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• December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11

  Adobe to release out-of-cycle patch for latest vulnerability

  Adobe has issued a security advisory about a newly discovered and still unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat which is being used in "limited, targeted attacks in the wild".

• December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11

  UKtech50: Meet Mike Lynch, the most influential person in UK IT

  Mike Lynch, voted as the most influential person in UK IT, doesn’t like to think about challenges, but about opportunities.

• December 07, 2011 07 Dec'11

  Government extends G-Cloud deadline

  The government has extended its G-Cloud deadline following the application of more than 500 businesses to its framework.

• December 07, 2011 07 Dec'11

  VMware vSphere 5 uptake slow among users

  VMware vSphere 5 boasts of cloud-based features and monster VMs, but its uptake is lagging because of user satisfaction with vSphere 4.

• December 06, 2011 06 Dec'11

  Google chairman Eric Schmidt meets EC competition chief ahead of charges

  Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has met Europe's competition commissioner amid reports the European Commission (EC) is preparing a 400-page document outlining Google's alleged anti-competitive practices.

• December 06, 2011 06 Dec'11

  Four things the 2012 CIO will need to focus on

  As 2011 winds to a close, CIOs will already have turned their attention to 2012. What will you be doing?

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  Concerned about tablet security issues? Some are, others not so much

  Users love their tablets, but security pros are concerned about tablet security issues. However, though tablets bring new threats, not everyone is ringing the alarm.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  Unilever outsources business intelligence platforms to Capgemini

  Unilever has signed a deal with Capgemini to provide its global business intelligence platforms. The outsourcing company will work alongside Unilever IT to deliver a three-year programme to create an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  One in four IT security staff abuse admin rights, survey shows

  At least one in four IT security staff use their privileged login rights to look at confidential information, a survey has revealed.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  'Big data' technologies emerge to battle large, complex data sets

  ‘Big data’ technologies that allow the storage, management and analysis of big data are on stream: NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce. Mark Whitehorn explains the reasons for their emergence and how they work.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  SAP buys SaaS firm SuccessFactors in $3.4bn deal

  Enterprise software company SAP announces a $3.4bn deal to acquire software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider SuccessFactors.

• December 02, 2011 02 Dec'11

  Yahoo shares jump following Alibaba takeover reports

  Yahoo shares have risen following reports that Chinese internet firm Alibaba is positioning itself to make a takeover bid.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Essex County Council invests £15m in IT to cut costs

  Essex County Council is pumping £15m into an IT infrastructure upgrade expected to create efficiency savings of £7m per year, says CIO David Wilde.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Shell enterprise MDM foundation proof of concept disturbs rulebook

  Shell has laid a foundation for enterprise master data management, choosing SAP MDM over Microsoft. The major lesson was that IT can build an enterprise MDM system to which the business will come.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  CIO interview: John Finch, global CIO, Experian

  John Finch, global CIO of Experian, discusses his plans to simplify supplier management and his approach to people development.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  United Nations Development Programme investigates hacking claims

  The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is investigating claims from hacker group Team Poison that it extracted over 100 e-mail addresses and login details belonging to UN staff.

• November 29, 2011 29 Nov'11

  Standard Life overhauls IT department and cuts jobs

  Insurer Standard Life is to axe a number of IT staff following a review of its IT and operations division.

• November 29, 2011 29 Nov'11

  Framework accelerates safety-critical defence systems development

  Manufacturers and academics are collaborating in a 3.5 million project to create a software modelling framework that will speed up the development and certification of safety-critical systems used in aerospace and defence.

• November 25, 2011 25 Nov'11

  HDFC Bank’s server consolidation move for branch-level competitive edge

  Branch-level banking gets a boost with server consolidation at HDFC Bank, which wins for it the Best of vForum 2011 award for Outstanding Business Value.

• November 24, 2011 24 Nov'11

  How Experian is retro-fitting its datacentre to boost efficiency

  Experian's Fairham House datacentre in Nottingham uses blade servers, virtualisation and cold aisle containment to improve energy efficiency.

• November 23, 2011 23 Nov'11

  Record management standards improved

  New standards by ISO assist with records management and can help you frame a storage strategy

• November 23, 2011 23 Nov'11

  Government mutual will be a beacon for IT procurement

  The pension administration mutual being set up by the government will be the first of a wave of new business models that could shake-up central government outsourcing contracts.

• November 21, 2011 21 Nov'11

  Centrica CIO quits to join HP

  David Bickerton, the global chief information officer at Centrica, has resigned from the utilities giant to join Hewlett-Packard.

• November 21, 2011 21 Nov'11

  Government opens its procurement heart to IT suppliers

  The government has promised more openness with suppliers and published its first forward-looking pipeline of business, with £25.9bn of IT projects.

• November 18, 2011 18 Nov'11

  Olympic volunteers to use virtual communication

  The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Locog) is to deploy virtual meeting rooms to enable its 6,000 staff and volunteers to communicate during the Olympics.

• November 18, 2011 18 Nov'11

  MIT scientists take a step closer to artificial intelligence

  Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an analogue silicon chip with 400 transistors that emulates the activity of a brain synapse in the first step to building truly intelligent systems.

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  Sybase: Data warehousing too slow for ‘big data’ analytics

  Sybase EMEA business development director speaks about ‘big data’ analytics’ need for speed and pronounces traditional data warehousing “antiquated.”

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  Rentokil moving HR system into cloud with Workday SaaS

  Rentokil Initial is moving the management of its 66,000 human resources to cloud based software from Workday.

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  Forensics key to effective info security, says E&Y

  Intelligence-led security strategies are the most effective in eliminating vulnerabilities and preventing IP theft through enabling informed change, says consultancy firm Ernst & Young.

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  Tesco trials in-store and online augmented reality technology

  Tesco is trialling augmented reality (AR) technology in-store and online to change how customers interact with products.

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  IT security not always part of cloud decision, says IDC

  Cloud adoption is outstripping security concerns, says Eric Domage, programme manager for IDC in Europe.

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  Biffa ups virtualisation in infrastructure refresh

  Biffa Waste Services is reducing the number of physical servers it uses from over 150 to about 25 as it accelerates its existing virtualisation strategy.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Computer Weekly wins digital publishing award

  Computer Weekly has won a prestigious publishing industry award for the product development of the year.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  RBS takes SAP off-the-shelf

  The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is replacing an in-house legacy core banking system with an off-the-shelf system from SAP.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Thai floods could impact revenues and prices, says Dell

  Computer maker Dell says flooding in Thailand is causing a worldwide shortage of PC hard drives that will last into the first quarter of 2012 and could impact the company’s revenues.

• November 15, 2011 15 Nov'11

  TfL seeks BI worth £750,000

  Transport for London (TfL) is setting up a framework agreement for a business intelligence tool worth up to £750,000 million to help reduce its number of head office locations.

• November 14, 2011 14 Nov'11

  DDN HPC storage calculates risk

  Storage roundup: DDN HPC storage calculates risk; BBC Wales gets Object Matrix NAS; Arkivium to use IBM tape; CommVault expands global support from Reading; and more news.

• November 14, 2011 14 Nov'11

  CIO Interview: IT should drive company innovation, says SAP's Oliver Bussmann

  Driving innovation has become one of the key roles of the chief information officer, says Oliver Bussmann, CIO at business software maker SAP.

• November 11, 2011 11 Nov'11

  Social media is more than a number of "likes"

  The number of “likes” on Facebook, is not a measure of success according to Anthony Bradley, co-author of The Social Organisation.

• November 11, 2011 11 Nov'11

  New deputy CIO must possess change management skills, says Bill McCluggage

  The new government deputy CIO will need a fresh set of skills to manage public sector ICT transformation, Bill McCluggage the current deputy CIO told Computer Weekly.

• November 11, 2011 11 Nov'11

  EDF fined £1.3m for hacking into Greenpeace computers

  A Paris court has fined French energy firm EDF £1.3m for hacking into Greenpeace computers to find out about the environmental group’s plans to block four planned nuclear power plants in the UK.

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Royal Mail delivers enterprise master data management

  The Royal Mail has delivered a master data management programme stemming from a new electronic data warehouse and BI initiative. Project team leaders claim a people-plus-technology synthesis.

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Welcome to the new-look ComputerWeekly.com

  Computer Weekly has launched its brand new website - the most important online development in the brand’s 45-year history.

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  TCS bags rare megadeal and 1,900 more UK workers

  Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) business process outsourcing (BPO) subsidiary, Diligenta, has won a deal with life insurer Friends Life worth £1.37bn.

• November 09, 2011 09 Nov'11

  Adobe to change mobile Flash player strategy and axe European jobs

  Adobe plans to abandon its Flash player for mobile browsers and cut 750 jobs across North America and Europe as part of a reorganisation.

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  Analysis: Intelligence key to security business case

  Information security is becoming an increasingly important part of any business as the value of information assets continually grow, as do the threats from cyber crime and espionage.

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  Shell HR gains from structured information quality programme

  Oil giant Shell’s human resources function has been on an information quality journey since 2002, integrating historically decentralized businesses into one assured talent pool.

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  RBS and Natwest online banking down after maintenance glitch

  Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Natwest customers were unable to access online or telephone banking over the weekend after maintenance issues.

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  Everything Everywhere to reinvest £450m windfall

  Mobile phone operator Everything Everywhere is to reinvest profits made from the upcoming sale of its 1,800MHz spectrum in the UK's mobile network, following criticism that the sale of a public asset would be diverted to German and French ...

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  City University London unveils scholarship for information leadership course

  City University London has launched its IBM Enterprise Computing scholarship to award a place on its Masters of Information Leadership (MIL) course.