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Monday, February 06, 2012
Russia’s answer to Silcone Valley planned
Viktor Vekselberg, one of Russia’s richest men, is spearheading an initiative to create a Russian rival to Silicone Valley or the UK’s own Tech City.
Skolkovo Research and Business Park, expected to cost 6bn, will be used to create an innovation cluster of a university, a research park and a city housing 35,000. It will be Russia’s first PPP (private public partnership) concerning education and enterprise. Construction has already started; the first students are expected in 2014.
Multi-billionaire Vekselberg will bring a delegation of executives to the UK next week, in the hope of attracting more international companies and institutions to join the project.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Npower Creates 200 New Jobs in North East
npower has created 200 new positions in the north east, and hopes to fill them by the end of March. The call centre jobs are available in: Peterlee, Houghton le Spring and Thornaby.
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Friday, September 09, 2011
Cloud is all hype, says survey
In the SWC Technology Partners survey, just 3.7% of respondents said that their company has adopted a cloud solution for the whole company. 54.2% of respondents indicate that their company is not pursuing any cloud computing initiative. Privacy and security (20.9%) are stated to be the of greatest concern when considering cloud, followed by cost (9.8%).
Elliott Baretz, vice president of SWC, said: "The technology industry can be rife with hype. Most reasons for eschewing the cloud have nothing to do with technology. Privacy and compliance and legal issues are what are keeping businesses on the sidelines."
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
Sony hires first-ever security chief
Sony has appointed a chief information security officer, Philip Reitinger, in the wake of a series of enormous data breaches.
Reitinger, previously worked as head of the US National Cyber Security Center and for Microsoft, is now its senior vice-president and chief information security officer of Sony.
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Monday, September 05, 2011
First Group Gets Smart
FirstGroup has announced that it will use technology which merges the swipecard and the debit card, to directly take the fares from passengers’ bank accounts rather than needing, like the Oyster, a trip to the booking office or website to top up.
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LBM Contact Centre £1m Upgrade
LBM, a provider of multichannel contact centre outsourcing, digital and data services, has invested £1million in transforming its contact centre in Altrincham.
Mark Bates, LBM chief executive said: “This project is one example of the many investments we are currently undertaking to further enhance the services we deliver on behalf of clients.”
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Amazon launches secure cloud for US government
New secure cloud will satisfy the regulatory requirements of US government departments, with data stored in and only accessible from within the USA.
GovCloud features enhanced security measures, allowing government departments to utilise the service and still meet their regulatory obligations.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Capgemini launches Social Media Management service
Capgemini has introduced a new Social Media Management service, helping companies benefit from online social interactions.
The application takes insights from social media monitoring, and makes suggestions to improve operations and redesign processes. It also offers advice customer segmentation, social CRM and multi-channel strategy.
Social media conversations can be dealt with in real time via Capgemini's onshore and offshore Customer Interaction centres.
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WANdisco enterprise ALM app store goes live
uberApps, an enterprise app store from ALM firm WANdisco, has been launched today. It will be a one-stop-shop for firms wanting to add best-in-class ALM technologies to their software development projects.
WANdisco chief executive David Richards said the product will change the landscape in terms of "how enterprises buy and deploy software development tools."
The service provides a software development kit (SDK) for firms writing third-party applications themselves, and apps in can be peer-reviewed and rated by other users.
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Oracle acquires Ksplice
Oracle has acquired Ksplice, technology provider for updating Linux, for an undisclosed sum.
Ksplice's technology will enable zero downtime updates, with no reboot required, resulting in improved system availability, security and reduced operationing costs.
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