Ebay bids for Big Data specialist Expertmaker
Auction giant eBay has signalled that its activities will be directed by applied information more than they were previously with the acquisition of…
Scottish knuckles rapped over data
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has criticised West Dunbartonshire Council over its lax approach to staff training when it comes …
Wipro teams with Amazon Web Services for managed service
Indian outsourcing giant Wipro has joined with Amazon Web Services to offer enterprises and public sector bodies Managed File Transfer as a Service…
Storage as a Service comes a step closer
People used to buy their storage systems but now they’re more likely to rent them, it appears, with WebHouse forging a technology alliance wi…
Mitel swoops on Polycom
Communications professionals will have to realign their sights as giant in the field Mitel has agreed to buy Polycom to become a $2.5bn company. Th…
20m new malware samples this year already
Security specialist Panda Labs is set to put paid to any suspicion that Cybercrime is likely to decrease. It has reported 20m samples of malware in…
What flexible working really means
This coming Friday will be Flexible Working Awareness day as we reported elsewhere in the news. A lot of the focus will inevitably be on technology…
One third want flexible working
A third of UK employees want flexible working (35 per cent to be exact), says a report from facilities management and building maintenance speciali…
Government will set up data ethics council
The UK government, which appears quite busy at the moment already, has confirmed plans to set up an ethics council focused on the handling of data.…
Cloud tracks crowd behaviour
An experiment in a Danish music festival has shown how storing masses of data in the cloud and analysing it can predict how crowds will behave. The…
Five storage specialists fall foul of Chinese restrictions
China has tightened its laws on the Internet and censorship, specifically clamping down on illegal publications and pornography. The end result is …
Small businesses offered guide to data security
New Statesman Tech is generally aimed at the larger enterprise but since it’s Small Business Week in the US (surely you knew, started on Sund…
Can Big Data inform the human condition?
Big Data is credited with many things but “resolving the human condition” is not normally among them. Step forward the University of Ro…
The week in view
It’s been quite a week for security stories but isn’t it always? Incidents in Mexico and of course the bank in Bangladesh with its seco…
Microsoft experiments with DNA storage
Microsoft is being widely reported as experimenting with DNA storage. It’s bought ten million strands of DNA from Twist Bioscience and will b…
Broadband UK falls behind
Research from Uswitch suggests that Hull is the worst city in the UK if you want a broadband connection but never mind the “who’s the w…
Skills gap to hit public sector?
An opinion piece in Computer Business Review, published by the same company as New Statesman Tech, suggests that the UK may be misreading the skill…
European Space Agency pushes investments out of this world
The European Space Agency (ESA) has joined with Viasat to launch the High Capacity Satellite Applications Factory Initiative. This pilot initiative…
Samsung’s cloud aims at Internet of Things
Samsung has developed a new cloud service aimed squarely at the Internet of Things (IoT) market. The Artik cloud service is named after the tiny ch…
IBM builds intelligent cloud apps
IBM is to build on its Watson cognitive computing scheme with a set of intelligent cloud apps. Underpinning these will be a set of flash-based mass…
Is Big Data a good security measure?
Big Data was not always aimed at making corporations more resilient but that’s what it’s doing, says Computer Weekly. It refers to rece…
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