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Hospital's systems hit by computer virus
News Some computing systems remain offline but for the most part patient services are unaffected. While some non-essential services at the hospitals were trimmed, A&E, operating theatres and outpatients'... [18 Nov 2008]
BT's Ribbit opens up to developers
News BT's Ribbit released its long-awaited web telephony platform Monday to developers, which BT hopes will help spur innovation for new products and services in the telephony market. Ted Griggs, CEO of Ribbit, said in a... [18 Nov 2008]
Sepa adoption 'could take five years'
News He told silicon.com Sepa development has been driven by the banking industry under a mandate from the EU to foster a single financial services market but that the framework for adoption has not taken into account the... [18 Nov 2008]
Microsoft wants to host your software
News Blockbuster CIO Keith Morrow said in an interview that Microsoft's online services came at a good time for the company, which was on a several-generations-old version of Lotus Notes. For perhaps the first time in its... [18 Nov 2008]
'Telcos must join Google's cloud, not fight it'
News Telcos looking to offer cloud services to their customers would do well to get into bed with Google, analyst house Gartner has warned. Such is the take-up of Google's online services that telcos looking... [17 Nov 2008]
Ultra Mobile Broadband goes the way of the dodo
News Mobile broadband technology UMB was designed to complement 3G deployments, offering low latency and higher speed up and downlinks to help operators deal with increasing data-intensive mobile services such as video. [17 Nov 2008]
Shared services spend to reach £4bn by 2012
News By 2012, the UK public sector will be spending £729m on shared services, analysts predicts, as shared service expenditure enjoys a compound annual rate of eight per cent. Shared services, where... [17 Nov 2008]
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. According to its statement,... [17 Nov 2008]
PC vendors under the microscope
News For HP, already a third of its business comes from software, services, and enterprise storage, while another third is derived from selling PCs and consumer devices. Since then, Dell has expanded to include a successful... [17 Nov 2008]
Mass layoffs as Sun cuts 15 per cent of staff
News Chief marketing officer Anil Gadre will run the Application Platform group, which will include the company's Java technology franchise, MySQL open source database product, the GlassFish Application Server, and the Sun Learning... [14 Nov 2008]
High fashion gets high tech with SaaS embrace
News A total of 44 companies, with combined sales of £5.6bn - representing about 16 per cent of the UK fashion industry - were questioned by software and services company Prologic. Fashion retailers are champing at the bit to... [14 Nov 2008]
UK kids shopping online behind parents' backs
News According to a survey of 500 adults and 500 children by insurance services company CPP, 15-year-olds are the worst offenders with most kids spending £25 per illicit purchase. One in five under-16-year-olds are raiding... [14 Nov 2008]
Council trio tighten grip on public data
News Three councils have inked a new deal to clean their data and improve public services.silicon.com Public Sector Brent data integrity services manager Chris Waterman told silicon.com the service underpins... [14 Nov 2008]
Smartphones prepare to conquer the web
News For one, carriers are offering flat-rate mobile data plans, which makes subscribing to these services more affordable. This week Opera released the beta version of its Opera Mini 4.2 browser, which improves support for... [14 Nov 2008]
World IT spending still to grow next year
News With the exception of storage, hardware will be the hardest hit by the spending cutbacks, while software and services will be relatively safer, according to IDC. Industry analyst firm IDC is revising its yearly forecast... [14 Nov 2008]
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