CIO News

Barclays opens Pingit mobile payment system to all businesses

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Antony Savvas — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:39:00 GMT

Payments cap has been lifted to allow unlimited amounts

VMware acquires desktop management company Wanova

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Mikael Ricknäs — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:40:00 GMT

Wanova will help VMware realize its vision for the future of desktops

Apple's designer Sir Jonathan Ive knighted at Buckingham Palace

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Karen Haslam — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:15:00 GMT

Ive received his knighthood from the Princes Royal in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. His knighthood was announced in the Queen’s New Years Honours list on 31 December 2011.

TfL: NFC contactless payments will not make Olympic Games

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:05:00 GMT

Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that it will not have completed a full roll-out of its near field communication (NFC) contactless payment system ahead of the London Olympic Games this summer.

Government is at a crossroads, former CIO John Suffolk warns

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:01:00 GMT

Writing to analyst firm TechMarketView, Suffolk points to conflict in government holding back plans

Lenovo's net profit for Q4 up by 59 per cent

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Michael Kan — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:50:00 GMT

Lenovo's revenue in the quarter reached £4.7 billion, up 54 per cent year on year

Firms suffer app performance failure through poor network management

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Antony Savvas — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:04:00 GMT

One in three don't know how many apps run on their corporate network

News International trusts customer data to the cloud

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Sophie Curtis — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:04:00 GMT

Newspaper publisher News International is using cloud-based solutions from Salesforce.com. CloudSense and Zuora to fulfil product orders, monitor customer preferences and process payments.

Microsoft beats data-sorting record with new approach

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Joab Jackson — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:40:00 GMT

A new approach, called Flat Datacenter Storage, pushes computational sorting to each data server

CIOs mull how to innovate and tighten belts simultaneously

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Chris Kanaracus — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:39:00 GMT

Run IT like a business, says one panelist at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

Facebook stock slumps for third day

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Sharon Gaudin — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:37:00 GMT

Pre-IPO frenzy definitely over as social net's stock sinks below $32 a share

Dell's profit shrinks in the first quarter

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Agam Shah — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:36:00 GMT

Dell's overall revenue falls by 4 per cent and consumer revenue falls by 12 per cent

SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 bn

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Chris Kanaracus — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:35:00 GMT

The move expands SAP's presence in cloud software

Facebook to settle class-action suit over Sponsored Stories

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Cameron Scott — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:34:00 GMT

The parties say they have agreed in principle to settle

Bloomberg acquires PolarLake to bolster data management capabilities

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:32:00 GMT

The acquisition aims to help firms increase their efficiency by better managing high volumes of data

HMRC in talks with SAP to consolidate infrastructure into HANA

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:30:00 GMT

SAP’s CTO for UK and Ireland said HMRC may use in-memory tech to cut costs

Everything Everywhere: rivals focusing on cost, not innovation

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Anh Nguyen — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:26:00 GMT

Claims to be a stage ahead in 4G plans

Alcatel-Lucent offers managed service to improve mobile network performance

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Mikael Ricknäs — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:11:00 GMT

Company will keep track of potential performance issues and help operators avoid them

Vodafone blames economic environment for 12.7 per cent profit drop

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Mikael Ricknäs — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:08:00 GMT

Data revenue, emerging markets and asset sales help boost revenue

SAP's Robert Enslin claims €1bn worth of in-memory business in the pipeline

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:30:00 GMT

President claims that interest in SAP's HANA is particularly strong in China and Japan

World's simplest Linux laptops reach the UK

ciouk@idg.co.uk (John E Dunn — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:48:00 GMT

French company Ordissimo thinks it has spotted a niche

Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer as world's most used browser

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Daniel Ionescu — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:32:00 GMT

While Chrome leads the browser market worldwide, in the US it still has a lot of catching up to do

Nasdaq's Facebook glitch came from race conditions

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Joab Jackson — Tue, 22 May 2012 09:42:00 GMT

Nasdaq may pay out as much as $13 million due to a hard-to-find software bug

Avaya lays out roadmap for unified software management

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Brandon Butler — Tue, 22 May 2012 09:42:00 GMT

Move from hardware only operation picks up speed

EMC synchs deal with Syncplicity for cloud file management

ciouk@idg.co.uk (Stephen Lawson — Tue, 22 May 2012 09:42:00 GMT

EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum.