The ICO has today warned that the data protection regulation currently making its way through the European Parliament may not suit the UK, and in fact may not even reach the agreement necessary for it to come into force. Further reading ...
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Open source database companies SkySQL and Monty Program - creators of MariaDB - have announced a merger that will see "key members" of the original MySQL team reunite to create what the two companies are calling a "next generation ...
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Media giant News International is progressively shifting its IT infrastructure from in-house data centres to the cloud, after deciding three years ago to shift from being a newspaper company to a multimedia company. Further reading ...
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The UK continues to struggle against cyber criminals with no clear victory in sight. That's what the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee heard from the cyber security industry as experts gave evidence about e-crime. "I don't think the ...
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Users of consumer technology and social media reacted quickly after explosions ripped through crowds near the finish line of the Boston Marathon last week, sending out updates and snapping photos and recording videos that officials said ...
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At universities today, Cobol is often taught as an elective, if it's taught at all -- and that could create staffing problems for large enterprises. Billions of lines of Cobol code are still in use at large businesses and in government ...
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The easy upgrades from Windows XP are done, say migration experts, who predict that a sizable number of large enterprises will still be running the aged operating system after Microsoft stops supporting it. Microsoft plans to retire ...
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The unemployment rate for people at the heart of many tech innovations -- electrical engineers -- rose sharply in the first quarter of this year for reasons that aren't clear. The number of electrical engineering jobs declined by 40,000 ...
Miami Children's Hospital recently launched a free iPhone app that uses Wi-Fi triangulation to help patients and their families find their way around the medical center. The app, called Fit4KidsCare, is even designed to detect vertical ...
Sensing a need among its customers for faster software development, IBM has acquired UrbanCode, a provider of tools suited for the emerging practice of rapid software development called devops. UrbanCode's application release automation ...
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A growing interest in big data, analytics, and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according to research from IDC. SAP and Oracle fared the best among the large software vendors. The worldwide ...
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The European Commission said it has launched a formal investigation into a group of smartcard chip suppliers who are suspected of breaking the European Union's antitrust laws by operating a cartel, and has sent letters detailing its ...
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Infor is hoping a new social collaboration tool, updated middleware and user interfaces, as well as options for cloud-based deployments, will help cement its place as one of the industry's largest ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendors ...
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From December to March, Apple's iPhone lost ground to smartphones from rival Samsung in a survey to assess consumers' future purchase plans, a market research firm said last week. According to 451 Research's ChangeWave, of 4,000 consumers ...
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Google must pay a $190,000 fine in Germany for gathering and storing emails, photos, passwords and chat protocols from unprotected Wi-Fi networks with Google Street View cars, Hamburg's Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of ...
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