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Health care records service delayed

News The National Audit Office has published a report on the progress of the Care Records Service that underpins the Connecting for Health programme, which found the software development on the Lorenzo database and associated applications that supports...

Tags: records, connecting for health, nhs

[16 May 2008]

HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News Thanks to IBM's Global Services arm, Big Blue can offer back-end hardware such as servers along with long term service contracts. Combining those pieces of corporate software with a large consulting arm would be a head-on attack on IBM Global...

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

Google targets business with Postini-based security app

News But the software giant doesn't have a pure, software-as-a-service-based messaging security platform like Google or MessageLabs, says Paul Roberts, senior analyst for enterprise security at The 451 Group.

Tags: postini, google

[12 May 2008]

Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades

News Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned.

Tags: sp3, xp, ie7, windows

[12 May 2008]

Microsoft - halted Vista, XP updates resumed

News The software maker said it is releasing XP Service Pack 3 for web downloads, and resuming automatic updates to Vista Service Pack 1, after developing a filter that will prevent machines running Dynamics RMS from getting either update.

Tags: windows, microsoft, xp, vista

[07 May 2008]

SAP SaaS delay - no surprise

News SAP's decision to delay the rollout for its Business ByDesign on-demand software should comes as no surprise but could prove a boon for software as a service vendors according to analysts. When SAP's first real foray into software as a service was...

Tags: delay, erp, on demand, saas

[01 May 2008]

EC: Oracle-BEA gets the go-ahead

News The Commission looked at potential effects on the European middleware market, focusing specifically on application servers, portals, enterprise service bus software and applications-integration software, and concluded it had no competition...

Tags: bea, oracle

[01 May 2008]

Glitch delays Windows XP SP3 release

News The software maker said there is a "compatibility issue" between the XP service pack and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, a retail chain management program for SMEs. Microsoft has said it is delaying the release of Windows XP Service...

Tags: xp, sp3, windows, microsoft

[30 Apr 2008]

Skype trialled on Java mobiles

News SkypeIn is a service allowing users to rent ordinary telephone numbers, with all calls routed from that number to a Skype account. SkypeOut is Skype's paid service for making calls to landlines and mobile phones.

Tags: java, mobile, skype

[30 Apr 2008]

Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'

News One of the parts, running in the background, has privileged access to the operating system without requiring administrator approval each time the machine boots; the other part, running as a client program, interacts with this back-end service.

Tags: hack, uac, vista

[29 Apr 2008]

Security - vendors must take some responsibility

News At a panel debate at Infosecurity Europe 2008, security experts lined up to put some of the blame for hackers finding ways to exploit code on software makers. She added that the constant updates and service packs made life especially difficult for...

Tags: vendor, security

[23 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News The tie-up focuses on SMEs and will, according to BT, allow them to keep up with the rapid adoption of on-demand software - or software as a service as it is also known - in larger organisations. Zach Nelson, president and CEO of NetSuite, said the...

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Open source: 'World's largest software company'

News The study, the result of five years of research, states if open source products and services were calculated at commercial prices, open source as a whole would be equivalent to the largest software company in the world, with revenues exceeding the...

Tags: software, ibm, open source

[22 Apr 2008]

Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark

News Frank Prengel, a Microsoft Windows Embedded developer evangelist, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk: "We are aiming to remove the barriers that hobbyists and academics have faced in the past, by allowing them access to the best software and...

Tags: developers, microsoft

[17 Apr 2008]

Open source key to SaaS future

News Open source software will be key to the adoption of software as a service (SaaS) over the next few years to keep costs down and make sharing of applications easier. The analyst predicts users will increasingly turn to 'application platform as a...

Tags: gartner, future, sharing, saas

[16 Apr 2008]

Thieves foiled by 'phone home' computers

News When a stolen machine is connected to the internet it will contact a monitoring centre to report its Internet Protocol address, allowing police to trace its location through the internet service provider.

Tags: software, police, tracking

[14 Apr 2008]

Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future

News By 2011, early technology adopters will forgo capital expenditures and purchase 40 per cent of their IT infrastructure as a service. SMEs are typically adopters of consumer technology, as opposed to multinational corporations and large businesses...

Tags: it, laptop, internet, smart phones

[14 Apr 2008]

Greggs tucks into centralised accounting model

News The software will be used by 100 finance staff looking after 1,350 shops and will consolidate 10 regional systems into a central shared-service accounting model. Greggs the bakers has signed a contract for financials software from Coda worth £600...

Tags: accounting, coda, greggs

[10 Apr 2008]

CIOs chasing the green dream

News The report, 2008 Trends to Watch: Green IT, predicts use of virtualisation, IT recycling schemes, software as a service and low-carbon technologies will continue to grow. He said: "Green IT is now being driven as much by an element of business...

Tags: cio, eco-friendly, green

[10 Apr 2008]

'Dull' jobs cuts as companies turn to the cloud

News HP is hanging its vision of how cloud computing will affect the industry around the term "everything as a service". Jobs in technology infrastructure and services will decline in end-user organisations but grow in service, hardware and software...

Tags: jobs, it, cloud

[08 Apr 2008]

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