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Texas drone bill sparks a battle
The battle to find a balance between privacy concerns and the beneficial use of drones for commercial and law enforcement purposes is in sharp focus in a bill that's winding its way through the Texas legislature. read more »
Hospitals offered £260m fund to help adopt safer e-prescriptions
Errors are said to be present in eight percent of hospital prescriptions read more »
Tech City start-ups offered 'wibre' to quickly connect to cloud
Optimity can connect firms to their cloud-based applications via antennae on rooftops read more »
Broadband speeds on planes and ships to double with new satellite
ViaSat-2 will be "double the bandwidth economics of the ViaSat-1 read more »
Tibco offers free R to the enterprise
A new free edition of Tibco's R runtime engine might entice more organizations to use the programming language read more »
Dell profit dives 79 percent on falling PC sales
Dell reported another weak quarter as its founder fights to make it a private company read more »
Windows 8 won't hit critical mass in enterprises, Forrester says
The new OS isn't expected to ever reach 50 percent adoption in workplace PCs, according to the IT research firm read more »
Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox
A patch to only allow cookies from sites visited still needs more work, Mozilla's CTO said read more »
SAP urges large enterprises NOT to virtualise HANA
The enterprise software giant has also said customers should buy the latest x86 hardware read more »
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One weakness of the current CloudStore is that it is difficult to benchmark compare prices given the different metrics each vendor prices by.G-Cloud iii – Is the framework getting any better?
For Microsoft to "suppress" it's HP paid study claiming a savings of €40 million if Munich stayed with them is an insult to the intelligence of an orangutangMicrosoft refuses to release study challenging Munich Linux success
Pity Ofcom can't be persuaded to take the same view. They confirmed to me in November 2011: "Despite its popularity, broadband is not regarded as an essential service."Internet connection crucial to everyday life, German federal court rules
Big surprise, Microsoft/HP study finds it's cheaper to use their product. The freedom gained by moving away from Microsoft is priceless.Microsoft refuses to release study challenging Munich Linux success
Don't the Microsoft boneheads realise that by not releasing the results of the study, they only lend credence and validity to the very point they're trying to refute?Microsoft refuses to release study challenging Munich Linux success
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Telefónica deploys Office 365 across 130,000 strong cloud
Staff need to spend less time on infrastructure support of collaboration services read more »
Windows 8 app store fails Top 10 test
Former Microsoft manager spells out a way to gauge an app store's maturity read more »
Internet Explorer 10 blocks more malware than Chrome or Firefox, test finds
App Rep system gives IE10 the edge, finds NSS Labs read more »
Retail giant Kingfisher to rollout SAP Business Suite on HANA
CIO Mike Bell is attempting to consolidate a mass of systems into a centralised HANA platform read more »
Windows 8 won't hit critical mass in enterprises, Forrester says
The new OS isn't expected to ever reach 50 percent adoption in workplace PCs, according to the IT research firm read more »
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Retail giant Kingfisher to rollout SAP Business Suite on HANA
CIO Mike Bell is attempting to consolidate a mass of systems into a centralised HANA platform
If you can't find a seat at Starbucks, blame IT
The number of employees working out of the office is rising
Software developer wages fall 2% as workforce expands
Less costly young, and long unemployed older developers may be expanding the workforce at less cost to employers
Google steals march on Apple in music subscription
Apple has its own plans, says analyst, who expects a streaming service intro next month
Google Glass ecosystem grows with Twitter, Facebook and CNN apps
At Google I/O, company talks about upcoming development kit, plans for streaming video
H-1B politics shifts to backroom as vote nears
Hatch buys time in his effort to reduce restrictions on H-1B use
SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem
SAP is shipping a raft of new features for the in-memory platform and letting partners in on its HANA Enterprise Cloud
Four former LulzSec members sentenced to prison in the UK
British hackers Topiary, Kayla, T-Flow and Viral received prison sentences for their roles in LulzSec's 2011 cyberattacks
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Why are Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle Backing the Fight *Against* the Blind?
One of the more disgraceful examples of the inherent selfishness of the copyright world is that it has consistently blocked a global treaty that would make it easier for the blind and visually impaired to read books in format like...read more »
The Importance of Being Attributed
A few weeks ago, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 received Royal Assent. Among its rag-bag of measures are some dealing with the vexed issue of orphan works (or hostage works as they should really be called.) To cut...read more »
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Nice to have more alternatives than the usual Microsoft Office but, LibreOffice have a long road to beat Office.LibreOffice 4.0 - Six new features coming to open source suite