Regional outsourcing venture Southwest One obscured the true extent of its financial losses with a highly unusual combination of understated costs and post-dated credits in its 2010 accounts,according to an analysis of the firm's accounts ...
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Earlier this year,the Ohio Department of Public Safety successfully completed a five-year effort to move its mainframe applications to a Windows-based system,and IT personnel did all of the work in-house. The agency began work on the ...
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Syrinix has been chosen for the Artemis Project Top 50 Water Tech Listing. This list identifies the fifty most promising companies globally which are developing innovation solutions for the challenges facing the water industry. Syrinix is ...
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"The number of fronts of risk and war, as some people call it, are definitely multiplying," says Clinton McFadden, senior operations manager for IBM X-Force research and development, which just released the results of its X-Force 2012 ...
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The government should audit Somerset County Council's Southwest One outsourcing venture with IBM to get to the bottom of dubious financial arrangements and broken promises made when the deal was signed in 2007,the local MP told Parliament. ...
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Smart investors know that, often, the biggest growth opportunities are the ones you can't invest in – yet. New technologies typically have the most potential for growth when they are still under development or in the early phases of ...
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Open source systems are essential to business, according to a report from policy advisor Jim Norton. The report, Open for Business, sponsored by travel firm Amadeus IT Group, calls for open systems in demanding real-time processing ...
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Organisations are struggling to manage the challenges of the mobile era,with less than a third formally testing their mobile applications,a survey has revealed. Where organisations are conducting mobile Quality Assurance(QA),they are ...
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NTNU researchers have patented and are commercializing GaAs nanowires grown on graphene,a hybrid material with competitive properties.Semiconductors grown on graphene are expected to become the basis for new types of device systems,and ...
IBM is releasing a new version of its Connections enterprise social networking(ESN)software,which companies use to give their employees social media capabilities adapted for workplace collaboration,such as employee profiles and blogging. ...
Supermarket chain Tesco is investing £65m in a state-of-the-art datacentre as it gears up to expand its web operations outside the UK. The retailer has signed a 15-year contract with datacentre operator Sentrum, to host the ...
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When transitioning workloads to virtual environments, one of the big drawbacks for data center administrators can be a loss of visibility. When a problem occurs, it can be difficult to get a handle on details like which users are affected ...
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CrayoNano of Norway has grown GaAs nanowires on graphene, a patented hybrid material with competitive optoelectronic properties. "We have managed to combine low cost, transparency and flexibility in our new electrode," says Professor ...
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HP has announced the appointment of Robert Youngjohns to run its Autonomy software arm,ending a search that began in June after the sudden departure of Autonomy founder and CEO Mike Lynch. Youngjohns previously worked at Sun ...
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Mobile malware has surged this year,with Android smartphones and tablets by far the most likely to be attacked.That's according to data released by security software provider McAfee in its second quarter threats report. The number of ...
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