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June 24, 2014
24
Jun'14
Why customer service automation goes awry
Customer service automation brings speed and improved quality to the effort of serving consumers. If poorly managed, it can also do the opposite.
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June 24, 2014
24
Jun'14
Benefits of accessing data outweigh privacy risks for chronically ill
Over half of UK patients with chronic health conditions want access to their medical records and believe the benefits outweigh privacy risks
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June 23, 2014
23
Jun'14
Oracle set to boost retail business with $5bn Micros acquisition
Oracle is expected to acquire internet-enabled point-of sale-specialist Micros
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June 20, 2014
20
Jun'14
Centrica's datacentre move to HP still not complete after three and a half years
Centrica is yet to transfer its entire datacentre operations to HP despite signing a contract with the supplier in 2010
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June 19, 2014
19
Jun'14
Six suppliers shortlisted for NHS HR system replacement
Six suppliers have been shortlisted for the NHS electronic staff record project – the world's largest HR and payroll software implementation
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June 19, 2014
19
Jun'14
BDUK to grill local authorities on broadband postcode data
New BDUK CEO Chris Townsend plans urgent review of local authorities to establish which are releasing broadband postcode data
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June 19, 2014
19
Jun'14
BlackBerry makes small profit in light of internal shakeups
BlackBerry has achieved a net profit of $23m with revenue of $966m in three months from May until the end of March 2014
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June 19, 2014
19
Jun'14
Government reveals winning bids in superfast broadband trials
Government reveals names of eight suppliers that have won a share of a £10m funding pot to trial superfast broadband in rural areas
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June 19, 2014
19
Jun'14
Facebook launches Slingshot to rival Snapchat
Facebook has launched its limited lifetime messaging app Slingshot in the US to rival Snapchat
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June 18, 2014
18
Jun'14
Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud
eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself
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June 18, 2014
18
Jun'14
Bangalore IT sector supports waste pickers through cloud platform
A cloud-based platform created by IT services firm MindTree aims to help India’s waste pickers to organize themselves as small businesses
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June 18, 2014
18
Jun'14
Interview: John Swainson, president of Dell Software
Dell Software president John Swainson's aims to make Dell Software a $5bn business
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June 18, 2014
18
Jun'14
YouTube to block indie labels unwilling to join paid service
YouTube plans to drop music videos from independent record labels unwilling to join its new subscription music service
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June 17, 2014
17
Jun'14
Department of Health sets out technology priorities for coming year
The Department of Health (DoH) has outlined changes in the way technology and information will be used over the coming year
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June 17, 2014
17
Jun'14
IFDS integrates UK and India service centres
International Financial Data Services has implemented software to balance workloads across UK and Indian delivery centres
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June 17, 2014
17
Jun'14
Wimbledon to analyse social interactions at tennis championship
The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon will be analysing social interactions throughout tennis championship
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June 17, 2014
17
Jun'14
Domino’s breach underlines value of personal data, say experts
The latest cyber breach to hit a high-profile brand underlines the high value of personal data, say security experts
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June 16, 2014
16
Jun'14
Just Eat builds in-house IT workforce in Ukraine
Online takeaway service Just Eat has built a team of software development and project managers in the Ukranian capital Kiev
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June 16, 2014
16
Jun'14
Travel group Expedia aims to predict your holiday plans
Travel group Expedia is developing technology that will predict the needs of its customers before they call about their travel plans
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June 16, 2014
16
Jun'14
St Pancras International WLAN upgrade promises gigabit speeds
Upgrade at St Pancras International and other stations served by High Speed 1 rail service will see increases in capacity and speed
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June 16, 2014
16
Jun'14
Technology key to secure document future, says UK Home Office
Physical security is just as important as digital security in documents such as passports, says UK Home Office
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June 16, 2014
16
Jun'14
House of Lords sets up Digital Skills Select Committee
The House of Lords has set up a select committee for digital skills
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June 16, 2014
16
Jun'14
Microsoft admits running out of IP addresses for Azure
Microsoft has assured US Azure customers data remains in the US, despite running out of US-registered IP addresses at times
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June 12, 2014
12
Jun'14
HSBC makes executives responsible for application consolidation
In the next few weeks, senior executives at HSBC globally will have KPIs to reduce the number of applications they run
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June 12, 2014
12
Jun'14
Can Salesforce.com re-engineer business IT?
With 1.5 million developers and a new focus on industry solutions, is Salesforce.com a business platform?
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June 11, 2014
11
Jun'14
Datacentre spending shifts to Europe as buyers focus on low-cost servers
Server manufacturers made 20% less in sales in the first quarter of 2014, compared with the fourth quarter of 2013
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June 11, 2014
11
Jun'14
Tesco Bank launches current account on off-the-shelf platform
Tesco has launched a current account four years after implementing its core banking platform
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June 11, 2014
11
Jun'14
Register to vote online goes live
The latest online transactional service from government has gone live as part of the ‘digital by default’ initiative
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June 11, 2014
11
Jun'14
EE drives mobile phone deals with CRM software implementation
Mobile phone operator Everything Everywhere claims a 400% increase in phone deals after rolling out customer relationship management software
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June 10, 2014
10
Jun'14
Engineering firm fined for using unlicensed Autodesk software
Project Options has been fined £16,000 by the Business Software Alliance, following an online tip-off
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June 10, 2014
10
Jun'14
Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters
Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges
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June 09, 2014
09
Jun'14
Gartner: Indian BI and analytics software spending to grow 15%
Indian businesses will increase spending on business intelligence and analytics software by 15% to reach a total of 8,228 crore in 2014
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June 09, 2014
09
Jun'14
Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead
Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart
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June 09, 2014
09
Jun'14
IT departments unprepared for internet of things
Only 41% of IT professionals are working on projects to prepare their business for the internet of things
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June 09, 2014
09
Jun'14
Turing Test 2014 marks historic milestone in artificial intelligence
A computer program has made history by passing the artificial intelligence test set by computer science pioneer Alan Turing
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June 06, 2014
06
Jun'14
Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report
Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report
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June 06, 2014
06
Jun'14
Vodafone blows lid on government spy networks
Vodafone reveals secret mobile phone-tapping network and joins Microsoft and Cisco in calling for debate on electronic surveillance
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June 06, 2014
06
Jun'14
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
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June 05, 2014
05
Jun'14
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
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June 05, 2014
05
Jun'14
Unilever appoints Jane Moran as global CIO
Former CIO of Thomson Reuters, Jane Moran, has joined Unilever as its new global CIO
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June 05, 2014
05
Jun'14
UK airports lead move to cloud services
UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.
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June 05, 2014
05
Jun'14
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
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June 05, 2014
05
Jun'14
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.
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June 04, 2014
04
Jun'14
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
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June 03, 2014
03
Jun'14
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”
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June 03, 2014
03
Jun'14
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?
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June 02, 2014
02
Jun'14
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
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June 02, 2014
02
Jun'14
Cyber threats hiding in plain sight, says Palo Alto Networks
Cyber attackers exploit commonly used business applications to bypass security controls, research shows
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May 30, 2014
30
May'14
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
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May 30, 2014
30
May'14
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