Microsoft has won a third victory in Germany over Google's Motorola unit in the ongoing patent wars between the two companies. A German court ruled that several Motorola tablets and phones infringe a Microsoft patented method for apps to ...
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US intelligence officials say there is growing evidence Iran was behind recent cyber attacks that disabled computers across the Saudi oil industry. These attacks contributed to a warning last week from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that ...
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Gaining a better understanding of customers is the main motivation for big data programmes. This is one finding from a SearchDataManagementUK survey of 184 UK and continental European IT and business professionals who are primarily ...
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HTC claimed a patent victory over Apple in the latest legal battle in the ongoing smartphone patent turf war. In a London court yesterday the judge ruled that HTC had not infringed four technologies that Apple had claimed as its own and ...
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Nationwide has reached a major milestone in its five-year transformation project, with the roll-out of a mortgage application system to some 740 branches. In 2008, Nationwide embarked on a 1bn project to transform its technology after ...
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Public Wi-Fi is beginning to find its way into every corner of the UK. It is no longer the domain of the American-style coffee shop, with pubs, retailers and even theme parks offering their own connections. However, this is not enough for ...
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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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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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Google has temporarily blocked YouTube users in Libya and Egypt from viewing clips from the US amateur film Innocence of Muslims. Google blocked YouTube access to the film following the death of the US ambassador to Libya during protests ...
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved social network Facebook's proposed acquisition of mobile photo-sharing service Instagram. The approval comes a week after the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) cleared the deal, giving ...
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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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EMI Music Publishing, has deployed a cloud-based IT service management software-as-a-service (SaaS) from Sunrise Software to support 900 users in 55 countries around the world. SaaS service management product Sostenuto took one week to ...
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Ericsson 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 ...
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The 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 ...
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