Sunday, September 14, 2014

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 9/15/2014





HP buys Eucalyptus as it bets on open cloud future
HP is acquiring open source software specialist Eucalyptus that helps build private and hybrid enterprise clouds as it bets on open cloud future

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Datacentre market set to undergo dramatic change says Gartner
Disruptive factors including cloud dominance, datacentre competition, market fragmentation and changing economic dynamics will dramatically reshape datacentres by 2016

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EU opens public consultation on cloud computing
The European Commission has launched a consultation on cloud computing to help define future research priorities

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Smartphones could render smartmeter in-home display redundant
The Public Accounts Committee’s latest report on smartmeters has warned that the government risks being locked into technology

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The iPhone 6 and Apple Watch – will they be used in business?
Apple has announced its iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, along with capabilities such as Apple Pay, NFC and health monitoring

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Salesforce builds green datacentre in France for European users
Cloud CRM specialist Salesforce is building its second European datacentre in France, powered 100% by renewable energy sources

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MasterCard issues contactless payment deadline
MasterCard has given European retailers a deadline of 2020 for ensuring all POS systems are contactless payment enabled

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Claims against Post Office IT system approach completion
Investigation into sub-postmaster claims against the Post Office over problems with its Horizon accounting system coming to an end

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Context hacks Canon IoT printer
Security researchers have hacked into a Canon printer used by many small businesses, raising fresh concerns about IoT security

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Design firm adopts sole supplier for outsourced IT
Small and medium sized enterprises should not overlook the advantages of a close relationship with a sole supplier

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Retailers need to adopt ‘fail fast’ attitude to technology
Retailers experimenting with digital technologies must take a “fail fast” approach so they can deliver new innovations quickly

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Yahoo wins bid to shine more light on US surveillance
Yahoo has won the release of 1,500 pages of documents from a key 2008 case in a secretive US surveillance court

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Boots to roll out real-time stock visibility in coming weeks
Health and beauty retailer, Alliance Boots, is about to roll out real-time stock visibility to its stores and customers using SAP Hana

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Anglian Water targets code quality across multi-sourced contracts
Anglian Water has created a process for application testing to improve code quality developed across multi-sourced outsourcing contracts

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The digital CIO: ‘Fear of Google’ and the ethics of digital business
Could the big digital players be using their dominance by exerting unfair competition?

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Online retail continues to rise as interim results roll in
Sales figures from interim results for several large retail brands show buying goods and services online is still increasing in popularity

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Why AWS is being held back in the public sector
Public sector is a fast growing area of the Amazon Web Services cloud business. Yet it is often not seen as a first choice in government

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Banks must differentiate to give account switching service value
Payments Council lauds system to make current account switching easier, but figures reveal banks need to do more to differentiate

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John Lewis sales reflect omni-channel growth
John Lewis and Waitrose have attributed an increase in sales and customers to their growing omni-channel offerings

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Hague reassures MPs on Office 365 data storage as Microsoft ordered to hand over email data
UK government reassures MPs parliamentary data is safe on Microsoft servers as US judge finds Microsoft in contempt for refusing to hand over data

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Google denies breach after hackers leak millions of user logins
Google denies claims cyber criminals stole users' data and downplays the threat after a hacker purportedly leaked 4.9 million Gmail logins

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Most mobile apps fail on privacy, warns ICO
Most mobile applications are accessing personal information without explaining how that data is used, the ICO has warned

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Accenture: 48% of UK survey respondents fail to find big data talent
An Accenture survey has found that nearly half of UK respondents are struggling to find enough skilled data management professional

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