Thursday, February 7, 2013

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWeekly) 08/02/2013


Raspberry Pi Model A computer goes on sale for £16 The latest version of the small single-board Raspberry Pi computer – Model A – has gone on sale in Europe at just £16 Read More ...
Rugby Football Union uses IBM predictive analytics for Six Nations IBM tries out predictive analytics software, TryTracker, developed in association with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) Read More ...
EU cyber strategy aimed at boosting preparedness and cooperation The European cyber security strategy addresses insufficient national preparedness and boosting co-operation in the region, says the EC Read More ...
Oracle’s MySQL 5.6 spans to NoSQL to offer more agility Oracle has released version 5.6 of MySQL, which will hit the “sweet spot of the web market” according to Tomas Ulin, vice-president of engineering Read More ...
Business avoids cloud over fear of government snooping Almost half of IT professionals are deterred from keeping sensitive data in the cloud because of fear of government intervention and possible legal action, a survey has revealed Read More ...
CIO interview: Mark Bramwell, head of IT, The Wellcome Trust As The Wellcome Trust enters year two of a five-year IT strategy, head of IT Mark Bramwell is preparing to lead some high-profile projects Read More ...
Cloud implementation costs higher than expected, finds KPMG Higher cloud implementation costs and IT integration challenges have come to the fore as use of cloud services rises Read More ...
Interview: Rob Orr, UK managing director, BlackBerry We speak to the UK managing director of BlackBerry during the week of the company’s developer conference and days after its biggest launch Read More ...
Twitter strengthens login security after hacker attack Days after a hacking attack, it has emerged that Twitter plans to strengthen its login security with two-factor authentication Read More ...
Snooping bill needs more work, say MPs The government’s proposed Communications Data Bill needs more work, says a report from the cross-party intelligence and security committee Read More ...
CW500: Skills shortages loom as development comes back in-house Businesses will have to raise their game to recruit the developers they need to take advantage of cloud, big data and mobile computing Read More ...
Interview: John Harris, vice-president of global enterprise architecture, Aimia Aimia, the organisation behind retail loyalty programme Nectar, is overhauling its IT to make the most of customer data Read More ...
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