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Need counselling but can't get to a service? Try telepsychiatry

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Lucas Mearian) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Telemedicine has been around since the 1990s, but psychiatrists say it's increasingly used to treat remote patients as technology and security improves, and prices drop.

Apple calls for overhaul of Europe patent law

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Ben Camm-Jones) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:02:00 GMT

Apple has called for an overhaul of European patent laws which it says are currently inconsistent, it has emerged.

Google Business Photos - A closer look

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Angela West) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:46:00 GMT

If you want potential customers to get a 360-degree view of your brick-and-mortar business when they click on any of your listings in Google, its new Business Photos campaign makes its listings for business more interactive. To that end, the search giant is pairing its own certified "Trusted Photographers" with businesses that want to show off their interiors to the public.

Google improves display speed in new release of Chrome browser

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (John P. Mello Jr.) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Just one day after introducing Chrome for Android, Google has started pushing an update to the desktop version of the browser. The update reportedly renders pages faster and makes downloading more secure.

How to choose an enterprise search solution

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (James A. Martin) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:09:00 GMT

Google and other Internet search engine virtually never fail to deliver relevant results nearly instantly. That creates a problem for IT in terms of setting employee expectations around the search capabilities they use at work.

Understanding web hosting providers - Seven terms to know

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Christopher Null) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:25:00 GMT

If you’re new to web hosting, the bevy of plans available from many providers may confuse you. Here’s a quick primer on what’s what in the world of web hosting.

7 points to consider when developing an app

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Joseph Fieber) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:17:00 GMT

Smartphones and tablets are dominating technology, and apps are among the top selling points for each mobile OS. With Apple’s and Google’s app stores each having over 500,000 apps and tens of billions of downloads, the desire to be a part of this growing market is strong.

FTC has privacy concerns over background checking apps

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Grant Gross) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:21:00 GMT

The US Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to the makers of six mobile apps used for background checks, saying the apps may violate a consumer credit protection law.

Apple warns iPhone developers against manipulating App Store

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Bob Brown) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:10:00 GMT

Apple has warned iOS developers not to use services that manipulate App Store rankings to make their iPhone and iPad apps seem more popular than they really are.

Europe versus Facebook: students plan to press Irish data commissioner

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Jeremy Kirk) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:47:00 GMT

Europe versus Facebook, a group of students concerned over the social networking site's privacy practices, plans to continue to press the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) for action following a meeting on February 6 in Vienna with representatives from Facebook.

Adobe debuts sandboxed version of Flash Player for Firefox

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Lucian Constantin) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:15:00 GMT

Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox, which has better protection against vulnerability exploits because of a new sandboxed architecture.

Java tops C in language popularity charts

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Paul Krill) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:01:00 GMT

Java is hanging on to its ranking as the most popular programming language, but only by a thin margin. It edged out C in this month's Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

Unilever in major SAP usage expansion

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Leo King) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:03:00 GMT

Unilever has extended an SAP enterprise resource planning rollout to North America, vital to its core business processes including supply chain management in one of its largest business regions.

Apple removes copies of popular products from App Store

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Christina DesMarais) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Apple perhaps knows better than any company that app ripoffs are everywhere. The consumer electronics powerhouse has been pulling several fake apps from its store as plagiarised apps have been a hot topic in recent days.

Bouncer scanner checking Google Android Market for malware

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Paul Krill) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:37:00 GMT

Google has been using a service codenamed Bouncer to scan of applications submitted to the Android Market in an effort to improve security, the company revealed last week.

Can Facebook replace traditional business websites?

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Vangie Beal) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:00 GMT

Integrating your website with social media sites is typically the best approach to online marketing and ecommerce, but are there times when it makes sense to use Facebook instead of a traditional business website?

Misys and Temenos eye merger

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Michael Pooler) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:23:00 GMT

Misys and Temenos have said they are in "preliminary discussions" about a merger that could make them into the largest software supplier to the financial sector.

SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed as US regulators conduct investigation

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Chris Kanaracus) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:18:00 GMT

SAP's $3.4 billion purchase of cloud software vendor SuccessFactors has been delayed indefinitely while a US regulatory body investigates the deal.

Twitter in 'mostly worthless' survey shock

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Bob Brown) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:26:00 GMT

Twitter has been celebrated for its ubiquity and impact on world events from natural disaster recovery to political uprisings. But researchers from a group of big time universities have found that useful postings are few and far between.

VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 supports key virtualisation platforms

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Tim Greene) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:21:00 GMT

VMTurbo has upgraded Operations Manager to version 3.0 to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool.

How to manage a company Twitter account as a team

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (David Daw) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:20:00 GMT

If multiple users staff your company's Twitter account, coordinating updates can s become complicated and confusing. Twitter thankfully allows you to stay logged in at more than one location so that multiple employees can manage your Twitter feed at the same time.

Salesforce caves to customer pressure over analytics

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Chris Kanaracus) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:45:00 GMT

Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM software, following complaints from customers who argued that the features should have been used to fill long-standing gaps in the products' core functionality, not sold separately.

RIM to launch Business Cloud services to link to Office 365

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Howard Solomon) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:45:00 GMT

Mobile workers whose organisations subscribe to Microsoft Corp.'s cloud-based Office 365 service can now access some of the messaging applications through Research In Motion's BlackBerry smart phones.

Deal with the firehose of enterprise data

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Brian Proffitt) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:45:00 GMT

It goes without saying that big data is, well, big. But it's not just the size that's an obstacle when dealing with big data: it's the rate at which that data can be coming into your data storage infrastructure.

Microsoft Office 15 public beta to ship in the summer

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Gregg Keizer) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:24:00 GMT

Microsoft announced it has kicked off a "technical preview" of the next version of its money-making Office suite and promised a public beta will ship this summer.