus

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Microsoft invests in Ireland datacentre
Microsoft is expanding its Dublin datacentre with a €170m investment

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Nokia wins patent battle against HTC in UK court
HTC has until Friday to appeal a UK court decision for Nokia that could stop it selling its flagship HTC One smartphone in the UK

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Telematics firm builds datacentres on Compellent hybrid flash
Pan-European telematics firm Masternaut builds active-active datacentres on hybrid flash arrays with automated tiered storage from Dell Compellent to cope with a 5x growth in data

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Indian IT services more business expertise than low cost, says Nasscom
Indian IT services firms are no longer simply vehicles for Western businesses to make massive cuts in IT costs, says Nasscom

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Scabal moves to the cloud for storage flexibility
Clothing manufacturer Scabal is moving its entire IT infrastructure to Interoute’s cloud for flexibie storage

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UK mobile operators to scrap roaming charges by 2016
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has signed an agreement with EE, Three, Virgin Media and Vodafone to end roaming charges by 2016

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IT problems hit RBS and NatWest customers again
IT problems at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) stopped customers making online and card payments on the busiest shopping day of the year

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Entropy and data quality: How to keep your data accurate
The quality of data held in IT systems will deteriorate unless steps are taken to maintain its accuracy and consistency. We look at what businesses should be doing to control that data quality more effectively

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SAP user group: Innovation agenda clear but for long haul
Philip Adams, of the UK & Ireland SAP user group, speaks to Computer Weekly about SAP’s promotion of Hana, cloud and mobile

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Where is Satyam now? Well, it’s not Satyam for a start
Satyam, which was rescued from collapse in 2009, has plans for restoring its position as a top-tier Indian IT services provider

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90% of Universal Credit claims in pilot projects submitted online
Nine out of 10 benefit claimants in a pilot project for Universal Credit submitted their claims online, according to a government survey

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Ipswich Building Society forced to change IT services supplier
Ipswich Building Society was part of a group of companies that had to find new IT service provider following a decision by the incumbent supplier to exit the business

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Case study: Advantage Travel Centres implements UC infrastructure for mobile workers
Advantage Travel Centres has implemented unified communications (UC) to improve the connectivity of mobile employees

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The pros and cons of putting Wi-Fi into high street stores
As the high street fights the tide of online shopping, retailers have adopted the ‘digital store’ model – but there are drawbacks for some

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