UK technology companies are expecting to expand despite concerns about the economy. According to a survey of 86 senior UK IT company executives conducted by IT industry body Intellect, 43% say their organisations are very likely to ...
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Skype today launched a new platform to enable small businesses to connect with one another and potential customers. Named Skype in the workspace, the website enables businesses to set themselves up with an online presence and begin ...
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As workloads expanded at Dublin Airport Authority, it launched a major IT infrastructure overhaul earlier this year with HP’s converged infrastructure and VMware vSphere platform. In under a year, the virtualisation project has given ...
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Despite precautions by system providers, an extra second added to the official timekeeping record Saturday triggered several popular Internet services to crash over the weekend, including LinkedIn, Reddit and Quantas airline's reservation ...
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Government officials are considering the viability of ordering suppliers bidding for Whitehall contracts to disclose the amount of tax they pay in the UK relative to their UK revenue, Computer Weekly has learned. The move follows recent ...
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Wolverhampton Girls’ High School has installed wireless technology across its campus to enable its staff and students to use mobile devices in lessons. Wolverhampton Girls’ High School has 750 pupils, many of whom bring in ...
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Taiwan-based sapphire substrate makers believe December revenues are likely to show a continuous decrease due to the low season and year-end inventory checks by downstream LED firms. Taiwan-based Crystalwise and Sino Sapphire will ...
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A 10MW (megawatt) modular datacentre worth £60m will be built in Birmingham by March 2013 to provide storage services for high street banks, financial services firms, media companies, technology companies and small businesses. The ...
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The provision of GP IT services are to be given to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), in a move which could see doctors’ systems outsourced to third-party providers, according to the NHS Commissioning Board’s (NHS CB) ...
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Fujitsu has pulled out of the £40m tender to roll out superfast broadband across rural Cumbria. However, Computer Weekly has learned the supplier didn't fully complete the bidding process. A council document, seen by a source, ...
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Nearly three years after its launch, Windows 7 is poised to replace Windows XP as Microsoft's most popular operating system, a Web analytics company said Sunday. According to Net Applications, a U.S. firm that tracks browser and operating ...
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Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt wrote to Europe's top antitrust authorities with proposals aimed at avoiding a fine for anticompetitive behavior and abuse of its dominant market position. The European Commission confirmed Monday ...
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Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has revealed the 12 cities awarded funding for superfast broadband roll-out in the second phase of the government’s ‘super-connected cities’ programme. He made the announcement ...
Verizon Wireless said the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE smartphone will be on its stores shelves exclusively on Thursday for $149.99 after rebate with a new two-year agreement. The HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE smartphone. The 4-in. ...
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HP has unveiled new networking software to help with moving data in cloud environments. The Ethernet Virtual Interconnect [EVI] solution is designed to enable up to eight datacentres to have more reliable connections between one another ...
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