Suppliers to supermarket chain Morrisons have been left counting the cost after a glitch with a new computer system meant that many went unpaid. The company said that the cause of the glitch had now been identified. It is currently ...
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Boots, in partnership with Visa Europe and merchant card processing provider Streamline, is to continue its rollout of contactless payments across the UK. This follows a successful launch in over 600 of its largest stores, including many ...
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Travel company Thomas Cook has improved its website performance with the use of Dell's Foglight Performance Monitoring tool, resulting in an estimated 30 per cent increase in bookings. The tool, which is based on technology that Dell ...
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BT has announced the next stage of its £2.5bn fibre broadband rollout, which will extend availability to a further 1.2 million premises. The company said 99 new fibre-enabled exchanges will bring fast broadband to 600,000 premises ...
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Software vendors Microsoft and Symantec have "taken down" the Bamital botnet following a joint investigation lasting more than three years. The operation involved shutting down servers that were being used to control hundreds of thousands ...
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Game-like computer programmes dumb down the usefulness of interactive IT-based education, according to veteran television presenter Johnny Ball. Speaking to Computing at last week's BETT show in London, Ball said the use of gaming ...
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Autonomy, the software vendor led by Dr Mike Lynch (pictured) and bought by HP for $10.3bn (£7.1bn) in 2011, is to be investigated over allegations of accounting irregularities. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has revealed it ...
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An industry group called the Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (ICOMP) has claimed that Google's dominant position in online search and advertising was generated as a result of a "broad-ranging and illegal network of ...
Southeastern Asset Management, Dell's biggest external shareholder, has written a letter to Dell's board of directors to express its "extreme disappointment" at the company's $24.4bn (£15.54bn) buyout deal, claiming that it "grossly ...
The popular games platform Steam is now available for Linux laptops, according to a blog by Canonical, distributor of the Ubuntu operating system. While Linux has long been one of the main operating system of choice on the server, ...
Norwegian web browser provider Opera Software has announced its acquisition of California-based mobile video optimisation provider Skyfire Labs in a deal that could be worth up to $155m (£100m). The move comes after Opera revealed ...
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Dell's K3000 mobile device management (MDM) appliance is set for release next month, offering organisations a secure means of managing tablets and smartphones in the workplace. But while it offers web-based dashboard support for a wide ...
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The datacentre business of bankrupt 2e2 has been acquired by Oakley Capital Private Equity in an eleventh hour deal. The acquisition will save existing users from either having to pay up to keep the datacentre going or migrating to an ...
Intel is set to launch a web-based video streaming service this year, as the chipmaker attempts to find new means of making profit in the face of declining PC sales. The world's largest computer chip manufacturer has felt the force of a ...
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Private clouds are now a better option for secure and manageable data retention than in-house storage. That's according to Jayson Dudley, group insfrastructure manager at accountancy firm Mazars. "It seems a mismatch in someone's ...
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