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FAST takes anti-piracy education to London police
The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) is pitching up in the capital next month with the aim of educating law enforcement specialists about the need to prevent software piracy. The software industry lobby group has already held similar events ... News
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HP slashes staff, restructures as profits plunge 31%
HP has announced plans to ditch 27,000 jobs, or 8% of its workforce,and will embark on a radical restructuring programme in a bid tocutcosts of between $3bn to $3.5bn (£1.9bn to £2.2bn) over the next two years. Besides headcount reduction... News
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Mike Lynch leaves HP as Autonomy sales fall flat
Autonomy boss Mike Lynch, who joined the company last year when his business was acquired for $10.2bn, is among the more high profile names heading for the exit afterHPannounced plans to slash 27,000 jobs over the next two years. Lynch's departure me... News
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Michael Dell pins Windows 8 hopes on consumer upgrades
Michael Dell has spoken of his hopes for the upcoming launch of Microsoft Windows 8, saying that although enterprise buyers were still in the process of upgrading to Windows 7 and would tend to hold off, there were earlysigns of a massive refresh in ... News
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InTechnology extends health expertise
InTechnology has boosted its credentials as a supplier to the heath sector after acquiring and investing in a telehealth and software firm. The cloud specialist has picked up United Telehealth and taken a substantial stake in software producer Healt... News
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Mindjet makes UK channel appointment
Collaboration software specialist Mindjet has recruited four new channel managers in its UK, Northern Europe and Emerging Markets region after reporting a 19% increase in core European markets in 2011 with the Netherlands and Nordics representing 27%... News
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Software piracy costing the UK £1.2bn
The amount of money being lost to software piracy has reached £1.2bn in the UK with a quarter of users admitting to being on the wrong side of the law. Numbers from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) will spur more calls for education, penalt... News
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HP and Avnet team up to ease cloud deployment process
HP and Avnet have given partners a sneak peek at a server, software and services bundle called Cloud-in-a-Box, a new solution designed to ease the software development and testing process for end-users. The bundle is to be released later in the year ... News
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Cloud Distribution to expand Vyatta UK presence
Cloud Distribution has announced a new partnership with Vyatta, vendor of software-based networking for virtual and cloud environments. News
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Column: Losing count of the Oracle court cases
I wonder if, like me, you have lost count of the high profile court cases Oracle is embroiled in. The case with Google concerning Java and Android that is currently hogging the headlines is easy to remember and there's also the one with HP over Itani... News