RBS worker says she was sacked for Facebook post
A Royal Bank of Scotland employee has said she was sacked and lost out on a a £6,000 redundancy payment, after she posted a message on Facebook about her upcoming payment.
View ArticleSAP-Oracle feud could hurt business, customers say
Prolonging the battle between SAP and Oracle, following last week's £820 million damages award, could hurt enterprise software users and change the support landscape.
View ArticleSAP in another exec reshuffle
Three SAP vice presidents and a head of services are leaving the company, as part of a major management reshuffle, it is understood.
View ArticleOfficial report: BP oil spill IT systems lacked key alarms
BP's monitoring IT systems on the failed Deepwater Horizon oil rig relied too heavily on engineers following complex data for long periods of time, instead of providing automatic warning alerts.
View ArticleVisa beefs up fraud detection technology
Visa is targeting better fraud detection, through investments in modelling software.
View ArticleVodafone slams Egypt president Mubarak over text ‘hijacking’
Vodafone has accused Egypts embattled president, Hosni Mubarak, of effectively hijacking its network to send propaganda.
View ArticleGovernment signs up to European cyber security plan
The UK is set to sign up to a European Union cyber security plan, as ministers warned that more needed to be done to tackle the growing threats.
View ArticleLondon Stock Exchange: What really went wrong
The London Stock Exchange has made a U-turn on the system requirements placed on data vendors such as Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data and Bloomberg, after three weeks of problems since the launch of...
View ArticleSeven in 10 businesses worried about managing cloud
Seventy one percent of businesses are concerned about managing cloud computing, according to a survey.
View ArticleNHS agreement with CSC ‘weeks away’
An agreement between the NHS and CSC is due to be signed in the "next few weeks", according to the supplier.
View ArticleCanonical services boss quits, in another departure from Ubuntu firm
Neil Levine, Canonical's VP of services, has quit the company and joined a small cloud systems management business.
View ArticleVeeam adds backup support for Microsoft Hyper-V
Virtual infrastructure management firm Veeam Software has added Backup & Replication support for Microsoft Hyper-V, in an important move in the virtualisation market.
View ArticleIT security regulations ‘totally out of date’
The legal framework in which businesses operate their IT and data security is "totally outdated" and dates "from the 20th Century, while attempting to tackle problems in the 21st", according to a panel...
View ArticleIDC: Technology consumerisation is overhauling the IT role
The consumerisation of technology in the workplace, whereby users bring in their own devices and even sign up to their own choice of cloud systems, is drastically changing the role of the IT department.
View ArticleFour in 10 servers are virtual, snapshot study shows
Nearly four in every 10 servers are not physical, according to a virtualisation study that has examined large businesses in the UK, US, France and Germany.
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