Sunday, July 4, 2010

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWeekly) 04/07/2010



Chinese factory supplying HP, IBM and Cisco has 'cruel and inhuman' conditions
The National Labor Committee (NLC) has found what it calls "illegal and sweatshop conditions" at a Chinese...
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BCS vote: 5-minute interview with David Clarke and Elizabeth Sparrow, BCS CEO and president
5-minute interview: Computer Weekly spoke to BCS CEO David Clarke
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New York Stock Exchange puts a datacenter in Essex
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE...
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'Death by a thousand cuts' continues at Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Banking Group's Halifax business is cutting its workforce by 650, with back-office jobs in the firing line again. The bank is closing an insurance...
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Deutsche Bank boosts UK senior IT team
Former head of strategy for global technology and operations at Standard Chartered Bank, Natasha Davydova, has been appointed managing director of group...
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Kaspersky Lab technology predicts malware epidemics
Kaspersky Lab has patented technology in the US which it claims allows the potential scale of malware epidemics to be predicted accurately to stop them spreading. The...
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Computing museum starts tours after first long-term sponsor
Oracle and JD Edwards optimisation specialist InsightSoftware.com has become the first foundation sponsor of...
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Google to acquire flight data firm to support innovation
Google has announced an agreement to acquire airline data firm ITA for $700m. The...
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Intel denies WiMax retreat
Chipmaker Intel has denied it is scaling back its commitment to the WiMax wireless standard.
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French regulator slams Google over AdWords complaint
French competition authorities have found that Google abused its dominant position in the internet advertising market when it prevented a location-data company using its AdWords service.
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China lashes out over EU modem dumping investigation
China has lashed out at the European Union (EU) over a wireless modem anti-dumping investigation.
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BCS wins no confidence vote
The BCS Chartered Institute of IT, which represents 70,000 IT professionals and academics emerged victorious this evening when its membership voted against motion’s of no confidence in the BCS leadership at an extraordinary general meeting today.
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