Essex County Council is to upgrade ICT services for 200,000 users in an GBP 81m next generation network (NGN) contract that also aims to cut costs. The council awarded the NGN contract to Daisy Updata Communications Limited (DUCL), a ...
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Tablets, especially iPads, have become a way of life at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center, which now issues the tablets to incoming medical students and just last month, the hospital's Department of Emergency Medicine said ...
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Pwnie Express, nationally known for innovative penetration testing tools, stormed into DerbyCon as a silver sponsor this year. The company unveiled the newest of their products, the Pwnie Express Enterprise Pentest Appliance (PX-EPA). ...
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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 will mark “the end” of the computer industry’s dominant OS due to increasing competition and choice sparked by alternatives, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff predicted Friday. Windows ...
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Three-quarters of charities believe technology has enabled them to help more people, but 80% have no plans to use cloud computing. Research from Accenture was conducted to coincide with Byte Night, which sees workers in the IT industry ...
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HP has no plans to launch a smartphone next year but will need to sell one eventually to avoid missing out on “a huge segment of the population,” CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, clarifying remarks she made last month. Whitman ...
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Innovation, consensus and anarchy in Welsh IT Wales as a networked nation Welsh datacentre rationalisation programme Aligning technology to the needs of Wales Balancing Wales's IT books In many respects Wales has a far better track record ...
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A lot of CIOs in the Middle East may be talking about cloud, but when it comes to deployment it remains low on the list of priorities. This according to Uwe Neumeier, VP, Global Server Sales, Fujitsu. The rise of cloud technologies has ...
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Since the Hong Kong SAR government's establishment of the OGCIO--and its ditching of the ITSD (Information Technology Services Department)--in 2004, many local ICT pros and startups have slammed the government's lukewarm attitude towards ...
Hardly a day goes by without a story about the UK banking community messing up in some way or other. Some of the highest profile stories of the year have been around banks side-stepping regulation and fixing the markets for their own ...
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In the seven years since Katrina struck New Orleans, advances in computer power and storm surge modeling is giving the city detailed data about Hurricane Isaac's impact. Computer models have already mapped, on a continuing basis as ...
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Research and advisory firm, Gartner, has released its list of technology predictions and trends for the years 2013 and beyond. According to Gartner, its top predictions focus on economic risks, opportunities and innovations that will ...
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Cameleon Software announced today that the MMA Group, a leader in mutual insurance, chose to deploy its configure, price, quote (CPQ) solution to accompany the overhaul of its information system. With 180 years of expertise, the MMA Group ...
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Technology and Business Society (TBS) announced the launch of a new initiative to create the Chief Information Officers (CIOs) Advisory Council to identify, discuss and advise on Information Technology issues and innovations, and develop ...
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There are about 2.2 million people working as information security professionals today, says Hord Tipton, executive officer for security education and credentialing organization (ISC)2 and former CIO of the U.S. Department of the Interior. ...