Thursday, June 11, 2015

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 6/12/2015





Nationwide quick off the mark with Apple Watch banking app
Nationwide claims to be the first high street finance firm to offer an Apple Watch app

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Gartner: Smart machines are coming
CIOs will need to assess how smart machines, capable of making decisions without human intervention, will impact business processes

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Nutanix offers hypervisor as it moves towards on-demand hardware
Nutanix aims to offer public cloud economics for private cloud deployments

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Apple's Mac OS X El Capitan goes head to head with Windows 10
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple unveiled El Capitan, its latest operating system (OS) – but how does it compare to Windows 10?

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DWP extends trial of Universal Credit digital system
The trial for the digital service to support the controversial welfare reform programme has been expanded to two new areas in Sutton and Croydon

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CERN picks Cisco to collaborate on advanced networking capabilities
Cisco joins CERN’s openlab industry partnership platform to help develop new computing infrastructure technology

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Regulators could clamp down on comparison sites as Confused.com bias is revealed
Investigation into comparison sites reveals bias that regulators might find misleads customers

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Met Police failed on cyber crime, says top fraud officer
The chief of the Metropolitan Police Service's fraud squad Falcon admits the Met's policing of online fraud and cyber crime has not been good enough in the past

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International police operation arrests cyber fraud gang
Police in six countries have arrested 49 people suspected of committing financial fraud involving email account intrusions

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Pressure grows on AWS to power more datacentres with green energy
Public cloud giant is being called on again to be more transparent about its use of renewable energy, this time by Green America

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OnApp helps small public cloud firms take on AWS, Google and Microsoft
The OnApp Federation marketplace will help smaller firms compete more effectively with the public cloud giants, it is claimed

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Vodafone launches home broadband service
Vodafone unveils its Vodafone Connect broadband and home phone package, offering headline speeds of 76Mbps

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How to secure the internet of things
With the expansion of the IoT market, protecting the company's data and IP is more important than ever. Here are four ways organisations can put security at the core of the IoT value proposition

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Oxford and Cambridge University colleges turn to Aerohive to manage WLAN traffic
Colleges and institutions at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are attempting to mitigate the effects of the substantial demand on their wireless networks

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Hybrid outsourcing boosts customer service at Denmark’s TDC
Outsourcing improves customer services at Danish telco TDC

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DDoS attacks starting to resemble APTs, warns Imperva
Like advanced persistent threats (APTs), many distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are characterised by long durations, repetition and changing attack vectors

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Local authorities band together to share enterprise software
Local authorities in London and elsewhere in England are banding together to share enterprise software to cut costs, from the bottom up

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US government websites to use encryption by 2017
A US government HTTPS-Only Standard directive requires that all federal websites accessible to the public must encrypt all data exchanges

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Boots cuts 700 jobs in bid to restructure and improve tech
Cosmetics firm Boots has announced it will be cutting 700 non-store roles in an attempt to invest in technology and simplify back-office operations

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US state of Maine turns to BPM to cut admin costs
The US state of Maine is automating a range of government processes in a bid to cut administration costs by more than 10%

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UK government not doing enough to prevent cyber attacks, say CTOs
Some 60% of CTOs, 15% of CFOs and 23% of CEOs feel the government is not doing a good job educating businesses and defending them from cyber attacks

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Three sets out plan to cover 98% of Wales with 4G
Mobile network operator Three rolls out low frequency 800Mhz spectrum to boost 4G coverage in Wales

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