Friday, February 27, 2009

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 27/02/2009



Photos: MoD - War, weapons and gadgets
The Ministry of Defence has released pictures of new technology it is developing, or hopes to develop.
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Server plugs into wall socket for small networks
Marvell has launched a computer server the size of plug that can be plugged in to power home and small office networks. The Marvell...
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Mobile payments to hit $860bn by 2013
Mobile phones will...
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Movero unveils enhanced mobile computing management services
New mobile computing services align with billing and compliance technolgies
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3 hits Target for enhanced mobile broadband
UK’s biggest 3G supplier teams with IT supplier to offer mobile broadband
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CeBIT 2009 - Latest News
CeBIT 2009 in Hannover Germany opens on March 3-8. Find the latest news, developments and pictures. You will also find directions, exhibitor list and an agenda. The featured themes this year are Webciety and green IT.
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Microsoft sues TomTom after pair fail to find IP agreement
Microsoft has filed a patent infringement case against satellite navigation gadget maker TomTom. Microsoft...
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Sheffield Children's Hospital deploys bedside virtual desktops
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a bedside virtual desktop system to allow staff...
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Nokia may enter laptop market
Mobile phone maker Nokia may get into the laptop business. CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday that the firm...
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IT staff do 34 days of unpaid overtime a year, says TUC
Workplace pressure caused by the recession is leading to IT professionals working more than a month of unpaid overtime every year. The TUC says one-third...
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Computer fraudsters to get stiffer sentences
The Sentencing Guidelines Council has started a consultation...
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Royal London Asset Management deploys VMWare
Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), part of Royal London Mutual, is a fund management firm responsible for around آ£30bn of...
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Legal threats to IT consultants grow as economy worsens
IT consultants are facing an increased...
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Computer screens reveal our personalities
How we organise our computers screens reveals a lot about our personality. A Microsoft-sponsored study says our screens reveal our personalities, habits...
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Japanese cybercrime stats are a red flag for West
Japan's cybercrime cases jumped by 15.5% to a record 6,321 in 2008, the country's National Police Agency...
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Windows Vista wins Fiasco Awards hands down
Microsoft's Windows Vista has easily won the top prize in the 2009 Fiasco Awards, which were awarded...
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Government plans to keep DNA of innocent
The British government is reportedly...
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Security weakness found in online banking card readers
Flaws have been found in the security devices used to authenticate online bank users.
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Microsoft: software security needs boost as career option
Secure software engineering skills are difficult to find, says George Stathakopoulos, general manager, Trustworthy...
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Dell plans more job cuts as profits slump
Dell has posted a slump in profits...
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It is time to mobilise the workers
If respected IT market analyst Richard Holway is right, the end of the recession is likely to...
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Public sector remains wary of Southwest One
Southwest One, a...
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Facebook hit by two rogue apps in a week
Two rogue applications are suspected to have hit Facebook in the space of a week, possibly harvesting thousands of personal details.
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Facebook appeases angry users with new terms
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is relying on the wisdom of crowds to guide its terms and conditions of use.
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Yahoo moves to centralised management model
New Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz yesterday unveiled a centralised management structure that she hopes will make the advertisement-serving and search firm more responsive...
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Retailers cut security budgets despite being vulnerable to attack
More than half of retailers have cut their IT security budgets as a direct result of the credit crunch, and over a third will cut security spendnext year, despite most being victims of cyber attacks.
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iPhone sales boost O2's UK results
A million sales of Apple's iPhone helped Telefأ³nica's O2 mobile...
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NSA should beef up civil cybersecurity
The American equivalent of GCHQ is being promoted as the guardian of the US's cybersecurity, according to reports. Congress yesterday heard National...
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UBS makes آ£21bn trading blunder
I nvestment bank UBS blamed a system error for a blunder which led it to place an order...
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UK IT staff spared as RBS slashes costs
The Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to cut thousands of jobs as part of a restructuringthat will see it scale back operations and reduce operational costs by آ£2.5bn.
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Microsoft cuts temp agency rates by 10%
Microsoft is reducing by 10% the amount it pays employment agencies for supplying temporary workers, reports Seattle-based TechFlash . Microsoft's...
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IT at centre of Standard Life business strategy
S tandard Lif e h as had to make its share of cost cutting as the recession bites. But its investment in IT has helped the...
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Campaign: Government must publish ID card reviews
The Office of Government Commerce is almost obsessive in its anxiety to keep secret Gateway reviews - which are already five years old - on the feasibility of the ID Cards scheme.
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Campaign: Government made to look foolish over ID card reviews
The credibility of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has taken a beating, after a ruling this month that two early gateway...
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Government expands supports for ODF and open source software
The UK government has endorsed the expanded use of the...
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Microsoft releases 'reliability update' for IE8 to stop Windows 7 crashing
Microsoft has released a "reliability update" to stop the new pre-release Internet...
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Mobile technology an essential tool for accountants
A ccountants need to be contactable at all times during recession because clients need advice when faced with decisions that could make o r...
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Insurance giant RSA cuts 1,200 jobs
Insurance firm RSA is cutting 1,200 jobs in the UK, including IT roles.
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Use Tweetminster to search MPs' conversations
Tweetminster has given users the ability to search back through MP's conversations on Twitter. Voters...
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Google blames Gmail outage on maintenance problems
Google has blamed Tuesday's Gmail outage on routine maintenance...
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DPP has no evidence for a UK prosecution of hacker Gary McKinnon
McKinnon The director of public prosecutions will not prosecute self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon, despite McKinnon's willingness to plead guilty...
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iPhone, Android and Chrome targeted in hacking contest
A hacking competition, paying cash prizes of up to $10,000, will target the Apple iPhone and Google's Android OS among other gadgets and software. 3Com's...
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E-tailers top customer satisfaction league
Online retailers are leading the way in customer satisfaction, a survey has revealed. The National...
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Open source is years behind commercial products, says Socitm president
Socitm president Richard Steel believes open source still lags behind commercial products.
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Nortel Networks lays off 3,200 staff
Nortel Networks is to lay off 3,200 staff worldwide over the next few months as part of business and financial restructuring plan to pull it out of bankruptcy protection.
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Salesforce.com becomes 'first $1bn cloud computing firm'
Salesforce.com has posted a big increase in sales for the year, becoming the "first billion-dollar cloud computing company", according to CEO Marc Benioff. For...
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HP supports rival Sun's Solaris operating system
Hewlett-Packard is making Sun's Solaris operating system available on its Proliant PC servers. The server rivals have expanded their partnership...
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More than half of staff steal information when they leave the company
More than half of people take company information with them when they leave an employer, the US-based Ponemon Institute has found. The institute interviewed...
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Google gives 15-day service credits following Gmail outage
Google is giving 15 days of free service access to subscribers who were affected by its Gmail...
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City job opportunities increase despite downturn
Job opportunities in the London financial services sector increased in January as usual, but there were less than during the same period last year.
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Recession could produce the new Google, says Microsoft MD
Microsoft's UK managing director, Gordon Frazer, has said the recession could produce the next Google as the lack of jobs forces IT workers to rely on innovation. "Recessions...
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Publication of ID cards reviews would jeopardise support for the scheme, claims government
Publication of internal reports into the feasibility of the government's ID...
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