UK based Capita Insurance Services has hired Wayne Lewis as general insurance finance director. In his role, Lewis will work alongside Brent Escott, head of Capita's general insurance business. Escott said that as the company's ...
Enterprise users of public cloud welcomed Amazon Web Services' new products and price reductions,but said that additional features such as better security,ease of use and added multiple-availability to overcome outages issues could make ...
Tags: Gov-cloud, Amazon Web Services, security, cloud services
Mobile phones are expected to play a significant role in the future of cashless payments in remote and on-premise purchases. Payment companies are ramping up their mobile offerings in the scramble for this lucrative market. ...
Tags: mobile phones, cashless payments, remote purchases, on-premise purchases
As the government pushes private companies to release customer data under its Midata initiative,Computer Weekly looks at what this means for the digital economy and who stands to benefit most from this new form of"consumer empowerment". ...
Tags: Midata, customer data, consumer empowerment
Computerworld Hong Kong - Two hotels in Hong Kong are leveraging mobile apps to give guests a new experience during their stay. Both Hotel ICON in Tsim Sha Tsui East and L'hotel A(c)lan in Kwun Tong have integrated apps for guests' use ...
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing(HKEx)is the nervous system of the city's financial industry.It operates the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is one of the world's premier exchange-owners based on market capitalization of its shares. ...
Tags: HKEx, IT governance, tech initiative, Orion
Holland-based LeaseWeb has opted for storage software from Nexenta on commodity hardware as a platform for its cloud computing platform. The company chose Nexenta over HP, IBM, NetApp and open source storage products for the project, which ...
Tags: LeaseWeb, storage software, Nexenta, cloud computing platform
Distributors broaden their business activities to target markets such as lighting,automotive,industrial automation and smart energy,writes Eric Schuck,president,Arrow EMEA Components Specialisation,which has been at the foundation of ...
Tags: distributor, electronic, market
Network World-There has been much debate about the preferred wireless platform for application developers.Every platform has its own advantages and challenges,and there are key points developers need to keep in mind when choosing the most ...
Tags: wireless platform, interaction flow, ecosystem level, Windows 8
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon.com's cloud services division, has claimed that more than 300 government agencies and 1,500 education institutions in the US are now using AWS for a wide variety of uses including "big data" analytics, ...
This edition of Première Vision Pluriel registered a record number of exhibitors: 1,867 international exhibitors, among the most creative and innovative in their professions (up 9% over September 2011). Together they welcomed 60,716 ...
Tags: Première Vision, Expofil, Piero Galli, textile
The Etcetera Fall Collection launched under the new ownership of equal partners,Tom James Company and Royal Spirit,Ltd.of Hong Kong.In April of this year,Carlisle Etcetera LLC was formed to take the luxury lifestyle ladies clothing ...
Change in approach to the network Ethernet fabrics Software-defined networking Combining Ethernet fabrics and SDN to cut complexity In an age of innovation in the technology industry,we are blessed with new infrastructure on what feels ...
Tags: Network Complexity, Ethernet Fabrics, SDN, Brocade, networking
A new set of terms and conditions has been sent to existing users of Microsoft's online services–including Hotmail,SkyDrive,Messenger,Bing,MSN and Office.com–that effectively prohibits a user from filing a class action lawsuit ...
Tags: new Microsoft terms and conditions, limit legal options, Microsoft
With downward price pressures, the excess capacity that providers must have on hand for peak traffic becomes a drag on profits. After the cloud gold-rush era is over, providers will need to find ways to turn that cost center into a profit ...
Tags: cloud service, IT industry, IT technology, SETI