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Bank job losses: offshoring not to blame
News National Outsourcing Association research director Nigel Roxburgh agreed with the report's findings, but also stressed that a distinction needs to be made between outsourcing and offshoring, where the latter can mean a company sets up its own in... [18 Aug 2008]
Hackney Council in £1.9m IT overhaul
News Hackney Council is set to overhaul the entire IT operation supporting its housing department in a £1.9m deal with local government software specialist Civica. The council's management organisation, Hackney Homes, is set to take delivery of a new... [15 Aug 2008]
EDS legal move leaves Oyster contract hanging
News TTL then negotiated with Cubic to perform the entire project, "both maintaining assets and providing operation services", said the SEC filing. Cubic has, however, brokered a deal with TfL that should the restraining order be lifted, Cubic will run... [14 Aug 2008]
Apple patch fails to address DNS flaw, say experts
In these cases, the network device performing PAT [port address translation] uses a predictable source-port allocation policy, such as incremental allocation, when performing the layer 4 rewrite operation that is necessary for PAT," stated the... [04 Aug 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! talks: In the "off-again" phase
News At the right price and with the right speed of operation it was a heck of good [option]," he said of Yahoo! The two sides have talked on and off, he said, first about a purchase and then about a search deal. [25 Jul 2008]
London travellers hit by Oyster outage
News Shops selling Oyster tickets were also affected but the majority were brought back into operation during Sunday. Card readers on the Transport for London (TfL) network weren't working for much of the day as a result of the problem, which occurred... [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster. From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial... [11 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates' legacy hailed by IT chiefs
News The vast majority of businesses out there are supported by his company's server software and services and they are delivered to the end user via his company's desktop operation systems and applications. [26 Jun 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Naturally, with at least hundreds of thousands of servers in operation and its data centres placed near power plants to cut electricity costs, Google is trying to get computing-equipment makers more excited about efficiency. [25 Jun 2008]
Glitch takes Sainsbury's shopping offline
News The company praised its online operation in its first quarter trading statement, released on Wednesday. It said: "The online operation is continuing to perform well, with sales growth at over 40 per cent. [18 Jun 2008]
Mobile banking set to boom
News The analyst said it had found a strong desire from the MFS sector for co-operation in order to create non-silo services that work together. The analyst forecasts 41.5 billion mobile financial service (MFS) transactions will be made by the end of... [18 Jun 2008]
Vertex bags a £40m Brum Council deal
News Service Birmingham will ensure that the contact centre operation is fully integrated with our overall business transformation initiative. The extension comes immediately after a joint venture between Birmingham City Council and Capita - called... [05 Jun 2008]
Admit to security breaches, companies told
News The member states should undertake concerted efforts to reduce the imbalances in security levels, with more cross-border co-operation. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) wants mandatory reporting on security and data... [27 May 2008]
Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes
News Notable cyber crime success include Operation Ajowan, where Soca broke up a website where criminals traded stolen bank, credit and identity information that could have cost the UK finance sector at least £6m. [15 May 2008]
Video app the highway to healthy roads
News The cost of the trial is expected to be up to £20,000 for the first year of operation, including consultancy fees from Yotta DCL. According to Paul Davison, senior officer in Hampshire's highway and transport team, the system can be used to assess... [12 May 2008]
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