Simon Moorhead began his career as the Bank of England’s CIO with a baptism of fire, having started in November 2008 – just two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed and a year after Northern Rock was rescued by the government. ...
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IT vendors and analysts sometimes make statements about SMBs not "getting‟ the importance of disaster recovery (DR). But how true is this? And for those taking measures to allow recovery of IT systems and data in the event ...
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There is a growing recognition that rather than being a distraction or a time drain, social tools could hold the key to a more productive way of doing business, this report from Google argues. Today professionals are using social tools ...
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Boeing has announced it will build in Wi-Fi connectivity into its lines of 747-8 and 777 planes from the end of 2013. Boeing said the technology would be installed at the production line stage and enable passengers to use mobile phones, ...
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US President Barack Obama should strongly consider issuing an executive to help secure computer networks from attack, says former White House cyber security chief Howard Schmidt. The advice comes as a Senate cyber security bill remains ...
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BT is trialling a 10Gbps broadband connection to a business in Cornwall in an attempt to future proof its network. The line runs from the Truro exchange in the centre of the county to Arcol's factory in Threemilestone, where the firm ...
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Businesses must make availability of IT services a boardroom issue because there is growing evidence of employee frustration and resentment when systems are unavailable, according to research from Imperial College. Many staff now expect ...
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Stehouwer's Frozen Foods, a Michigan establishment, is recalling 6,039lbs of Pigs in the Blanket products as they contain milk, an ingredient that is not mentioned on the label, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety ...
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A Wi-Fi network running across the financial centre of the City of London has been made free to the public. The Square Mile first became Wi-Fi enabled back in 2007, after the City of London Corporation signed a deal with The Cloud to ...
More than one in four Wi-Fi networks in London are poorly secured or not secured at all, a scanning experiment by security firm Sophos has revealed. The experiment was conducted over two days by the firm’s director of technology ...
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Engineering firm Mott MacDonald will roll out Microsoft products globally over the next year as it moves towards a Microsoft-centric business strategy. More than 12,000 of the company's staff in 140 countries will have access to Microsoft ...
Research in Motion (RIM) has been ordered to pay $147.2m to Mformation Technologies in damages for patent infringement. The patent ruling comes at a difficult time as the BlackBerry maker struggles to regain market share and boost ...
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The new study published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition has demonstrated that the InFat, a high beta-palmitate fat blend, provides health benefits for formula-fed infants. InFat is a patented and ...
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When it comes to consumers' rights to control their own browsers, everybody wants to sound like they're pro-choice. But with many millions of advertising dollars on the line, the definition of pro-choice tends to align with the financial ...
Australia - Lots of Watts Central Coast has recently installed a new lighting bar and an LSC dimming system into the auditorium of a local High School, replacing their aging 1980's dimming and patching system. Two new LSC Redback ...
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