Articles By Antony Savvas at ComputerworldUK

Ethernet founders bemoan lack of investment in innovation

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:59:00 GMT

This week may see the network gods of the US celebrate the achievement and benefits of inventing Ethernet 40 years ago, but they're wondering where the next funding is coming from.

Ethernet celebrates 40th anniversary

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:06:00 GMT

This week sees Ethernet celebrate its 40th anniversay after being invented on 22 May 1973.

Rimini Street gets another £10m to keep piling the pressure on SAP and Oracle

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:59:00 GMT

Silicon Valley's Bridge Bank has ploughed millions of funding into SAP and Oracle third party software maintenance company Rimini Street.

Aviva adopts cloud-based financial forecasting

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:42:00 GMT

Aviva is dumping the spreadsheets and adopting a cloud-based forecasting system for its insurance and savings business.

Yorkshire Building Society outsources customer comms infrastructure management

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:37:00 GMT

Yorkshire Building Society has brought in contact centre specialist Sabio to manage and help improve core customer communications platforms.

Janet integrates with Microsoft cloud to offer better research networking

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Tue, 21 May 2013 09:05:00 GMT

The Janet education network has been integrated with the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud network to help improve connectivity and easily offer cut-price Microsoft cloud applications to colleges, including the Office 365 productivity suite.

Staff shortage and funding stunts Tech City growth

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:14:00 GMT

A shortage of skilled staff and a lack of funding is stunting the growth of Tech City in east London, according to research.

Bloomberg brings in ex-IBM CEO to address client data breaches

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:13:00 GMT

Bloomberg is trying to address privacy concerns around its clients' data by bringing in former IBM chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano to conduct a review of Bloomberg's privacy and data standards.

Airbus deploys big data platform to build A350 XWB just right

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:03:00 GMT

Airbus will use the Spotfire Analytics platform from TIBCO. The A350 XWB family of planes promise to provide a "25 percent step-change in fuel efficiency compared to current long-range competitors", said Airbus. Contributing to this performance are the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines that power the A350 XWB family.

Hospitals offered £260m fund to help adopt safer e-prescriptions

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:29:00 GMT

Responding to the Francis report, which called on the NHS to make better use of technology to help ensure safe care, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a new £260 million fund for hospitals.

Tech City start-ups offered 'wibre' to quickly connect to cloud

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:11:00 GMT

Tech City businesses in Shoreditch, east London are being offered combined data centre and new "wibre" connectivity services to help them quickly grow.

Broadband speeds on planes and ships to double with new satellite

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:24:00 GMT

ViaSat has brought in Boeing to build a satellite to "double" existing broadband speeds on planes, ships and other locations around the world.

Red Devils deploy fibre broadband network to keep pace with stunts

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:45:00 GMT

The Red Devils have deployed a new business broadband system that can help keep up with the speed of their air stunts.

West Sussex council awards BT £12.5m rural broadband deal

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:12:00 GMT

West Sussex County Council is the latest authority to award BT a rural fibre broadband deal, this one being worth £12.5 million to the supplier.

Telefónica deploys Office 365 across 130,000 strong cloud

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:00 GMT

Telefónica, the owner of the O2 mobile brand in the UK, is deploying the cloud-based Microsoft Office 365 productivity suite and Yammer social networking platform across its operating businesses worldwide, covering 130,000 staff in 24 countries.

ODI urges government to be 'bold' on open data for business

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:03:00 GMT

The Open Data Institute (ODI) has welcomed the findings of Stephan Shakespeare in his Independent Review of Public Sector Information, and has called on the government to drive them forward, by "turning recommendations into real progress".

TalkTalk sees falling sales and profits for the year

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:32:00 GMT

TalkTalk has posted both falling revenues and profits for the full year, although maintains it is on course for steady business growth.

UK leads in M2M market says analyst

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:13:00 GMT

The UK is leading other major countries in the European mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) market, according to market analyst Frost & Sullivan.

Sheffield Hallam University improves SSO and application delivery

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:05:00 GMT

Sheffield Hallam University is saving up to £20,000 a year and eliminating "tens of hours of downtime every month" with an improved single sign-on system and application delivery controller.

Halfords pushes PC lifecycle management strategy

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:59:00 GMT

Car maintenance and cycling retailer Halfords has deployed a new PC lifecycle management system to cover over 700 devices across two central offices.

Department for Transport signs £1m IP telephony PSN deal

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:36:00 GMT

The Department for Transport has awarded Azzurri Communications a five year £1 million IP telephony contract, under the Public Services Network procurement framework.

UK retail chains to visit Israel on technology mission

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:44:00 GMT

Major UK retail chains are to take part in a technology trade mission to Israel later this month.

Allied Irish Bank brings in Moxie for multi-channel strategy

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:31:00 GMT

Allied Irish Bank (AIB) has chosen Spaces by Moxie as the platform for its multi-channel customer service initiative. AIB will deploy Moxie Software�??s chat, co-browse, email, knowledgebase and web self-service customer communication systems.

ARM promotes Internet of Things development platform

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:01:00 GMT

ARM has joined forces with LogMeIn to offer a commercial development platform to help drive the Internet of Things (IoT).

Qualcomm and Kaspersky sign mobile protection deal for Android devices

editor@techworld.com (Antony Savvas) — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:39:00 GMT

Qualcomm has signed a mobile device security deal with Kaspersky Lab to load its security software onto Android devices powered by Snapdragon processors.