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Submission + - Cloud computing to create 14 million global jobs by 2015 (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Qedward on Monday March 05, 2012 @10:24AM

Qedward writes: Spend on public and private cloud computing services will create 226,000 jobs in the UK by 2015, according to a study from analyst firm IDC.

These would be part of the approximately 14 million jobs that would be created globally during the next four years, the study, 'Cloud Computing's Role in Job Creation', commissioned by Microsoft, claimed.

The majority of new jobs will be created in emerging markets, for example in China and India, where the size of the workforce is greater...

Submission + - Hackers Nab Unreleased Michael Jackson Tracks from Sony (securityweek.com) 1

Submitted by wiredmikey on Monday March 05, 2012 @09:17AM

wiredmikey writes: The plot thickens, and Sony once again has found itself in the news surrounding another hacking-related incident. This time around, the breach doesn’t appear to be in regard any lost user data or customer accounts, but instead, some valuable property owned by the record company.

Today, several British news outlets have reported that more than 50,000 music tracks have been illegally accessed and downloaded by hackers, including a large number from the late Michael Jackson.

Sony bought the catalog from Jackson’s estate for $250 Million in 2010, giving the company distribution rights to the unreleased music.

The attack reportedly occurred shortly after details of the massive PlayStation Network breach last April, but details were only revealed this past weekend.

Submission + - Attending meetings lowers IQ, scientists say (todayonline.com)

Submitted by neo12 on Thursday March 01, 2012 @05:47AM

neo12 writes: That's why nerds should avoid attending meetings.

Submission + - UK Broadband launches first 4G network in London (techworld.com)

Submitted by sweetpea86 on Thursday March 01, 2012 @03:36AM

sweetpea86 writes: Wireless company UK Broadband has switched on a wholesale 4G network in the London Borough of Southwark, offering high-speed services for the public sector and big corporations, as well as providing backhaul for mobile networks. The network has been built using Huawei’s Time Division Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) solution. TD-LTE is a variant of the LTE wireless standard, developed by China Mobile specifically to meet the growing demand for data capacity.

Unlike Frequency-Division Long-Term Evolution (FD-LTE), which carries two separate signals – one for uploading and one for downloading – TD-LTE uses a single channel, and dynamically assigns bandwidth to each connection based on user requirements. This means that download capacity is maximised at all times. However, most of the UK's mobile operators will be bidding for FD-LTE in the forthcoming 4G spectrum auction, because they are concerned about preserving their voice market as well as building a data market.

The company's CEO explained that the job of UK Broadband would be to provide a solid platform for operators to drop onto when capacity on their own networks becomes constrained.

Submission + - More women in IT believe pay discrimination rising (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by

E5Rebel

on Thursday March 03, 2011 @11:26AM

E5Rebel writes: "The number of women in technology who believe that their pay package is not comparable to that of their male counterparts has increased over the last two years, according to a new survey by the UK technolgy suppliers' organisation Intellect."

Submission + - Hospital Pays $1M Penalty For Loss Of Patient Data (techweb.com)

Submitted by

Batblue

on Thursday March 03, 2011 @10:20AM

Batblue writes: "All security professionals fear the consequences of an online hack or of failing a compliance audit. But last week, a Massachusetts hospital was forced to pay $1 million in penalties for what might have been an honest mistake.

According to a settlement with the Department of Health and Human Services (PDF), Massachusetts General Hospital has agreed to pay a $1 million "resolution" for the loss of records containing the personal health information of 192 individuals. The penalty follows a lawsuit filed by two HIV-positive patients whose records were among those lost.

The stiff penalty is the result of an incident that occurred two years ago, when a hospital billing manager took the paper records out of the hospital offices in order to work on them from home. The billing manager mistakenly left the records behind on an MBTA subway train, where they were lost and never recovered."

Submission + - SSDs cause crisis for digital forensics (techworld.com) 5

Submitted by rifles only on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @07:30AM

rifles only writes: Firmware built into many solid state drives (SSDs) to improve their storage efficiency could be making forensic analysis at a later date by police forces and intelligence agencies almost impossible to carry out to legally safe standards, Australian researchers have discovered.

They found that SSDs start wiping themselves within minutes after a quick format (or a file delete or full format) and can even do so when disconnected from a PC and rigged up to a hardware blocker.

Comment Why didn't they do this before (Score 1) 2

by E5Rebel on Friday February 25, 2011 @01:27PM (#35313676) Attached to: LSE calls crisis meeting with market data vendors

Big implemenation, complex processes, why weren't they having meetings with their customers daily after teh switch over? Why weren't they running the new platform and the old one in tandem to have a fall back in case of problems. No doubt there will be fault on all sides, but one thing is certain. London's reputation as a financial powerhosue has taken another beating.

Submission + - LSE calls crisis meeting with market data vendors (computerworlduk.com) 2

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Friday February 25, 2011 @01:15PM

DMandPenfold writes: The London Stock Exchange has called an urgent meeting next week with price data vendors, in an attempt to solve the serious market stock price irregularities appearing on traders’ screens since the exchange launched its new trading software.

The meeting, taking place on Tuesday, will involve many of the major vendors that have been displaying incorrect and blank stock prices. They are expected to address the problems and potential short and long-term solutions...

Submission + - LSE hauled offline after major data problem (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Friday February 25, 2011 @06:01AM

DMandPenfold writes: The London Stock Exchange stopped trading this morning immediately after the opening auction, which experienced a major technical glitch.

The news comes at the end of the second week of trading on the exchange’s new Millennium trading system. Over the last fortnight, anger has been growing after large vendors that supply price data to the market continually experienced significant technical difficulties, including displaying entirely inaccurate and blank prices.

Submission + - UK govt gets really serious about open source (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by

E5Rebel

on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @12:59PM

E5Rebel writes: "The move to Open Source is being driven both from the prime minsiter's office, and from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You will hear the Prime Minister talking about Open Government quite a bit over the next few weeks. Open Government consciously includes Open Source as well as Open Standards and Open Data, and this is being driven directly from the top of the Coalition Government. Good news."

Submission + - Borsa Italiana halts trading after data glitch (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @10:13AM

DMandPenfold writes: Borsa Italiana, the Milan trading venue owned by the London Stock Exchange, has halted trading after problems on its price data feeds.

An investigation is ongoing into the problem, which this morning was described by Borsa Italiana as “a technical issue on the price information systems”.

Borsa Italiana runs on the TradElect system, based on Microsoft .Net and written in C#, recently dumped by the LSE in favour of Millennium Exchange, written in C++ and based on Novell SUSE Linux servers. The LSE has also been experiencing price data feed problems on its own replacement system, but these issues are thought to be unrelated.

Submission + - Lawyers Using Facebook Research for Jury Selection (wsj.com) 2

Submitted by unassimilatible on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @02:59AM

unassimilatible writes: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that trial lawyers are increasingly using social networking sites like Facebook to research jurors in real-time during the voir dire process. Armando Villalobos, the district attorney of Cameron County, Brownsville, Texas, last year equipped his prosecutors with iPads to scan the Web during jury selection. But what of the jurors who have their privacy settings restricted to "friends only?" Mr. Villalobos has thought of a potential workaround: granting members of the jury pool free access to the court's wi-fi network in exchange for temporarily "friending" his office. Faustian bargain, or another way to get out of jury duty?

Submission + - iPhone workers still sick after chemical poisoning (cio.com.au)

Submitted by

swandives

on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @02:39AM

swandives writes: "Chinese workers who suffered chemical poisoning after being exposed to n-hexane on an iPhone production line are still experiencing health problems, even though Apple reports "all affected workers have been treated successfully" in its most recent progress report on its suppliers. n-hexane is a chemical cleaning agent that was used at one of its supplier's factories in Suzhou, China."

Submission + - Oracle's open source identity reborn at ForgeRock (internetnews.com)

Submitted by

darthcamaro

on Friday February 18, 2011 @05:14PM

darthcamaro writes: "Oracle trashed a lot of former Sun technologies — not the least of which is Sun's open source identity platform which included OpenSSO and OpenDS. Now open source startup ForgeRock has taken those castoffs and created a business that has now been running successfully for year.
"My personal goal here is to prove that you can have an open source business that is profitable," Simon Phipps former chief open source officer and Sun and now chief strategy officer at ForgeRock said. "Having principles and having profit are not mutually exclusive."

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