A data breach at Essex County Council, which has exposed up to 400 vulnerable people to identity theft, is to be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The security lapse, by a council employee, involved the names, ...
Tags: ICO, Essex County Council, investigation, computing
Barnet council has recommended Capita as its preferred bidder for a £32m-a-year contract to run its back-office services. The 10-year deal would see the outsourcing company operate London Borough of Barnet's new support and customer ...
Tags: Barnet council, Barbara Jacobson, BBC, EXPOTEL
Fitch Ratings Director Jay Djemal said that Latin American Metals and Mining observed that higher operating costs remain entrenched. The report said that “Higher operating costs will continue in 2013 for metals and mining. Cost ...
Tags: metals, Mining, mining exports, copper miners
Computerworld - Microsoft will walk away from the "Metro" tag it's been using for over a year to describe the new environment and apps in both Windows 8 and Windows RT, the company confirmed Friday. "We have used Metro style as a code ...
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A U.S. appeals court denied Samsung on Thursday a stay on a preliminary injunction by a District Court on the sale of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, in a patent dispute with Apple. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also ...
Anti-malware vendor Webroot has bet the company on cloud. In October of last year, the company stopped selling packaged software and moved to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. CEO Dick Williams says the switch improves the customer ...
Tags: SaaS model, CEO, Dick Williams, service mode, cloud
Petrochemical producers are expected to increase investments in Alberta in the coming few years, with the prospects of additional feedstock becoming available and current market conditions favoring NGL and ethane extraction costs, a key ...
Tags: petrochemical, petrochemical spending, NGL, ethane
Experian has announced an international partnership with iovation, the Device Reputation Authority, to further enhance Experian's global fraud prevention capabilities. Iovation's advanced device recognition software, dynamic referencing and ...
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When it comes to bathroom trends, like any kind of trend, it all depends on cultural context, and timing. After all, what's in right now depends on how people value styles and function, as well as that hard-to-pin-down ex-factor that kicks ...
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The Federal Court in Sydney has ordered Thai Airways International Public Company to pay $7.5 million in penalties for engaging in cartel conduct in breach of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (now the Competition and Consumer Act 2010). ...
Tags: Price Fixing, Airways, Penalties, Service
Reuters reported that energy over metals, raw over refined, sums up the likely theme for China's commodity demand next year. Commodity markets had become accustomed to China as a voracious consumer of resources, but 2012 showed that ...
Tags: Commodities Market, Market Trend, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy
Europe's coatings companies, especially the multinational ones, are reasonably confident they can continue to increase their sales in the short- to medium-term, unless the world is plunged into a second recession. But they are much ...
Tags: coating, Europe, recession, sales, interim results
The risk of a man developing cancer over his lifetime will increase to one in two by 2027,a new study has suggested. Figures from Cancer Research UK suggest that,within 15 years,50 men out of every 100 are likely to be diagnosed with ...
Tags: cancer, Cancer Research UK, risk
The rating on Steel Authority of India Ltd reflects the company's good market position and diverse customers in India and its favorable cost position due to its captive sources of iron ore. SAIL's good access to funding as a government ...
Tags: Steel, iron ore, steel producer, steelmaking capacity
A year after the withdrawal of US troops,the terrorist attacks in Iraq continue,and the tensions between central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government continue to rise. In the year ahead,we can expect to see further ...