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Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma

admincss.com — Sat, 19 May 2012 07:00:05 +0000

The mobile gift-giving app Karma announced Friday it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's first day as a publicly traded company.

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Singularity University launches synthetic biology accelerator

admincss.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:00:03 +0000

The new program will give three initial companies a leg up in getting their startups off the ground. The accelerator will be modeled on those that traditionally work with tech and biotech startups.

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Facebook set for $100bn IPO valuation

admincss.com — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:00:05 +0000

Facebook has increased the price range for its initial public offering (IPO) to $ 34-38 per share, which could value the company at up to $ 104bn

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DWP appoints ex-BAA IT chief Philip Langsdale as new CIO

admincss.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:04 +0000

The Department for Work and Pensions has appointment former BAA CIO Philip Langsdale as its new chief information officer.

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What kind of heat is the future 15-inch MacBook packing?

admincss.com — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:00:03 +0000

What does Apple have planned for the new 15-inch MacBook? Oh, the possibilities.
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Boeing KC-46A flies through early review

admincss.com — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:00:05 +0000

The next-generation aerial tanker, in a program that could eventually be worth $ 30 billion, will incorporate a digital flight deck that features, among other things, Boeing 787 Dreamliner electronic displays.

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Security Think Tank: Effective quality control key to security outsourcing

admincss.com — Sun, 13 May 2012 07:00:06 +0000

What should and what should not be outsourced in IT security?

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Court stops Dutch party sharing Pirate Bay links

admincss.com — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:00:03 +0000

A court in The Hague has ordered a political party in the Netherlands to stop publicising ways to get around blocks to Swedish file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay

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Stunning high-resolution photo shows Earth’s many hues

admincss.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:00:04 +0000

Recently emerged photograph of the planet taken aboard a Russian satellite shows the Earth in stunning color and detail.

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Microsoft gets earth-friendly, goes carbon neutral

admincss.com — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:00:03 +0000

The software giant pledges to be carbon neutral company-wide by this summer. All of its data centers, software development labs, air travel, and office buildings are scheduled to go green.

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Emotional Cocorobo vac-bot wants to suck up to you

admincss.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:00:05 +0000

Plucky trilingual robot acts differently depending on how it feels, according to Sharp. Just don’t kick it with your steel-toed boots.

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Security Think Tank: Start with capability gap when outsourcing security

admincss.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:00:08 +0000

What should and what should not be outsourced in IT security?

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Case study: Council IP telephony switch about more than just money

admincss.com — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:00:05 +0000

When Portsmouth City Council achieved a cut-price deal for an IP telephony infrastructure it quickly realised the technology offered more than just cost savings.

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Acta effectively dead, admits EU digital agenda commissioner

admincss.com — Sun, 06 May 2012 07:00:05 +0000

The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement (Acta), is effectively dead, the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda has admitted.

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UK Border Agency to introduce postal visa system following IT failure

admincss.com — Sat, 05 May 2012 07:00:03 +0000

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) may introduce a postal visa service for foreign nationals, following the outage of its ID card computer system.

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Forrester: Innovation In Outsourcing Relationships

admincss.com — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:00:04 +0000

Clients play the most important role in innovation In outsourcing relationships, says Wolfgang Benkel, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research.

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8 More New Uses for Your Old Smartphone

admincss.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:00:07 +0000

Give your old phone a new lease on life by converting it into a brainy TV remote, a GPS navigator, or a numpad companion for your keyboard.

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How global recruitment company runs IT with one in-house worker

admincss.com — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:00:12 +0000

Recruitment services company Alexander Mann Solutions is harnessing cloud computing and expanding nearshore IT services to support a one-man internal IT department.

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Swift builds underground datacentre to keep bank transactions in Europe

admincss.com — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Swift is building an underground datacentre to make it possible to fully process European bank transactions in Europe

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Developer Builds Privacy-enhancing Web Browser for Apple Devices

admincss.com — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:00:05 +0000

A new privacy-enhancing web browser aimed at Apple users has steadily risen in popularity in the company’s App Store.

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Google Drive Privacy Policies Slammed

admincss.com — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:00:05 +0000

Privacy advocates and users voice concerns about Google’s terms of use for its new Drive storage services, including what happens to your data if you ditch the Drive.

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Alternatives to Google Maps for Webmasters and App Developers

admincss.com — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Once free, Google Maps has become very expensive for high-traffic websites. Here are a number of alternatives for webmasters looking to switch.

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Ex-Sun boss McNealy sides with Oracle in Google dispute

admincss.com — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Former Sun boss Scott McNealy sided with Oracle on Thursday in its dispute with Google over Android, testifying in court that companies needed a license to use Sun's Java programming interfaces.

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Conficker remains big malware threat to business

admincss.com — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:00:03 +0000

The Conficker worm is still one of the biggest malware threats to business, according to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report

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Swarms of robots to mine space (photos)

admincss.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:00:04 +0000

Planetary Resources plans to harvest water and other valuable natural resources from near-by asteroids.

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Samsung UN46D8000 46-Inch 3D HDTV, $1579

admincss.com — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Abe’s of Maine has the Samsung UN46D8000 3D HDTV on sale for $ 1579, with free shipping.

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Royal Bank of Scotland CIO steps down

admincss.com — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:00:04 +0000

Ian Alderton, chief information officer at the corporate division of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), has left the bank this month.

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Banks and SAP collaborate on cloud platform

admincss.com — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Citibank and the Royal Bank of Scotland are working with SAP to develop a cloud platform businesses can link their systems to directly

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BBC wants to build a cultural API

admincss.com — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:00:07 +0000

With over 80 years of cultural information in its archive, the BBC is looking at making programme metadata available

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New Yahoo chief to axe ‘non-core’ products

admincss.com — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:00:01 +0000

Yahoo’s chief executive Scott Thompson has confirmed plans to shut down dozens of products that are not seen as core business in a bid to turn around the firm’s fortunes.

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Tesco ramps up digital investment

admincss.com — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Tesco is ramping up its online division in the UK, as part of its plan to invest Â£1bn following disappointing sales in Britain.

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Supercomputers: Q&A guide

admincss.com — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:00:06 +0000

Hans Werner Meuer, co-founder of the Top 500 supercomputer list, discusses the latest trends in high performance computing.

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Striking views of Earth captured in time-lapse video

admincss.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:00:06 +0000

Coinciding with the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space, a videographer creates a recording that takes viewers on the International Space Station’s tour of Earth.

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Google’s latest wheeze: Work out these blurry house numbers for us

admincss.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Google, the pride of open everything, uses real blurry house number images as its Captchas, so that the general public can tell them what the number really is.
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HSBC joins mobile banking revolution

admincss.com — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:00:03 +0000

HSBC has released an app that enables its customers to access bank account details from their mobile phones.

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Google makes sales worth $1.2bn in UK

admincss.com — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Google reported sales in the UK worth $ 1.15bn, which was 11% of its total.

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Barclays opens mobile banking to customers of all banks

admincss.com — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Barclays bank has made its Pingit mobile banking app available to customers of all banks.

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Government CIOs and IT suppliers ‘hiding behind a comfort blanket’

admincss.com — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Outgoing G-Cloud director Chris Chant has slammed those in government IT who are resisting change in the way IT is procured and managed.

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Nokia offers Lumia 900 exchange, credits as problem surfaces

admincss.com — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Nokia said it had discovered a memory management issue on Lumia 900 smartphones offered on AT&T's network, that in some cases could lead to a loss of data connectivity.

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Fresh iPhone 5 rumors: Modified chip, new body, bigger screen

admincss.com — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:00:02 +0000

The next-gen iPhone is going to be a really big deal and include plenty of design tweaks, according to reports.
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Flybe puts flight crew safety manuals on iPads

admincss.com — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Airline Flybe is providing flight crew with iPads to allow them access safety manuals

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Microsoft store coming to an Apple Store near you?

admincss.com — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Microsoft and Apple Stores cheek by jowl? The more the merrier for consumers, and better for Microsoft, which needs to demonstrate it has competitive offerings too.
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Lack of mobile connectivity restricts UK economic growth, says Deloitte CIO

admincss.com — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Lack of ubiquitous mobile connectivity in Britain is impeding economic growth, according to the UK CIO of accountancy firm Deloitte

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Larry Page letter highlights Google's conflicts

admincss.com — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:00:04 +0000

Google CEO Larry Page published a long public letter on Thursday that gives an update on the company's strategy and highlights some of the conflicts he faces after a year at the head of the company.

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Are digital public services finally set to become a reality?

admincss.com — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:00:03 +0000

It’s 12 years since Tony Blair promised online public services. Can the Government Digital Service deliver on that promise at last?

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HMRC awards IE6 upgrade contract to SME and saves Â£50m

admincss.com — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:00:03 +0000

HMRC has cut the cost of an IT project by nearly Â£50m after awarding the contract to a start-up, rather than a traditional systems integrator

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English primary healthcare leads world in IT use, says Accenture

admincss.com — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:00:02 +0000

While GPs in England lead the world in using IT, hospital doctors lag behind, undermining the drive to create joined up healthcare

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Global Payments Says Fewer Than 1.5M Cards Affected in Data Theft

admincss.com — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Payments processing services company, Global Payments said late Sunday that information on up to 1.5 million card numbers may have been “exported” as a result of…

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Asteroid to get neighborly with Earth on Sunday

admincss.com — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:00:05 +0000

Asteroid 2012 EG5 will get within 143,000 miles of the planet Sunday morning — that’s a little more than half the distance to the moon. But NASA says not to worry.

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Microbe helps convert solar power to liquid fuel

admincss.com — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:00:03 +0000

By pairing biology and photovoltaics, a new “electrofuel” system could build alternative fuels.

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Google to sell Android tablets online, report says

admincss.com — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Google will open an online store where it will market and sell tablets directly to consumers, with some of the devices potentially being co-branded with Google's name, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

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NASA video visualizes a ‘Perpetual Ocean’

admincss.com — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Using high-resolution computer animation, NASA creates a two-year time lapse of the world’s ocean and sea currents.

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3 green technologies that could become disrupters (video)

admincss.com — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:00:02 +0000

NRG Energy CEO David Crane says smart meters, distributed-solar projects, and plug-in electric vehicles could cause disruptive change in the energy industry.

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Pocket Brain app offers searchable 3D atlas of the brain

admincss.com — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Users can navigate eight layers of brain anatomy, view cross sections and nerve pathways, insert notes, and peruse clinical findings.

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Huawei Told Not to Apply for Australian Broadband Project

admincss.com — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:00:01 +0000

Huawei called Australia’s ban on the company from supplying equipment for its national broadband project due to security concerns a “setback”.

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4WD Permoveh wheelchair turns on a dime

admincss.com — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:00:04 +0000

This wheelchair from Kyoto University has rollers within its wheels, allowing it to move sideways and diagonally.

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Heads of finance hate big-bang IT projects

admincss.com — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Big bang, long-term, strategic, transformational IT projects no longer make sense, says a panel of CFOs.

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Internet security demands a Europe-wide strategy, says Neelie Kroes

admincss.com — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Internet security cannot be confined to national security agencies because cyber threats come from around the world and readily cross borders, according to European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes

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Will Megaupload’s 28 Petabytes of Data Be Deleted?

admincss.com — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:00:03 +0000

The hosting provider for the defunct file-sharing site Megaupload wants to delete the data now that investigators have collected most of what they need for the…

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Elevation seeks $1 billion with help from U2′s Bono

admincss.com — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:00:02 +0000

The private equity firm best known for its shares in Facebook is making the rounds to ramp up more money for its investment fund.
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CW500: Getting to grips with big data

admincss.com — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Experts from Standard Life, Deloitte and Intelligent Business Strategies share some useful tips for CIOs on understanding big data

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Will Valkee’s LED earbuds alleviate jet lag?

admincss.com — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Soundless earbuds channel light to photosensitive regions of brain through ear canal, supposedly replicating sun’s mood-elevating powers. Finnair is conducting a one-month test.

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Defiant LightSquared says FCC action would violate its rights

admincss.com — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 07:00:05 +0000

The FCC's proposal to kill LightSquared's planned LTE network would violate the fledgling carrier's property rights by taking away its spectrum and destroying its multibillion-dollar investment in mobile broadband, LightSquared will argue on Friday in a formal comment to the agency.

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Citigroup investigates how IBM Watson can smarten up banking

admincss.com — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Citigroup will be evaluating technology from IBM Watson to help it to improve customer service, using big data analytics

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Half of all businesses overlook IT due diligence in mergers and acquisitions

admincss.com — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:00:04 +0000

Half of businesses involved in mergers and acquisitions risk their success through lack of IT due diligence

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Lloyds Banking Group cuts another 593 IT jobs

admincss.com — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:00:02 +0000

Lloyds Banking Group is cutting a further 593 UK IT jobs, most of which will be offshored to India.

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Demand for outsourcing rises in buyers’ market

admincss.com — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:00:03 +0000

Businesses stepped up IT outsourcing during the first few months of 2012 to take advantage of competitive deals

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GroupLogic Aims at Dropbox With Enterprise File-sharing App

admincss.com — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:00:04 +0000

GroupLogic has released a file syncing and sharing application that offers the same convenience as Dropbox but with enterprise-level management and security…

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UK courts show the way on piracy

admincss.com — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:00:03 +0000

The UK courts are taking the right approach to online piracy, says John Moffat, senior attorney at Avidity IP

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New designs recast nuclear power (images)

admincss.com — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:00:04 +0000

The latest nuclear power plant designs are safer than today’s plants and fourth-generation designs seek to improve safety while lowering costs.

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GeekBytes: A Dino-Eat-Dino-Eat-Dino World (And Other Things We Didn’t Cover)

admincss.com — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:00:03 +0000

Scientists find perhaps the strangest fossil ever, and that’s just one of the many bits of awesome floating around the Web in today’s installment of GeekBytes.

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Local authorities save Â£675,000 with real-time data-sharing

admincss.com — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:00:02 +0000

Councils in Gloucestershire and West Oxfordshire are to share real-time data through a fibre optic network in a move expected to save Â£675,000 a year

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Systems integrators ‘charge more in paperwork than SMEs do in deliveryâ

admincss.com — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:00:03 +0000

A systems integrator asked for more money from the government for an IT product proposal than an SME was able to deliver the actual service for.

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SAP boosts ByDesign ecosystem to support small business customisation

admincss.com — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:00:02 +0000

SAP is rolling out a partner programme for its ByDesign cloud-based product, to simplify implementation in SMEs

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NHS trusts to be freed from CSC contract commitments

admincss.com — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:00:02 +0000

The Department of Health has proposed a deal with CSC to release trusts in the National Programme for IT from their contractual obligations to use software from the troubled supplier.

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G-Cloud project completes its first CloudStore purchase

admincss.com — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:00:02 +0000

A Department for Transport agency has become the first government department to purchase a service through the new CloudStore online catalogue using the G-Cloud framework.

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Disabled Google Apps account deletion mechanism affecting admins, users

admincss.com — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:00:06 +0000

Google Apps customers are finding it hard to delete and reactivate domains in their accounts, after Google unexpectedly disabled the automated mechanism for performing these tasks in mid-January.

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Demand surges for Barclays Bank Pingit mobile banking app

admincss.com — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:00:03 +0000

Over 120,000 people have downloaded Barclays Bankâs Pingit mobile banking application within five days of its release

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DOE-backed Abound Solar cuts factory line

admincss.com — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:00:03 +0000

Abound Solar, which received a $ 400 million loan guarantee from the DOE, is betting on a shift to more efficient panels will allow it to survive an ongoing solar industry shakeout.

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Microsoft Azure cloud outage hits customers globally

admincss.com — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:00:04 +0000

Microsoftâs Azure cloud platform has experienced an outage, hitting organisations across the world including the UK government CloudStore.

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Microsoft’s 3D computer offers a world for your hands

admincss.com — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:00:04 +0000

This Microsoft Research project is a wild spin on 3D computing.

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Salesforce.com revenues jump almost 40%

admincss.com — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000

Software-as-a-service supplier Salesforce.com has reported strong growth in the final quarter of its latest financial year.

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Lloyds bank saves Â£2bn after HBOS IT integration

admincss.com — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:00:02 +0000

Lloyds Banking Group says the integration of its multiple brands has saved more than Â£2bn per year, with IT a major contributor.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 unveiling imminent in Barcelona

admincss.com — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 08:00:07 +0000

More evidence of a new tablet points to a big reveal on Sunday.
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Lenovo stops selling netbooks online

admincss.com — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:00:02 +0000

Lenovo has stopped selling netbooks through its website and hasn't decided if it will start selling them again there in the future, the company said on Friday.

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FTC reaches $359 million settlement over ‘free’ trial offers

admincss.com — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:00:02 +0000

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a suspended US$ 359 million settlement with a Canadian businessman and his companies for charging customers for supposedly free trial offers.

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Health apps will be key to NHS Information Strategy

admincss.com — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000

The Department of Health is to put mobile apps at the heart of the NHS Information Strategy, says project chief Giles Wilmore.

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How will the CloudStore impact government IT?

admincss.com — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000

The CloudStore could signal a new model for procuring IT, making it easier for the public sector to do business with SMEs and breaking up the traditional supplier monopoly.

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Clean-tech startup GreatPoint scales up in China

admincss.com — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:00:02 +0000

In a $ 1.25 billion deal, GreatPoint Energy’s coal-to-natural gas technology will be built in China, the first large-scale plant for that technology in the world.

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Single-atom transistor built with precise control

admincss.com — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000

Seeking to keep Moore’s Law on pace, researchers have developed a repeatable technique for assembling a single-atom version of the transistor–the building block of semiconductors and computers.

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Braille texting app could have broader appeal

admincss.com — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:00:05 +0000

Designed for the visually impaired, an open-source app out of Georgia Tech could prove to be a texting tool for the masses.

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Settlement reached in iPhone 4 antennagate suit

admincss.com — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:00:02 +0000

Original iPhone 4 buyers can get either $ 15 or a new bumper case from Apple as part of a newly settled class-action lawsuit.
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Twitter expands ad platform with 10,000 more businesses

admincss.com — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000

Working with American Express, the social-networking site ramps up the way advertisers can buy and place ads on promoted tweets and accounts.
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Sony Completes Buy of Sony Ericsson, Will Rename as Sony Mobile Communications

admincss.com — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000

Sony said Thursday it had completed its purchase of the Sony Ericsson mobile phone joint venture and turned the company into a subsidiary, which it will soon…

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IBM bails out struggling South West One venture with Â£10m loan

admincss.com — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000

IBM has bailed out troubled Somerset shared services firm South West One with a Â£10m loan as the local authority venture starts bidding for work as an IT services company.

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Croydon Council fined Â£100,000 for data loss

admincss.com — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000

Croydon council has been fined Â£100,000 for the loss of Â a bag containing papers about a child sex abuse victim.

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Googleplex expansion to include ‘Experience Center,’ test labs

admincss.com — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:00:02 +0000

Web giant is spending $ 120 million to beef up its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, according to filings with the city reviewed by the San Jose Mercury News.

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Apple Files Another US Patent Suit Against Samsung

admincss.com — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:00:04 +0000

Apple wants a federal judge to halt sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, specifically targeting Ice Cream Sandwich as infringing on Apple patents.

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Investment banking IT staff seek career change

admincss.com — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000

IT workers in Londonâs investment banking community are looking for new jobs even before bonuses are paid

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Nifty stem-cell engineering sheds light on Parkinson’s disease

admincss.com — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:03 +0000

Researchers turned skin cells from Parkinson’s patients into brain cells and used them to untangle the workings of one form of the disease.

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Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma

Singularity University launches synthetic biology accelerator

Facebook set for $100bn IPO valuation

DWP appoints ex-BAA IT chief Philip Langsdale as new CIO

What kind of heat is the future 15-inch MacBook packing?

Boeing KC-46A flies through early review

Security Think Tank: Effective quality control key to security outsourcing

Court stops Dutch party sharing Pirate Bay links

Stunning high-resolution photo shows Earth’s many hues

Microsoft gets earth-friendly, goes carbon neutral

Emotional Cocorobo vac-bot wants to suck up to you

Security Think Tank: Start with capability gap when outsourcing security

Case study: Council IP telephony switch about more than just money

Acta effectively dead, admits EU digital agenda commissioner

UK Border Agency to introduce postal visa system following IT failure

Forrester: Innovation In Outsourcing Relationships

8 More New Uses for Your Old Smartphone

How global recruitment company runs IT with one in-house worker

Swift builds underground datacentre to keep bank transactions in Europe

Developer Builds Privacy-enhancing Web Browser for Apple Devices

Google Drive Privacy Policies Slammed

Alternatives to Google Maps for Webmasters and App Developers

Ex-Sun boss McNealy sides with Oracle in Google dispute

Conficker remains big malware threat to business

Swarms of robots to mine space (photos)

Samsung UN46D8000 46-Inch 3D HDTV, $1579

Royal Bank of Scotland CIO steps down

Banks and SAP collaborate on cloud platform

BBC wants to build a cultural API

New Yahoo chief to axe ‘non-core’ products

Tesco ramps up digital investment

Supercomputers: Q&A guide

Striking views of Earth captured in time-lapse video

Google’s latest wheeze: Work out these blurry house numbers for us

HSBC joins mobile banking revolution

Google makes sales worth $1.2bn in UK

Barclays opens mobile banking to customers of all banks

Government CIOs and IT suppliers ‘hiding behind a comfort blanket’

Nokia offers Lumia 900 exchange, credits as problem surfaces

Fresh iPhone 5 rumors: Modified chip, new body, bigger screen

Flybe puts flight crew safety manuals on iPads

Microsoft store coming to an Apple Store near you?

Lack of mobile connectivity restricts UK economic growth, says Deloitte CIO

Larry Page letter highlights Google's conflicts

Are digital public services finally set to become a reality?

HMRC awards IE6 upgrade contract to SME and saves Â£50m

English primary healthcare leads world in IT use, says Accenture

Global Payments Says Fewer Than 1.5M Cards Affected in Data Theft

Asteroid to get neighborly with Earth on Sunday

Microbe helps convert solar power to liquid fuel

Google to sell Android tablets online, report says

NASA video visualizes a ‘Perpetual Ocean’

3 green technologies that could become disrupters (video)

Pocket Brain app offers searchable 3D atlas of the brain

Huawei Told Not to Apply for Australian Broadband Project

4WD Permoveh wheelchair turns on a dime

Heads of finance hate big-bang IT projects

Internet security demands a Europe-wide strategy, says Neelie Kroes

Will Megaupload’s 28 Petabytes of Data Be Deleted?

Elevation seeks $1 billion with help from U2′s Bono

CW500: Getting to grips with big data

Will Valkee’s LED earbuds alleviate jet lag?

Defiant LightSquared says FCC action would violate its rights

Citigroup investigates how IBM Watson can smarten up banking

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