Finalists for the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Best Partnership Award (announced in London on 22 November) included a laser engineering research partnership involving Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd (CSTG) of Hamilton ...
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London-based Starr Underwriting Agents,a unit of Starr Companies,has deployed Sequel's(re)insurance software system,Eclipse,replacing its old underwriting system. The new Sequel's Eclipse underwriting system has been implemented by Starr ...
IDG News Service-SharePoint's new application development model has piqued the interest of ISVs and enterprise developers who create applications for Microsoft's enterprise collaboration server. The new platform,consistent with Web ...
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SAP on Tuesday is expected to showcase how it will tie together its business applications with the cloud-based business network it gained through the acquisition of Ariba during the Sapphire and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid. The Ariba ...
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IDG News Service-Verizon Wireless is closing down its app store by January next year,it said in a notice on its developer community portal. The operator said it will start removing in January the Verizon Apps application from all ...
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It is 50 years since laser scientist Dr Nick Holonyak and his team of researchers at General Electric made the breakthrough with a new type of alloy that allowed them to create the first practical, visible-spectrum LED and paved the way for ...
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It has been a long and somewhat slow journey to get here, but this week the UK finally saw the launch of a 4G network by mobile operator EE. Formed from the merger of T-Mobile and Orange, EE has rolled out the faster broadband ...
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Disconnecting Microsoft heritage Low cost iPhones Deploying MobileIron London Borough of Brent is planning to provide staff with up to 3,000 iPads and iPhones as it phases out Blackberry smartphones. London Borough of Brent will use ...
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Unlicensed copies of popular software Keep up to date Patch applications with security updates Conficker still a threat Malicious key generation(keygen)software is one of the fastest-growing types of a malware,according to the latest ...
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IDG News Service-Yammer said it has simplified and expanded the ways in which its enterprise social networking(ESN)software can be integrated with third-party business applications. Components from Yammer's ESN software that can be more ...
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Cost pressures and the rise of cloud computing have led many businesses to turn to lower-cost virtual environments on premise and in the cloud, but a lack of expertise and experience may be exposing these organisations to unnecessary ...
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A review of disaster recovery capabilities has made multinational specialist recruitment company Hudson more resilient in its day-to-day business. "We have improved Hudson's business continuity by modifying our disaster recovery ...
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Security is still the primary barrier to adopting mobile business applications, a study has found. More than three-quarters of the 300 UK firms polled said they planned to adopt mobile business applications in the next 12 months. But ...
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US insurance company Nationwide Insurance is using VMware's ITBM tool to manage all the costs associated with running IT services for the business. Nationwide Insurance now offers internal IT users a service catalogue, with pricing, to ...
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Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
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