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Thomson Reuters extends global contract with BT
Thomson Reuters has contracted BT to manage the WAN element of its IT infrastructure, in an eight-year outsourcing deal.
12 May 2008
NCAR supercomputer is water-cooled first
The National Centre for Atmospheric Research has installed an IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and climate change. The supercomputer - a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster named Bluefire - has a peak speed of more than 76 teraflops (76 trillion floating-point operations per second).
9 May 2008
Neil Young’s Blu-ray gig at Sun JavaOne Conference
Sun Microsystems is collaborating with rock legend Neil Young and Reprise/Warner Bros. Records for the release of the Neil Young Archive series on Blu-ray Disc, built on Java technology.
9 May 2008

08 May 08 IT support now gets ‘seat on the board’, says report
07 May 08 Yahoo users get pre-click search risk alert
04 May 08 IT security breaches down – but at a cost
02 May 08 Rising power prices and space shortages beset data centre fortunes
01 May 08 Salary transparency will pay dividends - report
29 Apr 08 New Socitm president confirms change programme
28 Apr 08 Medium-sized enterprises invest more in IT - but stay ‘less ambitious’
28 Apr 08 ‘Zero watt’ monitors target big PC users
25 Apr 08 ‘Information lag’ hits 9 out of 10 companies - report
25 Apr 08 Software keeps asparagus farmers picking longer
25 Apr 08 Worries over corporate reputation top security pros’ concerns
24 Apr 08 Seagate claims ‘one billion hard drives shipped’ record
21 Apr 08 Remote workers visiting dodgy sites ‘twice as often as colleagues back in the office'
18 Apr 08 Work/life balance is a struggle say female technologists
17 Apr 08 Ofcom proposes solution to providing super-fast broadband
16 Apr 08 Use of open source will be key enabler for SaaS development platform adoption says Gartner
Worldwide news headlines
Application development
12 May 08 Media Advisory: World's Elite Software Developers Face-Off in Las Vegas for 2008 TopCoder Open
12 May 08 Coverity reveals multithreaded development tool
12 May 08 Envox CT Connect 7 Now Rated 'Avaya Compliant'
12 May 08 Think ITIL will reduce cost? You're wrong
11 May 08 All aboard the data integration expressor
Computing hardware
12 May 08 IBM unveils water-cooled supercomputer
12 May 08 Computer on module provides extra SATA ports
12 May 08 FalconStor Develops Storage Replication Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager to Enable Automated Disaster Recovery and Instant Access to Critical Applications
12 May 08 California Officials Host Forum on Next Generation of Major, Integrated Computer Systems
12 May 08 DataDirect Networks' CEO Alex Bouzari to Present on Content-Rich, Web 2.0 Storage Dynamics at JPMorgan Technology Conference
IT management and society
12 May 08 Verizon To Expand Its Revolutionary, All-Fiber Network And FiOS
12 May 08 Web cam images undo MacBook thieves
12 May 08 ITU AFRICA - Ex-Orange CEO pushes developing world broadband
12 May 08 Do new Web tools spell doom for the browser?
12 May 08 UK.gov solves pensioner crisis by wiring them up to the net
IT Sector
13 May 08 Google helps the web to go social
12 May 08 Microsoft to appeal EC fine
12 May 08 DataDomain boosts de-dupe power and capacity, and answers critics
12 May 08 Microsoft boosts XP on budget PCs
12 May 08 The healing power of computers
Security management
12 May 08 Security Portfolios a Critical Option for Protecting Your Business from Cybercriminals
12 May 08 Internet Security Serial Entrepreneurs Launch Purewire
12 May 08 PC Tools ThreatFire 3.5 antivirus software
12 May 08 Gibraltar Industries Gains Network Visibility from Lancope's StealthWatch System: Network Behavior Analysis Uses NetFlow and sFlow to Streamline Network Management and Security
12 May 08 Check Point's New ZoneAlarm ForceField Protects Users' Private Information Against Web Attacks With Groundbreaking New Technology
Software infrastructure
12 May 08 Software eases model comparisons
12 May 08 USB test software supports multicore designs
12 May 08 Software spreads signal processing tasks
09 May 08 Software package includes PXI/CompactPCI range
09 May 08 Update: lack of software testing to blame for Terminal 5 fiasco, BA executive tells MPs
Systems engineering
12 May 08 Brain Surgery Goes High-Tech
12 May 08 UK's etrinsic merges with US-based InnerWorkings. One of world's largest print management companies created
12 May 08 Jolly Technologies to Show Lobby Track 4.0 and ID Flow 4.0 at IFSEC 2008
12 May 08 Procera Releases 80 Gbps DPI Platform
12 May 08 CITIC Pacific to double special steel output
Visual information engineering
12 May 08 Character OLED module is bright LCD replacement
12 May 08 LEDs could light up our future
12 May 08 PhlatLight(R) BLU from Luminus Devices Wins SID's 2008 Display Component of the Year
11 May 08 OKI Unveils ''Face Image Processing Hardware IP'' to Enable Face Detection Function in LSIs
09 May 08 Dainippon Screen in OLED deal | The Japan Times Online
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