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December 11th, 2009 by Lisa Francis

Daily News 11/12

BBC – Decision delayed on Meteosat team
The choice of an industrial team to build the next generation of weather satellites – or Meteosats – for Europe has been delayed by three months.

Computing.co.uk – IT managers need to be more honest with staff
Many IT and telecoms workers remain in the dark about their employers business goals, according to new research conducted by YouGov, a situation that has a negative effect on their motivation, productivity and innovation.

IT PRO – Nokia shuts London shop

Nokia is closing retail stores around the world, including it’s flagship location on London’s Regent street, just down from the Apple Store.

IT PRO – Samsung unveils bada smartphone platform
Samsung has unveiled its new smartphone platform bada, in addition to a software development kit (SDK), which it claims will deliver benefits to operators, developers and users alike.

Computer Weekly – Companies failing to keep up with the internet
Companies are failing to keep up with the pace of change on the internet, according to Jeremiah Owyang, a partner at consultancy Altimeter Group. “Most companies can’t keep up with the slow web, let alone the future web,” he said, speaking at the Le Web conference in Paris.

CBR – Open-source BI to grow five-fold through 2012: Gartner

Open-source business intelligence (BI) tools are becoming a mainstream deployment option for all kinds of BI usage, according to Gartner. Gartner analysts said that while functionality is not yet on par with large commercial platforms and is still rarely seen as an enterprisewide BI standard, open-source BI tool deployment is growing solidly.

December 1st, 2009 by Lisa Francis

Daily News: 01/12

Computing.co.uk – Server market shows signs of stabilising, says Gartner
Despite shipments falling 17 per cent and revenue dropping 15 per cent, the global server market seems to be stabilising, according to analyst Gartner.

Computing.co.uk – Malware can be hidden in English language text, says US scientists

A team of US security researchers has engineered a way of hiding malware in sentences that read like English language spam.

IT PRO – Twitter crowned top word of 2009
The Global Language Monitor has announced that Twitter is the Top Word of 2009 in its annual global survey of the English language. ‘Twittered’ was followed by Obama, H1N1, Stimulus, and Vampire. The near-ubiquitous suffix, 2.0, was number six, with Deficit, Hadron – the object of study of CERN’s new atom smasher – Healthcare, and Transparency rounding out the top 10.

IT PRO – Heathrow rolling out facial recognition tech
New electronic border gates are set to be introduced at Heathrow to speed up the process of passing through border control. The new gates will allow travellers over 18 with biometric passports to come back into the UK using facial recognition technology, comparing the picture with that on their passport as well as checking against any internal watch lists held by the UK Border Agency.

IT PRO – Parents call for online privacy lessons
The majority of parents want their children to receive lessons in online privacy, according to survey results released today. The YouGov study, commissioned to form part of the Digital Literacy Report 2009, showed 69 per cent of parents asking for the Government to provide compulsory lessons in school so children understand their online footprint and the effects it can have.

Computerworld UK – Are YouTube and Facebook guzzling your company bandwidth?
Figures uncovered by managed network provider Network Box between July and November of 2009, reveal the enormous impact YouTube and Facebook are having on corporate bandwidth.