The Government Digital Service (GDS) estimates it will save £1.8bn per year moving offline services to digital channels, according to a copy of its draft Digital Strategy seen by Computer Weekly. The focus of the strategy is on ...
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Microsoft is preparing to release an update to its Dynamics CRM Online software that will feature a new user experience as well as tie-ins to its Yammer social networking software and Skype communication platform,the company announced ...
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McAfee is the latest information security supplier to admit that the challenges facing organisations are so great that it will take cross-industry collaboration to turn the tide. A cross-industry approach is being advocated by other big ...
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The new version of the Splunk machine data search engine comes with a distributed indexing technology that could save storage costs for those customers running the software as a high-availability service. "The data that is being collected ...
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Polycom plans to break down one more set of barriers to videoconferencing early next year with a cloud-based software platform that can set up sessions with anyone who uses Facebook,Skype,or certain other online services. The ...
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European regulations for the gambling sector,launching new products and driving revenue growth as a recently floated public company put enormous pressure on the IT team at Betfair. But chief technology officer(CTO)Tony McAlister,in post ...
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Salesforce.com has revealed details of what's coming in its next major product update,Winter'13,in a set of release notes recently posted on its website. One significant feature is the ability to run polls through Salesforce.com's Chatter ...
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An IDC study has found that businesses using Amazon's cloud services over the past five years have made considerable savings. The Amazon-commissioned survey was based on interviews with 11 large and mid-sized organisations,based in North ...
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Mozilla rebranded its mobile operating system -- which it's been working on for more than a year -- as Firefox OS to tie it with its best-known product, the Firefox browser. Smartphones powered by the new Firefox OS will be manufactured ...
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Google at its I/O conference is emphasizing its growing number of music,movies and TV shows available for Android tablets and smartphones through its Play store,and those entertainment options will be available on Google TV devices in the ...
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During the Windows 8 preview day in Amsterdam, Microsoft explained how it plans to change the way everyone uses computers in its so-called "beautiful experience". This will inevitably affect the way corporates use the Windows operating ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft has won a motion to dismiss a seven-year-old,$1.3 billion lawsuit from Novell charging Microsoft with illegal antitrust actions around its Windows 95 release. In his ruling,U.S.District Judge Frederick Motz ...