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2014 Stories
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June 06, 2014
06Jun2014
Photo Story
What next for Skolkovo after the Startup Village?
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June 06, 2014
06Jun2014
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Skolkovo's success depends on Russia's new web-savvy generation
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June 06, 2014
06Jun2014
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Skolkovo is backed by Russian government and oligarchs
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June 06, 2014
06Jun2014
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You can't have a tech startup event without robots
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June 06, 2014
06Jun2014
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Creating a small town on the outskirts of Moscow for Russian technology
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June 06, 2014
06Jun2014
Photo Story
Creating a startup vibe at Skolkovo Innovation Centre
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June 06, 2014
06Jun2014
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How Skolkovo aims to support Russian tech startups
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June 06, 2014
06Jun2014
Photo Story
The Skolkovo Startup Village 2014
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June 06, 2014
06Jun2014
Photo Story
Mad cows? Skolkovo aims to incubate tech startups in several sectors
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June 06, 2014
06Jun2014
News
Microsoft retaliates to China’s Windows 8 spying claims
Microsoft has launched a social media campaign against China’s claims that Windows 8 is being used for US spying Continue Reading
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June 05, 2014
05Jun2014
News
India needs to convert IT skills to entrepreneurship
India's start-up industry has been boosted by the growth of smart and cloud technologies and the rise in demand for big data and related services Continue Reading
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June 05, 2014
05Jun2014
News
Unilever appoints Jane Moran as global CIO
Former CIO of Thomson Reuters, Jane Moran, has joined Unilever as its new global CIO Continue Reading
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June 05, 2014
05Jun2014
News
UK airports lead move to cloud services
UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO. Continue Reading
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June 05, 2014
05Jun2014
News
Three ditches data roaming charges in five more countries
Mobile operator Three adds Finland, France, Israel, Norway and Switzerland to its Feel At Home service Continue Reading
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June 05, 2014
05Jun2014
E-Zine
CW Europe – June 2014 Edition
Europe is on a quest for innovation, looking like it might even give California’s Silicon Valley a run for its money in a few years’ time. London’s Silicon Roundabout in Old Street may be smaller than Silicon Valley in size and reputation; however ... Continue Reading
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June 05, 2014
05Jun2014
News
CIOs should 'leave innovation to marketing'
CIOs should focus on managing the technical infrastructure and leave innovation to other parts of the business – conclusion of a major study. Continue Reading
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June 04, 2014
04Jun2014
News
Sapphire 2014: Plattner restates radical, in-memory computing future
SAP's Hasso Plattner restates his case that enterprise applications face a radical future, based on in-memory computing Continue Reading
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June 03, 2014
03Jun2014
News
Sapphire 2014: SAP CEO McDermott declares war on ‘complexity’ and sets Fiori free
Bill McDermott, SAP CEO, devoted his opening keynote at Sapphire 2014 to declaring war on business process “complexity” Continue Reading
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June 03, 2014
03Jun2014
News
High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS
The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time? Continue Reading
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June 03, 2014
03Jun2014
Blog Post
Bringing the technology world to Russia
The billions of rubles of government money being invested in the Skolkovo Innovation Centre on the outskirts of Moscow (read my previous post for more details) is not only going into developing the ... Continue Reading
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June 02, 2014
02Jun2014
Photo Story
A complex environment
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June 02, 2014
02Jun2014
Photo Story
Chelsea Pensioners go online with Wi-Fi upgrade
The historic Royal Hospital Chelsea has turned to Ruckus Wireless to overcome an aging legacy broadband deployment and keep its residents – the famous Chelsea Pensioners – online Continue Reading
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June 02, 2014
02Jun2014
Photo Story
Meet the residents
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June 02, 2014
02Jun2014
Photo Story
The Royal Hospital Chelsea
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June 02, 2014
02Jun2014
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The Ruckus Wireless solution
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June 02, 2014
02Jun2014
Photo Story
Management capabilities
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June 02, 2014
02Jun2014
Photo Story
Making life easier
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June 02, 2014
02Jun2014
E-Zine
How big data brings big donations for charities
In this week’s Computer Weekly, hear how big data is helping charities to improve their fundraising by better targeting potential donors. We find out how the UK’s biggest newspaper publisher is moving its IT to the cloud. And we examine the options ... Continue Reading
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June 02, 2014
02Jun2014
Blog Post
How Moscow money and the post-Soviet generation hope to create Russia's Silicon Valley
The Skolkovo Innovation Centre is about a half-hour drive from Red Square, in a 400 hectare building site on the outskirts of Moscow. Today and tomorrow, it's the venue for the second annual ... Continue Reading
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June 02, 2014
02Jun2014
News
Queen Mary University to offer networking crash course for ICT students
Queen Mary University of London to pilot a four-day network training and certification course Continue Reading
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June 02, 2014
02Jun2014
News
Cyber threats hiding in plain sight, says Palo Alto Networks
Cyber attackers exploit commonly used business applications to bypass security controls, research shows Continue Reading
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May 30, 2014
30May2014
News
UK shoe retailer Office hit by data breach
Data breach at UK shoe retailer Office prompts calls for online firms to beef up security around customer details Continue Reading
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May 30, 2014
30May2014
News
IT supplier insolvencies fall for first time as economy recovers
Technology companies have reached a turning point as insolvencies fall for the first time in 2014 Continue Reading
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May 30, 2014
30May2014
News
Google launches right-to-be-forgotten application form
Google has introduced an online application form for Europeans who want personal data to be removed from online search results Continue Reading
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May 29, 2014
29May2014
News
BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad
British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready Continue Reading
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May 29, 2014
29May2014
In Depth
Future of in-house datacentres in the cloud era
It is predicted that companies will spend three times more on the cloud by 2017. But as cloud goes mainstream, are in-house datacentres really dying? Continue Reading
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May 28, 2014
28May2014
In Depth
In-memory databases - what they do and the storage they need
In-memory databases offer high performance data processing, but how do you protect data in volatile DRAM and what kind of storage is needed for longer term retention? Continue Reading
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May 28, 2014
28May2014
News
CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CIO, Jardine Lloyd Thompson
Running a programme to transform the business is the wrong way to go about change, according to Ian Cohen, CIO at insurance broker JLT Continue Reading
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May 28, 2014
28May2014
In Depth
Principles of compliance in the financial services industry
Compliance in financial services can appear a staggeringly complex web of laws and regulations, but some key principles apply, says Mathieu Gorge of Vigitrust Continue Reading
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May 28, 2014
28May2014
News
Huawei signs datacentre services MoU with BT
BT could become a major supplier of datacentre services to Chinese network giant Huawei after signing memorandum of understanding Continue Reading
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May 28, 2014
28May2014
News
NHS shared services aims to end paper invoicing
NHS Shared Business Services hopes to eradicate paper invoicing by implementing an e-invoicing system that will be free for suppliers to use Continue Reading
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
News
Atos buys Bull for £503m
French services supplier Atos buys Bull for £502.6m in a deal that could create one of the largest cloud services firms in Europe Continue Reading
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
E-Zine
Targeting the digital customer
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes of John Lewis’s £40m e-commerce transformation plan to find out how to target the digital customer. Starbucks’ European CIO talks about the coffee chain’s IT strategy. And we evaluate three big... Continue Reading
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
News
Android Outlook app has privacy issues, warn researchers
Microsoft’s Outlook.com app for Android is exposing users' data, warn security researchers Continue Reading
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
Photo Story
New hardware: The DX80 and DX70
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
Photo Story
Keynote: John Chambers, CEO, Cisco
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
Photo Story
Intercloud updates
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
Photo Story
Cisco Live! in San Francisco
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
Photo Story
Cisco Live! 18th-22nd May 2014
This week Cisco held its annual Cisco Live conference in its namesake, San Francisco Continue Reading
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
Photo Story
The DX80 and DX70
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
Photo Story
Internet of Things (IoT)
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
Photo Story
Former-CEO John Morgridge gives a history lesson
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
Photo Story
Consolidating the workspace
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May 27, 2014
27May2014
Photo Story
Internet of Things (IoT
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May 23, 2014
23May2014
News
Business Objects use increases among SAP users, but Hana uptake low
More UK and Ireland SAP customers are using Business Objects now than even two years ago, but only 15% are using Hana Continue Reading
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May 23, 2014
23May2014
News
HP job cuts head towards the 50,000 mark as company tackles cost
A further 16000 jobs are set to go as HP continues to slash its workforce through a restructuring initiative which began in 2012 Continue Reading
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May 23, 2014
23May2014
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eBay under fire over handling of data breach
eBay is coming under increasing criticism over its handling of the data breach that exposed millions of user records Continue Reading
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May 22, 2014
22May2014
News
Cisco continues its push towards SaaS-based security services
Chief information security officers (CISOs) should move away from product-based security solutions to a security-as-a-service (SaaS) model, according to Cisco Continue Reading
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May 22, 2014
22May2014
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Salesforce.com opens UK datacentre to support data sovereignty
Cloud CRM company Salesforce.com has announced its first UK datacentre, which is also its first in Europe Continue Reading
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May 22, 2014
22May2014
News
Case study: Bank of America and Nationwide use in-branch telepresence
Bank of America and Nationwide implement video conferencing technology to enable customers to speak to banking specialists Continue Reading
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May 22, 2014
22May2014
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Political parties open sites to search engines after Tories' 2013 deletion
The Conservative Party’s deletion and purge of its archive of speeches from internet search engines last October was unique among political parties Continue Reading
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May 21, 2014
21May2014
News
eBay reveals major security breach and urges users to change passwords
eBay has revealed it was hit by a major cyber attack earlier this year, and is urging users to change their site passwords. Continue Reading
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May 21, 2014
21May2014
Photo Story
Surface Pro 3: going after Apple
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May 21, 2014
21May2014
Photo Story
Surface Pro 3: optimised for Windows applications
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May 21, 2014
21May2014
Photo Story
Can Microsoft make Surface Pro 3 the best tablet for BYOD?
Microsoft has unveiled its latest Surface Pro tablet, which now boasts a 12 inch screen, making it an option as a laptop replacement. Continue Reading
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May 21, 2014
21May2014
Photo Story
Surface Pro 3: an enterprise comparison
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May 21, 2014
21May2014
Photo Story
Surface Pro 3: a tablet with laptop specification
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May 21, 2014
21May2014
Photo Story
Surface Pro 3: Google's response
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May 21, 2014
21May2014
News
Tablet banking to quickly overtake mobile banking
The number of people in Europe banking on tablets will grow at twice the rate of those on mobile phones, with security concerns not a major driver Continue Reading
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May 20, 2014
20May2014
News
US cyber criminal jailed for 20 years
US authorities have jailed a cyber criminal for 20 years, for trading in stolen credit cards and identities Continue Reading
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May 20, 2014
20May2014
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Employers back student-led IT Counts campaign
Employers pledge to support student-led ITMB project that promotes IT as a career Continue Reading
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May 20, 2014
20May2014
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Shell thinks technology first in preparation for internet of everything
Shell is reshaping its business to think technology first as it uses the internet of everything to change its business processes Continue Reading
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May 19, 2014
19May2014
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IT contractors confident they can plug the skills gap
A survey by Parasol reveals IT contractors are in it for the long term, with confidence in career prospects Continue Reading
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May 19, 2014
19May2014
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Public sector dominates UK outsourcing so far this year
Public-sector outsourcing accounted for three-quarters of spending in the first three months of this year, according to analyst NelsonHall Continue Reading
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May 19, 2014
19May2014
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Zayo buys UK dark fibre provider Geo Networks
American bandwidth infrastructure newcomer Zayo adds more than 1,800 miles of national fibre across the UK following its acquisition of local player Geo Networks Continue Reading
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May 19, 2014
19May2014
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SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure
From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure Continue Reading
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May 19, 2014
19May2014
E-Zine
The future of networks
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look how IT and networking departments are addressing demand for apps, bandwidth and services. Virtualisation technology is being used to consolidate multiple network equipment types onto industry-standard ... Continue Reading
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May 19, 2014
19May2014
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Half of UK public unaware of IT roles in British Army
One in two people do not know IT and communication roles are available as careers in the army Continue Reading
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May 19, 2014
19May2014
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IT headcount lags behind growth in digital strategies
There is a huge gap in technology staffing for e-commerce operations, according to a new report from analyst Forrester Continue Reading
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May 19, 2014
19May2014
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YouTube Twitch acquisition not imminent, say reports
YouTube’s acquisition of videogame-streaming company Twitch is not imminent, according to latest reports Continue Reading
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May 18, 2014
18May2014
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Cisco CTO tells women "there is no such thing as work-life balance”
Cisco’s chief technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, said there is “no such thing as a work-life balance”, but instead she integrates the two Continue Reading
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May 16, 2014
16May2014
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EE looks forward to 5G
Telecoms firm EE is in the midst of its 4G roll-out, and predicts that 5G will not begin appearing commercially until at least 2020 Continue Reading
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May 16, 2014
16May2014
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Why did GPs turn their back on Choose and Book?
NHS England has scrapped its £356m outpatient booking system, Choose and Book, which was largely ignored by doctors Continue Reading
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May 16, 2014
16May2014
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Internet of things security is relevant to business, says researcher
Internet of things is relevant to enterprise information security professionals, says researcher Continue Reading
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May 16, 2014
16May2014
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Minnesota passes mobile kill switch law to stop theft
Minnesota has become the first US state to introduce legislation aimed at reducing the theft of smartphones Continue Reading
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May 16, 2014
16May2014
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Net neutrality under threat from US plan
The US telecoms regulator has approved proposals that opponents believe will quash the principle of net neutrality Continue Reading
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May 15, 2014
15May2014
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Ex-BBC CTO claims he was the scapegoat for failed DMI project
John Linwood, former chief technology officer at the BBC, claimed he is the “fall guy” for the failed £100m Digital Media Initiative. Continue Reading
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May 15, 2014
15May2014
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Justifying the business case to update Oracle eBusiness Suite
To justify the upgrade cost needed to move to Oracle eBusiness Suite Release 12, IT departments need consider how the implementation can deliver value. Continue Reading
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May 15, 2014
15May2014
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Air Transport Industry Insights 2014
This report from SITA looks at the impact of business intelligence on airlines and airports. Continue Reading
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May 15, 2014
15May2014
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Straight to the Top. CIO Leadership in a Mobile, Social, and Cloud-based World
There is a growing trend to emphasise the business skills of CIOs, but in-depth knowledge of technology is still necessary for CIOs to succeeed, writes Gregory S. Smith, in this extract from his book, Straight to the top. Continue Reading
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May 14, 2014
14May2014
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Google Maps gives small Indian retailers a mobile face
Google is offering small Indian traders technology to enable them to set up virtual stores through Indoor Google Maps Continue Reading
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May 14, 2014
14May2014
News
Can Tech City deliver reliable fast internet for startup businesses?
Technology companies based in London’s Tech City are struggling to access high-speed fibre optic broadband, which is dramatically affecting the success their businesses. Continue Reading
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May 14, 2014
14May2014
News
What is holding Berlin back from becoming a European centre for startups?
Berlin is one of Europe’s most up-and-coming hotbeds for technology startup companies, but red tape and legislation is preventing it from fulfilling its potential Continue Reading
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May 13, 2014
13May2014
News
New NHS e-Referral Service to use agile and open technologies
The new National Health Service outpatient appointment booking system will use agile and open technologies, the NHS has said. Continue Reading
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May 12, 2014
12May2014
News
Government should use influence to cut outsourcer executive pay, says think tank
The government should use its outsourcing budget to influence service providers to reduce executive pay, says a think tank report Continue Reading
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May 12, 2014
12May2014
E-Zine
Retail's data challenge
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at how data analytics is driving a new approach to customer relationship management within the retail sector. Customer who shops in multiple channels offer greater value to retailers. We find out how auction ... Continue Reading
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May 12, 2014
12May2014
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German companies look to Berlin startups for innovation
German companies are beginning to recognise Berlin as a hot spot for technology innovation thanks to the many startups there Continue Reading
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May 09, 2014
09May2014
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Orange data breach underlines need for encryption, say experts
The theft of 1.3 million customer records from Orange, France underlines the need for encryption, say experts Continue Reading
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May 09, 2014
09May2014
News
Vodafone cuts 121 staff with Burton site closure
A review of Vodafone sites following its 2012 acquisition of Cable & Wireless Worldwide will see its Vodafone Business Services centre in Burton-on-Trent shut down, with 121 jobs at risk Continue Reading
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May 09, 2014
09May2014
News
Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility
Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network Continue Reading