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Nokia lowers handset sales predictions
News The company also said that both it and Nokia Siemens Networks would see a smaller market in mobile infrastructure, fixed infrastructure and related services, in euro terms. Nokia has downgraded its... [17 Nov 2008]
Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
News Chief security officer for Arbor Networks Danny McPherson said the growth in attack size continues to "significantly outpace" the corresponding increase in underlying transmission speed and infrastructure investment. [12 Nov 2008]
There's no escape from the cloud, say CIOs
News Cloud computing - securely accessing company data and applications through the web - is the current buzzword, with many software suppliers predicting it will be the future's IT infrastructure of choice. [11 Nov 2008]
Beat bobbies need more cash for smartphones
News Figures from Thames Valley, West Yorkshire and Bedfordshire forces put the average cost - for training, infrastructure and the device itself - at 80p to £1 per officer per day. Despite calls for more money to give all... [10 Nov 2008]
The 10 projects at the heart of NHS IT
News While the NHS's NPfIT has already outlasted several heads of IT, its chequered track record is not surprising given the ambitious scale of the project: replacing an ageing patchwork of 5,000 different computer systems with a nationwide... [10 Nov 2008]
Doctors' orders: More telemedicine
News Telemedicine tech will come under the EU's scrutiny, as states look to improve broadband infrastructure and interoperability of the devices used in remote health services. EU citizens could soon be consulting their... [07 Nov 2008]
Unified comms pumps up Tayside fire service
News The unified communications system consists of a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 - in place since last year - and a recently upgraded Nortel IP telephony infrastructure. Firefighters in Tayside are using... [04 Nov 2008]
£1.5bn savings plan turns Lloyds' merger eye on IT
News Among the measures the bank hopes will help it achieve its fat-trimming goal are "optimising the efficiency of the combined retail distribution infrastructure, including branch network, call centre operations and... [03 Nov 2008]
Android security hole gets patched up
News Google has begun distributing a patch to its Android mobile phone operating system, an early test for how nimbly the company can respond and how well the infrastructure works to distribute and install updates. [03 Nov 2008]
IBM chip guru agrees to join Apple
News Papermaster's hire could signal Apple's intentions to build out a cloud-computing infrastructure to support things like MobileMe, or future services along those lines. One of IBM's top chip executives has agreed to join... [31 Oct 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News Sustained cyber espionage attacks are being waged on companies that play a key role in the UK national infrastructure, a UK cyber defence chief has warned. That was the warning from Mark Oram, head of the threat and... [29 Oct 2008]
Four types of tech in demand during a downturn
News It said a recent survey of organisations in Australia indicated 90 per cent have or are in the process of introducing sustainability initiatives within their ICT infrastructure. The economic downturn is not universally... [28 Oct 2008]
Credit crunch storm looms for IT security
News Experts are forecasting stormy times ahead for corporate IT security as companies are hit by a triple whammy of increased regulation, slashed budgets and emerging technologies. Industry is facing the looming threat of new data auditing... [28 Oct 2008]
London Olympics fibre hub 'template for UK broadband'
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum event Stuart Hill, vice president for the London 2012 delivery programme for BT, said the Olympic Park would be served by an "industrial strength fibre infrastructure" with 10,000 access... [23 Oct 2008]
Yahoo! to slash 10 per cent of staff
News will relocate operations to lower-cost regions of the world, consolidate real estate, improve procurement, and standardise its infrastructure, Yang said. Yahoo! on Tuesday reported a 64 per cent drop in net income for... [22 Oct 2008]
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