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The head of security at Microsoft UK, Cliff Evans, said that “The Security Intelligence Report Volume 8 provides compelling evidence that cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated and packaging online threats to create, update and maintain exploit kits that are sold on to others to deploy. Malware creators are continually improving their ‘products’ by replacing […]

Jawad Chaudhry, Project Manager, said that “The aim with the tablet rollout was to improve clinical care, and we certainly did that. The number of patients seen by staff with tablet computers increased by 20 – 30% per week because staff didn’t need to travel back to the office between appointments.” Technological improvements in the […]

The Director of Public Sector at Virgin Media Business, Lee Hull, said that “All the signs are that voter engagement with MPs and the electoral process is suffering. Technology looks like it could be critical in helping to ignite more interest from the public. The absence of an e-voting system is ironic when you think […]

The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCO), the UK’s leading professional recruitment industry body, has said that according to members such as JMK Recruitment and ReadyPeople demand has intensified significantly over the last few years. JMK Recruitment believes that the emphasis is now much more firmly on interactivity rather than plain information. Social Media sites […]

So far this year both Cognizant Technologies and Infosys have predicted strong growth in the UK market of 20% and 16% to 18% respectively. Those predictions have even come before the General Election, due on May 6th, which has effectively ground to a halt the decision making process over large scale IT projects in the […]

However, the large spends by Germany and France can be attributed to a massive SNCF deal and Sweden’s big spend can be put down to a super deal thought to be between ABB (the Swedish Engineering company) and IBM. 40% of the total value of deals in the EMEA region have been put down to […]

The deal with TCS relates to Rolls-Royce aviation, not Rolls-Royce Motors which separated from the aviation business back in 1973. Under the arrangement TCS will set up an engineering centre in Bangalore to cater exclusively to Rolls Royce design and engineering requirements. No figures relating to the deal were released by either Tata Consultancy Services […]

The Lorenzo Patient Administration System was due to go live at hospitals operated by the Morecambe Bay University Hospital NHS Trust in Kendell on the 31st March 2010, however the deadline was missed. The £12 Billion plus programme to drive forward NHS IT has been dogged by issues including missed deadlines, poor management & supplier […]

On the enhanced web client , Alex Nicolaou, Google’s Engineering Manager said “All the features of the Gmail web app that you\’re used to, such as offline access and aggressive caching to reduce latency, are present in the iPad version. Tablet devices are still very new, so expect changes as we continue to optimise for […]

Jeff Brooks, Chairman of the REC’s Technology Group said that “finding IT workers will be easier and allow faster placements by recruitment agencies. It is encouraging to see this growth in demand. Our members are showing increasing confidence in the sector and many of them are looking to hire more recruiters as a result. It […]