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Will 'citizen developers' shake up IT development?
News However, complex distributed applications and low-level, fine-grained developer decisions will remain in the hands of IT, while line-of-business applications will likely fit between the two and need to be carefully managed. [23 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News A more effectual way of managing cost is by ensuring appropriately managed and optimised licence management. David Supple, head of IT and creative services, Ecotec Research and Consulting Despite tough... [23 Oct 2009]
BBC names new CIO as part of tech shake-up
News She then became head of business systems for News where she managed internal and external service level agreements and the implementation of an electronic news production system. She will also support the corporation's... [09 Oct 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News The Westminster department plans to run all of its Intel servers on Linux software and runs half of its main set of database management tools using open source software managed by Ingres. What will cause open source to... [29 Sep 2009]
Xerox snaps up ACS in $6.4bn deal
News Xerox, which is in a dogfight with HP for print managed services, is apparently looking for more foot soldiers to cross sell everything from process overhauls to document management programs. After all,... [28 Sep 2009]
London Stock Exchange picks MillenniumIT as TradElect replacement
News Lester said the transition will be carefully managed, and further enhancements to the existing TradElect system are planned in the interim. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is buying a Sri Lankan-based technology... [16 Sep 2009]
Optimistic CEOs must not neglect IT security
News The disconnect seems to arise from the fact that IT is typically managed by technologists, who place emphasis on relying on technology to solve security issues," Chng said in an email. CEOs.are more pre-occupied with the... [03 Aug 2009]
Adobe probes Flash zero day bug after exploit found
News The authors of the exploit have managed to take a bug and turn it into a reliable exploit using a heap spray technique," Patrick Fitzgerald writes on a Symantec Security blog post. Adobe Reader is vulnerable because its... [23 Jul 2009]
Machine shall speak unto machine: Vodafone goes M2M
News The market for M2M smart services using intelligent devices is taking off but in order for it to deliver its true potential, service providers.need to provide customers with managed connectivity that is... [22 Jul 2009]
BT gets into bed with Microsoft for cloud services
News The Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) will be available to BT's business customers as a fully hosted managed service, including features such as performance management, maintenance and software upgrades. [20 Jul 2009]
Email hits 3G networks harder than P2P
News Mike Schabel, a research director at Bell Labs, said on Thursday that P2P and web surfing account for much of the volume of data carried by mobile broadband networks, but inefficiently managed applications, such as... [20 Jul 2009]
BT lands £99m comms deal with Ministry of Defence
News In 2005, as part of the DFTS, BT announced a partnership with Nortel to provide managed IP services to the MoD, designed to improve security around emerging VoIP technology. BT said the new deal will... [17 Jul 2009]
'Europe needs its own clouds to fight US domination'
News Reding pointed out that nearly all cloud services are US-owned and US-based, and complained that "once again, the US has started to exploit a business model before Europe has managed to do so". European... [09 Jul 2009]
Orange launches managed videoconferencing
News Orange Business Services (OBS) has launched the pilot of a managed videoconferencing service that connects companies regardless of the vendor of their equipment or the type of network they are using.... [03 Jul 2009]
Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
News Once you start offshoring the lines of accountability in terms of how data is handled, how the contract is managed and how it is delivered become diminished," a PCS spokesman said. With predictions that a £50bn cut in... [24 Jun 2009]
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