Technology is taking an ever more central role in the way we work, live and play. The future for the IT community is bright, and IT professionals have a unique opportunity to lead their organisations to a successful economic recovery. But ...
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Staffordshire County Council claims it has managed to save pound 1.5m by adopting the Cabinet Office framework for a public sector network. Staffordshire County Council was one of the first to embrace the public sector network (PSN) ...
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A European aeronautical supplier's website has been infected with a state-sponsored zero-day exploit, according to security firm, Sophos. Business IT administrators and other computer users should use caution in the light of the discovery ...
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Microsoft has said it is increasing its investment in China as it looks to take advantage of the growing market. The company will invest in new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and ...
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Hewlett-Packard said in a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it had determined that its products were procured from a partner that was not informed that their ultimate destination was Syria. HP was responding to a ...
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Campaigners have slammed the government’s draft proposals to for its Communications Data Bill, which will make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails, phone calls and internet activity. The bill will now be ...
Google has agreed with the UK government to pay just pound 6m in corporation tax this year, despite earning almost pound 400m in revenues. The Daily Telegraph revealed the sum after the Silicon Valley giant filed its accounts for its UK ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has imposed a monetary penalty of 175,000 on an NHS Trust in Torquay after the sensitive details of over 1,000 employees were published accidentally on the Trust’s website. Staff at ...
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HP and Intel have teamed up to design and build a new supercomputing system for the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which promises to be one of the most efficient installations in the world. ...
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Businesses and consumers can now download Windows 8 Release Preview from the Microsoft site. Microsoft said the February release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview was downloaded more than 1 million times in the first 24 hours. Microsoft ...
The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been hit with pound 325,000 monetary penalty for breaching the Data Protection Act. The penalty is the highest since the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) was granted the ...
Many of us have known that currently China is the largest furniture exporting country. For example in last 2009 the export of China furniture reached to almost 26 billion USD. No wonder that around 30% furniture of the world is manufactured ...
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A group of hackers has released a file containing unique identification data for over 1 million Apple iOS devices and claim that the information is part of a larger database stolen from the compromised laptop of an FBI agent. "During ...
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The Internet, long viewed as a tool to expand freedom, is an equally effective tool for repression. That is just as true in the United States as anywhere else. Security guru Bruce Schneier noted in a recent blog post, citing Evgeny ...
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While it continues to wrestle with an accounting scandal at its Autonomy business unit, Hewlett-Packard has revealed it may use some of Autonomy’s technology to offer a free online analytics service. The service would be based on ...
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