News & Events

• Capita buys in more SAP resources

  IT services firm Capita has acquired Newcastle-based Smiths Consulting to increase its SAP practice.  ....

• Security and safety fears hit smart metering programme

  Security and safety concerns could scupper government plans to reduce carbon emissions through smart metering  ....

• Proposed EC data protection rules help cloud adoption

  The proposed new European Union data protection regulation will support the adoption of cloud computing, says European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes.   ....

• Website launched to monitor cloud computing suppliers

  A website has been launched that will monitor the performance of specialist cloud computing suppliers and compare them against traditional IT suppliers.  ....

• Microsoft puts Blackberry service on Office365

  Businesses running Microsoft Office 365 can now access Exchange Online on their BlackBerry smartphones.  ....

• Phoenix Group completes cloud consolidation with Tata Consulting Services

  Insurance firm Pheonix Group migrated customer records and administration systems to a cloud-based system from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)  ....

• Firefox 10 hits the streets (Digital Trends)

  Digital Trends - Mozilla has set loose Firefox 10, the latest version of its open-source Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. New features in the release are largely limited to technologies aimed at Web developers, but there’s one important new feature that ought to appeal to anyone wh  ....

• Utah schools start adopting open source textbooks (AP)

  AP - Utah classrooms may soon be making the switch to open-source online textbooks that can be cheaper and easier to update.  ....

• Ubuntu moves beyond the desktop with new TV interface, menu-killing navigation system (Digital Trends)

  Digital Trends - Late last year, Ubuntu announced it would bring the open source operating system to mobile devices. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said Ubuntu will soon be found on “tablets, phones, TVs and smart screens from the car to the office kitchen, and it will connect those device  ....

• Android tablets approach tipping point, mimic smartphone rise (Appolicious)

  Appolicious - Google’s winning smartphone strategy was to make Android open source and invite anyone and everyone to create a device for their mobile platform. It worked, as HTC, Motorola and others jumped on the opportunity to create smartphones to rival the iPhone. However, the market was reset   ....

• HP's Plan to Open-Source WebOS: What's Taking So Long? (Mashable)

  Mashable - Hewlett-Packard just announced it would fulfill its promise to make the code of its dormant mobile operating system, webOS, open-source ... by September. The company, which effectively stopped the webOS platform in its tracks when it killed the HP TouchPad tablet and Palm line of phones l  ....

• Mozilla Challenges Prove Crowdsourcing Still Works for Fundraising (Mashable)

  Mashable - The Mozilla Firefox Challenge has named a winner -- but the real champion is the public, who yet again proved that crowdsourcing and grass roots campaigns are an effective way to raise money for charity. The Challenge, hosted on the Crowdrise fundraising platform, pitted 12 celebrities in  ....