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When Will It Be Amazon's Turn to Create Some Sizzle?
Dec 24, 2012With Microsoft and Google taking turns grabbing the spotlight on the tablet stage, when will it be Amazon's turn to create some sizzle? Early predictions were that the Internet's largest retailer would refresh its Kindle Fire tablet by ...
Tags: Kindle, Amazon, USA, Data Center
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The Olympic Games in London Have Sparked Interest From Fraudsters
Dec 24, 2012The Olympic Games in London have sparked interest from fraudsters, with a raft of sites supposedly offering live video streams of events, according to security vendor Trend Micro. Trend Micro called out on Sunday more than a dozen sites ...
Tags: Fraudsters, Data Security, Olympic Games, London
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Saudi Aramco Claims to Be Over a Cyber Attack&Maintains Oil Production Was Not Disrupted
Dec 24, 2012International oil company Saudi Aramco claims to be over a cyber attack on 15 August and maintains that oil production was not disrupted. The company said around 30,000 workstation computers that were hit by a virus attack are back ...
Tags: International oil company, Saudi Aramco, cyber attack, oil production
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Old Mutual Is Able to Improve Service IT Gets From Its IT Suppliers
Dec 24, 2012Financial services firm Old Mutual has been able to improve the service it gets from its IT suppliers, increase IT effectiveness and at the same time lower costs through the creation of an outsourcing strategy that is mutually beneficial to ...
Tags: Financial services, Old Mutual, IT suppliers, IT effectiveness
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Ericsson Is Suing Samsung for Patent Infringement
Dec 24, 2012Ericsson is suing Samsung for patent infringement, despite negotiating over the use of the inventions for almost two years. The two mobile firms entered into an agreement in 2001 allowing Samsung to license the use of 24 of ...
Tags: Ericsson, Samsung, patent dispute, mobile devices, patented technologies
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Cornwall Council Voted in Support of IT Outsourcing and Telehealth Partnership with BT
Dec 24, 2012Cornwall County Council has voted in support of an IT outsourcing and telehealth partnership with BT after rejecting a controversial plan to privatise a much broader range of council services. After councillors threw out their executive's ...
Tags: Cornwall County Council, IT outsourcing, telehealth partnership, BT
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The G-Cloud Looks Set to Become The Future Model for The Way Government Buys Its IT
Dec 24, 2012The G-Cloud looks set to become the future model for the way government buys its IT – with a new framework in the pipeline that will include secure email services for the NHS – and calls for it to become a blueprint for all new ...
Tags: G-Cloud ramps, secure email services, user device services
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UK Retailers Lose £147 Million of Revenue Due to Missed Sales Opportunities
Dec 24, 2012UK retailers could lose an estimated £147 million of revenue this Christmas due to missed sales opportunities through out-of-stock products according to Vanson Bourne The survey of 100 retailers sponsored by NetSuite used ...
Tags: Christmas, out-of-stock products, Vanson Bourne, Poor ERP
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British American Tobacco Deployed Automatic Data Extraction Tools to Free up Auditor Time
Dec 24, 2012British American Tobacco has deployed automatic data extraction tools on its SAP environment to free up auditor time. David Barkhausen, senior IT auditor at British American Tobacco (BAT), spoke on the extraction of SAP data for audit ...
Tags: audit function, SAP environment, LiveCompare tool, tool
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IDC's Digital Universe Study Predicts There Will Be 40 Zettabytes of Data on The Planet
Dec 24, 2012Analyst group IDC's new Digital Universe study predicts there will be 40 Zettabytes of data on the planet by 2020, an amount that exceeds previous forecasts by 14%. To put that into a real world context, 40 ZB is equal to 57 times the ...
Tags: Analyst group, Digital Universe study, EMC, storage company
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A $499 Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE Tablet
Dec 24, 2012Amazon unveiled new e-readers and tablets on Thursday -- the biggest surprise to analysts was a $499 Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE tablet. mazon's new Kindle Fire HD tablet with 4G LTE wireless and 32GB of storage will sell for $499. ...
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Autonomy Founder and Former CEO Mike Lynch Has Written an Open Letter to HP
Dec 24, 2012Autonomy founder and former CEO Mike Lynch has written an open letter to HP calling for immediate and specific explanations to the allegations HP has made about the software company. HP bought UK software company Autonomy for $11.7bn in ...
Tags: HP, software company, software, HP allegations
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IT Departments Prepares to Renegotiate IT Support&Invest in MDM to Support BYOD Practices
Dec 24, 2012IT departments must be prepared to renegotiate IT support and invest in mobile device management (MDM) to support staff using their own devices at work. A survey of 3,796 consumers across 17 different countries by analyst Ovum has found ...
Tags: IT departments, IT, BYOD, Ovum
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Citi Expects to Record Pre-Tax Charges of $1bn in The Fourth Quarter of 2012
Dec 24, 2012Citigroup is to lose more than 5,000 IT and operations jobs as part of the banking giant’s axing of 11,000 jobs globally. Some 40% of the jobs being cut in the firm’s Global Consumer Banking arm are to come from IT ...
Tags: Citigroup, technology jobs, operations jobs, banking giant, banking
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Indian Providers Have Had to Deal with These Contingencies
Dec 24, 2012"Indian providers have had to deal with these contingencies-international telecom cables being sliced, large union strikes that impact workers-so they are generally more prepared to deal with [them]," says Steve Hall, partner with ...
Tags: Indian, telecom cables, outsourcing consultancy, ISG
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