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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.
November 04, 2011 04 Nov'11
The Best of vForum 2011 awards: A roundup

Instituted by SearchDataCenter.in and supported by VMware, The Best of vForum 2011 awards saw the best of India Inc battling it out for the honors.
November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11
US and EU hold first joint cybersecurity exercise

The US and EU are holding their first joint cybersecurity exercise in Brussels on 3 November 2011, involving more than 20 EU member states and supported by the EU's cybersecurity agency Enisa and the US Department of Homeland Security.

November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11
SAP on track to achieve 2011 greenhouse gas emissions target

Enterprise software maker SAP decreased greenhouse gas emissions by 2% per employee in the quarter ended 30 September, compared with the same period in 2010, according to the company's quarterly sustainability report.
November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11
BT second quarter sales fall 2% despite 166,000 new broadband customers

BT sales fell 2% in its fiscal Q2 despite the addition of 166,000 broadband customers and continued growth in its Openreach and Global Services businesses.
November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11
Amazon launches lending library for Kindle e-reader users

Amazon has launched a lending library service to allow Kindle e-reader users to borrow e-books.
November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11
HP puts ARM at the heart of energy-efficient datacentres

Hewlett-Packard has introduced a line of servers using the Calxeda EnergyCore ARM Cortex low-energy processors which it claims will enable datacentres to host 2,800 servers in a single rack.
November 02, 2011 02 Nov'11
GB Group buys Capscan for £11.2m

Identity management technology company GB Group has acquired address management company Capscan for £11.2m.
November 01, 2011 01 Nov'11
MoD calls on academics, industry and inventors to pitch cyber security ideas

The Ministry of Defence is calling for innovative solutions from academia and industry to protect and secure UK interests in cyberspace.
November 01, 2011 01 Nov'11
Government trials voice recognition for Universal Credit benefit claims

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is testing a voice recognition system to authenticate claimants of its flagship Universal Credits system, as part of the department's work on identity assurance (IDA).
November 01, 2011 01 Nov'11
Hague calls for collaboration to realise full potential of cyberspace

It is increasingly clear that countries with weak cyber defences and capabilities will find themselves at a serious strategic disadvantage given the rise of state-sponsored cyber attacks, according to foreign secretary William Hague.
November 01, 2011 01 Nov'11
Migration committee calls for opinions on minimum salary for IT staff on ICT visas

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is calling for opinions on whether the minimum pay of £40,000 is set at the right level for overseas employees brought to the UK on Intra Company Transfer visas (ICT)
October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11
Government earmarks £10m for Identity Assurance

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has earmarked £10m for implementation of the government's Identity Assurance (IDA) programme, with the cash coming from its £650m cyber defence fund - with the potential for more near £1bn of savings if the ...
October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11
Are network performance monitoring tools ready to meet new challenges?

Network performance monitoring tools must adapt to handle virtual infrastructure, new applications and hybrid cloud environments. Are they ready?
October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11
Japan may be facing sustained cyber attack

Japan's mapping agency is the latest in a series of government agencies to be targeted by hackers, raising fears that the breaches are part of a series of sustained attacks.
October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11
Barclays customers unable to log into online bank accounts

Barclays has confirmed some customers are unable to log into online bank accounts and are experiencing slow response times
October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11
Samsung overtakes Apple in global smartphone shipments

Samsung has overtaken Apple in worldwide smartphone shipments after Apple suffered its lowest levels of shipments in two years
October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11
Facebook admits to 600,000 cyber attacks a day

Facebook has revealed that every 24 hours it receives around 600,000 logins to the social networking website from impostors attempting to access users' messages, photos and other personal information.
October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11
UKtech50: We launch the search for the most influential people in UK IT

Computer Weekly has launched the second annual UKtech50, the definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the leaders driving the creation of a high-tech economy.
October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11
What can a CIO learn from Steve Jobs?

Steve Jobs might have been a product and marketing wonder kid but there are lots of lessons CIOs can learn from his method.
October 30, 2011 30 Oct'11
Cloud storage boom as users rush to outsourcers

The Spring 2011 edition of IDC’s Storage User Demand Survey says 40%of enterprise storage users plan to outsource some of their storage needs in the next twelve months, with “an average of over 250TB will be acquired” by each user.
October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11
UK security strategy draws on growing expertise across Whitehall

The UK's soon-to-be-released cyber security strategy includes input from policy makers across government, says Nigel Harrison of the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance (OCSIA).
October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11
Open University expands computer-aided teaching portal for educators worlwide

The Open University has completed the second stage of a £2.5m Department of Education funded initiative to deliver computer-aided teaching to the classroom.
October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11
Survey finds UK IT jobs concentrated in London and south-east England

With software houses and the financial services sector creating by far the most permanent IT jobs, career opportunities are being condensed into south-east England.
October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11
Software skills survey reveals SQL highest in demand followed by C programmers

The latest survey from Salary Services Limited (SSL) has revealed the software skills most in demand in the latest quarter of 2011.
October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11
US Tennis Association cuts costs running Citrix XenApp in Amazon cloud

The US Tennis Association (USTA) is reducing disaster recovery, hosting, helpdesk and licencing costs after choosing to run its Citrix XenApp environment in Amazon's Web Services (AWS) cloud.
October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11
HP announces U-turn to keep PC division after Whitman completes internal review

HP has reversed its decision to spin-off the company's PC division following an internal review by CEO Meg Whitman, who replaced form head Leo Apotheker in September.
October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11
Analysis: What is the secret sauce in SAP's success?

SAP notched up the seventh consecutive quarter of double-digit growth in software and software-related services, but with the last major upgrade to SAP's core enterprise resource planning (ERP) product way back in 2005, how is the company achieving ...
October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11
IP network critical to video technology at FA’s St George's Park development

The Football Association (FA) is implementing the latest networking and video technology at its coaching and education centre. The St George's Park centre will be the FA's second major centre alongside Wembley, where operations are currently centred.
October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11
Case Study: How RBS built a business case for virtual desktops to cut costs

With an annual technology spend of £1.5bn, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) wanted to move 55,000 of its users to a virtual desktop platform to change the way its employees work and cut costs. Mark Diamond, CIO at RBS, shares his lessons learnt in ...
October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11
Analysis: What is the secret sauce in SAP's success?

The last major upgrade to SAP's core enterprise resource planning (ERP) product was released in 2005, so how is the company achieving record growth? Warwick Ashford reports
October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11
VMware-based server consolidation yields long-term savings

Avis achieved long-term cost savings and efficiencies with a VMware-based server consolidation. Its transformation won the Best Virtualisation and Server Consolidation Project award at VMworld Europe.
October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11
US and Canadian subscribers sue RIM over Blackberry service outage

Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is facing legal action by consumers in the US and Canada for the three-day services outage in mid-October caused by a core switch failure in RIM's infrastructure.
October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11
How Unilever took control of its software

Unilever has automated the processes it uses to manage its software globally through a service which has saved millions of pounds, reduced the complexity of its software portfolio and improved security.
October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11
Amazon sees profits plummet 73% as company eyes iPad’s market share

Amazon's profits plunged 73% to $63m in Q3, as it invested to take on the iPad with its e-readers and Kindle Fire tablet computer. Sales grew 44% to $10.88bn, boosted by pre-orders for the Amazon Kindle Fire.
October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11
One in five IT staff expected to quit current employer within 12 months

One in five IT staff are likely to leave their current employer next year in search of more interesting projects and career opportunities, while 80% feel they need a job change to progress their career, according to exclusive research.
October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11
John McCarthy, father of Artificial Intelligence and creator of LISP language, dies aged 84

The artificial intelligence (AI) community is mourning the death of John McCarthy, the US scientist who invented the LISP computer language at the heart of this field of study.
October 25, 2011 25 Oct'11
Virgin Media Business sees sales increase by 1.2 per cent

Virgin Business Media saw its sales increase by 1.2% to £154m compared to the same period last year, as the company saw an increase in public sector business.
October 25, 2011 25 Oct'11
Commonwealth launches web portal to connect two billion citizens

The Commonwealth Secretariat has launched a social media portal to enable the two billion citizens of its 54 member states to collaborate on common issues.