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Nasdaq's Facebook glitch came from race conditions

Nasdaq may pay out as much as $13 million due to a hard-to-find software bug

Life sciences and analytics drive UK growth, says Cognizant

More demand also shown for business processing services

Birmingham NHS Trust invests heavily in business process automation

The hospitals are using a Blue Prism tool to integrate new systems with back-end applications

Data centre outsourcing set to grow in Europe

Regulatory changes such as Basel III in banking will put pressure on data centres

Waterstones to sell Kindle e-books

British bookseller says the deal will bring a better digital reading experience for customers

Department of Health plans to get patient data online by 2015

The Health Secretary wants information to be recorded once and then shared between systems

Latest Technology News

Avaya lays out roadmap for unified software management

Move from hardware only operation picks up speed

EMC synchs deal with Syncplicity for cloud file management

The privately held company offers remote file access and synchronisation for a range of devices including tablets

Facebook sued for $15 billion over privacy violations

Lawyers seek damages for privacy violations considered to have significant legal and business implications

Investors pouring funds into Big Data vendors

Investors jump on the big-data bandwagon. Many see it as a good bet, but others warn about hype

Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma

The acquisition was announced just after the markets closed on Facebook's inaugural day as a public company

Renewable sources will power Apple's data centre by 2013

Apple's announcement follows Greenpeace protests at Apple's Cupertino HQ


More recent news

HSBC hit by IT hardware failure

Customers unable to take out cash and make debit card payments

Cabinet Office appoints Open Data User Group chair

Heather Savory will lead the group that advises government on what data to release

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority awards £140m IT outsourcing contract to Atos

Hopes to save 30 percent of costs by consolidating IT infrastructure

Academics propose extraction, travel and weather prediction uses for Watson

IBM suoer computer in the real world

Royal Mail website hit again by IT glitch

Problems continue into sixth month


Government reneges on open source promise for Cloudstore 2.0

The second release has gone live today after weeks of delay

Metropolitan Police gets rapid smartphone analysis system

Controversy surrounds data retention

Nasdaq admits technical bugs affected Facebook IPO trading

Stock Exchange CEO told reporters that NASDAQ system problems led to Facebook trading delays

Yahoo agrees to sell back partial stake to Alibaba

The two companies have been in ongoing discussions for years now about Alibaba buying back its stake from Yahoo

BT to roll out fibre broadband to 90 per cent of rural Rutland

The county council hopes to secure additional funding to increase the figure to 97 per cent


HP may cut 25,000 jobs

Follows Dell's announcement of UK redundancies

Smartphone boom drives market in hybrid processors

Revenues from hybrid chips are now on a par with single chip revenues

US firms rush to adopt BYOD

Firms see productivity as well as cost benefits

Facebook sets IPO share price at $38

Price is at upper end of expected range, company could raise the GDP of Nepal

IT students aim for the security services

But Google and Apple are still top choices


BlackBerry 7 gets security approval from government

New BlackBerry smartphones can be used at Restricted level

UK now a top ten nation for hacking traffic, logs show

Growing volume of intrusion traffic

Dell set to cut UK jobs

It said that it needs to rationalise resources to operate effectively

Spiceworks social network for IT pros reaches two million users

Co-founder Jay Hallberg says growth rate is accelerating

Some government web OS so old it won't run social media

The IE6 2001 browser is still commonplace in Whitehall


Google+ posts not getting commented on, shared or +1'd

More than 100 million folks signed up for Google+ but is anyone posting anything?

UK man jailed for Facebook hack

12-month sentence should be a deterrent

Facebook IPO to give Microsoft $250 million windfall

2007 investment of $240 million in social networking giant Facebook grows five-fold in five years

General Motors pulls $10m Facebook ads

The move calls Facebook's advertising model into question ahead of its IPO

UK investment banks point to in-memory analytics to tackle big data

Research released today found that 100% of UK banks see big data as a significant problem


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