Global food commodity prices dropped back in 2012, with dairy and sugar showing the sharpest declines, new figures from the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation show. Despite ongoing concerns around rising food prices, the UN ...
Tags: food commodity prices, 2012, FAO
The new European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) is to officially open on Friday, 11 January, at the European Police Office (Europol) in the Hague in the Netherlands. "The Cybercrime Centre will give a strong boost to the EU's capacity to fight ...
Tags: Cybercrime, internet, online crime, online communication
, the co-founder of popular website Reddit and the co-creator, in his teens, of the RSS syndication tool, has been found dead in his home in New York in an apparent suicide. The precocious programmer and internet activist had been due in ...
Tags: Aaron Swartz, Reddit, RSS syndication tool, suicide
German carmaker Audi has unveiled the gasoline variant of SQ5 sport utility vehicle(SUV)ahead of its global debut at the upcoming 2013 Detroit Auto Show in the US,to be held during 14-27 January. The new SUV is powered by a 2,995 cc,3.0 ...
Tags: Ahead of Detroit Debut, Audi, Gasoline Powered SQ5 SUV, German
Given Imaging has introduced a new version of esophageal manometry analysis solution, designed for use in the company's ManoScan ESO test to assess esophageal motor function. Using the latest Chicago classification parameters, ManoView ...
Tags: Given Imaging, esophageal manometry analysis solution, ESO test
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) CIO Philip Langsdale has passed away at the age of 56. Langsdale, who is understood to have passed away suddenly on 22 December, was director of IT at Asda between 1992 and 1997, as well as chief ...
Tags: DWP, CIO, Philip Langsdale, BAA
CIO - There's no question, we're at an inflection point in the digitization of our world. In every domain and dimension, the substitution of digital for analog is racing ahead. A couple recent examples illustrate the power of this trend. ...
Tags: digitization, digital, transforming manufacturing, IT, big data
Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
Tags: iPad apps, App store, IT groups, IT industry
The Department of Health is introducing a £9m child protection information system to log children who visit A&E in hospitals. The software will flag to doctors and nurses if the child is subject to a child protection plan or is being ...
Tags: hospital, information system, treatment, Child Protection Database
Affinity Automation is excited to announce that it will be adding the eSight Energy Management suite to its line-up of energy information system offerings. SCHAUMBURG, IL, September 29, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- According to Allan Evora, ...
Tags: LLC, Computer Products, Managed Service
The PC market in Western Europe is changing, which could transform the way businesses procure PCs. The latest PC market share data from Gartner shows Acer grew 15.3% to become western Europe's second biggest PC supplier. Asus grew 42.3% ...
Tags: Western Europe, PC market, Dell, IT consumerisation
The Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions has released a new version of its wireless network security visualization tool, MeerCAT Pro Version 4.0. NORTHPORT, NY, August 26, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- MeerCAT, a visualization tool ...
Tags: Secure Decisions, MeerCAT, wireless network, security visualization tool
South Lanarkshire council has invested in an IBM XIV disk storage platform as part of its move to virtualisation. The IBM XIV environment supports email, file and print and virtualised line of business applications to minimise downtime. ...
Tags: IBM XIV, storage platform, software, computer products
And now, the end is near. On 23 November 2012, Gerry Pennell will leave the job of a lifetime. Four years after signing up as CIO for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, his IT team has won every technology gold medal going after ...
Tags: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympic Games, IT systems
Strict standards in Germany Storage from Hitachi Data Systems Cost recovery Viability test and TrueCopy Licence Hitachi Dynamic Tiering For the German Federal Office for Freight Transport - BAG - data management was becoming a big ...
Tags: BAG, storage virtualisation, IT team, public sector