Latest News from CIO UK web site http://www.cio.co.uk/news/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ColdBox Feed Generator - 2.1 http://www.cio.co.uk/graphics/logos/rss_cio_logo.gif http://www.cio.co.uk/news/ Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. http://www.cio.co.uk/news/r-and-d/amd-reboots-server-strategy-with-first-arm-chips/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:25:00 GMT webmaster@cio.co.uk (Agam Shah) http://www.cio.co.uk/news/r-and-d/amd-reboots-server-strategy-with-first-arm-chips/ The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added Big Data to the list of IT topics it covers. http://www.cio.co.uk/news/data-management/open-data-center-alliance-tackles-big-data-analysis/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:13:00 GMT webmaster@cio.co.uk (James Niccolai) http://www.cio.co.uk/news/data-management/open-data-center-alliance-tackles-big-data-analysis/ Starbucks is the latest retailer to roll out contactless payments, after announcing a partnership with Visa Europe and Barclaycard to introduce near field communication (NFC) point of sale terminals across 550 UK stores. http://www.cio.co.uk/news/devices/contactless-payments-introduced-at-550-uk-starbucks/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:39:00 GMT webmaster@cio.co.uk (Matthew Finnegan) http://www.cio.co.uk/news/devices/contactless-payments-introduced-at-550-uk-starbucks/ Europe's justice commissioner will not sacrifice European citizens' rights for US national security, she said at the end of last week. http://www.cio.co.uk/news/compliance/eu-citizens-rights-are-not-negotiable/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:49:00 GMT webmaster@cio.co.uk (Jennifer Baker) http://www.cio.co.uk/news/compliance/eu-citizens-rights-are-not-negotiable/ European cloud providers think the US spy scandal will result in more enterprises choosing local alternatives over the likes of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which, on the other hand, are adamant that they aren't taking part in programmes such as Prism. http://www.cio.co.uk/news/cloud-computing/european-cloud-providers-hope-gain-from-nsa-revelations/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:23:00 GMT webmaster@cio.co.uk (Mikael Ricknäs) http://www.cio.co.uk/news/cloud-computing/european-cloud-providers-hope-gain-from-nsa-revelations/ Nestlé has appointed Stefan Catsicas as its new group CTO, replacing Werner Bauer who is retiring after 23 years at the company. http://www.cio.co.uk/news/cio-career/nestl-appoints-stefan-catsicas-as-new-group-cto/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:37:00 GMT webmaster@cio.co.uk (Antony Savvas) http://www.cio.co.uk/news/cio-career/nestl-appoints-stefan-catsicas-as-new-group-cto/ Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from US authorities in the second half of last year, they said at the end of last week. http://www.cio.co.uk/news/compliance/facebook-microsoft-disclose-little-about-nsa-requests/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:23:00 GMT webmaster@cio.co.uk (Martyn Williams) http://www.cio.co.uk/news/compliance/facebook-microsoft-disclose-little-about-nsa-requests/ China reclaimed top spot in the 41st Top500 HPC listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to execute 33.86 petaflops, or 33.86 thousand trillion floating point operations per second. http://www.cio.co.uk/news/r-and-d/tianhe-2-hpc-no-1-in-top500-list-of-worlds-supercomputers/ Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:07:00 GMT webmaster@cio.co.uk (Joab Jackson) http://www.cio.co.uk/news/r-and-d/tianhe-2-hpc-no-1-in-top500-list-of-worlds-supercomputers/ Microsoft released a version of its office suite for iPhones in the US that is only available for Office 365 subscribers, which should be available in the UK in the next 4-5 days. http://www.cio.co.uk/news/enterprise-apps/office-for-ios-in-iphone-app-store-for-office-365-users/ Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:43:00 GMT webmaster@cio.co.uk (Loek Essers) http://www.cio.co.uk/news/enterprise-apps/office-for-ios-in-iphone-app-store-for-office-365-users/ Berlin will not migrate to open source software, but instead the parliament of the German city-state decided in principle to choose workplace IT based on open standards. http://www.cio.co.uk/news/strategy/berlin-shuns-open-source-switch-but-looks-open-standards/ Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:37:00 GMT webmaster@cio.co.uk (Loek Essers) http://www.cio.co.uk/news/strategy/berlin-shuns-open-source-switch-but-looks-open-standards/