IT managers at SMEs will be made redundant in the next five years and replaced by a financial director or CIO, according to the MD of data centre provider City Lifeline, Roger Keegan. Keegan told Computing that in-house data centres are ...
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Aiming to enable users to multi-task at high speed, Intex Technologies has launched two smartphones under its "Cloud" range - Cloud X4 and Cloud Y2. Both phones have capacitive multi-touch display, Dual SIM support and dual camera ...
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Lambeth Council has awarded IT services firm Capita a £3.4m customer services management contract. The nine-year contract has been awarded through Lambeth Council's London-wide framework agreement. It will run alongside existing ...
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Join two Computing journalists as they politely - and sometimes impolitely - disagree over key technology trends and subjects. In the third of Computing's Tech Tiff episodes, John Leonard and Sooraj Shah debate how necessary 4G is for ...
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has announced a global partnership between the social media network and other technology firms, with the aim of making internet access available to the two-thirds of the world that are not yet connected. ...
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Jolla, the mobile operating system start-up established by ex-Nokia employees, says that it has sold out the first batch of its forthcoming debut smartphone. Based on the Sailfish operating system, a refined version of Nokia's Linux-based ...
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PayPal has launched a chip and pin reader which allows small businesses to securely accept credit and debit card payments wherever they do business. Built for businesses which traditionally rely on cash, PayPal hopes the likes of market ...
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Capgemini has launched an on-demand analytics platform via Amazon Web Services (AWS) to give companies a cost-effective way to handle their Big Data. Capgemini's Elastic Analytics offering is billed as "an enterprise-ready solution that ...
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Google has bought Foxconn's Hon Hai Precision Industry display patent portfolio as the search company ramps up its development of Google Glass. Hon Hai, a major supplier for Apple and other top IT brands, sold a portfolio of Head Mounted ...
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In the never-ending battle of iOS versus Android, one of the biggest marks against Google is that its Play store isn't regulated enough for the novice smartphone user.?For every golden application, there's at least three unsafe or ...
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Apple could be about to launch new Haswell-based MacBook Pro and iMac models, according to new reports. With Apple's rumoured 10 September event just around the corner, speculation about a?MacBook Pro refresh?and an update to the iMac is ...
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Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile customers: Motorola's bonafide, American-made Moto X smartphone should be available for purchase within the next few days. The company's own Vice President of product management, Punit Soni, revealed in a ...
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Mozilla is developing a protocol that aims to let security tools and Web browsers work better together. Configuring a web browser to work with a security tool involves writing platform and browser-specific extensions, a non-trivial ...
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Five U.S. privacy groups have opposed a proposed US$8.5 million settlement with Google in a class action lawsuit over search privacy, as it fails to require Google to change its business practices, they said. Google was sued in October ...
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Samsung Electronics was denied Thursday a retrial over the "overscroll bounce" patent in its dispute with Apple in a federal court in California. The South Korean company had in a filing asked for a retrial as it said that Apple had ...
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