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Burberry points to benefits of tech in strong annual results

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:15:00 GMT

Burberry has highlighted the strong role that technology plays in cutting costs and customer profiling at the fashion company, as part of its end-of-year results announcement.

Yahoo Axis launched as stand-alone mobile search app

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Cameron Scott — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:45:00 GMT

Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links.

Yahoo Genome service highlights hosted Big Data analytics trend

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Jaikumar Vijayan — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:11:00 GMT

Yahoo has joined a growing list of companies offering Big Data analytics as a service with its Genome offering this week.

Google's Android did not infringe Oracle patents, jury finds

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (James Niccolai — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:05:00 GMT

Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle's Java patents, a jury in San Francisco found Wednesday in a setback for Oracle.

McLaren CIO uses SAP's HANA to scale back on ‘expensive PhDs’

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT

McLaren CIO Stuart Birrell has said that he is using SAP’s in-memory HANA technology to try and scale back on using “expensive PhD” skills within the group’s Formula 1 teams.

Facebook will settle class-action suit over Sponsored Stories

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Cameron Scott — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:56:00 GMT

Facebook is to settle a class-action lawsuit in California that accused it of appropriating its users' likenesses for its Sponsored Stories advertising feature, according to a court document filed Tuesday.

Firms suffer app performance failure through poor network management

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Antony Savvas — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Corporate networks across Europe are experiencing significant performance problems due to network "blind spots" around the applications being run across them, according to research.

Tesco speeds release of new online applications

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Antony Savvas — Wed, 23 May 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Tesco is speeding the way it prepares and releases new applications across its online business.

Bloomberg acquires PolarLake to bolster data management capabilities

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Bloomberg has revealed today that it has acquired Dublin-based software provider PolarLake in a bid to bolster a newly launched enterprise data management (EDM) service.

SAP president claims €1bn worth of in-memory business in the pipeline

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:30:00 GMT

SAP has €1 billion (£808 million) worth of business in the pipeline for its in-memory HANA product, according to SAP's president of sales Robert Enslin.

Are financial IT systems ready for a Greek euro exit?

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Sophie Curtis — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:45:00 GMT

With Greece's exit from the eurozone looking increasingly likely, financial experts around the world are speculating about the effect this will have on the global economy. Some say that the contagion could spread to Spain and Italy, banks that have lent money to Greece could suffer catastrophic losses, and the entire European monetary project could crumble.

Chrome tops Internet Explorer as most popular browser

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Daniel Ionescu — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:13:00 GMT

Google Chrome is now the world's most popular web browser, surpassing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the first time.

Facebook purchases mobile e-commerce app Karma

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Cameron Scott — Mon, 21 May 2012 09:43:00 GMT

The mobile gift-giving app Karma announced Friday it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's first day as a publicly traded company.

New Analytics: Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Jaikumar Vijayan — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:00:00 GMT

About two years ago, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield implemented a self-service business intelligence platform to aggregate and analyse vast amounts of data from multiple repositories scattered throughout the company.

Window RT version of Firefox 'probably not worth it'

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Gregg Keizer — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:35:00 GMT

Mozilla will "probably not bother" building a version of Firefox for Windows RT if Microsoft does not allow other browser makers to call important APIs for the new operating system, according to a Mozilla product director.

Gamification - How enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (John Cox — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:31:00 GMT

Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones. To design them well, enterprise developers can learn a lot from a surprising source: mobile games.

Mozilla Marketplace to move to public beta stage soon

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Paul Krill — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Mozilla Marketplace will be online in a few weeks to take on Apple App Store and Google Play Store

Google releases Chrome 19, patches 20 bugs and adds tab sync

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Gregg Keizer — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:54:00 GMT

Google released Chrome 19, patched 20 vulnerabilities in the browser and doled out $16,500 in bug bounties and rewards to independent researchers.

Netsuite SuiteCommerce to aid businesses in supporting 'any' customer device

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Leo King — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:33:00 GMT

Netsuite has announced SuiteCommerce, a system designed to aid companies in selling to customers using any device.

SAP offers mobile device management on Amazon cloud

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Mikael Ricknäs — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:07:00 GMT

SAP's Afaria mobile device management tool is now available on the Amazon Web Services cloud, offered as a way to make it easier to start using the platform, SAP said at the Sapphire conference yesterday.

SAP offers mobile device management on Amazon cloud

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Mikael Ricknäs — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:07:00 GMT

IT is key for Brazil to compete with China for European markets

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Brazil will not compete with India and China on cheap labour in global export markets, but will instead look to advanced IT products and services to gain an advantage, according to a number of influential executives that were speaking in Sao Paulo last week.

SAP rolls out new mobile apps

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Chris Kanaracus — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT

SAP on Monday unveiled a series of mobile applications covering areas such as expense management and e-learning, as well as improved support for iOS and Android devices. The announcements came at the start of the vendor's Sapphire conference in Orlando.

BusinessObjects users call for better support from SAP

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Anh Nguyen — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:45:00 GMT

Two in five users of BusinessObjects business intelligence software have said that the support provided by SAP is not as good as other software vendors, according to a new user group survey.

SAP points to consumerisation of enterprise apps to drive growth

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:17:00 GMT

SAP is planning to target the customers of its enterprise customers in a bid to achieve rapid growth rates over the next three years.