SAP's Business Objects BI (business intelligence) product line may soon begin receiving a visual overhaul based on a new "design language" or methodology called LAVA (Lightweight Applied Visual Analytics). There are six design principles ...
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Fujitsu will continue to provide Virgin Money with support for its mainframe environment, after the bank signed a new five year deal with the IT solutions provider. Financial terms were not disclosed. Further reading CIO interview: How ...
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NHS England has issued a tender worth between £200,000 and £2m to train 100,000 people in basic online skills, in its bid to boost health literacy. The plan comes under NHS England's commitment in 2013/14 and 2015/16 to reduce ...
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With A-level results appearing up and down the country, the JCQ (Joint Council for Qualifications) has released its reports on attainment, as well as numbers of pupils entering for examinations, with ICT once again falling outside the top ...
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Telefonica-owned mobile operator O2, has unveiled its 4G tariffs, and customers hoping that a switch to 4G would be cheaper than on rival EE will be left dissatisfied. O2 does not have a similar option to EE's cheapest price plan of ...
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The University of St Andrews, one of the oldest universities in the world, has slashed its power bills and carbon emissions with a radical process of server consolidation and virtualisation. The project, which is ongoing, involved ...
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The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) has launched two new schemes to help organisations obtain the relevant expertise in the event that they are subjected to a cyber-attack. CESG, the information security arm of British ...
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In a bid to plug a "major skills gap" in the datacentre industry, the professional association Data Centre Alliance (DCA) has launched a bootcamp to lure unemployed graduates to work in the industry. The DCA claims that the data centre ...
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There's "no reason at all" for the Force India Formula 1 team to upgrade its network operating system to Windows 8, Adrian Collinson, its head of IT, has told Computing. Force India's systems at both the factory and the track currently ...
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Businesses are collecting more information about individuals than ever, but almost two thirds of people aren't aware what data about them is being collected or don't know it's being collected at all. Further reading Ninety per cent of ...
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Chinese smartphone maker ZTE has revealed that it will sell the Mozilla Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open on auction site eBay, retailing at a price of £59.99 [$79.99]. The device, first revealed at Mobile World Congress earlier this ...
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Facebook doesn't want to be just a place for friends anymore. As part of its quest for mobile and global domination, the social network is adding restaurant reservations and movie show times to the Facebook app. Now Facebook's mobile ...
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BlackBerry has launched the 9720 smartphone running the 7 OS in a bid to stay relevant in the growing low end of the smartphone market.? The launch of the new device comes as BlackBerry on Monday?formed a committee to explore strategic ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added new features to the company's management platform CloudFormation that aim to improve performance and simplify updates. As companies get more used to running applications in the cloud, they are putting ...
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Apple is to unveil new iPad models, including one with a thinner design and an iPad mini with a high-resolution screen, at a 10 September event. The Cupertino, California-based firm has unveiled new products in autumn for several years, ...
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