Tuesday, September 22, 2015

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 23/09/2015





Android drives dramatic rise in smartphone adoption in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and India
Young people in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and India are driving the rapid adoption of mobile devices, with the Android operating system coming top

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Big data poses storage challenges in Australia and New Zealand
Big data is like digging for gold, except you must keep every single rock. TechTarget unearths some of the main challenges facing those mining data

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Infinidat adds NAS to create Infinibox unified storage
Infinidat adds NAS functionality to Infinibox arrays but clustered NAS capability will have to wait until parallel file system support arrives sometime in the future

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Employees crave digital skills, but organisations lack budget to teach them
VMware survey on digital skills finds a large percentage of employees are keen to learn, but organisations are holding them back

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MPs launch inquiry into the UK's digital economy
Business, Innovation and Skills Committee investigation will examine the challenges facing digital industries

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Talent shortage drives IT salary rise in Singapore
IT salaries are rising fast in Singapore, fuelled by shortages in key areas and Singapore's image as a gateway to Asia for western businesses

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UK broadband consistently top among major European markets
The UK is outperforming other major European countries on a number of fixed telecoms measures and will continue to do so, says an Analysys Mason report

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IT services procurement: Could G-Cloud be the answer Europe is looking for?
With European public sector organisations looking to overhaul how they buy IT, some are wondering if the UK's G-Cloud model could be the answer they are looking for

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AWS datacentre service trouble hits Netflix users
North Virginia datacentre hit by service trouble, blighting delivery of more than 30 of the cloud giant's products

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Starbucks European IT director moves to education publisher Pearson
Robert Teagle quits the coffee company after eight years as European IT chief

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IT industry seeks permanent staff as vacancies grow
KPMG finds demand for IT workers has grown since 2014, leaving more open vacancies for positions

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Department store retailer House of Fraser appoints CIO
British department store brand House of Fraser announces appointment of Julian Burnett as chief information officer

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Gigabit network is more than a fringe benefit for city of Edinburgh
As CityFibre begins a 150km fibre dig in Edinburgh, local businesses and the city council outline their objectives and plans for ultrafast broadband

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Oxford University takes SaaS-led approach to IT department consolidation
The University of Oxford has merged several IT departments to provide staff and students with centralised support

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Apple cleans out App Store after XcodeGhost malware breach
Apple takes action after Chinese XcodeGhost malware affects an undisclosed number of apps on the company's App Store

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Labour appoints Chi Onwurah as shadow minister for digital industries
Former Labour digital government spokeswoman takes on role of shadowing digital economy minister Ed Vaizey, with Louise Haigh taking her old role

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Worldwide outage hits Skype users
Microsoft-owned messaging service Skype experiences technical difficulties, with users flooding social networking sites with downtime reports

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Three could return O2 to stock market after Telefónica acquisition
Three may try to float O2 on the stock market if parent firm CK Hutchison Holdings goes ahead with plans to buy the mobile network operator from Telefónica

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Department for Culture, Media and Sport takes over responsibility for data protection policy
Government transfers responsibility for data protection policy and ICO oversight from Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

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More than half of 12-year-old girls say Stem subjects are too hard
Accenture finds more than half of 12-year-old girls in the UK and Ireland think science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects are too hard

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