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IBM sends $300m to the cloud
News In the event of a service disruption, the company says its data centres would be able to electronically process the shift in information from customer sites in order restore service in a reasonable amount of time. [20 Aug 2008]
£400m outsourcing deal faces employment tribunal
News The union has also raised concerns about disruption caused by the implementation of SAP enterprise resource planning software at Southwest One, due to go live in February 2009. Two local councils and IBM face legal action over claims a £400m... [06 Aug 2008]
Orange beefs up 3G network for Northerners
News Orange said customers in the North East of England, Northern Ireland and Scotland are likely to incur some 3G downtime but that any such outages will be fully communicated in advance and network engineers will attempt to ensure there is minimal... [04 Aug 2008]
Oyster outage hits London again
News The system has failed at all London Underground stations and ticket gates have been opened to limit disruption while the problem was resolved. London's Oyster travel smart card system has failed for the second time in a fortnight with many... [25 Jul 2008]
SAP: Time's up for TomorrowNow
News Executive chairman of TomorrowNow, Mark White, said the company's goal is to help customers move to other support options without any disruption. SAP is to wind down TomorrowNow, the third party support subsidiary it acquired in 2005. [22 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone launch: Tech trouble for O2
News But he added: "We were able to switch to our own systems and to continue selling so there wasn't any disruption in our service. Apple's UK 3G iPhone launch day did not go off without the obligatory technical hitch or two. [11 Jul 2008]
RFID could disrupt medical devices, say researchers
News The study by six Dutch scientists has found electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated by the track and trace chips has the potential to cause disruption to medical devices - which could be a potential hazard to patients. [25 Jun 2008]
Ultra fat pipes to squeeze through Dundee's sewers
News The majority of the cabling will be laid in sewers but where these are not viable, the company will dig 20mm-wide ducts in roads which it said cause minimal disruption to the local area. Dundee has been selected as the first Scottish 'Fibrecity... [18 Jun 2008]
Forecasting tech blows away stormy weather
News In March the Met Office announced a traffic light system for warnings issued by its Public Weather Service to better inform emergency services of potential disruption by severe weather. The UK will be better protected against devastating downpours... [13 Jun 2008]
BA CEO: Heathrow T5 chaos 'not our finest hour'
News A BA statement said: "We continue to closely monitor the situation and again apologise to customers for any disruption caused. Walsh said: "In isolation, they would not have had the impact they did, but in combination they led to a level of... [28 Mar 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News But other government departments have developed workarounds to minimise the disruption caused by the lockdown. Government BlackBerrys and PDAs have been grounded by the Whitehall-wide ban on the movement of unencrypted personal data. [04 Feb 2008]
Self-assessment tax site crashes out on deadline day
News An HMRC spokesman told silicon.com the organisation takes disruption of any service very seriously and to reflect this, the self-assessment deadline has been extended by 24 hours to midnight on Friday 1 February. [31 Jan 2008]
CIA: Cyberattacks cut power to "multiple cities"
News In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities. The CIA has said a cyberattack caused a power blackout in multiple cities in a country outside the US. Security training body the Sans Institute reported the CIA... [21 Jan 2008]
Vonage and Verizon settle patent spat
News Vonage has claimed all along that it has a technical workaround that will allow its service to continue working without disruption to its customers, even if a court ultimately decides to enforce an injunction stopping it from using Verizon's patents. [26 Oct 2007]
Norwich Union automates HR enquiries
News Individuals normally ask their peers about these sorts of issues first, before they go to HR, so the application cuts down on potential staff disruption too. Norwich Union's HR department has rolled out a search application to make it easier for... [15 Oct 2007]
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