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Atos enters final testing phase for London 2012 Olympic Games

The last checks before showtime

Ian Watmore leaves civil service

Spending more time with his family?

Car insurance firm uses IBM analytics to set premiums

IBM analytics information combined with telematics data to monitor how young drivers drive

Ticketmaster targets more reliability with data centre monitoring software

Will it prevent ongoing ticketing blunders?

PAC: Corporates on government contracts should be subject to FoI

Performance of firms on public contracts need to be closely monitored to enable accountability

Research Councils reveals plans for £33m supercomputer investment

An online notice outlines the Councils’ intention to make the UK a world leader in HPC

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IBM brings Intel Ivy Bridge architecture to M4 server line

New Xeon V2 processors will add power and efficiency

SAP offers mobile device management on Amazon cloud

A number of enterprises don't want to deal with implementing their own device management infrastructure in-house

BT and TalkTalk fail Ofcom mystery shopper broadband tests

Both ISPs have been warned to follow the regulator’s code of practice more closely

SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal

The company will sell its SaaS products as a loosely coupled suite

AMD launches Trinity APUs to take on Intel’s Ivy Bridge

AMD is touting 12 hour battery life and big performance gains with Piledriver CPU core

Yahoo launches online advertising big data analytics tool

Genome is designed to let marketers deliver more targeted campaigns


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Cranfield adopts new HR system to aid management

More integrated platform to streamline business processes

Met Police uses mobile data extraction system against suspects

Police will have immediate access to data on handset

Insurers spend over £100m on preparing data for Solvency II

Simon Kirby said that the regulation should have been delivered in manageable chunks

CERN automates application development with Electric Cloud

Electric Cloud will manage application quality for scientists in search of Higgs Boson

Reed Recruitment upgrades to VoIP system

Consolidates more than 250 telephone systems into one central network


London School of Economics replaces Siemens with cloud-based comms

The world-leading university has opted for an InTechnology solution that will be delivered over JANET

ICO website hit by DDoS attack

Anonymous unconfirmed as source of breach

Ross Levinsohn takes on CEO role at struggling Yahoo

Head of Yahoo's global media, he is known for his Internet savvy

Apple admits second iCloud mail outage

The online mail service was out of action for up to 15 million users on Monday

Microsoft Research aims to turn any laptop into a Kinect

Humantenna and Soundwave could one day be used in cars


Staffordshire council seeks IT business engagement manager

Wants someone dedicated to understanding how ICT fits in with business processes

Government to launch G-Hosting to complement G-Cloud

The public sector is expected to spend £470m between now and 2016 on heavy lift hosting

Dell and IBM announce servers with new Intel Xeon chips

New servers pack more processing power and memory to speed up database and cloud tasks

Infineon CEO Bauer resigns after health complications

Infineon veteran Reinhard Ploss will take CEO post at the end of fiscal year

SAP unveils mobile apps

Mobile strategy makes plenty of room for partners, analyst says


Intel introduces low-power Xeon E3 server chips with 3D transistors

E3-1200 V2 chips for microservers are based on Ivy Bridge, while E5-4600 chips are based on Sandy Bridge

BAA's Philip Langsdale to become DWP CIO

Langsdale fills Joe Harley's shoes

Panasonic books £6 billion annual loss

Japanese manufacturer was hit by falling sales of its electronics and one-time restructuring fees

Daisy Group completes £1m investment in bomb-proof data centre

The facility has a 12-tonne door and 2m-thick granite walls

Microsoft preparing June Windows 8 upgrade deal for Windows 7 PCs

But report in CNET says upgrade will come with a price tag


MoD to warn of E-bomb attack

The UK needs to build its digital defences, defence secretary Philip Hammond will say

Amazon Web Services helps users avoid bill shock with email alerts

IT staff can now keep track of the total cost or the charge for individual services and get alerts via email

Facebook privacy policy changes proposed to appease Irish government

Critics are skeptical about the move's timing just before the company's IPO

Liverpool NHS trust hails paperless access to patient data

Doctors have more time to spend with patients

Arup outsources data centre to cope with growth

More cost-effective than refurbishing existing space


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