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Top JP Morgan and UBS IT execs leave for HPC vendor

Top banking IT executives at JP Morgan and UBS have left to join Maxeler Technologies, the HPC solutions provider. read more »

Visa and City of London Police to share expertise in global cybercrime project

The City of London Police, Visa and Shop Direct Group are some of the organisations that have joined an international consultation into cybercrime called Project 2020. read more »

Amazon to open innovation hub in London

Amazon has announced plans to open a global digital media development centre in London later this year. read more »

Fife Council introduces self-service IT function to cut costs

Fife Council has upgraded its IT helpdesk solution to introduce self-service capabilities, in a bid to reduce costs. read more »

Government launches funding for postgraduate cyber security courses

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is making grants available for universities to run postgraduate courses to train future cyber security experts. read more »

Autonomy founder Lynch to launch tech start-up fund

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch is planning to set up a technology investment fund for start-ups, according to sources. read more »

Bristol awards ERP contract to Agilisys

Bristol City Council has awarded a £39.7 million contract for enterprise resource planning software and development services to Agilisys. read more »

UK police set up IT company

The government has set up a company to help police forces procure ICT services more cost-effectively. read more »

GOV.UK costs nearly 5 times less than Directgov

The cost of the government’s new single-domain website for citizens, GOV.UK, is so far nearly five times lower than that of the existing site, Directgov, figures show. read more »

Co-op Bank will migrate to Lloyds IT platform in acquisition

The Co-operative Group will migrate its existing banking systems to the Lloyds Banking Group’s IT platform as part of the acquisition announced today. read more »

UK should go on the offensive in cyber war, say MPs

The UK should go on the attack in the cyber war, rather than just defend, according to MPs on the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). read more »

GCHQ 3 times more likely to lose cyber security skills than private sector

GCHQ’s difficulty in retaining the IT skills needed to respond to the cyber security threat is a real and growing concern, according to a report from the UK’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). read more »

UK Border Agency criticised over key IT project delay

The UK Border Agency has been criticised over its delay in delivering a key IT project that is supposed to help it automate processes and reduce costs. read more »

Rural Payments Agency still can't confirm cost of problematic farmer pay scheme

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) still cannot say how much it has overpaid and underpaid farmers since the Single Payment Scheme began, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO). read more »

Barclays ex-COO and IT chief to face MPs

A former chief operating officer (COO) and IT chief at Barclays will be questioned by the Treasury committee today over the LIBOR-fixing scandal. read more »

Vince Cable touts benefits of open borders and open data

Business secretary Vince Cable has spoken out in favour of opening up borders for scientists and technologists in the ongoing debate over the offshoring of IT skills. read more »

Vodafone and 3 confirm Irish network merger

Mobile network operators Vodafone and Hutchison Whampoa’s 3 have confirmed a merger of their telecommunications infrastructure in Ireland. read more »

University of Birmingham improves IT resilience with virtualisation

The University of Birmingham has built resilience into its legacy IT systems by moving to a mainly virtualised infrastructure. read more »

Lloyds TSB online banking knocked offline by service interruption

Some customers of Lloyds TSB struggled to access their online banking accounts this morning, which is understood to have been caused by a service interruption. read more »

BBC website and iPlayer service suffer outage

The BBC’s online services, including its website and iPlayer, suffered an outage last night due to a ‘major technical issue’. read more »


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