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Hosted private cloud services business to surpass US$24bn by 2016 News
01.03.2013 Global spending on hosted private cloud services will be more than US$24bn by 2016, IDC has predicted. The sector will grow at a compound annual rate of 50pc a year over the...Categories: Storage, Servers, Infrastructure Management, Hosting Services, Global CIO, Digital Media, CIO -
Has trumpeting of cloud created a reputation crisis for tech sector? News
28.02.2013 IT and business decision makers have expressed their contempt for ‘cloud washing’ – the over-selling and over-promoting of cloud services as well as poor service delivery –...Categories: Servers, Security, Investments, Infrastructure Management, Digital Business, Data Management, CIO -
Microsoft confirms it is the latest tech giant to suffer cyber attacks News
23.02.2013 The same cyber attacks being experienced by Facebook and Apple are also occurring at Microsoft, the software giant has revealed. -
Mandiant produces evidence of China’s secret cyber army at work News
19.02.2013 Security player Mandiant has produced a report that purports to show China’s secret cyber armies being built up. It says it has been tracking a single organisation called APT1,... -
Facebook confirms hit by cyber attack, no evidence user data compromised News
16.02.2013 Social networking giant Facebook has confirmed that it has been the victim of an attack by hackers. It says several of its engineers’ computers were hacked using a zero-day Java...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Mobility, Mobile, IT Management, Internet, Digital Media, Data Management, Data Centre -
Weekend news round-up: Facebook shuns server OEMs, Apple’s podcasting disaster News
18.02.2013 In our round-up of the weekend’s tech news and analysis, OEMs who failed to embrace Facebook’s Open Compute Project are out in the cold with the social network opting to make... -
Facebook wins case to ensure Europeans use real names on social network News
15.02.2013 A German court has ruled in Facebook’s favour in a case where a data commissioner in Schleswig-Holstein wanted Facebook to allow the use of fake names. Facebook argued that it...Categories: Social Media, Servers, Security, Networking & Telecoms, Legal, Internet, Digital Business, Data Management, Communications -
Telefónica Digital selects FeedHenry app tech to power mobile cloud News
15.02.2013 One of the world’s largest mobile operators Telefónica Digital has selected technology made by Irish technology company FeedHenry to enable a one-stop-shop for creating,... -
Irish IT security expert shortlisted for international award News
13.02.2013 Brian Honan of BH Consulting has been shortlisted for ‘Information Security Person of the Year’ in the prestigious SC Magazine awards.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, IT Organisation, IT Management, CIO -
US President Obama signs cyber security executive order News
13.02.2013 US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that will bolster America’s cyber security defences through partnership with critical infrastructure providers. -
Microsoft and Symantec bust US$1bn a year click fraud ring News
07.02.2013 Microsoft and Symantec have taken down the command and control servers used by a cyber fraud ring that netted criminals stg£700,000 (US$1bn) a year via a threat called... -
Dell goes private in US$24bn transaction - founder regains control of company he started News
05.02.2013 Computer giant Dell is to go private under a US$24.4bn transaction led by founder Michael Dell and global tech investment firm Silver Lake and involving loans and financing from...Categories: Storage, Servers, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Mergers & Acquisitions, IT Management, Internet, Hardware, eCommerce, Digital Business, Deals Done, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Big data bounce - organisations are bringing their data back in-house News
04.02.2013 In what must be a surprise to telcos, data centre and managed services providers, organisations are changing tack and are bringing their data back in-house, according to new... -
Twitter joins growing list of media websites to be hacked - 250k accounts compromised News
03.02.2013 It emerged over the weekend that as many as 250,000 Twitter accounts may have been compromised in a hacker attack. Twitter joins a growing array of major sites to be attacked in...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Internet, Digital Media -
Weekend news round-up: The end of the web as we know it, will 4G be expensive? News
04.02.2013 In our trawl through the most interesting tech stories from the weekend, we discover a computer scientist who heralds the web as we know it today will be history; e-commerce...Tags: Apple, Apps, Twitter, Facebook, Data Privacy, EU, US, 4G, 3, LTE, Smartphones, Pinterest, Tablet Computers -
Michael Dell to lead buyout of Dell Inc by next week News
01.02.2013 Michael Dell, with the support of a consortium of investors that includes venture capital firm Silver Lake Partners and software giant Microsoft, could take control of the... -
Hackers break into New York Times, steal employee passwords News
31.01.2013 The New York Times has claimed that hackers based in China managed to infiltrate its computer network and access employee emails. -
RIM is no more, it is now simply BlackBerry News
30.01.2013 Research In Motion (RIM) no longer exists. The company today has rebranded itself as simply BlackBerry with a new trading name, BBRY.Categories: Wireless Communications, Servers, Phones, Hardware, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Communications -
4,300 new jobs on cards as Intel gets planning permission to build US$4bn 14nm chip plant in Ireland News
24.01.2013 Ireland’s lead planning agency An Bord Pleanála has given chip giant Intel the go-ahead it needs to construct a massive US$4bn chip plant that will produce the next generation...Categories: Servers, Project Management, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Leadership & Management, Investments, Hardware, Digital Media, Development, Design, Computers -
Sony fined stg£250,000 over ‘preventable’ PlayStation Network breach News
24.01.2013 Sony has been fined stg£250,000 by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office for what it deemed the preventable hacking of the Sony PlayStation Network platform in 2011 that...