TechTarget News - Week of Aug 19, 2012
Mon Aug 20, 2012
Specsavers upgrades IT service management
Specsavers moved to an IT service management system from BMC Software when it wanted to become ITIL-compliant
Mon Aug 20, 2012
Hunt: Ofcom 'beset by threats of litigations'
Culture secretary calls on mobile operators to call off the lawyers and focus on the future of 4G to help government achieve broadband targets by 2015
Tue Aug 21, 2012
Technology companies expand despite economic concerns, says Intellect
UK technology companies are set to expand despite misgivings over the wider UK economy, according to a survey from IT industry body Intellect
Wed Aug 22, 2012
Rigorous software testing gets Curiosity off to a good start
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) has used static code analysis from Coverity to maximise the quality of the code running on the Curiosity rover
Wed Aug 22, 2012
SCC becomes first supplier to win G-Cloud security accreditation
IT infrastructure company SCC has become the first supplier on the government’s CloudStore to win pan-government security accreditation.
Thu Aug 23, 2012
Facebook gets green light for Instagram acquisition
The US Federal Trade Commission has approved the social network's proposed acquisition of mobile photo-sharing service Instagram
Fri Aug 24, 2012
GDS rolls out Drupal
The Government Digital Service is rolling out open source content management system Drupal.
Fri Aug 24, 2012
Samsung to power 3’s 4G network
The company’s European network operations team will provide the LTE Radio Access Network and core infrastructure
Fri Aug 24, 2012
VMware users can protect against virtual machine malware, says Trend Micro
New malware that attacks VMware virtual machines is no cause for undue concern, but users can take basic steps to protect data, says Trend Micro
Fri Aug 24, 2012
Enterprise network kit continues to boom in recession
New research from IDC shows revenues for both Ethernet switches and routers are growing regardless of the economic climate
Fri Aug 24, 2012
BI users slammed by IT as banshees and telepaths
Survey discovers IT professionals exasperated and world weary when confronted by BI users uncommunicative and exigent.